The dead body of a man was found inside his house in the Baalbek town of Douris in east Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

The man was identified as J.Aa and was found dead.

A bomb blast in a Syrian refugee encampment in the northeastern border town of Arsal wounded four people, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

A hand grenade exploded in the al-Nour camp for Syrian refugees in Wadi Hmeid in Arsal, NNA said.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri hailed the judiciary's efforts that unveiled an assassination plot against Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat.

“The disclosure of a plot to assassinate the head of the Democratic Gathering bloc Walid Jumblat is a security and judicial achievement that deserves to pay a tribute to all those who contributed to uncovering it,” said Hariri.

First Military Investigative Judge Riad Abou Ghaida issued a death penalty indictment that was reduced to life imprisonment against former Progressive Socialist Party member Youssef Fakher, nicknamed the Cowboy, on charges of an assassination attempt against PSP leader MP Walid Jumblat, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Fakher was arrested in August by the General Security on charges of involvement in preparations to assassinate Jumblat, having links with Israel and for forming armed groups.

International authorities have stressed the importance that Lebanon engages in the international summit for migrants and refugees that will convene in New York on September 20 and, in the UN General Assembly on refugees scheduled on September 19 in NY as well, An Nahar daily reported on Friday.

Diplomatic sources said that at the conferences Lebanon will receive significant financial and moral support, and that it will be an opportunity to convey a message to the world to assume responsibilities in helping Lebanon carry the burden of refugees, added the daily.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed that he “will never reconcile with Syrian President Bashar Assad,” and that a reconciliation will mean his political end.

“I prefer to commit suicide on my own terms instead of going to Syria and shake hands with Assad,” said the MP in an interview to Carnegie Middle East Center on Thursday.

Lebanese Forces students staged a sit-in Thursday at Ashrafieh's Sassine Square to press the government to demand the handover of two Syrian officers indicted with involvement in the deadly 2013 blasts that rocked two Tripoli mosques.

Activists from the We Want Accountability civil society campaign breached the security barb wire outside the Grand Serail on Thursday, describing their move as a “warning message.”

Former minister Wiam Wahhab stressed Thursday that his Arab Tawhid Party “does not believe in violence” as a way to settle political differences, after one of its members was arrested for hurling an explosive device in the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar.

The General Directorate of General Security wrapped up Thursday its investigations into the bombing that rocked Zahle's Ksara area in late August, noting that Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras was briefly held in the case for interrogation over a meeting in Turkey with the attack's mastermind.