Director of Political and Consular Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Charbel Wehbe, held a meeting with UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag on Thursday after the latter's tweets replying to comments made by President Michel Aoun about Hizbullah's arms.

During the meeting, Wehbe stressed the necessity to comply with the provisions of the Vienna Convention in respect to what applies to accredited diplomats, the state-run National News Agency said.

Suspicions arose early on Friday after an improvised bomb placed inside an old car tire was found in the northern al-Beddawi area in Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The device, which turned out to be a mock bomb, was discovered near Salaheddine Mosque in al-Beddawi, NNA added.

Israel warned Hizbullah on Thursday against attacking it after Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened to strike Israel's nuclear reactor in any future war.

The comments by Nasrallah marked the first time his group explicitly threatened to target the reactor in the southern Israeli town of Dimona.

Lebanon's electricity outage will be decreased three hours per day by the end of February, to be paralleled by a “slight” increase in electricity tariffs, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

Sources well-informed on Lebanon's longtime problematic electricity file, told the daily that a new supply program will increase power supply by 3 hours per day, starting at the end of February.

Lebanon's judiciary charged ten suspected Palestinian and Lebanese militants with involvement with the Islamic State terror group, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr charged the ten suspects, three of whom are already in detention, on charges of involvement with the IS terror group, executing terror operations in Syria, planning to carry out terror assaults in Lebanon and assassination attempts of Lebanese officials, NNA added.

As endeavors to endorse a new electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary polls stutter, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat recently submitted to Speaker Nabih Berri a new draft law proposal that was kept away from media spotlight, media reports said on Thursday.

“Jumblat has submitted some general ideas about an electoral law that involves specific acceptable proportionality, agreeable for him, and very much unlike other formats that tend to marginalize some political components,” unnamed sources following up on electoral law discussions told al-Joumhouria daily.

Following his tour that included several Arab countries, President Michel Aoun prepares to kick start a trip that will involves the Vatican and Kuwait, media reports said on Thursday.

A specific date has not been set as yet, but reports said it will be some time soon.

State Minister of the Displaced Talal Arslan emphasized that displaced Syrians is one of the serious challenges that Lebanon has to face, and emphasized that international decisions in that regard could pave the way for their naturalization, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

“The crisis of displaced Syrians is one of the challenges emanating from the Syrian war. It is our duty to understand the suffering of our Syrian brothers and their agony as the result of the terror war machine, but Lebanon's potentials are much lower than it can endure at the demographic and economic levels,” said Arslan.

Lebanon marked on Tuesday the twelfth anniversary of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in a massive and shocking suicide bombing in 2005 that destabilized the country.

In downtown Beirut, political leaders gathered to lay flowers at Hariri’s grave.

In light of the controversy that emerged after President Michel Aoun's statement about Hizbullah's weapons, Aoun stated on Tuesday that the future of the party's arms will comply with Lebanon's National Defense Strategy.

“The matter is subject to the National Defense Strategy which we have been trying to set when the incidents got ahead of us,” Aoun told Egyptian Nile News TV channel.