Hizbullah International Relations official Ammar Moussawi has recently met with several ambassadors of western countries to discuss the cabinet's formation and the security situation in the country, the Central News Agency reported on Thursday.

"Several meetings were held recently between political foes in the country,” CNA said.

Unknown assailants opened fire at two trucks on the Abu Ali roundabout in the northern city of Tripoli on Thursday, accidentally wounding a girl.

The state-run National News Agency noted that the trucks carried Syrian license plates.

Khalil Hrawi, adviser of President Michel Suleiman, did not rule out on Thursday the possibility of the formation of a neutral cabinet should efforts to form an all-embracing one fail, reported the Central News Agency.

He told the news agency however that political powers “are leaning towards the formation of an all-embracing government.”

Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc warned on Thursday against forming a de facto cabinet, saying that regardless of the name given to such a council of minister, it remains “unconstitutional.”

“We call for an all-inclusive cabinet,” MP Hassan Fadlallah reiterated after the bloc's meeting.

The Military Prosecutor charged on Thursday several Syrian detainees on suspicious of belonging to a jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaida and plotting terrorist attacks in Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr issued the charges against five suspects with belonging to al-Nusra Front and a terrorist organization to carry out terrorist activities.

Caretaker Education Minister Hassan Diab's office denied on Thursday that Diab had died in a car crash, calling on security agencies to punish the parties that spread the rumor.

“An unknown party sent short text messages on mobile phones claiming that MTV had broadcast the news about Education Minister Hassan Diab's death in a car crash,” his office said in a statement.

Arab Democratic Party leader former MP Ali Eid failed on Thursday to attend a hearing on the August twin bombings in the northern city of Tripoli for medical reasons, reported the National News Agency.

His lawyer, Hiyam Eid, submitted a medical report to First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida excusing him from the hearing.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called on Thursday for building unity through diversity to protect Lebanon.

“It's easy to destroy but it's difficult to build,” al-Rahi told a visiting delegation from the Lebanese Forces.

One person was killed and another injured in a car crash on the Batroun-Tripoli highway in the North, the state-run National News agency reported on Thursday.

NNA said Kamel Lotfi Kurdi, 34, was killed and Nafez Ahmed al-Merhi was wounded when a truck driver, Abdullah al-Ghrawi, hit their Mercedes.

The March 8 alliance was waiting for the final go ahead of al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri on a cabinet proposal as the party sought answers on several questions, including the policy statement.

An Nahar daily quoted informed sources as saying on Thursday that the Hizbullah-led March 8 camp, which has accepted an 8-8-8 government formula, was waiting for Hariri's answer, whose movement is a member of the March 14 alliance.