The Internal Security Forces confiscated on Friday massive amounts of hashish they found in a warehouse in the Bekaa town of Shmestar, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

NNA said, the ISF patrol was assaulted by a group of women when they tried to raid the warehouse in the said town.

Minister for the Displaced Talal Arslan stressed on Friday that the 1960 electoral law does not provide just representation for the Druze community while proportional representation does, the National News Agency reported.

“The 1960 electoral law does not achieve justice for Druze lawmakers,” said Arslan during a meeting with President Michel Aoun.

MP Ammar Houri denied on Friday reports claiming that al-Mustaqbal Movement has shown “openness” to discussing an electoral law fully based on proportional representation that had been devised by Najib Miqati's government.

“Reports circulating that Mustaqbal has reached a format close to the so-called hybrid law is but the same format it has earlier agreed on with the Lebanese Forces and the Progressive Socialist Party,” Houri clarified in an interview with the VDL (100.5).

A new political crisis could be looming in Lebanon amid concerns that political parties might fail to agree on a new law for the parliamentary polls, and President Michel Aoun's insistence not to sign a request calling the electoral bodies to stage the elections under the current 1960 electoral law, the Kuwaiti As-Seyasah daily reported on Friday.

The matter is a serious one, said the daily. Only ten days separate Lebanon from February 21, the deadline to call the electorate bodies. Meanwhile an agreement on a new electoral law does not seem possible in light of contending political interests. Some political parties support a proportional representation system, others back a hybrid law and another group wants the polls be staged under the current 1960 majoritarian law.

Endeavors to ease the strained relations between Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi have surfaced lately, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily reported on Friday.

The daily said that efforts have “focused on a reconciliation between the two men in a bid to re-embrace the northern city of Tripoli (of a Sunni majority) back under al-Mustaqbal Movement on the anniversary of slain ex-PM Rafik Hariri," Saad's father.

Information Minister Melhem Riachi has announced that a new electoral law will be reached “in the next ten days.”

A dispute between the Zoaiter and Rahil families escalated into an armed clash Thursday in the Beirut southern suburb of al-Laylaki, state-run National News Agency reported.

A senior Marada Movement official has slammed the rising Free Patriotic Movement-Lebanese Forces alliance as a “Christian Sykes-Picot Agreement” aimed at eliminating the other Christian political forces in the country.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri has shown “openness” to discussing an electoral law fully based on proportional representation that had been devised by Najib Miqati's government, a media report said on Thursday.

General Security agents arrested overnight in the Choueifat area a Syrian young man suspected of plotting to carry out an act of terror, a media report said on Thursday.