An unknown person has raped a nine-year-old boy at a school in the northern district of Akkar.

The state-run National News Agency reported Thursday that “Fatima A. M. filed a report at the Halba police department claiming that an unknown person had raped her 9-year-old son Kamel H.”

The border area facing the southern town of Kfarkila witnessed “unusual” Israeli military activity on Thursday, which was monitored by the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers.

“The area opposite Kfarkila witnessed unusual Israeli military activity this afternoon,” Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

The Governor of Beirut ordered on Thursday the closure of the fish market in Karantina for not meeting health standards, three months after he gave similar instructions to shut the slaughterhouse in the same area for renovations, which prompted angry vendors to block the vital road outside the facility.

Governor Ziad Shebib visited the market and gave the fish traders until Friday to sell their catch.

The General Directorate of State Security detained in the Bekaa Valley on Thursday three Syrians for forging entry documents for Syrian refugees to cross into Lebanon.

The state-run National News Agency reported that Abdul Jawad Salloum, Mahmoud Nayef and Maamoun al-Ilka were arrested in the eastern Bekaa towns of Bar Elias and Majdal Anjar.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam arrived Thursday in Germany at the head of a ministerial delegation to take part in the three-day Munich Security Conference (MSC).

Salam is expected to address around midnight Friday more than 40 heads of government and state, along with 60-odd foreign and defense ministers including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov.

A campaign to remove party banners and photos from Beirut and several cities was launched on Thursday, the result of talks between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement.

The governor of Beirut, Ziad Shebib, told reporters that 90 percent of political slogans and posters have already been removed.

The director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has warned that al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front could expand the territories it is holding in Syria to reach Lebanon.

“As part of the larger al-Qaida network, we are concerned about the support al-Nusra Front provides to transnational terrorist attack plotting against U.S. and Western interests,” Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart told the Congress on Tuesday.

The Syrian opposition and members of President Bashar Assad's regime are reportedly holding meetings in Beirut under the auspices of Norway and the supervision of priest Riad Jarjour, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

The daily said that “secret meetings” have been held in the Lebanese capital in presence of political and religious figures from both sides.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal is putting a foundation for future plans, stressing that the two parties hold onto U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.

The dialogue, which is being held under his sponsorship in Ain el-Tineh, is based on “honesty,” Berri told al-Mustaqbal newspaper in an interview published on Thursday.

Director of the Department of the Middle East and North Africa at the French Foreign Ministry Jean-François Girault is expected to head on Monday to the Vatican to meet with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Thursday, the French diplomat, who ended a two-day official visit to Lebanon will meet with al-Rahi and senior officials at the Vatican to tackle the presidential deadlock in Lebanon.