Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea described on Saturday remarks by ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri regarding the cabinet formation process as a “good will gesture,” stressing that his party will not participate in any cabinet that doesn't include “the slightest political change.”

“Hariri's statements are considered a good will gesture and not an agreement on including the army, people, resistance formula in the new cabinet's ministerial statement,” Geagea said in a press conference in Maarab.

Internal Security Forces busted on Saturday a prostitution ring in the southern city of Sidon and arrested six of its members.

“Security forces raided an apartment in Sidon's eastern neighborhood of Hilaliyeh and arrested six people on charges of forming a prostitution ring,” al-Jadeed television reported.

A Syrian national was kidnapped in the eastern Zahle district on Saturday noon, only to be released few hours later after he was physically attacked.

“Unknown assailants in a mini-bus with tinted windows kidnapped Fadi al-Jassem in Zahle,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

The suicide bomber in a booby-trapped Kia Sportage that exploded Thursday in the eastern town of Hermel, a Hizbullah stronghold, was seen in a video cruising the town minutes before the bombing went off near the Serail in the town's main square.

According to a video aired by Hizbullah's al-Manar television on Saturday, the vehicle was spotted passing in the streets of Hermel ahead of the suicide bombing.

Two Lebanese nationals were among the victims of Friday's deadly suicide attack that targeted a popular restaurant in Afghanistan's Kabul, Agence France Presse reported on Saturday.

“The representative of the International Monetary Fund in Afghanistan, Lebanese national Khanjar Wabel Abdullah, and the restaurant's owner Kamel Hamadeh were killed in the explosion,” the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya news channel said.

One of Lebanon's most wanted fugitives was arrested in the eastern Bekaa Valley, the army said on Saturday.

According to a communique issued by the Army Command, Ali Ahmed Jaafar was detained by an army patrol in Ras al-Ain town in Baalbek after constant monitoring and following operations.

French President Francois Hollande's adviser on North Africa and the Middle East Emmanuel Bonne stressed on Saturday his country's support to the Lebanese state institutions, calling for the swift formation of a new cabinet.

“Consultations are have intensified to reach a suitable lineup,” Bonne pointed out after talks with Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun.

The findings of a DNA test on a resident of the southern city of Sidon did not match those of the human remains at the bombing in the Bekaa town of al-Hermel, reported the National News Agency on Saturday.

The tests were performed on the mother of Hussien Ghandour did not match those of the remains.

Former PM Saad Hariri's stances on the formation of a nine-month stalled cabinet echoed positively as sources close to President Michel Suleiman described his position as a “step forward” in the formation process, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Presidential Palace sources in Baabda described the stance as a step forward giving momentum to the strenuous efforts aiming to speed up the cabinet line-up and to facilitate the mission of PM-designate Tammam Salam in that regard.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat hailed former Prime Minister Saad Hariri's recent position in which he said that he would not be opposed to taking part in a cabinet that includes Hizbullah as a political party, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

He told the daily: “We hope all sides would cooperate with Hariri's initiative in order to form an all-embracing government.”