Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said Tuesday he is taking his time to hand a letter of complaint to the Syrian envoy over Syria’s violation of Lebanon’s border because he is trying to first verify “some facts on the ground.”

On Monday, President Michel Suleiman condemned a recent infiltration by Syrian troops into Lebanon’s eastern border region of al-Qaa and the shelling of several border towns, asking Mansour to hand Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali a letter of complaint.

With wealthy Gulf tourists shunning Lebanon this summer, Hani Abdel Malek did not expect that hundreds of Syrians fleeing violence in their homeland would spare his luxury hotel a bad season.

All 82 of the Al-Safat hotel's suites were empty just a week ago, but in just a single day last week, they were all filled up.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday called on Hizbullah to “clarify its stance on dialogue over the issue of arms, especially after MP Mohammed Raad’s condemned remarks.”

“Dialogue is an important and essential method to resolve disputes and it is not for maneuvering,” the bloc added in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

Electricite du Liban announced on Tuesday that a number of employees stormed the office of the financial affairs director at the company, threatening her and forcing her to leave the building after she feared for her safety.

Energy Minister Jebran Bassil meanwhile slammed the development, wondering why the judiciary has not yet “performed its duties” in tackling this issue.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun accused on Tuesday the March 14 camp of seeking to ruin Lebanon over their request of the complete telecommunications data in various assassination attempts.

He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “They are blackmailing us by demanding that obtaining the telecom data be a main condition for participating in the national dialogue.”

The European Union turned down a request Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hizbullah as a “terror group” after last week's deadly bombing in Bulgaria.

"There is no consensus for putting Hizbullah on the list of terrorist organizations," said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

The Internal Security Forces completed on Tuesday the destruction of cannabis crops in the central Bekaa.

The operations, held at the field of the town of al-Allaq in the Baalbek province, took place under the supervision of the Lebanese army given the attack the ISF came under on Monday as it was destroying other cannabis fields.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly voiced on Tuesday the U.N. Security Council’s appreciation for the “determination of Lebanon’s leaders to protect their country from the effects of the crisis in neighboring Syria and other regional developments.”

He said after holding talks with Prime Minister Najib Miqati: “Security Council members were concerned, and so naturally am I, very concerned, at the border incidents that have been taking place in the north and the Bekaa.”

Hizbullah denied on Tuesday that it had anything to do with accusations that it was responsible for the assassination attempt against MP Butros Harb.

“The party, its officials and members had nothing to do with the so-called assassination attempt against MP Harb,” said a statement issued by Hizbullah's media relations department.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly praised on Tuesday the generosity of the Lebanese and people and government in providing humanitarian assistance to Syrians fleeing violence, said the U.S. Embassy in a statement.

She stressed “the importance of protecting all refugees in Lebanon, including dissenters and deserters who have rejected violence, in keeping with Lebanon’s international humanitarian obligations.”