March 14 MP Marwan Hamadeh announced that officials from the camp are set to meet again in order to discuss the recent consultations held with Speaker Nabih Berri aimed at revitalizing parliament activity, reported An Nahar daily on Sunday.

He told the daily that the heads of parliamentary committees and members of the parliament bureau will meet for a second time to take a united stand on the resumption of parliamentary work.

Mustaqbal bloc MP Ammar Houri urged the Higher Defense Council to tackle the case of MPs who had received death threats in October, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

The council was scheduled to convene on Sunday, with the MP demanding that it tackle the case of the 15 officials who received the threats through mobile phone text messages.

The General Prosecution filed a lawsuit on Saturday against Abdul Latif Fneish, brother of Minister of State for Administrative Reform Mohammad Fneish for being involved in the illegal drugs scandal, al-Jadeed television reported.

“Abdul Latif Fneish will be tried for forging medications,” al-Jadeed said.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Saturday that he tackled during talks with Speaker Nabih Berri the latest developments locally, state-run National News Agency reported.

“The meeting tackled the general situation in Lebanon including the electoral law,” Miqati told reporters after meeting with Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

More than 150,000 Syrian refugees have fled the bloody conflict in their home country for Lebanon, according to figures released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Saturday.

“There are around 109,000 refugees formally registered within the agency and 41,000 others currently contacting it to be registered,” a statement released by the U.N. said.

The Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops called on Saturday for the formation of a new government capable of overseeing the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections.

“Officials should reach consensus over a new electoral law and form a new cabinet that should seek reconciliation (among the Lebanese foes) and oversee the polls,” the council said in its final statement after a three-day closed-door meeting in Bkirki.

Several inmates in Roumieh prison rioted to protest the treatment they are undergoing at the facility by some security guards, state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

According to the news agency, prisoners broke doors on Friday night in protest against their poor living conditions, prompting security guards to intervene to control the situation.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and Tripoli lawmakers said Saturday that the Lebanese government should take “decisive measures” to resolve the situation in the northern city as sniper activity and clashes renewed in the city breaching its fragile peace.

During a press conference that Charbel held before heading a security meeting, he hoped the meeting would be the start to the implementation of measures that would limit Tripoli's problems and lead to talks between the warring parties after days of gunbattles between the residents of two neighborhoods left scores of casualties.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announced on Saturday that Syria will hand over the bodies of three Lebanese killed in the Tall Kalakh ambush on Sunday.

“The three bodies belong to Khodr Mustafa Alameddine, Malek Ziad al-Hajj Dib and Abdul Hamid Ali Agha,” revealed a statement issued by Mansour's office.

Mufti of Tripoli and the North Sheikh Malek al-Shaar denied on Saturday that he was after a seat in Dar al-Fatwa but stressed willingness to serve Sunnis if there was consensus on him.

In remarks to An Nahar daily, al-Shaar, who traveled to Paris following information that he could be the target of an assassination plot, said that he hasn't announced his candidacy to any post in the Dar al-Fatwa elections.