One person was killed and six others were wounded in a horrific traffic accident on Tuesday on the highway of al-Naameh towards the south.

The Traffic Management Center said that the accident occurred when a minivan, carrying passengers, crashed with a pickup truck.

The Lebanese Forces suspended on Tuesday its participation in the electoral subcommittee until a parliamentary session is scheduled to vote on a new draft-law.

LF MP George Adwan told reporters after a meeting for the committee at the parliament that “the subcommittee is only passing time until a settlement is reached regarding the presidential post.”

Head of the Kataeb Party Amin Gemayel expressed on Tuesday hope that the servicemen kidnapped from the northeastern border town of Arsal in August would be released.

He said after holding talks with Speaker Nabih Berri: “We must carry out negotiations to release the Arsal captives as soon as the conditions are available.”

Vendors briefly blocked the road in the northern port city of Tripoli on Tuesday to protest a decision by the municipality to remove their carts.

The state-run National News Agency reported that the vendors had blocked al-Qobbeh and Majlaya road with burning tires to protest the decision.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed that Lebanon is not involved in any form of terrorism, refusing any links between any Lebanese or a group with any terror act that happened in the world.

Bassil, who is currently in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on an official visit, told reporters that “Lebanon rejects any form of terrorism,” considering it as a victim of terror.

The cabinet is likely to reach a settlement over the opening tenders of marine oil blocks to foreign companies, as Energy Minister Arthur Nazarian linked the adoption of petroleum decrees to resolving this dispute, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

“Implementing the decree should be the government's top priority,” he told the daily.

Ninette Kelley, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Lebanon, stressed on Tuesday that the United Nations is looking forward to a Lebanese plan that supports the refugees with the necessary humanitarian aid, in addition to the hosting communities.

“Lebanon has launched a seventh plan to support refugees and it is not only seeking humanitarian aid but also a development fund to help the country cope with difficult times it is passing through,” Kelley said in an interview with An Nahar newspaper.

Washington has reportedly warned the Lebanese army against cooperating with Hizbullah in its war against terrorism and takfiris, hinting that any cooperation could impact the U.S. aid to the military.

According to a report published in al-Akhbar newspaper on Tuesday, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy Matthew Spence, who visited Beirut last week, warned in his meetings with Lebanese officials, in particular with Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji, of cooperating with Hizbullah as an partner in the war against terror.

The front of the northeastern border town of Arsal and the various Syrian refugee encampments pose a danger to Lebanon, said a security source to As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

It said that the encampments are a threat given the recent firing against a military helicopter, revealing that aerial footage confirm the existence of arms caches there.

The state is seeing to unify efforts exerted in the file of the abducted Lebanese soldiers and policemen as it refuses to task the Muslim Scholars Committee with the negotiations with Islamist militants.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Tuesday, the cabinet reportedly refuses to task the committee with the mediation despite welcoming any positive effort that would secure the release of the captive servicemen.