Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stated that the situation in the northern city of Tripoli is improving “day after day”, questioning the motives of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar’s travel restrictions to Lebanon, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

He told the daily An Nahar: “The restrictions are a precautionary measure ahead of the touristic summer season.”

Speaker Nabih Berri noted that all sides in Lebanon are aware of the dangers“being imposed on the country,” saying that all powers should work together for the sake of Lebanon, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

He told the daily that former Premier Saad Hariri’s reply to his call to resume the national dialogue “is not negative.”

A Syrian was shot dead and two others wounded as they tried to cross the border from Lebanon back into their country Saturday, security and medical sources said.

The three men had left the northern Lebanese village of Muqaibleh and were trying to reach the nearby Syrian village of Msherfeh when they were shot at, the sources said.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati chaired on Saturday a security meeting with senior officials in Tripoli to follow up the latest developments in the northern port city.

The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Mohammed al-Safade, State Minister Ahmed Karami, Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami, MP Mohammed Kabbara, head of the Lebanese Army Intelligence bureau in the north, Brigadier Amer al-Hasan, and ISF commander in Tripoli General Bassam al-Ayoubi.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati urged on Saturday the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain to reconsider their travel warning to Lebanon.

The premier said "the procedures taken by some Gulf countries are not justified," urging "the three countries to reconsider the travel restriction advisory to Lebanon."

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun filed a lawsuit against Lebanese Forces leader MP Samir Geagea over his recent statements on the political assassinations in Lebanon since 2005.

According to a statement issued by the FPM press office, Aoun also filed a suit against the Central News Agency, Lebanese Forces’ website and al-Mustaqbal newspaper for misleading the judicial investigation and not providing it with the valuable information and for inciting a sectarian strife.

Head of the public transportation drivers unions Abdel-Amir Najdeh revealed on Saturday that Prime Minister Najib Miqati is seeking to cap the fuel prices to all citizens.

“Miqati informed Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi al-Aridi that the cabinet will tackle the issue during its session on May 30,” Najdeh told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

President Michel Suleiman expressed “disgust” on Saturday over the pressure exerted on him to sign the $5.9 billion extra-budgetary spending bill.

Suleiman told al-Akhbar newspaper that “even if holding onto his stances cost him his post, he doesn’t care.”

Western diplomatic sources said on Saturday that the recent incidents in the northern city of Tripoli are the “beginning of a Salafist revolution aimed at providing the Free Syrian Army in Homs with ammunition.”

The sources told As Safir newspaper that the “Salafist revolution will begin in Tripoli and gradually expand to Akkar.”

The Syrian letter sent to the U.N. Security Council claiming that al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood are involved in incidents along the Lebanese-Syrian Border is merely an attempt by the Syrian authorities to intervene in Lebanon, An Nahar newspaper reported.

Informed sources told the daily that the Syrian allegations coincide with calls made by a well-known political party in northern Lebanon for the Syrian army to re-enter the country.