Chairing a regular Tripartite meeting at a U.N. position in Ras al-Naqoura, UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro congratulated Lebanese and Israeli army representatives on "the recent and historic maritime agreement." "It demonstrates that seemingly intractable differences can be resolved," Lázaro said.

Welcoming recent messages of de-escalation along the Blue Line, Lázaro urged the senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces and the Israeli Army in the room to ensure these words are backed up by concrete action.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday voiced support for the presidential bid of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, who enjoys the backing of Hezbollah and some of its allies.

Opposition, independent and Change MPs are meeting Tuesday, ahead of a parliamentary session that will be held Thursday for the election of a new president.

The aim of the meeting is to unify the blocs' position in case Speaker Nabih Berri calls for a legislative session before the election of a president, local media reports said on Monday.

An international conference “must be the last solution” for Lebanon, sources from Speaker Nabih Berri’s parliamentary bloc said, responding to remarks by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

“The main problem in the presidential elections is inter-Christian,” the sources added, in remarks to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published Monday.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Monday charged that “some banks are still transferring money” to abroad based on some clients’ “favoritism and ties to bank owners.”

“Capital control prevents selectivity,” Bou Saab added, after a meeting for the joint parliamentary committees.

On Saturday 12 November, the British Embassy held a service at Beirut Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery to commemorate Remembrance Day. This is an annual event held in honor of people from all nations who have been killed or injured in conflicts around the world. The date of November 11 marks the end of the First World War in 1918 and around the world there will have been similar acts of remembrance over this weekend.

The British Ambassador, Hamish Cowell, was joined in giving a reading by the American Ambassador, Dorothy Shea, the German Deputy Head of Mission, Katharina Lack and the French Defense Attaché, Colonel Gregory Medina.

State Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat on Monday referred Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun to the general commission of the Court of Cassation after she failed to appear before him over a libel complaint filed by Speaker Nabih Berri and his wife Randa.

According to state-run National News Agency, Oueidat charged Aoun with “stirring sectarian sentiments, inciting conflict among the elements of the nation, libel, slander and abuse of power,” referring a copy of the lawsuit to the judicial inspection commission.

The late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's great-nephew has no links with the Islamic State group but was sent back to Iraq as part of a political deal with Lebanese authorities, his lawyer said.

Bushra al-Khalil told The Associated Press that her client, Abdullah Yasser Sabaawi, was living in Yemen in June 2014, when IS fighters massacred hundreds of Iraqi troops in central Iraq. She said Lebanese authorities handed over Abdullah to Iraq on Friday despite the fact that he had been registered as a refugee in Lebanon and denies any link with the 2014 massacre.

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, on Sunday announced that his party knows whom it wants for president.

Lebanon has extradited a man said to be a grandnephew of Saddam Hussein to Iraq, where he is accused of involvement in a massacre by the Islamic State group, a security source said.