The Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced on Sunday four suspects to death for killing a Lebanese doctor with a cleaver in December last year.

Samir Yousef Jaber, 26, a Lebanese dentist born of a Kuwaiti mother, was repeatedly stabbed with the cleaver following a disagreement with the four young men at Avenues Mall.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi hoped on Sunday that the Constitutional Council would take the appropriate decision against the extension of parliament's term which he said was carried out for unconvincing reasons.

“The MPs extended their term without convincing reasons and for their personal interests,” al-Rahi said in his sermon.

Israeli warplanes overflew Beirut, the eastern town of Baalbek that borders Syria, and southern Lebanon at low altitude Sunday, prompting a call for a complaint with the United Nations.

President Michel Suleiman tasked Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour with filing an urgent complaint with the U.N. over the overflights “which covered all Lebanese regions, including the capital Beirut,” said a terse statement.

Premier-designate Tammam Salam has said there was no longer an excuse for the postponement of the cabinet formation, adding the parties that agreed on the extension of parliament's mandate could also reach consensus on the government.

In remarks published in pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday, Salam said “there are no longer excuses, the country needs a government more than ever.”

A meeting held between Caretaker Premier Najib Miqati and Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has encouraged Miqati to call for a national dialogue to resolve the country’s political and security problems, high-ranking sources said.

The sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday that the meeting, which was held three weeks ago, was aimed at restoring ties between Miqati and Hizbullah.

President Michel Suleiman is seeking to call for an extraordinary parliamentary session to allow the legislature to extend its term for only two months during which it would agree on a new electoral law, former Minister Khalil Hrawi said.

Hrawi made his announcement to An Nahar daily published Sunday. The ex-minister had been tasked by Suleiman to brief Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on his latest decision to challenge a law to extend parliament's term for 17 months.

President Michel Suleiman submitted on Saturday an appeal to challenge the parliament's decision to extend its mandate, calling on the Constitutional Council to “legally and neutrally” study this file.

“I wish the Council studies the challenge by adopting an entirely neutral and legal perspective to allow the parliament to consider shortening the extension and to push for adopting a new electoral law,” Suleiman urged in a speech he gave after with submitting the challenge before the Constitutional Council.

The parliament's decision to postpone the upcoming elections and extend its term 17 months because of deteriorating security conditions related to Syria's turmoil was officially announced and published in the official gazette.

Friday's extension decision comes after rival blocs in the legislature failed to agree on a new elections law.

Influential Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi has called on Sunni Muslims to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Lebanon's Hizbullah for sending its men to fight the mostly-Sunni insurgents in Syria.

Qaradawi, a controversial figure in the West but who has millions of supporters, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, also hit out at Iran for backing the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad.

Tension was high on Saturday along al-Wazzani region in southern Lebanon as the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and Lebanese army deployed heavily in the area after Israeli soldiers crossed the barbed wire border fence.

Israeli troops crossed the fence, infiltrating 10 meters into an area along al-Wazzani River after expressing reservations over a cleaning process by a Lebanese bulldozer of the riverbed.