Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri is expected to visit the northern city of Tripoli on Friday, in a bid to resume contact with the people after last month's municipal elections that saw a list that he backed lose the polls.

“Hariri's (three-day) visit to Tripoli is not linked in any way to a specified political event, nor to the outcome of the municipal elections. It comes within the framework of reconnecting with the people,” As-Safir daily quoted Mustaqbal sources.

The Lebanese army destroyed Thursday a car carrying extremist militants in an area between the outskirts of the northern border towns of Arsal and Ras Baalbek, state-run National News Agency reported.

An Egyptian hijacker who is fighting his extradition from Cyprus claimed Thursday that he had been wounded in an attack on the Israeli army in Lebanon.

Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc on Thursday reiterated the party's call for approving an electoral law based on the proportional representation system in order to ensure “fair representation.”

The parliamentary blocs failed again on Thursday to elect a new president for the republic due to a recurring lack of quorum, as the Lebanese Forces called for electing Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun as president or passing a new electoral law for the parliamentary polls as a way out of the country's political crisis.

A man sustained stab wounds to his abdomen by a relative of his after a personal dispute erupted between them in the town of Kfar-Hazir in Koura, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.

A dispute erupted between G.A. and his cousin A.A. while they were working at a construction site in Kfar-Hazir, NNA said.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq assured that Lebanon's parliamentary elections will be held on time and that the ministry has started the preparations needed for that purpose, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

The parliamentary elections are scheduled for June 2017, amid disbelief that the long-awaited polls will be staged on time.

Electricite du Liban workers kicked off a two-day “cautionary” sit-in outside the company's headquarters in a bid to pressure the service providers to meet a list of demands, the Voice of Lebanon Radio said on Thursday.

The National News Agency said that at least 50 workers have gathered outside the company' HQ in Corniche al-Nahr demanding their full time employment.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri stressed Wednesday that the Lebanese are “keen on their Arab identity” and that they will not “betray their brothers, especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has stressed that he rejects any inclination to forge a Doha Accord-like political settlement, warning that such a move would be “destructive.”