Health Minister Wael Abou Faour stressed on Wednesday that the signature of the doctor cannot be forged on any unified prescription form as there are three copies of it, despite claims by the Order of Physicians that the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) isn't abiding by the ministry's decision.

“The health ministry examines generic drugs to make sure they apply to the adopted standards,” Abou Faour said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he would hold talks with Prime Minister Tammam Salam soon to discuss the decision-making mechanism adopted by the government to function in the absence of a president.

Berri told his visitors that the opening of an extraordinary session would also be on the agenda of their talks.

Journalist Firas Hatoum and his colleague Rony Rmaity were temporarily detained by Turkish authorities on Tuesday for illegally entering the embattled Syrian town of Kobane, reported al-Akhbar daily.

It said that the LBCI television journalist was seeking to film a report for the channel from Kobane, but the advances made by the Islamic State group in the area forced him to alter his plans.

The Kataeb Party announced Tuesday that it “categorically rejects” remarks voiced Sunday by al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khaled al-Daher, which were deemed insulting to Christian symbols.

“We categorically reject these extremist and irresponsible remarks that harm coexistence,” the party said in a statement issued after the weekly meeting of its political bureau.

Lebanon's Hizbullah has taken the lead role on a key frontline in southern Syria near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a monitoring group said Tuesday.

A Syrian military source confirmed Hizbullah was engaged in fighting in Quneitra and Daraa provinces as part of efforts to stop rebels advancing in the area.

The Change and Reform bloc demanded on Tuesday that the dispute over the presidential elections be resolved through Lebanese channels.

MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “We should adhere to the Lebanese will and constitutional means to solve this issue.”

Contact has been lost with a member of the Internal Security Forces since Friday, state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

“ISF Corporal Charbel Saeed, who hails from the (southern) town of Qlayaa, has been missing since Friday,” NNA said.

Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi expressed on Tuesday reservations over Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq's proposal to replace a slogan in Tripoli's al-Nour Square with a Quran verse.

Al-Rafehi expressed hope that the slogan wouldn't be replaced or removed, Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) quoted him as saying.

Security forces have arrested a Lebanese taxi driver in the South on charges of rape and attempted rape, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

NNA said Aa.Sh., who hails from the southern town of Tayr Felsay, was apprehended by security forces, after an unidentified girl filed a complaint at the Nabatiyeh police station claiming he tried to rape her.

A Lebanese man went on trial in the United States on Monday on charges that he kept secret his prior affiliation with Hizbullah and Amal movement to remain in the country and to possibly gain access to sensitive information.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Roomberg told jurors in San Antonio, Texas, that Wissam Allouche admitted to an undercover agent to previously being an Amal commander and that he supported Hizbullah.