A Syrian man was found dead in the woodlands of Tabarja town in Keserwan district, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

The body was found shortly after midnight, NNA said.

The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC) has ruled out any danger to the public from a metal cylinder containing a "radioactive substance" that was found on Ouzai’s beach.

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday told a delegation from the families of Army martyrs that he would not sign any “general amnesty law clearing persons convicted or yet to be convicted of soldiers' murder,” the National News Agency reported.

The government is weighing a general amnesty expected to come ahead of the country's first parliamentary elections in ten years.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Riyadh at dawn on Wednesday three months after his abrupt now-reversed resignation from the capital.

Hariri first met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz where talks highlighted the bilateral relations between Lebanon and SA and the latest developments in Lebanon, according to Hariri's media office.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview to the Washington Post on Wednesday that Prime Minister Saad Hariri is in a “better position today” in Lebanon relative to Hizbullah.

He said that he was “unjustly” criticized for pressuring Hariri to resign in November. Adding that the PM is “now in a better position in Lebanon."

Saudi royal envoy Nizar al-Aloula on Tuesday described Speaker Nabih Berri as a "national leader who is a source of hope and optimism in Lebanon," following talks in Ain el-Tineh.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday tweeted in solidarity with Jerusalem and the Christian presence, lashing out at Israel's recent taxation measures on churches and places of worship.

Senior Saudi official Nizar al-Alula continued his meetings for the second day in a row with Lebanese officials and met on Tuesday with former prime ministers Najib Miqati and Tammam Salam and Fouad Saniora.

The ex-Premiers have received the Saudi diplomat at their residences in the presence of Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Yaacoub and former Saudi Embassy Charge d'Affaires Walid Bukhari.

Saudi Envoy Nizar al-Alula had “positive meetings” on Monday with President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri heralding for the “the re-shaping of the Lebanese-Saudi ties,” al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

Sources at the Presidential Palace and the Grand Serail, said the atmospheres were positive after two consecutive meetings held by the Saudi envoy with Aoun followed by a meeting with Hariri. Al-Aloula has also visited the tomb of Hariri's slain father, ex-PM Rafik Hariri, added the daily.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri said he has accepted an invitation Monday to visit Saudi Arabia, returning for the first time to the kingdom where he announced a shock resignation that he later rescinded.