The United Arab Emirates said Saturday that it would withdraw its diplomats from Lebanon in solidarity with Saudi Arabia.

It also said Emiratis would be "prevented" from traveling to Lebanon. Travel bans have happened previously to Lebanon over politics in the past.

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh on Saturday defended Information Minister Georges Kordahi after KSA, Kuwait and Bahrain expelled the Lebanese ambassadors in protest at his remarks over the Yemen war.

Five Lebanese ministers and Presidency secretary general Antoine Choucair on Saturday held a crisis cell meeting over the diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.

The meeting was held at the Foreign Ministry at Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s request.

UNIFIL's Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major General Stefano Del Col, on Friday welcomed Lebanon's new Minister of National Defense, Maurice Slim, to the peacekeeping mission's headquarters in Naqoura, South Lebanon.

In his remarks, Major General Del Col announced a donation of 500 kilograms of medicines to the Lebanese Army, in accordance with support requested for the army in operative paragraph 11 of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2591.

Saudi Arabia on Friday ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave the country within 48 hours and stopped all imports from Lebanon, a response to comments by a Lebanese minister who described the war in Yemen as a Saudi "aggression."

Saudi state media added that the kingdom's ambassador to Beirut was also asked to head back home.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement said Friday in a statement that their “moderate approach” does not mean they accept that Hizbullah endanger co-existence and launch “provoking and hateful campaigns” against the Arab Gulf states “to please Iran.”

“We’ve had enough with Hizbullah’s arbitrary policies in politics, security, economy and foreign affairs,” the statement said.

President Michel Aoun met with Russia’s ambassador Friday and officially asked him to tell his country that Lebanon wants satellite images taken on the day of the Beirut port blast.

Lebanon had asked for satellite images from several nations.

The energy ministers of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria have arranged a final agreement to supply Lebanon with Jordanian electricity via Syria.

Energy Minister Walid Fayyad announced that “the U.S. has given green light” -- despite western sanctions targeting the Syrian regime -- and that “the World Bank will finance the transit.”

Cabinet sessions will not resume any time soon until the political "storm" passes, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Friday.

Ministerial sources told al-Joumhouria that “we can achieve so many things, if we had a shared vision and a unified national stand.”

Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar on Friday postponed ex-minister Ghazi Zoaiter’s interrogation session to November 9, after his lawyer appeared before the judge and filed preliminary defenses, the National News Agency.

The lawyer argued that it is not up to the Judicial Council to prosecute Zoaiter “seeing as the jurisdiction belongs to the Higher Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers.”