Caretaker Prime Minister may take a break from his duties "if some parties continue to obstruct the government's work," al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Friday.

The daily added that Mikati has informed Berri and other officials that he has run out of patience.

Acting Central Bank Governor Wassim Mansouri will visit Saudi Arabia in September for a series of meetings, LBCI television said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has pledged to pay $7.5 million out of the Primesouth’ overdue fees in return for an instant activation of the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants "even if he has to pay for it out of his own pocket", al-Akhbar newspaper reported Friday.

Primesouth, the company that operates the al-Zahrani and Deir Amar power plants, resumed its services Thursday after a short outage.

Following the Lebanese opposition’s rejection of the latest French letter that demanded answers related to the presidential file, the French officials in charge of the Lebanon file have started “evaluating” the situation, a media report said.

French senator Nathalie Goulet slammed the French policy in Lebanon and Africa, as she criticized the French interference in the Lebanese affairs.

Goulet sarcastically described French envoy Jean Yves Le Drian as "spirited" and criticized him for sending questions to the Lebanese MPs, through the French embassy, about the required qualifications of their future president.

Four residents of the town of Kahale have been summoned for interrogation over the latest deadly clash with Hezbollah members, MTV reported.

“The four Kahale residents will not go to the Baabda intelligence department on Friday because they are demanding that those who killed Fadi Bejjani be handed over first,” the TV network added.

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said that Hezbollah and other "terrorist groups" have urged their sympathizers to take revenge for the Quran burnings that have taken place in Sweden.

He said that Swedish interests abroad had already been targeted, including an attempted attack on the diplomatic mission in Beirut last week and the storming of Sweden's Embassy in Baghdad last month.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel has stressed that dialogue with Hezbollah would be futile as long as it “continues to insist on its candidate and on the approach of imposition, intimidation, weapons and murder.”

Parliament did not convene Thursday due to a lack of quorum as only 52 lawmakers showed up to attend a legislative session that was supposed to discuss several laws including the capital control law and the oil and gas sovereign fund draft law.

Meanwhile, demonstrators rallied outside parliament to protest the capital control law.

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.