Former General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has confirmed that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea had visited him days ago and that the discussions “tackled the situations in the South and the issue of the tents” erected by Hezbollah inside and near the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms.

A Lebanese depositor broke into Mawarid bank in Antelias on Monday to demand his trapped savings.

Edgard Awwad stormed the bank with his thirteen years old son and left after he received his entire savings, a sum of $15000.

A Qatari envoy will visit Lebanon in the next few days to hold discussions over the stalled presidential file, a political source said.

Eyes will turn Monday to the meeting of the five-nation committee on Lebanon that will be held in the Qatari capital Doha.

Among meandering alleyways in the historic market of Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, cobblers and menders are doing brisk business, as an economic crisis revives demand for once-fading trades.

MP Qassem Hashem and a number of journalists suffered suffocation injuries after Israeli troops fired smoke grenades at them as they were touring the border near the occupied Shebaa Farms on Saturday, the National News Agency said.

As part of the ongoing dialogue, coordination and cooperation between Lebanese authorities and the U.N. represented in UNIFIL, the first meeting of the two parties’ joint action team was held Thursday at the Grand Serail, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said.

The meeting was attended by representative of the Premiership, the Foreign Ministry, the Army Command and UNIFIL.

It is still not known where Lebanese parties would meet to hold a dialogue that French Envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian might call for or what the dialogue's agenda would be.

The dialogue might be held at the Pine Residence, al-Akhbar newspaper said Friday, despite Speaker Nabih Berri's wish for it to be held in parliament, which is still probable, especially according to Ain el-Tineh sources.

The Free Patriotic Movement is hoping to agree with Hezbollah on a presidential candidate other than Suleiman Franjieh or Jihad Azour, an FPM MP said.

“Dialogue means an intention to meet with the other over something that satisfies both parties, and therefore agreeing on a third candidate,” MP Cesar Abi Khalil told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, after the two parties announced that they have resumed dialogue.

The latest border tensions between Lebanon and Israel will be addressed by the Tripartite committee that comprises representatives of the Lebanese and Israeli armies and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a media report said on Friday.

“Military confrontation has been ruled out, until the moment, as long as communication channels remain open through the U.N. to end the problem of the border violations,” Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said.