Several Israeli soldiers were injured Tuesday evening when their vehicle skidded and collided with a military bulldozer in the occupied Shebaa Farms, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement on Tuesday stressed the need to speed up the drafting of the new electoral law under which the country's next parliamentary elections will be held.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc stressed Tuesday that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah does not have the right to “impose” his ally Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun as a “sole presidential candidate.”

A Dearborn man has pleaded guilty to lying about his plans to travel to Lebanon, which included intentions to fight for Hizbullah, which Washington designates as a “terrorist group,” U.S. media reports said.
Mohammad Hassan Hamdan, 24, admitted he initially lied in March 2014 when he told federal agents he was going to Lebanon to “get his teeth fixed,” The Detroit News website quoted the U.S. Attorney’s Office as saying.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed on Tuesday that his country will provide the needed ground to help Lebanon overcome its political crisis, as he assured that Egypt only seeks stability and peace in the world and region.

Protesters blocked on Tuesday the entrance to the Bourj Hammoud landfill to prevent dump trucks from entering the site, the National News Agency said on Tuesday.
Several youth blocked the road near the landfill in protest, said NNA.

Ex-Prime Minister MP Saad Hariri's visit to Saudi Arabia is reportedly confined to tackle the file of Saudi Oger Ltd. and to complete a deal to sell the company to Saudi Arabia where he is set to devote his efforts afterwards to political issues.
Sources in March said that delayed receipts from the government, whose oil revenues have dropped significantly in the past two years, left construction workers at several companies struggling while they wait for salaries.

Lebanese officials and political parties anxiously await for what the visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will carry during his three-day visit to Lebanon, where he is set to kick start meetings with several Lebanese officials and political leaders in a bid to solve the presidential deadlock, An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.
Shourky arrived in Beirut late on Monday amid hopes that his visit would convey new ideas that would help Lebanon overcome its political crisis.

Hizbullah's top lawmaker MP Mohammed Raad announced Monday that the situations in Lebanon have become “ripe” for the election of a new president and ending the presidential void that has been running since May 2014.

A roadside bomb targeted an army vehicle on Monday outside the restive northeastern border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.
