United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka said Friday that three years after Lebanon announced its first ever sovereign default, Lebanese are still waiting for their leaders to act to rescue the country.

"People are desperate to see their salaries severely diminished by currency depreciation and inflation," Wronecka said in a tweet.

A decision by caretaker PM Najib Mikati to postpone the start of Lebanon’s daylight saving time has stirred controversy with sectarian undertones in the country, especially after a leaked video of a conversation between Mikati and Speaker Nabih Berri.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf met Friday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, following talks with Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat.

Leaf had arrived in Lebanon on Thursday night, as part of a regional tour, after she visited Jordan, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.

Depositors and activists protested Friday in front of the Central Bank in Beirut's Hamra street. They burned tires and tried to smash the windows of some banks in the area.

This week has been one of the craziest in Lebanon after the black market dollar exchange rate hit the LBP 143,000 mark at the beginning of the week prompting protests that did not stop even after the pound regained some of its value after a Central Bank statement.

The Community Support Program (CSP), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has recognized the efforts of a third cohort of 76 university students and recent graduates from 11 universities who completed internships in support of USAID-funded projects in Lebanon.

U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Richard Michaels, USAID Lebanon Acting Mission Director Nicholas Vivio, and representatives from municipalities, local communities, and 11 USAID-assisted universities attended the ceremony.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri received over the past days a negative U.S. stance regarding the presidential election file, a source close to him said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday called on the caretaker Cabinet to convene at 10am Monday.

Crisis-hit Lebanon is "at a very dangerous moment", a visiting delegation of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, criticizing slow progress on reforms needed to unlock billions in loans.

Lebanon and the IMF reached a conditional agreement in April 2022 on a $3-billion-dollar loan needed to save its economy, which has been in free fall since 2019.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for “consensus” with Saudi Arabia over the “presidential choice,” as he reiterated that “the problem is Maronite” in the presidential file.

A Parliament Bureau meeting that was scheduled for Monday was postponed, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Thursday after meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

"Some laws will be referred to the parliamentary committees to be studied, and this is why the parliament Bureau meeting was rescheduled, in order to have more laws in the coming legislative session," Mikati said.