United States lawmakers are mulling to toughen economic sanctions against Hizbullah, media reports said on Saturday.

A U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to introduce new legislation that would “target Hizbullah's fundraising activities,” the Israeli Ynet news reported.

Speaker Nabih Berri is set to tackle the upcoming presidential elections at the end of next week, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

According to An Nahar newspaper, Berri is expected to be handed over “soon” a report from the presidential elections committee that he had formed.

A woman who hails from the northern region of Akkar has been kidnapped while en route to the coastal city of Tripoli, state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

"Sawsan Abdul Haq, 43, who hails from the town of Hayzouq in Akkar, was abducted Thursday afternoon while on her way to the al-Rahma Dispensary in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh,” NNA said.

Egypt has barred entry to a Lebanese activist who wanted to deliver a petition against a court's death sentences for 529 alleged rioters, an official with the activist's group said Friday.

Wissam Tarif, a member of the U.S.-based Avaaz human rights organization, was detained at Cairo airport for several hours and put on a flight back to Lebanon, said the group's spokesman Sam Barratt.

The joint parliamentary committees on Friday finished discussing “seven out of nine items” in the draft new wage scale, amid a heated exchange between Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil and Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan.

According to several TV networks, a fierce verbal dispute erupted between Khalil and Kanaan, whose loud tirades were heard outside the meeting room.

Security forces seized on Friday two vehicles in near a Syrian refugee camp in the Bekaa region of Arsal, reported the National News Agency.

It said that one of the vehicles, a Jeep Cherokee Liberty, was found to be stolen.

A number of rockets fired from Syria landed in the Bekaa on Friday, reported the National News Agency, amid separate claims of responsibility by two extremist groups.

NNA said that two rockets landed between the towns of al-Labweh and al-Nabi Othman.

Unknown assailants kidnapped on Friday a citizen in the Bekaa region of Riyaq before dropping him later in the day near his house.

"The abductee Ibrahim Shiha was dropped from an unknown car outside his house in Riyaq" on Friday evening, state-run National News Agency reported.

The Lebanese Forces executive committee unanimously agreed on Friday to back the candidacy of LF chief Samir Geagea to the presidency.

MP George Adwan, Geagea's deputy, said following the meeting of the executive committee that was also attended by LF MPs that there was an agreement to back the politician in his bid to become president “out of the patriotic and political principles of the LF and the March 14 alliance.”

The so-called Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade slammed on Friday the security plan implemented by “the non-Lebanese army” in the northern city of Tripoli, considering that the military raids are violating the sanctity of Muslim homes.

“The army's mice are not being considerate of the sanctity of the Muslim homes and the presence of women in them,” the brigade said via Twitter.