A large fire erupted in Dahyeh, Al-Kafaat area

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⋯ According to intial reports, a private generator and its fuel tank caught fire.

In an interview to Al-Manar, Gebran Bassil revealed that PM-designate Najib Mikati does not desire to form a new cabinet because he would have to settle the replacement of Riad Salameh (central banker), the port explosion investigation, the issue of maritime line 29, and the return of the Syrian refugees.

⋯ "I consider the Resistance to have been backstabbed in the July War (2006), and I suffered certain consequences to protect a vital Lebanese component, and to prevent its isolation in a foreign plot", he later added.

The Minister of Justice discussed with the Maronite Patriarch the need to tackle the situation of "Lebanese refugees" in Israel and bring them home.

The Lebanese national basketball team qualified for the Asian Cup final to face Australia after defeating its Jordanian counterpart by one point, 86-85.

The explosion heard in Dahyeh was caused by the explosion of a gas canister inside an apartment in Chiyah.

Two UN employees in Syria attempted to smuggle non-subsidized Nestle products in UN vehicles into Syria from Lebanon.

Israeli PM Yair Lapid: "The closure of the offices of the Jewish Agency for Migration in Moscow by the Russian authorities is a grave mistake that will affect relations between the two countries."

"The United States has transported oil stolen from Syria to northern Iraq three times in a month," the Chinese Foreign Ministry representative recalled.

"At this time, 90% of Syrians live below the poverty line, two-thirds rely on humanitarian aid, and more than half suffer from food shortages."

"The actions of the United States border on banditry."

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