The Lebanese army arrested five Sudanese nationals on Saturday attempting to infiltrate into the occupied Palestinian territories from Lebanon, the Army Command-Orientation Directorate said on Saturday.

Protesters staged a sit-in on Saturday outside the Justice Palace demanding full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1559, and rejecting "Hizbullah’s arms outside the state institutions and the presence of mini-states within a state."

International representatives reportedly warned of the consequences of Lebanon’s delay in introducing the reforms it promised, warning of an eventual collapse shall this persists, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

According to information obtained by the daily, senior Lebanese officials received a number of “warning” messages recently inquiring about the “government’s unjustified delay in initiating urgent remedial reforms, and warned of the negative repercussions of the political struggle,” between Lebanon’s various parties.

Health Minister Hamad Hasan announced Friday that he is “satisfied” over the decline in the numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.

Scuffles erupted Friday evening between anti-government protesters and riot police outside the Interior Ministry in Sanayeh.

Lebanon on Friday recorded four new coronavirus cases, which raises the overall tally to 1,172, the Health Ministry said.

President Michel Aoun on Friday asked Cabinet to “reconsider its decision” after it decided in a previous session not to set up a power plant in the Salaata area, to the dismay of the Free Patriotic Movement.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement secretary-general Ahmed Hariri lashed out at Free Patriotic Movement chief, Strong Lebanon MP Jebran Bassil over the general amnesty law.

The Central Bank of Lebanon issued a statement on Friday assuring that BDL governor Riad Salameh is taking part in the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund which in turn requested not to disclose the content of talks.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab visited on Friday the barracks of Elias el-Khoury in the eastern border town of Ras Baalbek and placed a flower wreath on a memorial statue of soldiers killed during the 2017 operation “Dawn of the Outskirts” in Ras Baalbek and el-Qaa against the terrorist Islamic State group.