Prime Minister Tammam Salam scheduled on Friday a cabinet session for Monday that will primarily focus on Lebanon's waste disposal crisis.

The agenda will also include a cooperation agreement between Lebanon and the European Union.

Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh is set to hold a series of talks with independent officials, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

These figures include Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb.

Speaker Nabih Berri praised Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri's initiative to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh as president, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

His visitors told the daily: “It is an honest nomination and his initiative is more than serious.”

Change and Reform bloc chief MP Michel Aoun is not willing to abandon his bid to run for president in spite of the interview given on Thursday by Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

Aoun's visitors told the daily that the lawmaker “will not give up and he will go ahead with his nomination.”

At tightly guarded facilities in south Lebanon, men as young as 17 undergo training by Hizbullah on weapons and anti-insurgent tactics before being sent to Syria to fight alongside President Bashar Assad's forces, according to an Associated Press report published on Friday.

Hizbullah has been conducting a large recruitment drive, a sign of how the war in Syria has become perhaps the most intense conflict the group has waged. Its losses in Syria -- now more than 1,000 killed – are approaching the toll incurred by the group in 18 years of fighting the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s. That conflict earned Hizbullah its reputation as Lebanon's strongest armed force.

Lebanese toddler Haidar Mustafa, 3, has fulfilled his dream of meeting Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, 36 days after losing his parents in the Bourj al-Barajneh bombings.

Haidar arrived Friday in the Spanish capital Madrid and was welcomed by Cristiano at the airport.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour declared Friday that the proposed presidential settlement has started to make "one progress after another," a day after Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh officially announced his nomination for the presidency.

“The presidential settlement is still on the table and we salute the reconciliatory tone that MP Suleiman Franjieh showed during his TV interview,” Abou Faour, who is close to Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, said.

British Ambassador Designate Hugo Shorter called on Minister of Defense Samir Moqbel at the ministry, to formally announce a $10 million UK support package for the establishment and equipping of a fourth Land Border Regiment (LBR) in what will be the latest phase of the UK’s “train and equip” partnership with the Lebanese army.

Shorter said after meeting the minister: “I am proud to announce that the UK will support the Lebanese army in establishing a fourth land border regiment.”

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri questioned on Friday how some sides have made “quick assumptions” over the Islamic coalition, saying that they have jumped to conclusions over the issue.

He said: “Those who have criticized the alliance have misunderstood its purpose and made unrealistic analyses.”

Prime Minister Tammam Salam received on Friday an official invitation to the upcoming Syria Donors Conference taking place in London on February 4.

A delegation from co-host countries Germany, Kuwait, Norway, the UK, and the United Nations represented by British Ambassador Hugo Shorter, German Ambassador Martin Huth, Norwegian Deputy Ambassador Ane Jorem, Kuwaiti Consul Ahmed El Sabti and U.N. Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon Philippe Lazzarini, handed the letter to the Prime Minister.