Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riyad Abu Ghida heard on Tuesday the testimonies of ex-Minister Michel Samaha's bodyguard and driver over the bombing attacks plot.

Bodyguard Ali Mallah and driver Fares Barakat, who were arrested for questioning on Aug. 9 and later released, testified to Abu Ghida on the transfer of explosives from Syria in an attempt to carry out bombings in northern Lebanon.

President Michel Suleiman hoped on Tuesday that the abduction of the Kuwaiti national Walid al-Houti will not have an impact on the Lebanese-Kuwaiti bilateral relations.

“Kuwait has always supported Lebanon and offered help in various sectors,” Suleiman told Kuwaiti ambassador to Lebanon Abdul-Al al-Qenai.

A Syrian rocket landed on a farmhouse in a northeastern border region in Lebanon on Tuesday, injuring three Syrians, one of them seriously, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the Syrians work in a farm that belongs to Tony Habib al-Toum in Masharih al-Qaa.

Around 19 people were injured on Tuesday when a bus carrying Syrians from the northern province of Aleppo overturned at the Masnaa border crossing in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the bus flipped over onto its side when the driver lost control and hit a concrete barrier near the Lebanese customs at the crossing.

Bkirki spokesman Walid Ghayyad revealed on Tuesday that the seat of the Maronite church rejects the new proportional representation draft law that was approved by the cabinet earlier this month.

“Bkirki rejects the draft law that divided the country into 13 districts because all the Lebanese failed to agree on it,” Ghayyad told al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Lebanon is set to chair the Arab League Ministerial Council next month amid unannounced divisions among top Lebanese officials on whether to back down from the mission, As Safir daily reported on Tuesday.

Presidential sources told the newspaper that pragmatic consultations are underway on whether Lebanon should preside the Council for a six-month period starting September 5.

The March 14 alliance’s youth movement is scheduled to march on Wednesday to the Foreign Ministry in Ashrafiyeh to protest the government’s failure to deal with several issues that have spiraled out of control.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Tuesday, the youth movement’s rally is aimed at protesting the security chaos in Lebanon, exerting efforts to release the Lebanese abductees in Syria, ending the fighting in the northern city of Tripoli, and halting the spread of illegal arms over Lebanese territories.

The recent release of a Lebanese man who had been detained in Syria in the past 27 years brought back to the spotlight the issue of the Lebanese who went missing during Lebanon’s 1975-90 Civil War.

The media identified the man as 49-year-old Yaacoub Chamoun, who was seized in the eastern city of Zahle, and later moved to several Syrian prisons during his incarceration, including the notorious Mezze, Saydnaya and Tadmor prisons.

A Kuwaiti citizen abducted on Saturday in the Bekaa Valley was released on Monday and taken to the army barracks in Ablah.

“Prime Minister Najib Miqati has been informed by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel that the kidnapped Kuwaiti citizen Issam Nasser al-Houti has been released,” state-run National News Agency reported.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday called on families of people who went missing during the various armed conflicts in Lebanon to get in touch with its delegation in order to provide information on the missing relatives.

“This step is a part of a project launched by the ICRC in April to collect pre-disappearance data,” the committee said in a statement.