The Israeli army said it arrested 3 people who “crossed” the border from Lebanon near the town of Yiftach in northern Israel.

All eyes turn on Monday to Baabda Palace awaiting for a crucial meeting between President Michel Aoun and PM-designate Saad Hariri on the controversial government formation, media reports said.

Al-Joumhouria daily said the meeting is scheduled to take place in the afternoon, paving way for additional contacts between parties to “curve the angles” and settle disputes over the government format.

Director of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Doctor Firass Abiad, warned of premature easing of restrictions amid the spread of more contagious strains of coronavirus.

Tokyo prosecutors on Monday indicted two Americans accused of helping former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn jump bail and make his audacious escape from Japan in 2019.

International law firms hired by SGBL Bank chairman and CEO Antoun Sehnaoui have started preparing a series of lawsuits to be filed against Mount Lebanon Attorney General Judge Ghada Aoun in France, Switzerland, Belgium and the U.S., media reports said.

The lawsuits will accuse Aoun of “attempting to harm the reputation of Sehnaoui and the SGBL bank, especially that Sehnaoui owns a bank in the United States and another in France,” LBCI television said.

Lebanon’s caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najem has met with Lebanese prisoner Georges Abdallah at his prison in France, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported on Sunday.

Najem had raised Abdallah’s file in a phone call with her French counterpart in May 2020.

A dispute escalated into gunfire Sunday in the town of Deir Qoubel in the Aley district.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday hoped a meeting scheduled for Monday between President Michel Aoun and PM-designate Saad Hariri will lead to a “positive result.”

President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri have managed to resolve two out of four hurdles delaying the formation of the new government, an informed political source said.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will only form a technocrat government, because a political government would push all politicians to get heavily involved in it, a top al-Mustaqbal Movement official has said.