A minor 3.3-magnitude earthquake was felt Thursday across the eastern Tyre region in south Lebanon, state-run National News Agency reported.

Urgent Matters Judge of Baabda Hassan Hamdan issued Thursday a ruling ordering the resumption of al-Manar TV's broadcast via the Arabsat satellites, after the broadcast was cut off by the company operating the satellites in December 2015.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has denied that Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had recently linked Lebanese migration to terrorism.

Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad stressed the need to form a national consensus cabinet and added that the party sees no need for further delay in the cabinet formation, the National News Agency reported Thursday.

Progressive Socialist party leader MP Walid Jumblat made a sarcastic comment on Thursday about the delayed efforts to form a new cabinet, following the election of a president and the designation of a PM, saying that the new government is still insulated.

An Internal Security Forces member was deadly shot in the Choueifat area southeast of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported Thursday.

Unknown assailants opened gunfire from a hunting rifle at on duty ISF member Mohammed al-Arab killing him instantly, NNA said.

In line with the efforts to form a cabinet 28 days after the designation of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, reports published in al-Rai daily on Thursday said that the parliament may not give its vote of confidence shall a de-facto cabinet be formed.

“Choosing to form a de-facto cabinet might, in the worst case, make it face a no-confidence vote of the parliament,” unnamed sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

The endeavors to line-up a cabinet are focusing now on the share that will be allotted to the Marada Movement after an agreement was reached with regard to the portfolios that will be given to the Lebanese Forces and the Democratic Gathering bloc, media reports said.

The efforts exerted to overcome the obstacles are focusing now on the portfolio that will be assigned to the Marada which will probably be the health ministry. Sources said that the only two parties which fulfilled the requirements and are out of the discussions now are the LF and the Democratic Gathering, An Nahar daily reported Thursday.

After unconfirmed reports said that the convoy of Arab Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab had “miraculously escaped” the Israeli airstrike that targeted the al-Sabboura area near Damascus at dawn Wednesday, Wahhab's office said it cannot “rule out” the possibility that the ex-minister was the target of the raid.

Free Patriotic Movement chief and caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed Wednesday that “no one can eliminate anyone in Lebanon,” as he called for a “fair” law for parliamentary elections.