Hizbollah MP Mohammed Raad said Monday that the new PM will surely not be a saint but he must be pragmatic and he must "understand the importance of the resistance."

"Hizbollah has no illusion that the new PM will be a saint or an angel," Raad said, adding that the new PM "must be open to realistic solutions and at the same time must know the importance of the resistance in protecting the country and its crucial national role for Lebanon and the Lebanese."

Between 59 to 61 MPs will name caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in the binding parliamentary consultations that will be held on Thursday in Baabda, sources said.

The sources told al-Joumhouriah newspaper, in remarks published Monday, that the number of the MPs who will name Mikati might increase, exceeding the parliamentary majority.

Weeks of negotiations on safe corridors to get grain out of Ukraine's Black Sea ports have made little progress, with urgency rising as the summer harvest season arrives.

Countries like Lebanon, Somalia, Libya, Egypt and Sudan are heavily reliant on wheat, corn and sunflower oil from Ukraine and Russia.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called for the formation of an “inclusive” government in which there is no monopolization of ministerial portfolios.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has signaled that he is willing to be re-appointed to his post, in the first such stance since the parliamentary elections.

In remarks at a university graduation ceremony in Tripoli, Mikati called for speeding up the designation of a new premier, warning that Lebanon no longer has the “luxury of time.”

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has inaugurated the newly constructed Trilingual UNRWA al-Sakhra Co-educational School at the Mieh Mieh camp in Sidon.

The inauguration was attended by United States Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, French Ambassador to Lebanon Anne Grillo, Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Ashraf Dabbour, Chairperson of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) Bassel El Hassan, UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Leni Stenseth, and the Director of UNRWA Affairs, Lebanon, Claudio Cordone. The inauguration was also attended by Lebanese officials, representatives of the Palestine refugee community in Lebanon, teachers, students and parents.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all parties to “respect the decision” of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon, after the court sentenced two more Hezbollah members to life imprisonment in relation to the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri.

“The Secretary-General’s thoughts are with the victims of the 14 February attack, and their families,” his spokesperson said.

The Universal Postal Union has published on its website a LibanPost statement about the company’s efforts to achieve the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).

Below is the statement’s full text as published by UPU:

Hamish Cowell has been appointed as the new British ambassador to Lebanon, the British embassy said.

Cowell replaces ambassador Ian Collard, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment, the embassy added.

The parliamentary bloc of the Progressive Socialist Party, known as the Democratic Gathering, on Friday called for forming a new government as soon as possible and said it discussed “the characteristics that the PM-designate should enjoy.”