Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has pledged that his party would confront any “bargain” aimed at restricting the work of Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar.

President Michel Aoun has said that parliament can issue a ruling stating to whom the jurisdiction to try presidents and minister belongs, which would end the controversy related to Judge Tarek BItar’s investigations into the port blast case.

Saudi Arabia and France stressed in a joint statement issued after talks between French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the Lebanese government needs to “carry out comprehensive reforms.”

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Saturday that there will be a French-Saudi initiative to resolve the diplomatic crisis between Riyadh and Beirut, following talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah.

The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon on Saturday inaugurated the Digital Mothers training program in Tripoli at the Al Nahda Mixed School.

The program, which will train 68 mothers of school children on technology and English, was officially launched by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea.

Hizbullah is “still open to all solutions that lead to reviving Cabinet sessions,” MP Hassan Fadlallah of the group’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc said on Saturday, a day after one of two crises paralyzing Cabinet was resolved with the resignation of Information Minister George Kordahi.

A number of protesters stormed Friday the Ministry of Public Works and Transport in Hazmieh, asking to meet the minister.

The CityBlu and Ramco companies have stopped waste sweeping and collection operations in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, which might lead to a new garbage crisis in the country, al-Jadeed TV said.

The TV network said the suspension comes in protest at “the failure to settle the contracts” with the state-run Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR).

Hizbullah and the Amal Movement refuse to put behind their backs the reasons that led to their boycott of Cabinet sessions, sources from the two parties said.

“The exit is present in a number of solution ideas that had been proposed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, before he reiterated them in his talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, who agreed to them and endorsed them,” the sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Thursday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed Wednesday that “there can be no solution” for the political-judicial crisis “except through state institutions.”

“And there can be no solution imposed through obstruction or coercion,” Miqati added.