Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Friday warned the central bank against ending the subsidization of imported medicine, flour and fuel.

Forest fires were raging Friday in several regions across Lebanon amid a heatwave accompanied by strong winds.

The Lebanese Forces on Friday snapped back at ex-PM Saad Hariri over what it described as his “distortion of facts.”

Ex-PM Saad Hariri will launch contacts on Monday with all the parliamentary blocs that were present at the Pine Residence meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, media reports said on Friday.

Strong Republic bloc MP Ziad Hawwat filed a complaint with the Public Prosecution office on Friday about illegal border crossings and smuggling of Lebanon’s subsidized fuel into Syria.

For the past two weeks, Raffi Ghazarian has been glued to the TV at home and at work watching news about the fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. If it goes on, the 50-year-old Lebanese of Armenian descent says he's ready to leave everything and volunteer to defend his ancestral land.

Some from Lebanon's large ethnic Armenian population have already travelled to join the fight, according to members of the community, although they say the numbers are small.

France’s new ambassador to Lebanon, Anne Grillo, has reportedly been tasked with following up on Macron’s initiative towards Lebanon, al-Liwaa daily reported on Friday.

Quoting a western diplomat on condition of anonymity, the daily said that “the Elysee has tasked Grillo, who arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, to pursue talks with representatives of the country’s top political blocs and parties whom Macron had met at the Pine Residence on September 2, after which an agreement to form a mission government made of specialists was reached.”

President Michel Aoun on Thursday lashed out at what he called the “intransigence in stances” and “the absence of self-evaluation.”

“It is known that nations that lose their critical sense and refrain from reevaluating their behavior are doomed to backwardness and cannot build themselves or keep up with the times,” Aoun tweeted.

Ex-PM Saad Hariri announced Thursday that his nomination for the PM post would not be a “favor from anyone,” noting that he has a major parliamentary bloc and known representation.

“There are three projects in the country -- that of Hizbullah and the Amal Movement which is linked to foreign forces, another that wants to pull Lebanon out of this crisis and works according to the ‘Lebanon first’ principle, and a third for overbidders who have brought the country to its current state,” Hariri said in a live interview on Lebanon’s MTV.

Hizbullah on Thursday said U.S.-backed talks next week aimed at delineating Lebanon's disputed maritime border did not signify "reconciliation" or "normalization" with Israel.

Lebanon and Israel, which are still technically at war, last week said they had agreed to begin U.N.-brokered negotiations over the shared frontier, in what Washington hailed a "historic" agreement.