The Internal Security Forces stated on Sunday that a school headmaster in the northern city of Tripoli had died of natural causes after reports emerged that he was beaten up while trying to break up a fight at the school.

They said that the autopsy report determined that Farouq Kardofan died of natural causes and no signs of violence were found on his body.

President Michel Suleiman and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi attended on Sunday the canonization mass of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII that was held at the Vatican.

They were present at St. Peter's Square where Pope Francis I declared the two popes as saints.

International powers have kicked off their efforts to ensure the election of a president for Lebanon, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

It said that they are leaning towards the election of centrist figure, namely Central Bank Governor Riyad Salameh.

A soldier was killed and others were wounded when a military truck deviated on the highway in the northern border region of Wadi Khaled on Saturday.

"A soldier was killed and five others were injured when their truck deviated on al-Hisha road in Wadi Khaled,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

Loyalty to Resistance MP Nawaf Moussawi reiterated on Saturday that Hizbullah wants a president who embraces the resistance, and who is capable of uniting the Lebanese people.

"We want the election of a candidate who can unite the Lebanese despite their divisions and differences,” Moussawi said at a party event.

Several soldiers were wounded on Saturday when a hand grenade was hurled in a Tripoli neighborhood, as troops continued raiding several neighborhoods in the northern city.

"A hand grenade was hurled at an army patrol during raids in Bab al-Tabbaneh (neighborhood in Tripoli),” a communique by the military institution said.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim revealed on Saturday that closing the illegal crossings between Lebanon and Syria and the control imposed in the area had a positive impact on the local security situation.

Media reports quoted him as saying that “90 percent of the illegal crossings were closed.”

The army deployed heavily on Saturday in Beirut's southern suburbs to end clashes that erupted between two families in al-Jamous neighborhood, media reports said.

According to the state-run National News Agency, gunbattles broke out between Nassereddine and Meqdad families in the neighborhood.

Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmed Jarba voiced hope on Saturday that Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea would be elected as the new head of state.

According to a statement issued by the LF press office, Jarba told Geagea in a telephone conversation that “the Syrian people support him for presidency and would be glad if he reached the Baabda Palace.”

This small, scenic patch of land where the frontiers of Syria, Lebanon and Israel converge has long been a flashpoint, with Hizbullah fighters and Israeli troops positioned face to face in close quarters across undefined and disputed borders.

The Syrian civil war has made the region known as Shebaa Farms even more dangerous.