First Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riyad Abu Ghida issued on Friday indictments against several foreigners and Lebanese who plotted to carry out terrorist attacks in Lebanon.

Abu Ghida indicted a Frenchman, originally from the Comoros islands, who was arrested in June during a raid on the Napoleon Hotel in Beirut's Hamra district.

The army continued on Friday clamping down on offenders across Lebanon, detaining several suspects linked to terror acts, the military command said in a statement.

An army unit raided Syrian encampments in the Zgharta town of Meryata, arresting ten Syrians who entered the country illegally.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday criticized Lebanese politicians for “destroying” the country and slammed lawmakers for “protecting their seats” at the parliament.

At the end of his two-week pastoral visit to Australia, al-Rahi said: “Politicians destroy and we build no matter what.”

The international humanitarian community is seeking to establish a new program to aid Lebanon, which is hosting Syrian and Palestinian refugees, to share the burden of the displaced.

Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas told al-Akhbar newspaper published on Friday that “the concerned international organizations will urge donor countries to share the burden of Syrian and Palestinian refugees with Lebanon.

Ahmed Salim Miqati, a terror detainee, confessed during investigations that his group aimed at carrying out a wide-scale assault against the army, revealing that fugitive Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir is taking the Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh, near the southern city of Sidon, as his refuge.

According to As Safir newspaper published on Friday, Miqati surprised investigators with spilling out the roles of his accomplices.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that the law on the extension of parliament's term until June 2017 will come into force despite the rejection of several cabinet ministers to endorse it, and stressed that the new electoral law should adhere to the Taef Accord.

Several local dailies on Friday quoted Berri as telling his visitors that the extension of the legislature's tenure will become a fait accompli next week when the law is published in the Official Gazette.

Britain's Business Secretary Vince Cable has described the proposed deportation of a Lebanese man with Down’s syndrome as “fundamentally inhumane.”

Wadih Chourey, 44, has lived in south-west London for the past 17 years after seeking refuge from abuse in his home country. But both his parents have since died and his brother Camil, 52, said he would be unable to care for himself in Lebanon.

Kataeb party MP Sami Gemayel decided to give up his salary from the parliament to the families of army martyrs, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday.

According to the daily Gemayel informed Parliament's Secretary-General Adnan Daher in an official memo that he “wants to give up indefinitely his salary starting of the first month of the legislature's new tenure to the fund of compensations for army martyrs.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat held talks Thursday in Moscow with Aleksey Pushkov, head of the foreign affairs committee in the Russian Duma.

The meeting was attended by Jumblat's son Taimur, Health Minister Wael Abu Faour and PSP official Halim Abu Fakhreddine.

The cabinet did not comment on the issue of the parliament's term extension in the statement issued after its weekly session on Thursday, as it admitted that the case of the servicemen held hostage by jihadist groups is “difficult and complicated.”

“As in every session, the prime minister (Tammam Salam) called for the election of a new president and he mentioned the issue of extending the parliament's term without discussing it in detail,” said Information Minister Ramzi Jreij after the meeting at the Grand Serail, in response to a reporter's question.