President Michel Aoun on Sunday said that a “corrupt system” is still “controlling the country and the people.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has hoped that Lebanon will have a new government soon.

Higher Islamic Shiite Council head Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan passed away overnight Saturday. He was 85.

New complications have emerged in the cabinet formation process and General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim and other forces are trying to resolve them away from the media, informed sources said.

The government formation process is progressing “in a positive but cautious manner,” according to PM-designate Najib Miqati’s circles.

“There is a fifty-fifty chance that the government will be formed,” the sources told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal, in remarks published Thursday.

A delegation led by the Vice President of the Socialist and Democrat Group in the European Parliament, Pedro Marques, will come to Beirut on September 5-6, according to the Group’s spokesperson.

The delegation will meet on its two days in Beirut with caretaker Prime minister Hassan Diab, Deputy Prime Minister Zeina Akar and Speaker Nabih Berri.

An Iranian ship loaded with diesel for Lebanon has entered Syria's territorial waters, Iran's semi-official news agency Fars said Thursday.

Two weeks ago Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that an Iranian fuel tanker had sailed toward Lebanon, and that others would follow to help ease the fuel shortages.

The issue of the Lebanon-bound Iranian fuel ship is a “security matter,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday.

“Lebanon has turned from a state containing a terrorist organization into a state ruled by a terrorist organization,” Lapid added, referring to Iran-backed Hizbullah.

Head of the Lebanese Forces Samir Geagea has addressed President Michel Aoun and caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab saying sarcastically that their "wise policy" concerning the fuel crisis has led to a worsening of the situation.

Geagea said in a tweet Wednesday that the way Aoun and Diab have dealt with the situation “has increased smuggling, fuel stockpiling, monopolization and endless queues on the Lebanese stations.”

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued its findings on Lebanon.

The findings contain positive aspects of the country's implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as well as the Committee's main concerns and recommendations.