The U.N. refugee agency is negotiating with Lebanon over the country's plan to enforce new border controls that could affect the flow of Syrian refugees, a U.N. official said Friday.

"We understand from the government that they are now exerting stricter scrutiny at the border," said Ninette Kelley, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Beirut.

Hizbullah's armed wing wired almost $100,000 (75,000 euros) to two men wanted over a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, a newspaper report said Friday.

According to the 24 Hours daily, the money was to help organize the blast at Burgas airport on the Black Sea on July 18, 2012, and to carry out reconnaissance in other countries.

Unknown assailants vandalized on Friday two billboards with writings in support of Syria's rebel al-Nusra Front, reported the National News Agency.

The vandals wrote the term “al-Nusra Front” on two billboards on the Iaat-Deir al-Ahmar road in the Bekaa.

An arrest warrant was issued against a Syrian national on charges of belonging to an armed group, reported the National News Agency Friday.

It said that Military Tribunal Judge Imad al-Zein interrogated the suspect before issuing the warrant.

Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun on Friday accused some officials of seeking to extend the term of the army chief while keeping other top posts in the administration vacant, warning his bloc would challenge the extension.

“There is a plot against the cabinet which has the sole authority to propose a bill on the extension” of Gen. Jean Qahwaji's term, which ends this September when he turns 60, Aoun said during a press conference at his residence in Rabieh.

Israeli President Shimon Peres considered that attempts to differentiate between Hizbullah's military wing and political party is plain “hypocrisy,” calling on the European Union to place Hizbullah as a whole on the list of terrorist organizations.

Peres wondered in an interview with al-Hurra TV on Thursday night if Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallh is a politician or a military man.

EU ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst stressed on Friday that the European Union's decision to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing doesn't justify any Israeli action against Lebanon.

“It's a decision that denounces terrorism acts carried out in EU countries,” Eichhorst said in comments published in As Safir newspaper in response to Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech.

Premier-designate Tammam Salam has informed the head of the EU delegation to Lebanon that the latest decision to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing will neither affect his ties with the party nor his efforts to put together a cabinet.

Al-Liwaa newspaper on Friday quoted officials, who visited the PM-designate, as saying that Salam stressed that his relations with Hizbullah will remain intact.

A Lebanese national kidnapped by gunmen more than two weeks ago in southern Nigeria was released on Thursday, a police spokesman said.

"He was released this morning in (neighboring) Delta state. He was later brought to us in Benin City. He is in good state of health and he has been handed over to his family," Moses Eguavoen told Agence France Presse.

The public prosecution on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the daughter of slain Syrian pro-regime figure Mohammed Darrar Jammo, who was murdered on July 17 in Sarafand, state-run National News Agency reported.

The warrant was issued over Fatima's failure to show up for interrogation after being summoned by the army's intelligence directorate.