Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri met with President Michel Aoun this afternoon, the president's office says. This was the pair's second meeting this weekend as Hariri works to form what he has pledged will be a government of specialists

The Interior Ministry has ordered 63 towns and villages to go on lockdown from Monday at 6 a.m. until Nov. 2 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All bars and nightclubs in Lebanon are to remain closed and a 1-6 a.m. curfew remains in place

Former MP Sayed Akl has died at age 89 after a long battle with illness. He was elected to represent Batroun in 1968, 1992, 1996 and 2000.

The Disaster Risk Management unit has warned of a high risk of forest fires across Lebanon today, with extreme risk in areas including Jbeil, Chouf and Nabatieh as temperatures reach 35°C. Meanwhile, efforts are ongoing to put out a blaze in the Sur Nature Reserve