Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Monday that the new wage scale isn't a challenge between his cabinet and the Economic Committees after a session at the Baabda Palace to discuss the matter was postponed.

“We are committed to refer the new wage scale to the parliament. We are still discussing the repercussions of approving it completely,” Miqati told reporters at the Grand Serail after chairing a meeting for a ministerial committee tasked with studying the new wage scale for the public sector.

An official of the rebel Free Syrian Army, Louay al-Meqdad, accused Hizbullah on Monday of carrying out an “unprecedented invasion” backed by Syrian artillery fire in villages in central Syria.

In remarks to An Nahar daily, al-Meqdad said: “Hizbullah's invasion is the first of its kind in terms of organization, planning and coordination with the Syrian regime's airforce.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Sunday telephoned his Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman, stressing that Lebanon respects Bahrain's sovereignty and that the stances voiced by some Lebanese leaders do not reflect the government's official stance.

Miqati expressed to the Bahraini premier “Lebanon's appreciation for Bahrain's leadership and people,” lauding Manama's “pioneering role in the Arab region and the world,” according to a press release issued by his office.

Speaker Nabih Berri discussed with Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Sunday the controversial electoral draft-law a day before the joint parliamentary committees are set to meet to agree on a new law.

“We discussed the electoral law proposals,” Miqati said after visiting Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Gunmen attacked a camp for a construction company in rural northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy and Lebanon, authorities said Sunday, in the biggest kidnapping yet in a region under attack by Islamic extremists.

The attack Saturday night happened in Jama're, a town in a rural portion of Bauchi state. There, the gunmen first attacked a local prison, burning two police trucks, Bauchi state police spokesman Hassan Muhammed told The Associated Press.

Lebanese Democratic Party leader Talal Arslan held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Sunday, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said Arslan discussed with Assad the latest developments in Lebanon, Syria and the region.

Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Youhanna X Yazigi celebrated mass at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district on Sunday in the presence of the country's top political and spiritual leaders.

President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib Miqati, Phalange leader Amin Gemayel and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi were among several politicians and clergymen attending the mass.

Syrian actor Duraid Lahham visited Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi on Sunday, a day after he was forced out of a town in northern Lebanon over his support for the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad.

A statement carried by the National News Agency said Lahham visited Rifi to announce his “support and appreciation” for ISF's “constructive” role.

Three Lebanese Shiites have been killed in fighting in Syria, a Hizbullah official said Sunday, as the Syrian opposition accused the Lebanese group of intervening on the side of the regime.

"Two Lebanese Shiites living in Syria were killed and at least 14 others wounded in clashes with rebels," the official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity, later adding that one of the wounded had also died.

Bahrain's interior minister said police have arrested eight members of an alleged terrorist cell linked to Iran and Lebanon following widespread clashes in the Gulf nation during protests marking the second anniversary of an Arab Spring-inspired uprising.

A statement Sunday on the ministry's website said the suspected terror network received training and financial support from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon — references to Iranian-backed Shiite groups such as Hizbullah and others.