A delegation from the Change and Reform Parliamentary bloc will hold talks with al-Mustaqbal MPs on Thursday in Nejmeh Square in an attempt to reach a breakthrough over the parliamentary standstill.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, the meeting comes in light of Free Patriotic Movement's initiative to contact various parliamentary blocs to end the ongoing rift.

President Michel Suleiman is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia this week after he received assurances from Saudi officials that the “kingdom's doors are always open to him,” reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

Sources from the presidential palace told the daily: “The outcomes of the visit are expected to be positive because Saudi Arabia was the one who requested Suleiman's presence in the kingdom.”

Speaker Nabih Berri condemned the “vile” attack against a van carrying residents of the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

He said: “The attack was aimed at creating strife in Lebanon, nothing more nothing less.”

Hizbullah will begin on Monday holding daily mourning councils on the occasion of Ashura, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper.

It said that the party has taken extraordinary security measures at the councils given information it obtained that they could be the target of attacks.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel hailed on Monday officials in the northern city of Tripoli for “responsibly” dealing with the bus attack, pointing out that two men involved in the incident were arrested.

Charbel praised in comments published in As Safir newspaper the Arab Democratic Party, which is mainly Alawite, al-Mustaqbal movement and several parties in Tripoli for denouncing the attack.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour on Sunday received an invitation to attend a preparatory meeting ahead of the Geneva II summit.

Mansour delegated the Lebanese Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Najla Riachi Assaker, to attend the meeting.

The Internal Security Forces arrested on Sunday a new suspect over his alleged involvement in Friday night's family crime in Jbeil's Mastita area.

"The ISF's Intelligence Bureau was able to arrest Alain al-Qouba in (the northern town of) Halba after prosecuting him,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

Hizbullah considered on Sunday that the attack on workers who hail from the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen is a “very dangerous message,” urging an end to sectarian incitement.

"We condemn the attack on unarmed citizens, and torturing and shooting them in (the northern city of) Tripoli,” the party said in a released statement.

President Michel Suleiman stated on Sunday that a strong leader is one that liberates themselves from parliamentary alliances.

“A strong president acquires power not by being affiliated with a parliamentary bloc,” Suleiman said on Twitter.

Tripoli figures condemned on Sunday the attack on Alawite men who hail from the northern Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, stating that this incident is “strange to the city's history.”

"We condemn the attack against unarmed citizens and we call on security forces to identify and prosecute the assailants,” Tripoli figures said in a released statement after a meeting at al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara's house.