Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea announced Sunday that he stands behind caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil as Lebanon seeks to benefit from a Russian-U.S. plan to repatriate Syrian refugees.

“The Russians and the Americans are preparing an arrangement to return around two million displaced Syrians to their country with Russian-U.S. guarantees and Russian arrangements on the ground in Syria,” Geagea said in a statement.

Lebanon has for decades struggled with daily power cuts that leave residents sweating through their shirts summer after sticky summer.

The bankrupt national power company, unable to build new power plants, has been buying electricity from Turkish barges docked off-shore.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri asked his adviser for Russian affairs, George Shaaban, to communicate with Russian officials to find out the details about a proposal announced by Moscow regarding the return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon and Jordan, Hariri’s media office said on Saturday.

An Israeli force attempted to kidnap a Lebanese shepherd on Thursday morning after crossing the line of withdrawal into Lebanon’s territories but failed in its endeavor, a statement released by the Lebanese Army-Orientation Directorate said.

Lebanese parties are divided over the controversial file of refugees and whether a coordination with the Syrian government is best for the country to facilitate their return, media reports said Saturday.

March 8 alliance camp believes “direct dialogue” between the Lebanese and Syrian governments is the only means to address the issue, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

Lebanon condemned the latest Israeli law defining Israel as a “nation state of Jewish people,” as the law provoked fears it could lead to blatant discrimination against Arab citizens.

President Michel Aoun condemned the Israeli move and warned against the threat of “resettlement. “

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri reassured Friday that the new Cabinet will be formed soon, as he stressed “the importance of consensus” in the country.

“A government cannot be formed on the basis of majority and minority; we tried this in the past and we didn't succeed. Accordingly, consensus is the only solution in the country,” Hariri added during a meeting with Lebanese students at the IE Business School in Madrid.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday condemned the Israeli parliament's adoption of a law defining Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

In a statement, Berri described the move as “another chapter of the ongoing aggression against Palestine and its people and their legitimate right to return and establish an independent state with holy Jerusalem as its capital.”

Six Hizbullah fighters have reportedly returned to Lebanon on Friday from the besieged Syrian towns of al-Fuaa and Kafraya as part of an evacuation deal between Damascus’s s ally Russia and Turkey, LBCI quoted a Hizbullah source on Friday.

The evacuation of nearly 7,000 people besieged for years in two pro-regime towns of Fuaa and Kafraya follows a series of similar deals to remove residents and fighters from contested zones.

Airport police busted a man at the Rafik Hariri International Airport with counterfeit cash in his possession, the Internal Security Forces reported on Friday.

The man, a Lebanese identified by his initials as F. Kh., was arrested on Wednesday said the ISF with 100,000 euros in counterfeit money notes.