Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi returned to Beirut on Saturday afternoon after his controversial visit to Jerusalem, but rejected to make any statement upon his arrival at the Rafic Hariri International Airport.

"Al-Rahi returned to Beirut at 4:30pm on board a private jet coming from the Jordanian capital Amman,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

Hizbullah announced on Saturday its rejection of the presence of “Israeli agents” in Lebanon, in an apparent response to Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi “who went to the Palestinian occupied territories to convince them to return" as the party said.

"Someone went to occupied Palestine to convince some agents who withdrew with the enemy's soldiers in May 2000 to return to Lebanon,” Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Ali Meqdad said at a party event in the Bekaa city of Baalbek, expressing that “this issue has annoyed” him.

Final exams at all branches of the Lebanese University have been postponed to June 9, as teachers demanding that they be signed as full-time faculty members announced boycotting the preparation and the correction of tests.

The decision was taken on Saturday afternoon during an emergency meeting of the LU's deans, which discussed “the situation the university is suffering from amid the neglect of its (faculty's) demands.”

The head of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon on Monday on a two-day visit aimed at discussing the case of Syrian refugees in the country, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

Kim had expressed his dismay with the international community's support for Lebanon in helping it contain the burden of the refugees, noting that the country and Jordan are bearing the brunt of the displaced, said the daily.

Head of the Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblat is expected to travel to the French capital Paris soon in order to hold talks with Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri over the presidential elections, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

It said that Jumblat is expected to inquire about the details of the rapprochement between the Mustaqbal and the Free Patriotic Movement of MP Michel Aoun.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun asserted that he is the sole strong presidential candidate that should be voted as head of state, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Saturday.

He also added that only “foreign powers” are impeding his election, which al-Joumhouria said he was hinting at Saudi Arabia.

After witnessing a feverish time period of suicide bombings and booby-trapped cars that created havoc among the citizens, Lebanon seems to be 90 percent free from this fear, media reports said on Saturday.

“As the result of the cabinet formation, dismantling of terrorist networks and better control of the border and the decline of political mobilization and sectarianism, Lebanon is currently 90 percent distant from the fear of booby-trapped cars and random bombings,” well informed security sources told As Safir daily.

The Lebanese government and the Qatari capital Doha are exerting efforts with some factions of the armed Syrian opposition to release some Lebanese who have gone missing in the neighboring country, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

A widely-informed security source told the daily that the contacts will likely result in the release of around seven Lebanese held in Syria after it emerged that they may still be alive.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday said the Lebanese state must not deal with its citizens who fled to Israel in 2000 as “criminals,” noting that they are not the ones who have “impeded the presidential election.”

During a visit to the Druze village of Isfiya near the northern Israeli city of Haifa, al-Rahi said he was “profoundly hurt” by those who have criticized his historic visit to Israel and the Holy Land.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has “highlighted the importance of the work” of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon “in tackling impunity for the crimes within its jurisdiction.”

Ban voiced his remarks during a meeting with Head of STL Defense Office Francois Roux at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York on May 27, the STL announced on Friday.