Unknown assailants opened fire on Friday at an army position in the eastern Bekaa region of Arsal, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the gunmen attacked the army post in the outskirts of Arsal at dawn on Friday.

Speaker Nabih Berri revealed that the agreement on paying the salaries of public sector employees was reached with Prime Minister Tammam Salam during a meeting they held earlier this week, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Friday.

He told his visitors on Thursday: “Cabinet reached a short-term solution to the issue, but we hope that a permanent one will be reached.”

A rocket was fired overnight on Friday from the South towards Israel, announced the army in a statement.

It said that unknown assailants fired the rocket from the outskirts of the town of Beit Lahya at 1:50 am and it landed near the Rashaya al-Fukhar town.

The next ministerial coordination meeting of major host countries of Syrian refugees will take place in Lebanon, reported An Nahar daily on Friday.

Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas announced during Thursday's cabinet session that the conference will be held in the northern city of Tripoli in September.

An Australian woman of Lebanese origin was barred from leaving Lebanon after her ex-husband's family filed a complaint against her claiming she has been visiting her “boyfriend” in the northern city of Tripoli since arriving in the country on June 20.

Mahassen Issa, 29 and mother of two minors, was supposed to return to Australia last week. But right before her departure, she was contacted by Lebanese authorities informing her that she has been charged with adultery, British newspaper The Guardian reported.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon ruled on Thursday that trying al-Jadeed television over contempt does not fall into its jurisdiction, dismissing hence the charges filed against the TV network.

“The tribunal does not have the jurisdiction to look into the charges issued against al-Jadeed TV,” STL Contempt Judge Nicola Lettieri announced during an STL session in The Hague.

The cabinet approved on Thursday the contentious long-awaited Lebanese University file after agreeing on the appointment of deans and contract teachers. The ministers also agreed on paying the salaries of public employees from the Budget's reserves.

"We agreed on appointing deans to head 14 faculties at the LU,” Information Minister Ramzi Jreij announced after the cabinet's session on Thursday afternoon, noting also that an agreement was reached on applying a rotation scheme in the appointment of future deans.

Several Lebanese nationals were onboard an Algerian plane that went missing Thursday during a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers.

An official source in Lebanon told Agence France-Presse that at least 20 Lebanese nationals were on the flight, including three couples with 10 children.

A Singaporean businessman was jailed for three years on Thursday for providing prostitutes to three Lebanese football referees in a match-fixing attempt that has put the spotlight on the city-state's role in global sports corruption.

Nightclub owner Eric Ding Si Yang, 32, was refused bail while he appeals the ruling, and state prosecutors said they would file a motion before a higher court to demand a harsher punishment.

Outgoing United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Commander Major General Paolo Serra said on Thursday that despite the challenges and the sporadic incidents in the South “unprecedented stability was achieved during the past eight years.”

“Both sides (Israel and Lebanon) continue their commitment to the cessation of hostilities even though challenges still remain,” Serra said in an interview with As Safir newspaper at the end of his term.