Lebanon on Monday confirmed twenty more COVID-19 coronavirus cases, among them 18 Bangladeshis, the Health Ministry said.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday stressed that Lebanon is still committed to the reforms pledged at the 2018 CEDRE conference in Paris.

Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim on Monday charged a top central bank official with manipulating the exchange rate, a judicial source said, as the country struggles with a major currency crisis.

The director of monetary operations at the central bank, Mazen Hamdan, was arrested on Thursday, as part of a currency crisis probe that has seen dozens of money changers detained in recent weeks.

Seventeen foreign laborers living in the same building have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, media reports said.

MP Ghazi Aridi, dispatched by Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat, held talks Monday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday hurled a jab at the Free Patriotic Movement and its chief Jebran Bassil in connection with the latter's remarks on the controversial issues of power plants.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh will personally participate in the second round of remote negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on Monday, after he opted not to take part in the first round and to delegate representatives instead.

Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi on Sunday issued a memo detailing the rules that will followed as the country reopens its economy on Monday following a four-day shutdown over an uptick in coronavirus cases.

An Israeli patrol on Sunday shot and wounded Syrian shepherd Mohammed Noureddine Abdul Azim in the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Kfarshouba before abducting him into Israel, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Sunday announced that the government has decided to “partially reopen” the country as of Monday, while urging citizens to abide by safety and social distancing rules in the wake of the latest uptick in coronavirus infections.