Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat met with Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh in Bnashii on Monday, announcing that he has no solutions to end the presidential vacuum.

"I said I will hold talks (with political leaders) and I will carry on with these talks but it is not me who has the solution,” Jumblat said after meeting with Franjieh.

Security forces have arrested a four-member gang led by a Syrian woman on suspicion of murdering several people for the purpose of committing robberies, the Internal Security Forces General Directorate announced on Monday.

Around ten days ago, the security forces from the Baalbek police station lured Jamileh Mashhadani to an area outside the northeastern border town of Arsal and arrested her, An Nahar newspaper said.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that a decision by Education Minister Elias Bou Saab to issue passing certificates for Grade 9 and 12 students needed parliament's approval and stressed that the wage scale draft-law would top the agenda of the legislature.

“We cannot overrun the scale. It will remain the first item (on parliament’s agenda) whether it was approved or not,” Berri said in remarks published in local dailies on Monday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that it was up to Christian leaders to agree to resolve the presidential deadlock, saying 87% of Muslim lawmakers were attending parliamentary sessions.

Berri denied that holding the presidential elections needed a Sunni-Shiite dialogue, saying “the problem is not with Muslims.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun underwent a “small surgery” after fracturing his arm, his press office announced on Sunday.

“He is doing fine,” it said in a terse statement without giving further details.

The Lebanese army on Sunday arrested 12 Syrian gunmen in an ambush east of the border town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The 12 men are suspected of belonging to armed terrorist groups that took part in the battles with the army earlier this month.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi criticized on Sunday the ongoing failure to elect a president, blaming lawmakers for the delay.

He demanded MPs during his Sunday sermon “to halt the violation of the constitution and elect a president.”

A building was evacuated in the northern city of Tripoli overnight after its residents fears that it may collapse, reported the National News Agency on Sunday.

It said that the residents of the ten-storey al-Mohajerin building evacuated it at around 2:00 a.m. following claims that it may collapse.

Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri stressed om Sunday that Lebanon's stability and security “should be a red line,” reported Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

He told the radio: “We will not allow the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or any other group to impose itself on decisions in Lebanon.”

Two security forces members abducted in the northeastern border town of Arsal by Islamist gunmen have been released, the Lebanese army said Sunday.

The Muslim Scholars Committee delegation, tasked with negotiating their release, and Sheikh Mustapha al-Hujairi, an official from Arsal, received the members, media reports said.