Internal Security Forces announced on Saturday arresting “one of the most dangerous fugitives” and seizing several vehicles in the Bekaa, as the security plan continues to be implemented in the region and in the North.

"Ali Khodr Jaafar, also known as Ali al-Shaar, is one of the most dangerous fugitives and is linked to several kidnapping operations,” an ISF communique detailed, noting that the arrest took place during a security operation in the region.

Speaker Nabih Berri called for a parliamentary session next week to discuss the new wage scale draft-law a day after the Joint Parliamentary Committees wrapped tackling it and referred it to the general assembly.

The state-run National News Agency reported that Berri called for a parliamentary session on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. to finish discussions on the new salary scale.

Three soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon were injured on Saturday after their military vehicle overturned in the southern Tyre District, the state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, the three peacekeepers are from the Malaysian contingent and were injured in the town of Maarakeh.

The Army Intelligence detained on Saturday Arab Democratic Party spokesman Abdul Latif Saleh, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Saleh was released few hours after questioning by the intelligence over his statements.

President Michel Suleiman assigned a number of financial and economic experts with studying the negative repercussions of the laws endorsed recently by the parliament, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Saturday.

According to the daily, the experts will brief Suleiman on the impact of the laws on the Lebanese economy before he takes a decision of signing them as they stipulate further spending of public money without assigning new funding resources.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun agreed not to extend the term of President Michel Suleiman, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

According to al-Liwaa newspaper, Hariri and Aoun discussed during a previous meeting in February in the French capital Paris the presidential elections along with the formation of Prime Minister Tammam Salam's cabinet.

Speaker Nabih Berri informed Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi that he will call for the first round of parliamentary sessions to elect a new president next week.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Saturday, Berri and al-Rahi discussed in a telephone conversation, ahead of the Patriarch's return from Geneva, the upcoming presidential elections.

For 22 years, Mary Mansourati has been waiting for her son, Dani, to come home. His shirts are ironed and hanging in his closet. His trousers, neatly folded, are stacked on the shelves next to his bed in the family's Beirut apartment.

Dani was 30 when he was detained by Syrian intelligence and has not been heard from since. He is among an estimated 17,000 Lebanese still missing from Lebanon's civil war or the years of Syrian domination that followed.

After weeks of discussion and nation-wide protests that were led by the Syndicate Coordination Committee, the Joint Parliamentary Committees approved late on Friday the new wage scale and referred it to the parliament for a vote.

“The joint parliamentary committees completed the examination of the new wage scale draft and the proposal about funding it, and will submit a report to the parliament,” the state-run National News Agency said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Friday the need to stage the presidential elections on time, saying that he does not have the right to interfere in the elections.

He said upon his return to Lebanon from a trip to Geneva: “I have not rejected the nomination of any March 8 or 14 camp presidential candidate and I do not have the right to refuse any bid.”