Following the Lebanese opposition’s rejection of the latest French letter that demanded answers related to the presidential file, the French officials in charge of the Lebanon file have started “evaluating” the situation, a media report said.

French senator Nathalie Goulet slammed the French policy in Lebanon and Africa, as she criticized the French interference in the Lebanese affairs.

Goulet sarcastically described French envoy Jean Yves Le Drian as "spirited" and criticized him for sending questions to the Lebanese MPs, through the French embassy, about the required qualifications of their future president.

Four residents of the town of Kahale have been summoned for interrogation over the latest deadly clash with Hezbollah members, MTV reported.

“The four Kahale residents will not go to the Baabda intelligence department on Friday because they are demanding that those who killed Fadi Bejjani be handed over first,” the TV network added.

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said that Hezbollah and other "terrorist groups" have urged their sympathizers to take revenge for the Quran burnings that have taken place in Sweden.

He said that Swedish interests abroad had already been targeted, including an attempted attack on the diplomatic mission in Beirut last week and the storming of Sweden's Embassy in Baghdad last month.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel has stressed that dialogue with Hezbollah would be futile as long as it “continues to insist on its candidate and on the approach of imposition, intimidation, weapons and murder.”

Parliament did not convene Thursday due to a lack of quorum as only 52 lawmakers showed up to attend a legislative session that was supposed to discuss several laws including the capital control law and the oil and gas sovereign fund draft law.

Meanwhile, demonstrators rallied outside parliament to protest the capital control law.

Primesouth, the company that operates the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants, resumed its services Thursday after a deal with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, media reports said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday denied a media report claiming that he has met with Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh. Bassil also stressed that he is still committed to the “intersection” with the opposition over Jihad Azour’s nomination.

UNRWA said Thursday it has received alarming reports that armed actors continue to occupy its installations including a school compound in Ain el-Helweh Palestine refugee camp in the South of Lebanon.

UNRWA facilities have reportedly been damaged by the recent fighting in the camp. The compound has four UNRWA schools that normally provide education to 3,200 Palestine Refugee children.

The United States has imposed sanctions on a Lebanese environmental organization accused of being an arm of the militant group Hezbollah.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Green Without Borders and its leader, Zouher Nahli, for allegedly providing support and cover to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon along the "Blue Line" between Lebanon and Israel "while operating under the guise of environmental activism."