Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi warned on Sunday that political conflict leads to war, saying there should be a neutral cabinet that comes up with a new electoral law.

“Our salvation comes from political thought and not from political conflicts that lead to war,” al-Rahi said in his sermon at St. Maroun monastery in Annaya.

A Lebanese man was killed when two families armed with sticks and machetes engaged in a fight in a town in the northern district of Akkar, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.

NNA said that Khairallah al-Sheikh died when he was hit on his head with a stick.

Al-Mustaqbal leaders are scheduled to hold talks in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, a meeting that would result in a unified stance from Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam's efforts to form his government.

An al-Mustaqbal delegation, comprising "ex-PM Fouad Saniora and MPs Ahmed Fatfat and Nohad al-Mashnouq, traveled to the Saudi city of Jeddah for talks with ex-PM Saad Hariri," state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday afternoon.

Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has denied that he had differences with Hizbullah and confirmed that he had lately held talks with the party leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

“We haven't disagreed,” Aoun told An Nahar newspaper published on Sunday. “There were some thorny issues linked to internal affairs … that we resolved.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said on Saturday that he accepts President Michel Suleiman's call for national dialogue, noting, however, that talks “never led to results.”

“We agree to participate in national dialogue sessions but for years, dialogue has never had a positive outcome,” Aoun said in a speech he gave at a FPM dinner.

President Michel Suleiman called on Saturday for reviving the national dialogue, rejecting any attempt to obstruct the formation of a new cabinet.

“I call on the political leaders to take part in reviving the national dialogue sessions to look for the best way to preserve Lebanon's interest and manage its affairs,” Suleiman said in a speech he gave at Saint Joseph University's graduation ceremony.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized on Saturday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech, lashing out at his announcement that he's willing to engage in the national dialogue.

“How dare Nasrallah call for dialogue a year after the Baabda declaration was unanimously by all sides,” Geagea said in a statement issued by his press office.

The Internal Security Forces called on Saturday citizens against resorting to the use of fireworks during various celebrations.

It said in a statement: “The use of fireworks for national, religious, and social occasions, such as weddings, sports events, and the announcement of exam results, raises fear among the people.”

Rudeina Malaeb, a Druze woman who married a Sunni man who was attacked by her angry family, said on Saturday that Rabih al-Ahmed deceived her to marry him.

“Everything that Rabih said is fabricated... He tried to assault me several times,” Rudeina, 20, told LBCI, in her first appearance since Rabih's penis was cut off in the Aley town of Baisour two days ago.

Lebanon's security forces have detained two relatives of the wife of a murdered Syrian official on suspicion they were involved in his killing, a security source told AFP Saturday.

Mohammad Darrar Jammo, a strong supporter of Syrian President Bashar Assad, was gunned down at his home by unknown attackers early on Wednesday in what initially was thought to be a political assassination.