President Michel Aoun met with Russia’s ambassador Friday and officially asked him to tell his country that Lebanon wants satellite images taken on the day of the Beirut port blast.

Lebanon had asked for satellite images from several nations.

The energy ministers of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria have arranged a final agreement to supply Lebanon with Jordanian electricity via Syria.

Energy Minister Walid Fayyad announced that “the U.S. has given green light” -- despite western sanctions targeting the Syrian regime -- and that “the World Bank will finance the transit.”

Cabinet sessions will not resume any time soon until the political "storm" passes, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Friday.

Ministerial sources told al-Joumhouria that “we can achieve so many things, if we had a shared vision and a unified national stand.”

Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar on Friday postponed ex-minister Ghazi Zoaiter’s interrogation session to November 9, after his lawyer appeared before the judge and filed preliminary defenses, the National News Agency.

The lawyer argued that it is not up to the Judicial Council to prosecute Zoaiter “seeing as the jurisdiction belongs to the Higher Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers.”

The majority of the political blocs “secretly prefer postponing the parliamentary elections,” sources said, but have no “courage” to say it.

Political circles told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Friday, that “there is fear for the fate of the parliamentary elections,” since every party is “shifting the blame on the other,” in order to delay the polls.

The U.S. Treasury on Thursday slapped sanctions on prominent Lebanese tycoons Jihad al-Arab and Dany Khoury and lawmaker Jamil al-Sayyed for allegedly benefitting from corruption and adding to the breakdown of the rule of law in the country.

State Commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Fadi Akiki, referred Thursday the Tayyouneh file to the first military investigative judge Fadi Sawwan, media reports said.

Akiki asked Sawwan to hear Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea as a witness.

Speaker Nabih Berri’s political aide MP Ali Hassan Khalil on Thursday lashed out at Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil without naming him.

An argument occurred between Amal’s MP Ali Hassan Khalil and Free Patriotic Movement’s MP Cesar Abi Khalil during a parliamentary session Thursday.

Khalil accused President Michel Aoun of violating the constitution for failing to call for parliamentary by-elections to fill the empty parliamentary seats.

The MPs of the Free Patriotic Movement on Thursday staged a walkout from a legislative session over a dispute related to the current threshold needed to approve laws and bills -- 59 or 65 votes.