Lebanon should extend its full lockdown and 24-hour curfew another week as numbers of new COVID-19 cases remain "stubbornly high", Dr. Firass Abiad said Friday.

Prominent Lebanese activist Lokman Slim was found dead in his car in south Lebanon on Thursday, security sources said.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi Wednesday called on rival Lebanese leaders to resolve their differences and accelerate the formation of an “independent” government capable of confronting challenges that are threatening the crises-ridden country’s stability.

Days after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut’s port and disfigured the Lebanese capital, family members of some of the 211 people killed in the blast demanded an international probe. It was a swift vote of no confidence in the authorities’ ability to investigate one of the...