President Michel Suleiman revealed on Saturday that he would meet with al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri during his visit to Saudi Arabia early next week.

Suleiman, who travels to Riyadh on a one-day official visit on Monday, is scheduled to hold talks with King Abdullah.

U.S. prosecutors have charged the son of the president of Suriname with terrorism offenses, saying he agreed to provide heavy weapons and a home base in his South American country to undercover operatives pretending to be with Hizbullah.

Dino Bouterse was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization in a grand jury indictment unsealed in New York on Friday.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc leader MP Fouad Saniora reiterated his call for the formation of a non-political cabinet after he accused Hizbullah of launching an intimidation campaign against the March 14 alliance.

In remarks published in As Safir daily on Saturday, Saniora said Hizbullah should form a cabinet in which the March 8 and 14 alliances would get 9 ministers each and centrists six “if it was able to do so.”

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam denied that he has reached a dead-end and revealed that the March 14 alliance had been mulling to accept a cabinet formula in which it would get veto power along with the March 8 coalition but reversed its decision after fiery statements made by Hizbullah officials.

In remarks to As Safir daily published on Saturday, Salam said a proposal made by Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat to give 9 ministers to March 14, another 9 to March 8 and 6 ministers to centrists in the new cabinet was feasible for March 14.

Caretaker Energy and Water Minister Jebran Bassil announced on Saturday that a channel for oil, gas and water has been opened with Cyprus after what he described as a “successful” visit that ended Friday.

“A channel for oil, gas and water has been opened between Lebanon and Cyprus, especially in terms of sharing oil and gas in common waters between the two states, so that Lebanon can achieve strong financial returns,” Bassil told As Safir daily in an interview.

Head of the Higher Relief Council Ibrahim Bashir denied on Friday that he has embezzled USD 10 million from public funds, accusing the caretaker premier and the cabinet's secretary-general of trying to “eliminate him.”

"No sane person embezzles the Council's money and transfers it to their account,” Bashir stressed in an interview with LBCI television.

Three people were killed and two others injured on Friday in a car crash in Mount Lebanon's Iqlim al-Kharroub region, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the accident happened on the Sebline-Ketermaya road.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati reiterated on Friday his demand to the international community to help Lebanon overcome the impact the Syrian refugees are having on the country.

He hoped after meeting the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development Rajiv Shah that he relay to the American administration the dangerous repercussions the refugees are having on Lebanon.

The Secretary General of the Association of Lebanese Banks, Makram Sader, stressed that the ratings agency Standard and Poor's decision to downgrade three Lebanese banks has no impact on the Lebanese banking sector.

“The rating isn't based on the banks strength or general performance but on the state's sovereign rating,” Sader said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper on Friday.

Lebanon will file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over the recent spying stations installed by Israel along its border with Lebanon.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Friday, the complaint will be filed in light of the report issued by the parliamentary telecommunications committee, which will meet on Monday.