Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri said on Friday that the court indictment decision that criminalized two Syrian intelligence officers in the 2013 double bombings of al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques in the northern city of Tripoli, proves the direct involvement of the Syrian regime and its agencies in the crime.

“With the release of the indictment in the al-Taqwa and al-Salam bombings, I hereby convey my gratitude to the judiciary, security forces, the intelligence branch and the military forces that contributed to the decision,” said Hariri via Twitter.

Al-Mustaqbal MP Ahmed Fatfat said on Friday that Speaker Nabih Berri and Hizbullah are in harmony with regard to the 'package deal' as for the parliamentary and presidential elections, as he stressed that Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri is not enthusiastic to become a Premier under the patronage of Hizbullah.

“Speaker Berri tried to bring things together, but it is clear that he is taking the same path as that of Hizbullah with regard to the package deal,” Fatfat told al-Joumhouria daily.

Lebanon on Friday indicted two Syrian intelligence officers it accused of involvement in a deadly 2013 double bomb blast in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Judge Alaa al-Khatib, the judicial investigator into the 2013 bombings of al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques in Tripoli, issued the indictment.

The Free Patriotic Movement has reportedly set conditions for its participation in the cabinet meetings and demanded the nullification of the term extension of Higher Defense Council chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Kheir and the appointment of a new Army Commander to succeed General Jean Qahwaji, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

The alleged demands of the movement show that one way to a solution for Lebanon's political impasse is deadlocked, added the daily.

A garbage crisis has returned to Lebanon with piles of trash piling up in regions north of Beirut months after the government headed off a political crisis over uncollected waste.

The local council in the suburb of Bourj Hammoud, where a temporary dump is located, have for the past week denied access to garbage trucks on the grounds that the authorities had failed to honour a commitment to open a waste-treatment plant.

Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel and Education Minister Elias Bou Saab of the Free Patriotic Movement on Thursday inspected the controversial garbage landfill in Bourj Hammoud and called on the government to amend its emergency waste management plan.

A Turkish-owned jet leased by the private Wings of Lebanon company has landed in hot water after a flight it made to Israel.

A prominent Hizbullah MP announced Thursday that al-Mustaqbal Movement may be the party that would benefit most from the election of Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel as president.

Heavy-caliber machinegun fire from the Syrian side of the border is targeting the Mashta Hammoud mountain on the Lebanese bank of the Grand River, state-run National News Agency reported Thursday afternoon.

The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil's Senate means that a man of Lebanese origin who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds of a divided nation mired in recession.

Long known as an uncharismatic backroom wheeler-dealer, Michel Temer inherits a shrinking economy, a Zika virus outbreak that has ravaged poor northeastern states and political instability fed by a sprawling corruption probe that has tarred much of Brazil's political and business elite — himself included.