Berri denied reports that quoted him as accusing the al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri and MP Michel Aoun of seeking to “topple Shiism,” and described the reports as “inciting,” An Nahar Daily reported on Wednesday.

“All the news and talks that AMAL and the Liberation and Development bloc mentioned something about a Maronite-Sunni bilateral power-sharing of the 1943 are unfounded. This rhetoric is inciting and I categorically deny it,” Berri told the daily.

A Lebanese army Sergeant First Class was killed late on Sunday in the northeastern border town of Arsal, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

The Free Patriotic Movement is pleased with the general “positive” atmospheres surrounding the nomination of its founder MP Michel Aoun for the presidential post, as media reports said that ex-PM Saad Hariri will possibly declare Aoun's nomination next week, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday.

Prominent sources of the FPM told al-Akhbar daily that “the atmospheres are very positive. The rally of Aoun's supporters tomorrow will be the last one to be held on the road of the people's palace under the orange flags. The next meeting will be held at the Presidential Palace under the Lebanese flags.”

Speaker Nabih Berri voiced calls on the parliamentarians to either resume the all-party talks, or go to the parliament to elect a president in the next session, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday.

A huge fire broke out in Ghazir in the district of Keserwan causing serious damage to the fiber networks of the Telecoms Ministry, the press office of Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb said in a statement on Friday.

Marada Movement chief and a runner in the presidential elections MP Suleiman Franjieh, posted a video on Twitter that some interpreted as a message to his rival in the race MP Michel Aoun.

Franjieh posted a video of a remote controlled toy car with orange wheels (the color of the Free Patriotic Movement's slogan) moving randomly and spinning around itself in a room with a closed door.

The General Security and the Army Intelligence were able to arrest two would-be suicide bombers who had plans to blow themselves up at two religious locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut, As Safir daily reported on Friday.

One of the bombers was arrested by the General Security on October 5 at the Cola area in Beirut. During investigation, he confessed that he had been preparing to blow himself up within two days (Friday, October 7) inside one of the biggest mosques in Dahiyeh during Friday prayers, according to the daily.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Friday that Lebanon's political forces should end the conflict over the presidency and elect a head of state away from “useless packages” and illusions that foreign countries might help Lebanon to a solution.

The cabinet on Thursday approved the payment of the so-called “secret funds” that the security agencies use in their clandestine activities, as the Free Patriotic Movement continued its partial boycott of the cabinet meetings.

Military Examining Magistrate Judge Fadi Sawan carried on the investigations into the Ksara bombing file, as he listened to the testimony of some witnesses, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

NNA added that 13 persons have been detained so far over involvement in the case and 5 others were sentenced in absentia.