President Michel Suleiman reiterated on Monday that he would form a non partisan government if the March 8 alliance failed to inform him in the coming three days about the result of its negotiations on an all-embracing cabinet.

“I had previously set January 7 and informed all the officials that I would sign the decree of the government in hopes that it would be based on the 8-8-8 formula,” Suleiman said.

Independence Movement leader Michel Mouawad on Sunday stressed that March 14's acceptance to join a cabinet without prior agreement on its policy statement would be a “major political mistake.”

“The independent figures in March 14 have played an important role in bridging differences in the March 14 camp with a view to accepting participation, but that must happen according to clear principles based on including the Baabda Declaration in the policy statement, removing the army-people-resistance equation and rejecting any text that legitimizes any weapons operating outside state institutions,” Mouawad said at a press conference.

A farmer on Sunday found the remains of a rocket as he was cultivating his land in the southern town of al-Mari in Hasbaya District.

Al-Jadeed television said the man immediately informed the relevant security authorities, which arrived on the scene and took the remains to a military post.

A number of Muslim scholars and clerics who hail from the Bekaa on Sunday staged a protest to condemn the arrest of Sheikh Omar al-Atrash, who is reportedly involved in recent bomb attacks.

“We are protesting due to the injustice that is being practiced against scholars and young men in Sunni regions who are supportive of the Syrian revolution,” Sheikh Khaled al-Arefi said at a sit-in outside the defense ministry building in Yarze.

Caretaker Energy Minister Jebran Bassil stated on Sunday that the concept of rotation of power in cabinet is aimed at retaking the Energy Ministry portfolio from the Free Patriotic Movement.

He said during a press conference: “Rotation of power in cabinet at this point in time is aimed at eliminating the other.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged on Sunday the need for political powers to end their tense rhetoric and instead place national interests above all else.

He called during his Sunday sermon for “the formation of a government capable of rising up to challenges, especially staging the presidential elections on time.”

President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam will take the necessary position if a new government is not formed in the next few days, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassah on Sunday.

Deputy Prime Minister Samir Moqbel told the daily that the two officials will likely approve the formation of an all-embracing government.

Hizbullah has started taking extraordinary security measures in its stronghold of Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs in light of recent attacks in the area, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

As part of these measures, members of the party closed off a number of roads leading to the area, limiting access to Dahieh to a few routes.

Sheikh Abbas Zgheib was wounded by gunshots on Saturday evening in a shooting in Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahieh, the state-run National News agency reported.

“Zgheib was wounded by accident when an armed individual dispute erupted in al-Laylaki area in Dahieh,” the NNA detailed, noting that he was injured in the shoulder and in the back of his head.

A video showing a young Lebanese man saying goodbye to his family and beloved ones before heading to Syria's Homs to carry out a suicide attack has gone viral online.

25-year-old Ahmed Diab, who is nicknamed as Abu Bakir al-Riyadi, carried out the suicide attack on Saturday.