The Arab Summit that will kick off in Mauritania on Monday might represent a chance for Prime Minister Tammam Salam to meet with some Arab leaders, although he has not scheduled any bilateral meetings, a media report said on Sunday.

The Lebanese Army launched security patrols on Saturday in the restive northeastern border town of Arsal and on the entrances of the refugee encampments, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

“Since the early hours on Saturday, the army units carried out mechanized and infantry patrols inside the town and around its neighborhoods including the entrances leading to the Syrian refugee encampments,” said NNA.

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Lebanese emigrants in Germany were unharmed in the terrorist attacks that targeted Munich a day earlier.

“There are no Lebanese nationals among the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted Munich on Friday,” said a ministry statement.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel met with Popular Bloc leader Myriam Skaff, the widow of late Zahle politician Elie Skaff , after a rift in relations between the two parties, media office of Gemayel said on Saturday.

Gemayel visited Skaff in her place of residence in Yarzeh and offered his condolences on the death of her husband, marking a breakthrough in ties between the two after an eight-year boycott.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh will reportedly withdraw his candidacy for the presidential post in favor of founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun, As Safir daily said on Saturday.

Franjieh told French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that he is ready to move back from his nomination for the head of state in favor of Aoun if Lebanon's interest requires that, according to the daily.

The lawyer of a dual British-Australian national indicted in a botched attempt to kidnap two Australian-Lebanese children at the center of a custody battle says he has objected to a travel ban imposed on his client.

The restive northeastern border town of Arsal has decided to impose a nighttime curfew on Syrian refugees, its municipality announced on Friday, two days after one of the town's mayors was critically wounded in an assassination attempt.

Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, the newly-appointed head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) held separate talks Friday in Beirut with Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji, the U.N. force said.

Some cabinet ministers have threatened to suspend their participation in the cabinet meetings if Lebanon's state budget was not included on the agenda for discussion and approval “as soon as possible,” al-Mustaqbal daily reported on Friday.

“Ten ministers have formed a ministerial lobby and have met more than once and decided to suspend their participation in the cabinet meetings,” said the daily.

Director of the Tripoli Port Ahmed Tamer assured on Friday that the Turkish freight vessels that were seized for inspection and search in the port a day earlier did not contain banned cargo, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

“The authorities suspected the presence of banned materials in the shipments of the two ships that carried 54 trucks,” Tamer told NNA.