The March 14 forces have shunned modern technology in communicating with each other in light of recent security fears.

“We have concerns regarding the use of cellphones,” al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Ahmed Fatfat said in an interview with LBCI television.

Acting General Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud stated on Wednesday that the corpse of the “emir” of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades Majed al-Majed has not yet been handed over to his family in Saudi Arabia, reported the National News Agency.

He told NNA: “The findings of the autopsy report will determine whether he will be returned to his family.”

Unknown assailants on Wednesday took off the door of a mosque affiliated with Sheikh Hashem Minkara in the northern city of Tripoli.

“A group of young men took off the door of al-Soufiah mosque in Tripoli,” LBCI television detailed.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour revealed on Wednesday that he had sent to United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon a complaint over Israel's spying activities.

“We also prepared a CD that includes information on the procedures taken and the spying devices planted on the border with the occupied Palestinian territories, which is a clear violation of international law and a continuous attack on Lebanon, the Lebanese people and the country's security military and civil institutions,” Mansour detailed.

Two Swedish journalists have been released after being held for six weeks in Syria by an unidentified armed group, Swedish foreign ministry officials said Wednesday.

"The two journalists have been freed," Sweden's ambassador to Syria and Lebanon, Niklas Kebbon, told Agence France Presse.

Speaker Nabih Berri stated on Wednesday that contacts are ongoing to form a new government.

He said: “We are positively dealing with this issue and we are very patient in facing the obstacles in the government formation process.”

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly stressed on Wednesday the international community's keenness on the formation of an “effective government in Lebanon.”

He urged after holding talks with Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam “all parties to engage positively with him to ensure that a government is in place without further delay.”

Caretaker Energy Minister Jebran Bassil postponed for the third time on Wednesday tenders for the licensing of offshore oil and gas exploration to April 10 after the resigned government failed to approve two decrees.

“We thank all the companies that wanted to participate and take the risk to invest in Lebanon at these difficult circumstances,” Bassil said during a press conference he held to announce the postponement.

The council of Maronite bishops urged the Lebanese on Wednesday to protect the social fabric and prevent Lebanon from being turned into a battleground.

“The spread of terror through booby-trapped cars and security chaos … should compel everyone to protect Lebanon’s social fabric and prevent it from being turned into a battleground for different conflicts,” the bishops, who met under Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki, said.

The March 14 General Secretariat renewed on Wednesday its assertion that eliminating illegitimate arms will lead to stability in Lebanon.

It voiced after its weekly meeting “its constant readiness to mobilize in any region, city, or village to confront the plot to incite sectarianism among the Lebanese as had recently happened in the northern city of Tripoli.”