Apple farmers held protests in several Lebanese regions on Saturday demanding a government action to help them sell their products inside Lebanon and to foreign markets.

Apple farmers in the Chouf district of Barouk blocked the road in a move that will be echoed in several other Lebanese regions on Saturday.

The Daylight Saving Time (DST) will end at 12:00 am on October 29, 2016.

Standard timing will be adopted as of Sunday, October 30 and clocks will go back to 11:00 pm.

March 14 general-secretariat member Elie Mahfoud said on Saturday that Hizbullah is seeking to bring a president who provides coverage for its security activities inside and outside Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

“Hizbullah is seeking to bring a Maronite to the post of the presidency who guarantees the safe return of its militias from Syria and, covers its security and military activities in Lebanon and outside the border,” he told NNA.

Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb said on Saturday that it is not in al-Mustaqbal Movement ex-PM Saad Hariri's interest to nominate MP Michel Aoun for the presidency, as he pointed out that it would lead the country to “negativity.”

“The country will arrive at a lot of negativity shall Aoun (founder of the Free Patriotic Movement) become a president,” said Harb to the VDL (100.5) in an interview.

The Internal Security Forces arrested a man in the Nahr el-Mot area near Beirut, for the possession of drugs and for allegedly planning to smuggle them into a juvenile prison, an ISF statement said on Saturday.

“On Friday 29/9/2016 a police patrol in Mount Lebanon busted Lebanese Aa.M., 1995, who was caught with amounts of hashish, two envelopes of Salvia divinorum, one envelope of cocaine, a Samsung mobile, Nokia mobile, LL 2,440,000 and $1600,” an ISF statement said on Saturday.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri is scheduled to leave Beirut and kick off a trip that will include Saudi Arabia, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

Hariri's trip comes after extensive meetings with various political figures in an attempt to find a solution for the over two-year vacuum at the top state Christian post.

Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr charged four detainees with belonging to an armed terror groups for the purpose of carrying out terror operations, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Saqr charged the four detainees, including two Lebanese and two Syrians, with entering into the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh in Sidon and preparing terror attacks, NNA added.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim said on Friday that efforts continue to find a “serious” mediator to negotiate the release of servicemen abducted in 2014 by the Islamic State group, the National News Agency reported.

“We are looking for a serious mediator to negotiate the file of the servicemen abducted by the IS,” said Ibrahim during a trip to West Bekaa.

Positive results with regard to the nomination of MP Michel Aoun for the presidential post are not to be expected from Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, and a tripartite alliance with Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh is not in the making, An Nahar daily reported on Friday.

Sources who held meetings with Berri and Jumblat earlier, said they observed “discouraging impressions” as for a suggestion to support Aoun for the presidency, the daily quoted the sources on condition of anonymity.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea will begin political contacts as soon as he returns to the country from a trip abroad, to follow up on the political mobility that spiked lately in an attempt to reach consensus on a head of state, as LF sources defend the party's right to claim ministerial portfolio including the defense and interior, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Commenting on speculations that some refuse to assign the defense and interior ministries to the Lebanese Forces, an LF source said: “We will not accept this exclusion, because the LF is an essential component and has the right like all other political parties to handle any of the ministries without any veto.”