Visiting North of Lebanon for the second time in three months, British Ambassador to Lebanon Chris Rampling met Friday with officials from the Chamber of Commerce, the Tripoli Special Economic Zone, and Adviser to PM for Northern Affairs Abdul Ghani Kabbara, the British embassy said.

Rampling paid condolences to ex-PM Najib Miqati and met with former minister Mohammed Safadi at the Safadi foundation.

Daylight-saving time will begin in Lebanon at midnight Saturday/Sunday and clocks should be set an hour ahead as per a 1998 decree issued by the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Saad Hariri's office reminded on Friday.

The move will put Beirut 3 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Lebanon anticipates the outcome of talks held between President Michel Aoun and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Russian initiative to repatriate Syrian refugees, amid reports on the likelihood of Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil to visit Syria for the same end, Kuwaiti Asseyasah newspaper reported on Friday.

In light of controversy following an electricity plan suggested by Energy Minister Nada al-Bustani, the latter said on Friday the Ministry is “open to any new suggestions,” noting that the plan will be re-discussed next week.

Lebanon’s position on the US decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights was not limited to resentment, but also raised fears that this decision would include the Lebanese occupied territories of Shebaa Farms, which Israel considers as part of Golan, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Friday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned Thursday evening to Beirut from Paris where he underwent a heart stent operation several days ago, his office said.

European Union Ambassador to Lebanon Christina Lassen and British Ambassador Chris Rampling on Thursday visited the Bekaa region to inspect EU and UK support to the local communities.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis has reassured that all countries care about the stability of Lebanon.

“I am very glad that in my new capacity as the Special Coordinator for Lebanon, I had the opportunity to brief the Security Council about my activities but notably about the country, about Lebanon. I spoke about opportunities and some risks as well,” Kubis said at the media stakeout after Security Council consultations at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

Sharing the same patron Saint as the city of Beirut, Saint George, Her Majesty’s Ship HMS DRAGON, one of the world’s most advanced warships – Type 45 Destroyer, docked in Beirut port for three days. This is her first visit to Lebanon on her way back to the UK after a seven-month deployment and the second for the Royal Navy since HMS Ocean’s visit in 2017, the UK embassy said in a press release on Thursday.

Interior Minister Raya el-Hassan on Thursday stressed during the launching ceremony of a program aimed at developing procedures in Lebanese prisons, that improving prison conditions “is an urgent need for prisoners,” the National News Agency reported.