Head of the Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblat is scheduled to hold talks on Saturday with Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.

It said that the talks will focus on the latest developments in Lebanon, especially in light of the return to Lebanon of head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri following a three-year absence.

Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri informed Prime Minister Tammam Salam of his intention to make a personal donation to aid the residents of the northeastern town of Arsal who were affected by the army's clashes with Islamists earlier this week, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.

It said that he has decided to donate 15 million dollars to the town.

Former Prime Minister and the head of al-Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri stated on Friday that the mistakes committed by Hizbullah do not justify “responding with similar wrongdoings or harming the prestige of the state.”

"The role of al-Mustaqbal Movement is to protect moderation and prevent extremism from expanding and proliferating,” Hariri said in a released statement after an expanded meeting with party leaders at the Center House, following his surprise return to Lebanon earlier in the day.

The March 14 coalition held an extraordinary expanded meeting at the Center House on Friday evening, in the presence of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri for the first time in over three years following his surprising return to Lebanon earlier in the day.

The conferees called for controlling the Lebanese-Syrian border by deploying army troops supported by international peacekeeping forces, according to the stipulations of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701.

Education Minister Elias Bou Saab announced on Friday that he is going forward with issuing passing statements for Grade 12 and Grade 9 school students who have applied for official exams, calling on teachers and the Syndicate Coordination Committee to end their boycott of exam correction.

“I decided to issue passing statements for all students who applied for official exams. We will start printing the statements to give them to students as of next week,” Bou Saab declared at a press conference he held at the ministry of education.

An Israeli force on Friday opened fired at a shepherd in the southern town of Shebaa, without hitting its target.

"Shepherd Asaad Fares Hamdan was herding his flock in the outskirts of Shebaa when an Israeli force opened fire towards him,” the state-run National News Agency reported, noting that the incident took place in the Berkat al-Naqar area of the South.

A security meeting was held on Friday afternoon at the Grand Serail to discuss the military institution's needs and the spending mechanism of the one billion dollar Saudi grant to the army, amid the unrest in the northeastern border town of Arsal.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Tammam Salam and in the presence of former Premier Saad Hariri, who returned earlier in the day to the country after three years abroad.

Lebanese Force leader Samir Geagea rejected any armed presence for Syrians on Lebanese territories, considering that the situation in the northeastern town of Arsal will deteriorate as long as the conflict in neighboring country Syria is ongoing and Hizbullah is engaged in the war.

Geagea wondered in an interview with Free Lebanon radio why the army doesn't prevent Hizbullah fighters from entering Syria.

Several hundred Syrian refugees who had been sheltering in the northeastern border town of Arsal, where the army and jihadists have been fighting, crossed back into Syria on Friday, a nun assisting them said.

Sister Agnes, a nun based in Syria, told Agence France Presse a first group of 350 of some 1,700 refugees who left the town of Arsal yesterday passed through the Masnaa border crossing back into Syria on Friday.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri made on Friday a surprise return to Beirut and met with Premier Tammam Salam at the Grand Serail to discuss a Saudi military aid.

Hariri left Lebanon in early 2011, months after the collapse of his national unity cabinet. He has repeatedly claimed that security reasons were preventing his return to Beirut.