Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq stated on Saturday that out of “national responsibility” we are compelled to seek the activation of the government's activity and help achieve a full quorum at parliament in order to elect a president.

His remarks came after a meeting he held in Rabieh with former Free Patriotic Movement head MP Michel Aoun.

General Security announced on Saturday the arrest of a Syrian national and a Lebanese on charges of belonging to terrorist groups, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Within the efforts to hunt down terrorists, the General Security arrested a Syrian for his involvement with a terrorist group and a Lebanese for assisting him in transporting and sheltering terror members in return for money, said NNA.

The government of Sierra Leone has given its consent to receive Lebanon's trash that is supposed be exported starting mid January, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

The Lebanese government has been informed of the approval through the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A letter signed by the adviser of President of Sierra Leone was addressed to Holland’s Howa BV firm that is tasked by the Lebanese cabinet with the exportation of the trash, the daily added.

Hizbullah's participation in the cabinet session scheduled for next week hinges on the consultations it plans to hold with allies from the Free Patriotic Movement, AMAL, Marada and Tashnag, al-Mustaqbal daily reported on Saturday.

“Hizbullah has not taken a decision yet if it will take part in Thursday’s cabinet session. It still has to hold consultations with its allies not only from the Free Patriotic Movement but also from the Marada, AMAL and Tashnag,” said State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammed Fneish in an interview to the daily.

Lebanese authorities “forcibly returned” more than 100 Syrians to Syria on two separate flights from Beirut airport on Friday afternoon and approximately 100-150 Syrians are waiting to be “forcibly returned” on a 9:30 pm flight later tonight, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

“General Security should immediately halt the planned forcible return of Syrians from the Beirut airport to Syria later this evening,” said Haley Bobseine, Lebanon Researcher at Human Rights Watch.

A member of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch was assassinated Friday in the restive northeastern border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Syrian militants belonging a terrorist group shot dead ISF First Adjutant Zaher Ezzeddine outside his house in the Arsal area of al-Babain,” NNA said.

The March 14 General Secretariat denounced on Friday what it described as a “starvation siege” in the Syrian town of Madaya, dubbing Hizbullah's role as “an act of shame.”

“The Syrian town of Madaya is witnessing a siege of starvation that amounts to crimes of war and can be classified in the category of crimes against humanity,” a March 14 alliance statement said.

Civil society activists from the 'We Want Accountability' campaign held a sit-in near the Central Inspection Bureau in Beirut demanding further details from the government on a deal that was signed with two firms to export Lebanon's trash.

Some of the activists tried to storm into the building shouting 'peaceful, peaceful' but the security forces did not allow them to do so.

Successive contacts are taking place between leaderships of the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement to arrange for a meeting between the parties' heads, which reports say are to focus on the presidential elections, An Nahar daily reported on Thursday.

The meeting between LF chief Samir Geagea and ex-chief of the FPM MP Michel Aoun is set to take place at Maarab, added the daily.

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi stressed on Thursday that Hizbullah's rhetoric pushes for additional tension in the country and does not help in building a nation, the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported.

“Hizbullah's logic pushes for more hostility and does not build a country,” said Rifi in an interview with the daily.