General Security officers have arrested a man who along with his father form a gang for counterfeiting currencies in southern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said M.H. was arrested during a raid of a house in the area of Nabatiyeh. The General Security personnel found with him 100,000 dollars and counterfeit notes of 700,000 dollars.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea slammed Hizbullah for rejecting serious dialogue on its arms and said it was too early to discuss about his possible candidacy for the presidential elections next year.

In an interview with Rose El Youssef Egyptian magazine that will be published on Saturday, Geagea said: “Hizbullah is not ready for any serious discussion on the state and holds onto its doctrine and political project.”

The captors of the two Turkish pilots moved them from Beirut's southern suburbs to an unknown location ahead of a security deployment in the area.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Thursday, the two pilots are no longer in Dahieh and freeing them became more “complicated.”

The United Nations gave a grim warning Wednesday that Lebanon faces an explosion of social tensions unless the international community helps to handle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.

President Michel Suleiman told foreign ministers from the world's leading nations that his country faces an "existential crisis" because of the influx fleeing the war between President Bashar Assad and opposition rebels.

Two people were wounded on Wednesday as a dispute between members of a political party and young men from the al-Solh family erupted into gunfire in Baalbek, state-run National News Agency reported.

It said the wounded were a Lebanese man and a Syrian man, adding that the army intervened and contained the situation.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Wednesday called for avoiding the formation of a cabinet that “might be deemed unconstitutional,” after President Michel Suleiman said a new government could be formed before October.

“I call for reconsidering the 8-8-8 formula as we need an inclusive cabinet to confront the major problems,” Jumblat told al-Manar television.

Members of the General Security Directorate in the southern province of Nabatieh raided a shop where currency counterfeit operations were taking place in the city and arrested its owner.

"Real bills worth USD 100,000 and counterfeit notes estimated at USD 900,000 were confiscated,” the state-run National News Agency detailed.

President Michel Suleiman met on Wednesday with several world leaders during his visit to New York in the United States.

Suleiman held talks with new Iranian leader Hasan Rowhani at the headquarters of the United Nations in the U.S. state.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon has “convincing” evidence that Iran and the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad are involved in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reported The New Yorker magazine.

It said that Hizbullah likely “pulled the trigger” in the assassination, but could not have done so without Syria and Iran's blessing and logistic support.

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc on Wednesday called for the release of a top Bahraini opposition leader, stressing that his detention by the kingdom's authorities is “totally at odds with the peaceful nature of the popular protest movement.”

“Despite the stark condemnations that have been voiced by all the Arab and international rights groups and humanitarian organizations against the Bahraini authorities' detention of Mr. Khalil al-Marzooq -- the resigned first deputy speaker of parliament and the political aide of the secretary general of the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society – these authorities seem to be determined to continue their repression and violence against this esteemed legal figure,” said a statement issued by the bloc.