Ex-Prime Minister MP Saad Hariri's visit to Saudi Arabia is reportedly confined to tackle the file of Saudi Oger Ltd. and to complete a deal to sell the company to Saudi Arabia where he is set to devote his efforts afterwards to political issues.

Sources in March said that delayed receipts from the government, whose oil revenues have dropped significantly in the past two years, left construction workers at several companies struggling while they wait for salaries.

Lebanese officials and political parties anxiously await for what the visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will carry during his three-day visit to Lebanon, where he is set to kick start meetings with several Lebanese officials and political leaders in a bid to solve the presidential deadlock, An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.

Shourky arrived in Beirut late on Monday amid hopes that his visit would convey new ideas that would help Lebanon overcome its political crisis.

Hizbullah's top lawmaker MP Mohammed Raad announced Monday that the situations in Lebanon have become “ripe” for the election of a new president and ending the presidential void that has been running since May 2014.

A roadside bomb targeted an army vehicle on Monday outside the restive northeastern border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.

Speaker Nabih Berri has revealed that he has been secretly communicating with al-Mustaqbal Movement for around a month now over a hybrid electoral law under which 64 MPs would be elected under the winner-takes-all system and the other 64 under the proportional representation system, a media report said on Monday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has voiced support for the re-designation of al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri as prime minister, following remarks by Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that his party is “open to discussing” the issue of the premiership should an agreement be reached over the presidency.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement has not expressed positive feedback regarding the proposal that was offered by Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in his speech on Saturday, a media report said on Monday.

There is “real progress” in the ongoing efforts to end the presidential vacuum and talks are “serious” with al-Mustaqbal Movement and the Kataeb Party in this regard, a top Lebanese Forces official announced on Sunday.

Two people were injured on Sunday as a wildfire renewed for the fourth day in the Jabal al-Hasin forests in the heights of the Akkar region of Mount Akroum, the National News Agency reported.

The Vatican is seeking to find a solution to Lebanon's presidential crisis and it is preparing a “major” initiative to help the country elect a president in late September, a media report said on Sunday.