Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday called for a caretaker cabinet session on April 18.

The session has nine items on its agenda, most notably increasing the salaries and transport allowances of the public and private sectors and the funding needed for the municipal elections.

Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad said Thursday that the electricity plan has relatively and slightly succeeded.

In a press conference, Fayyad said that power supply has reached four to five hours per day instead of 8 to 10 due to limited funding.

Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi met Thursday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkerki and discussed the municipal elections.

"I have stressed on the need to hold the municipal elections," Mawali said, after the meeting.

Judge Ghada Aoun will lift Thursday a travel ban imposed on the country's embattled central bank chief, who has been summoned for a hearing in Paris next month, two judicial officials said.

Riad Salameh is part of a political class widely blamed for Lebanon's unprecedented economic crisis that the World Bank says is of a scale usually associated with wars.

Al Mawarid Bank chairman and ex-Lebanese minister Marwan Kheireddine has been charged in France and slapped with a travel ban without being detained.

The Council of Maronite Bishops on Wednesday condemned the latest use of Lebanese soil to fire rockets at Israel.

A ministerial committee tasked with addressing the repercussions of the financial crisis on Wednesday approved a proposed hike of public sector salaries.

The latest visit to Lebanon by Qatari State Minister at the Foreign Ministry Mohammed al-Khulaifi was aimed at “exploring and supporting the efforts to reach an agreement in Lebanon,” a Qatari foreign ministry spokesman said.

A European judicial delegation will return to Lebanon in late April, specifically after April 22, to continue its investigations in the embezzlement and money laundering case against Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, an NGO said.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab announced Wednesday, after a joint committees session, that "it has become impossible to stage the municipal elections," as he blamed the government for failing to secure the needed funds.

Joint parliamentary committees convened Wednesday to discuss funding the municipal elections, while caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi and caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil failed to attend the session.