Speaker Nabih Berri's adviser Ali Hamdan denied Sunday the presence of any tensions between the parliament speaker and the Free Patriotic Movement, stressing that Berri is always ready to facilitate dialogue among the Lebanese.

Education Minister Elias Bou Saab has stressed that the FPM is keen on restoring good ties with Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh, as he described al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri as “the strongest and best partner for us in Lebanon.”

Rabieh has received “confirmed information” that the Americans want the election of Army chief General Jean Qahwaji as president, a media report said on Sunday.

The Lebanese army detected an Israeli spy device in a liberated part of Lebanese land along the occupied Shebaa Farms, the Army Command Orientation directorate said in a statement on Saturday.

“On September 9, 2016 an army task force discovered a spy device that belongs to the Israeli enemy inside liberated Lebanese lands near the occupied Shebaa Farms. An army patrol headed to the location and found that the Israeli enemy has already removed the device and moved it inside occupied lands,” said the statement.

The Lebanese army arrested two Lebanese citizens on the coastal city of Jbeil, north of Beirut for helping Syrian nationals illegally enter into Lebanon, the Army Command Orientation Directorate said in a statement on Saturday.

“An Intelligence bureau patrol arrested two Lebanese citizens in Jbeil, Youssef Shawkat Amer and Ali Qassem al-Ajami, on charges of smuggling six Syrians into Lebanon,” said the statement.

A doctor at Baalbek's hospital of Ibn Sina who was kidnapped on Tuesday was freed Friday at midnight, the state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Doctor Saleh al-Shal, a medical director at the hospital, was freed by his kidnappers in Baalbek's town of Douris, NNA added.

Hizbullah stressed on Saturday that it aimed to control the situation when it boycotted the latest cabinet meeting in solidarity with its ally the Free Patriotic Movement, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Saturday.

Hizbullah MP Ali Fayyad said that when Hizbullah decided to boycott the cabinet meeting, “it planned to do so out of keenness to control and address the situation and not to escalate things any further.”

Following intensive investigations, the General Directorate of General Security arrested a cell belonging to a terrorist group linked to the Ksara bombing in the eastern town of Zahle which claimed the life of a woman and wounded many others, the National News Agency reported.

As a result of confessions of the detainees, a force of the General Security raided an apartment and seized a device which was used in remotely detonating the bomb.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi rejected on Saturday the calls for holding a constituent assembly and said that reducing the Christians presence is totally rejected, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

“We have not implemented the Taef accord yet. What constituent assembly are they talking about?” sources from Bkirki quoted al-Rahi as saying.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea rejected attempts aiming at introducing amendments to Lebanon's constitution and dubbed any endeavor in that direction as a “ leap into the unknown,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

“A suggestion to hold a new constituent assembly is totally rejected because any attempt to change the constitution is a leap into the unknown,” said Geagea in an interview to the daily.