Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour stressed on Wednesday that Hizbullah's interference in Syria is not the problem, pointing out that the region's upheaval is cause by the presence of terrorist ideologies.

"Those claiming that what is happening in Syria is a result of Hizbullah's involvement in the war want to divert attention from the fact that there are foreign terrorist groups in the region,” Mansour said during his participation at the Syria peace talks in Switzerland's Geneva.

A Lebanese woman from the southern town of Batoulieh was killed in mysterious circumstances in the the state of Michigan in the United States, reported the National News Agency on Wednesday.

It said that Assil Ali Srour, 20, died in the state, but the details of her death were unclear.

A “suspicious” man arrested by the Internal Security Forces on Wednesday in the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik has turned out to be a renowned Lebanese rapper.

“He raised suspicions due to his beard and was taken for interrogation while his car was inspected and it did not contain any explosives,” al-Jadeed TV reported.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc said in a statement on Wednesday that Lebanon is no longer able to handle the repercussions of the Syrian crisis, urging the Lebanese to resort to the state's authority and respect the principle of national partnership.

The bloc stressed after its weekly meeting the necessity to fully commit to the dissociation policy which means the withdrawal of Hizbullah from Syria and the deployment of the Lebanese army along the border with the help of international peacekeeping troops to prevent fighters from crossing between the two countries and “spare Lebanon miseries caused by the party's participation in the fighting in Syria.”

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon began for the first time on Wednesday to hear the testimonies of witnesses in the trial of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's February 2005 assassination.

The testimonies came after the STL prosecution, the lawyers for victims and defense attorneys of two suspects made their opening statements since the trial was launched last Thursday.

Two people were injured in a border town in the northern district of Akkar after rockets landed in the area from the Syrian side of the border, the state-run National News Agency reported Wednesday.

NNA said one rocket hit the house of Mohammed Mahmoud Haydar in the town of Danke, injuring two of his sons.

Gunbattles rocked the northern city of Tripoli on Wednesday, leaving one soldier dead and eight others wounded.

The clashes, which also injured four civilians, resumed in the morning after a relatively calm night as the Lebanese army came under heavy gunfire.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council denounced the Haret Hreik bombing, which targeted a Hizbullah stronghold, calling on the rival Lebanese parties to preserve unity and state institutions.

“The recurrent acts of terrorism and violence in Lebanon are totally unacceptable,” Ban's spokesperson quoted him as saying.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Wednesday that there is consensus between all parties on adopting the rotation in ministerial portfolios, persuading the Free Patriotic Movement to agree on the matter.

“We cannot reject the rotation of portfolios, which was agreed on by President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam,” Jumblat informed FPM caretaker Energy Minister Jebran Bassil.

The Free Patriotic Movement will participate in the new government despite its leader's rejection of the rotation of portfolios, FPM sources said Wednesday.

The sources told al-Liwaa newspaper that MP Michel Aoun's announcement that he rejected the rotation would not be an obstacle to the FPM's participation in the cabinet.