Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb said on Saturday that it is not in al-Mustaqbal Movement ex-PM Saad Hariri's interest to nominate MP Michel Aoun for the presidency, as he pointed out that it would lead the country to “negativity.”

“The country will arrive at a lot of negativity shall Aoun (founder of the Free Patriotic Movement) become a president,” said Harb to the VDL (100.5) in an interview.

The Internal Security Forces arrested a man in the Nahr el-Mot area near Beirut, for the possession of drugs and for allegedly planning to smuggle them into a juvenile prison, an ISF statement said on Saturday.

“On Friday 29/9/2016 a police patrol in Mount Lebanon busted Lebanese Aa.M., 1995, who was caught with amounts of hashish, two envelopes of Salvia divinorum, one envelope of cocaine, a Samsung mobile, Nokia mobile, LL 2,440,000 and $1600,” an ISF statement said on Saturday.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri is scheduled to leave Beirut and kick off a trip that will include Saudi Arabia, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

Hariri's trip comes after extensive meetings with various political figures in an attempt to find a solution for the over two-year vacuum at the top state Christian post.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Friday criticized Speaker Nabih Berri's insistence on a package deal that precedes the election of a new president, while stressing that candidates must not be “imposed” on anyone.

Defense Minister Samir Moqbel on Friday issued a decree tasking Maj. Gen. Hatem Mallak to act as caretaker chief of staff of the army after he was promoted from the rank of brigadier general, state-run National News Agency reported.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri held a much-anticipated meeting with Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun in Rabieh on Friday, shortly after he held talks in Maarab with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed Friday that there is no “personal dispute” between him and any of the two presidential candidates – Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun and Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh.

The Free Patriotic Movement will commemorate next month the ouster of its founder MP Michel Aoun on October 13, 1990 on the Presidential Palace road in Baabda, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

The FPM will mark the occasion on Sunday, October 16, FPM sources told the daily.

Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr charged four detainees with belonging to an armed terror groups for the purpose of carrying out terror operations, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Saqr charged the four detainees, including two Lebanese and two Syrians, with entering into the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh in Sidon and preparing terror attacks, NNA added.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim said on Friday that efforts continue to find a “serious” mediator to negotiate the release of servicemen abducted in 2014 by the Islamic State group, the National News Agency reported.

“We are looking for a serious mediator to negotiate the file of the servicemen abducted by the IS,” said Ibrahim during a trip to West Bekaa.