Two Syrian teenagers were kidnapped from their home in the area of Karak near the eastern city of Zahle at dawn Monday, their mother claimed.

Jumana Izzeddine, a Syrian national, told security forces that several armed men broke into her house and kidnapped her sons Baraa, 16 and 14-year-old Ali.

Hizbullah on Monday denied media reports claiming that party officials had tried in vain to mediate to prevent security forces from seizing arms from the home of a party member in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“Nizar al-Husseini is neither an official nor a member in the party,” Hizbullah’s media relations unit said in a statement.

President Michel Suleiman stressed on Monday during a cabinet session that constructive dialogue is the only solution to resolve problems as Prime Minister Najib Miqati called for a productive government.

The cabinet reconvened for the first time in almost four weeks and in the presence of newly appointed Labor Minister Salim Jreissati.

The premier’s office didn’t receive yet any official information on the appointment of Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Norman Farrell as Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor to replace judge Daniel Bellemare.

“Prime Minister (Najib Miqati) didn’t receive yet the STL’s decision,” the premier’s sources told An Nahar newspaper on Monday.

A meeting chaired by Speaker Nabih Berri of parliament’s bureau and heads and rapporteurs of parliamentary committees on Monday will test his ability to resolve the dispute between the March 8 and 14 forces on extra-budgetary spending.

A parliamentary source told al-Liwaa daily that discussions will focus on the agenda of the March 5 parliamentary session and the possibility to launch the work of a joint legislative-ministerial committee to resolve the controversial spending.

Speaker Nabih Berri is preparing for a conference set to gather the religious leaders of different sects in Lebanon and the region to stress the importance of dialogue among all religions.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, the conference will tackle the issue of reducing emigration due to confessional causes.

Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn stressed Sunday that “Lebanon’s people, army and resistance are an invincible fortress in the face of Israel,” noting that the Lebanese "will never forget that Iran stood by them in great difficulties," during talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.

Ghosn also said that Israel would fear Iran's reaction, should it consider moving in a hostile way against any regional country.

Two people were killed and two others injured in a traffic accident on the coastal highway of al-Jiyyeh, south of Beirut, the National News Agency reported on Sunday.

NNA identified the dead as Hanaa Ali Ayyash and Ghassan Shehab al-Alayli.

Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Norman Farrell will be the next Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor, al-Arabiya reported on Sunday.

Diplomatic sources told the New York and United Nations Bureau Chief of al-Arabiya, Talal al-Haj, that only one name has been sent to Prime Minister Najib Miqati for the vacant position of the STL Prosecutor after Daniel Bellemare’s mandate comes to an end on March 1.

The Lebanese political parties have clinched an unannounced deal to keep the security situation under control despite their political differences, diplomatic sources said Sunday.

The sources told the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily that despite an “incoherent” politician situation in Lebanon, the politicians have agreed to keep stability amid the violence and the crackdown on protestors in neighboring Syria.