U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein will return to Lebanon in the middle of next week carrying a new proposal, media reports said.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati held talks Friday at the Grand Serail with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan.

Cabinet held a session Friday morning that was dedicated to continuing the discussion of the draft state budget.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has noted that “very special circumstances” have pushed ex-PM Saad Hariri to announce the suspension of his political activity, noting that the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 “cannot be implemented.”

Lebanese security agencies have thwarted a new attempt to smuggle narcotics out of the country, Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi announced on Thursday.

Kataeb Party leader Sami Gemayel held talks Thursday at Dar al-Fatwa with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan.

Cabinet on Thursday held “a discussion in depth over the situation of state administrations and the need to secure the continuity of their work” and also tackled “the need to explain the state budget’s objectives to citizens,” the acting information minister said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has noted that “a host of domestic and foreign circumstances have influenced the decision of ex-PM Saad Hariri,” who has announced the suspension of his role in political life.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, Dr. Fadi Sanan representing Health Minister Firass Abiad and Dr. Souha Kanj of the American University of Beirut who represented AUB President Fadlo Khuri on Thursday launched the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination campaign at Haykel Hospital in Tripoli.

The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has recently donated over 600,000 vaccine doses to support the Lebanese government's National Vaccination Strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Wednesday that he highly values the Kuwaiti paper and considers it "a real opportunity to pull Lebanon out of hell."

He added that the paper shows the keenness of the Gulf on Lebanon's interests by wanting it to become a state that offers its people decent living conditions, within Arab support and international legitimacy.