Head of al-Mustaqbal Movement Saad Hariri arrived in Cairo for talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Grand Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb.

Hariri met with Sisi at Ittihadiya palace, a statement issued by the ex-PM's press office said.

Negotiations with al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) over the release of captive Lebanese servicemen had ceased, media reports said on Sunday.

According to Nizam Mogheit, the brother of soldier Ibrahim who was taken hostage by ISIL, information obtained by the families of kidnapped troops and policemen indicate that negotiations with al-Nusra Front led by Sheikh Mustapha al-Hujeiri, who is also known as Abu Taqiyeh and hails from Bekaa border village of Arsal, and that with ISIL and led by Ahmed Fleiti, the town's deputy municipal chief, reached a dead end.

Beirut Maronite Bishop Boulos Matar denied on Sunday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry informed him that Washington is optimistic that a new head of state would be elected within two months after a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is reached.

“Kerry didn't inform me when I met with him in Paris that a president would be elected within two months,” Matar said in comments to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

Ten people suffered on Saturday from food poisoning in the northern city of Tripoli, reported the National News Agency.

First aid was administered to the victims before they were transferred to the Dar al-Shifa hospital.

Two people were killed on Saturday in a traffic accident in the eastern region of Baalbek, reported the National News Agency.

The accident took place when a silver Hyundai Picanto collided with a light post on the Baalbek – al-Hermal main road.

The army announced on Saturday that it had arrested in February a Syrian national who confessed to belonging to armed terrorist groups.

Hassan Mohammed Jamil Harba, who was detained on February 27, admitted to heading an armed group that was active in the outskirts of Flita and Arsal in the eastern Bekaa area.

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim spoke of a breakthrough in the case of the servicemen kidnapped from the northeastern border town of Arsal in the wake of Lebanese authorities receiving a list of detainees the kidnappers are demanding to be released, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

Widely-informed official sources told the daily that the list includes the names of 40 detainees held by Lebanese authorities.

United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos concluded on Friday a two-day visit to Lebanon during which she addressed the burden Syrian refugees are posing on the country, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

She told the daily that the refugees comprise around 25 to 30 percent of Lebanon's population.

A Syrian member of the Islamic State group, who was arrested earlier this week, denied that he was involved in the execution of Lebanese servicemen who were abducted in the northeastern border town of Arsal in August, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

It said that Hassan Ghurelli repeatedly denied to investigators his involvement in the executions despite being confronted by Syrian detainee confessions who had mentioned his name in the killings.

Security forces and agencies are preparing to implement a security plan Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a Hizbullah stronghold, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday.

Security sources told the daily that the plan will be implemented “within two weeks.”