Primesouth, the company that operates the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants, resumed its services Thursday after a deal with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, media reports said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday denied a media report claiming that he has met with Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh. Bassil also stressed that he is still committed to the “intersection” with the opposition over Jihad Azour’s nomination.

UNRWA said Thursday it has received alarming reports that armed actors continue to occupy its installations including a school compound in Ain el-Helweh Palestine refugee camp in the South of Lebanon.

UNRWA facilities have reportedly been damaged by the recent fighting in the camp. The compound has four UNRWA schools that normally provide education to 3,200 Palestine Refugee children.

The operator of the Deir Amar and al-Zahrani power plants, Primesouth, will hand over the facilities to the state-run Electricite du Liban at 5pm Wednesday, which would lead to a shutdown of the national grid, al-Jadeed TV reported.

Caretaker Justice Minister Henri Khoury on Wednesday asked the public prosecution to act against “all those mentioned in the forensic audit report submitted by the Alvarez & Marsal firm.”

“It turned out that there are major financial violations that require an instant investigation,” Khoury said.

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro on Wednesday chaired a Tripartite meeting with senior officers of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israeli army at a U.N. position in Ras al-Naqoura.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil asked Wednesday who has agreed to return more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon.

"While we are doing the impossible to repatriate the Syrian refugees and while we are fighting Europe and the whole world for it, some insolently dare to make a deal with a European country to return refugees to Lebanon," Bassil charged.

A Lebanese Forces lawmaker on Wednesday denied that his party is seeking a return to civil war.

Thirty one opposition MPs said Wednesday, in a joint statement, that it has become clear that "any dialogue with Hezbollah would be futile", a day after Parliament received two questions from the French embassy regarding the required qualifications of the future president.

French special presidential envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian is scheduled to return to Lebanon in September after he had proposed on his last visit to Lebanon to invite all those taking part in the process of electing a president to a meeting in September to achieve a consensus on the challenges and on the priority projects the future president will have to carry out, and consequently the qualities necessary for tackling them.

The drilling rig Transocean Barents arrived Wednesday morning in Block 9 offshore Lebanon and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas, caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamiyah said.

French firm TotalEnergies, in agreement with its partners Eni and QatarEnergy, had signed a contract to begin drilling and exploring for gas in late August in waters off crisis-hit Lebanon.