A massive fire broke out on Tuesday at a residential building in the Beirut neighborhood of al-Msaitbeh.

The fire was caused by the burning of a power generator and spread to the building’s ground floor.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Wednesday that the current cabinet will not collapse until the reasons behind its formation fall.

“There will be no escalation, the political reason behind the formation of the cabinet still exists,” Jumblat told al-Akhbar newspaper.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that Israel will act immediately if it discovers that Syria transferred chemical or biological weapons to Hizbullah.

Lieberman told Israel Radio: "For us, that's a casus belli, a red line."

Premier Najib Miqati expressed regret that the members of the cabinet were not exerting efforts to meet the demands of different sectors in Lebanon, his sources said.

They told al-Liwaa newspaper that he was unilaterally working in confronting the protests while the members of the cabinet were not acting.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour revealed on Wednesday that he sent a memorandum to Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali demanding his country to avoid the recurrence of any border incidents.

Mansour made the revelation to reporters ahead of a cabinet session at the Grand Serail and following two days of harsh criticism by the March 14 opposition on his procrastination in delivering a letter of complaint on Syria’s violations of Lebanese territories in compliance with President Michel Suleiman’s request.

Hizbullah has reportedly detained two of its high-ranking officials and a member of a municipality in the eastern Bekaa valley for cooperating with Israel.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Wednesday, the party’s security apparatus was able to expose the three members five days ago.

The Syndicate Coordination Committee held a demonstration on Wednesday to protest the cabinet’s failure to approve the new wages scale ahead of a session at the Grand Serail.

The demonstration kicked off from Beirut’s Barbir region and headed to the Grand Serail in downtown Beirut at 10:00 a.m.

President Michel Suleiman is throwing on Wednesday an Iftar banquet for Lebanese officials, spiritual leaders and foreign diplomats during which he is expected to reiterate the need for dialogue.

Media reports said Suleiman’s speech will focus on the latest developments in the region and the national dialogue session that was postponed to August 16 after the March 14 opposition coalition boycotted this week’s all-party talks.

Dozens of people protested at the Russian embassy in Beirut on Tuesday, denouncing Syrian regime "massacres" while calling on Russia and China to change their positions on the crisis.

The protesters -- both Syrians and Lebanese -- held up posters denouncing the violence in neighboring Syria, where rights activists say more than 19,000 people have been killed in a 16-month uprising.

President Barack Obama extended for another year Wednesday sanctions against entities the U.S. considers threatening to Lebanon's stability, a veiled reference to supporters of Hizbullah.

Obama said in a message to Congress that he would prolong the "national emergency" which former president George W. Bush first declared in 2007, and which has been renewed each year since.