Complications loomed over the adoption of the wage scale for the public sector after a meeting between lawmakers, who discussed the impossibility of endorsing the new draft-law in the absence of the 2015 state budget.

Al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Saturday said that a meeting was held at the residence of al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc head Fouad Saniora with Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, Education Minister Elias Bou Saab and LF MP George Adwan and Mustaqbal lawmaker Jamal al-Jarrah tackled the thorny issue.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam announced Friday his confidence in Egypt's ability to “overcome the tough phase,” as he reminded that Lebanon is also facing a “fierce terrorist onslaught.”

“We believe that investments in Egypt today would contribute to immunizing the Arab national security,” said Salam in a speech at the Egypt Economic Development Conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

A Lebanese who hails from northern Lebanon was killed in Syria while combating alongside the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front.

He was identified as Mustafa Khaled Seif, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5), adding that he was killed in the Deir Ezzour region.

The United Arab Emirates will expel 70 Lebanese nationals, mostly Shiites, within the next 24 hours, Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said Friday.

"The ministry of foreign affairs was informed by the Lebanese embassy in the Emirates that 70 Lebanese will be deported by the authorities in the next 24 hours," Bassil told Agence France Presse.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated on Friday that the situation of Christians in the region is “very difficult.”

He said via Twitter: “The Christians should stop their weeping and hold on to their land.”

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale expressed concern on Friday over the risk of spillover of terrorism and extremism from Syria.

“Tackling the threats will not be easy, but I am confident that, together, we can ensure that Daesh (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) will never find safe haven in Lebanon,” Hale told reporters after talks with Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil at the Bustros Palace.

Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri stressed that the March 14, 2005 “independence intifada” will be remembered as a day when the Lebanese achieved a victory in the name of “their freedom, sovereignty, and national dignity,” while remarking that “protecting tyranny is not the right way to combat terrorism.”

He said in a statement on the tenth anniversary of the uprising: “Dragging Lebanon towards neighboring civil wars is the easiest way to ruin the lives of the Lebanese, who will not accept to become a part of the Iranian empire.”

A judge indicted on Friday eight Jaafar clan members in the murder of a couple in the eastern Baalbek district in November last year.

First Examining Magistrate in the Bekaa Valley Judge Imad al-Zein issued in absentia arrest warrants against the suspects for the murder of Sobhi and Nadimeh Fakhri in the town of Btedei.

Several factions linked to the Free Syrian Army are manufacturing Captagon pills and smuggling it through Lebanon en route to foreign countries, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday.

The daily said that Islamist groups mainly destroy the seized drugs and close factories that manufacture any in their area of control. However some FSA factions became the key manufacturers of Captagon.

Hizbullah is reportedly mobilizing and preparing to carry out a wide-range attack on more than one axis in the rebel-held areas in the Syrian Qalamoun region and on Lebanon's Eastern Mountain range.

A source close to Hizbullah revealed in comments to the Italian news agency Adnkronos (AKI) that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Syrian regime forces will back the party's assault on militant posts.