The Special Tribunal for Lebanon amicus curiae, Kenneth Scott, filed a veiled request to Contempt Judge Nicola Lettieri to issue an arrest warrant against al-Akhbar editor-in-chief Ibrahim al-Amin.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Wednesday, Scott said in his request that al-Amin doesn't acknowledge the STL nor its rights to charge him.

The Vatican is seeking to resort to the United Nations Security Council to press Lebanese parties to carry out the presidential elections as soon as possible and end the deadlock.

The Vatican reportedly contacted the French Foreign Ministry urging it to pressure the Security Council to take action regarding the stalemate, An Nahar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas denied on Wednesday reports saying that he obtained a report stating that the U.N.'s refugee agency is planning to naturalize 100,000 Syrian refugee in Lebanon.

Derbas, however, said that Thursday's cabinet session will tackle the "sudden" situation imposed by the refugees crisis.

Extremist gunmen on Sunday “executed” a man in Arsal after infiltrating into the Bekaa border town from its rugged mountains.

“A group from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant infiltrated into Arsal from its outskirts and murdered Mustafa Najib Ezzeddine at his house,” LBCI television.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc announced Tuesday that it is willing to take part in a parliamentary session aimed at issuing treasury bonds, noting that the payment of salaries to public employees and opening lines of credit are legal things that can be approved by the cabinet.

“It is legally possible to dispense these salaries and compensations and the legal authorization can come from the cabinet without the need to issue a new law,” the bloc said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

A rocket launched from the Eastern Mountain Range on the Lebanese-Syrian border landed Tuesday near the northern Bekaa town of al-Fakiha, state-run National News Agency reported.

The agency said the projectile fell east of al-Fakiha, causing no damage or casualties.

The Change and Reform bloc announced on Tuesday its commitment to the initiative launched by its leader MP Michel Aoun aimed at ending the presidential elections deadlock, rejecting the “rash” condemnations issued against it.

Former Minister Salim Jreissati said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “We will not accept an alternative to the initiative.”

Speaker Nabih Berri hailed on Tuesday the role of security agencies in combating instability in Lebanon and the rise of terrorist networks, voicing his rejection of these groups.

He said: “There is no room for extremists in Lebanon because all factions in the country have shunned the calls to join their ranks.”

Guards at the prison of Zahle in the Bekaa seized on Tuesday a large quantity of hashish and narcotic pills hidden in three kilograms of meat pastries.

28-year-old J. K. tried to smuggle 116 pills stashed in the pastries, a communique issued by the Internal Security Forces said.

The Syndicate Coordination Committee accused on Tuesday officials of blackmailing them and the nation regarding the approval of the new wage scale, rejecting their excuses over the failure to adopt the hike.

Head of Public Secondary School Education Teachers Association Hanna Gharib said during a press conference: “We will continue on boycotting the correction of official exams until the scale is approved.”