Prime Minister Tammam Salam is scheduled to travel to Jordan next week on an official visit, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

It said that the premier is set to head to the kingdom on Wednesday to chair the meetings of the joint Jordanian-Lebanese higher committee.

A road was blocked Friday evening in the northern city of Tripoli to press for unveiling the fate of a child who has been missing since Thursday.

“The Qobbeh-Zgharta road was blocked with burning tires to press security agencies to quickly unveil the fate of 13-year-old child Mohammed Chahine,” state-run National News Agency reported.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag urged on Friday the government to “ deal quickly with immediate concerns” of the people, while hoping that the extension of the terms of security officials will contribute to Lebanon's stability.

She said after holding talks with Prime Minister Tammam Salam: “I expressed the U.N.’s support for his leadership, and his efforts to maintain the unity and effectiveness of the government as it seeks to resolve key issues in the interest of all Lebanese.”

The European Union announced on Friday an additional €17 million assistance to help Lebanon confront the Syrian refugee crisis, amid growing concerns over the worsening humanitarian situation.

“This additional aid will enable the Lebanese secondary health service to treat more refugees. The high cost of health services in Lebanon, which are largely privatized, has made it difficult for refugees to seek the treatment they need,” the EU delegation in Beirut said in a press release.

Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq revealed on Friday that a number of tenders have been made by companies to handle Lebanon's waste disposal crisis.

He declared during a press conference: “We will announce our decision over which company will tackle the disposal in the upcoming days.”

The State Commissioner to the Military Court charged on Friday scores of prisoners and guards in two riots carried out by inmates in Roumieh in June.

Judge Saqr Saqr charged 56 prisoners with forming a gang in one of the prison's blocks, smuggling mobile phones and drug trafficking.

The General Security Department said Friday that its officers have arrested a Lebanese and a Syrian suspected of belonging to terrorist groups.

General Security has apprehended a Lebanese who belongs to the groups of terrorists Osama Mansour and Shadi al-Mawlawi, said a communique.

The Lebanese army said Friday that it arrested in the eastern district of Baalbek a Lebanese man wanted on kidnapping and terrorism charges as troops searched for an abducted university student.

Farhat Ali Farhan Ismail, who was arrested in the town of Brital, has been involved in the detention of several people last year and has participated in terrorist activities, robberies and shootings, said an army communique.

Confronted with a combustible waste crisis that mainly affected Beirut and Mount Lebanon, AUB faculty members took the lead by forming a taskforce whose aim is to share scientific knowledge among municipalities and NGOs in the hopes that they would be empowered to find optimal solutions to the ongoing crisis.

In response to a call launched last week by Dr. Najat Saliba, chemistry professor, AUB professors from all faculties quickly mobilized and met on a regular basis, creating working groups that could address the problem, from its public health, environmental health, and waste management aspects.

Several top diplomats have advised Lebanese officials to avoid moves that would hit the country's stability over a dispute on the appointment of top military and security officials, local newspapers reported on Friday.

Al-Joumhouria daily said that the diplomats, mainly U.S. Ambassador David Hale and Russia's Ambassador Alexander Zasypkin, delivered messages to several Lebanese officials on “the importance of respecting the current stability and not to involve the country in any adventure whose repercussions are not known.”