The cabinet met on Thursday and decided to postpone the discussions on the thorny file of the Janna Valley dam until the next session, Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam who reiterated the necessity to elect a president “because vacuum is reflecting on the state institutions, the parliament and cabinet, and harms national interest” he was quoted as saying.

Unknown assailants tossed a grenade in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The grenade was tossed at dawn into the Taytaba neighborhood and was followed by heavy gunshots.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed annoyance at the joint committees dead stop and inability to agree on a new parliamentary electoral law and stated a belief that some lawmakers want to invoke the 1960 law in the coming polls, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

“The meetings of the joint parliamentary committees to discuss the election law did not yield any results yet. It is still at a standstill,” Berri told his visitors according to the daily.

Lebanese banks have practically begun implementing the U.S. law against Hizbullah, which imposed financial sanctions on the party and its institutions, informed sources told the daily al-Akhbar on Wednesday.

The sources said that the bank accounts of several Hizbullah institutions, including The Emdad Committee for Islamic Charity, the Martyr's Foundation and the St. George Hospital have been closed, including hundreds or maybe thousands of other accounts.

The Internal Security Forces arrested several individuals in Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik after shooting firearms into the air during a funeral, an ISF statement said on Tuesday.

“During a funeral ceremony in the neighborhood of Haret Hreik near al-Musharrafiyeh some civilians fired arms into the air,” said the statement.

French President Francois Hollande told al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri that the only solution to the presidential impasse is through the election of founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

“During Hariri's latest visit to France in May, Hollande told the Mustaqbal chief that the solution to the internal crisis can only come from Aoun's side,” March 14 sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri is expected to launch a series of positions during the Ramadan iftar banquets at the Center House, mainly after the fiery statements of Interior Minister Nouahd al-Mashnouq, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Hariri's stances will be the first since Mashnouq declared in a televised interview that Saudi Arabia was behind his nomination of Marada chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency. The stance was deeply resented by Hariri according to sources close to the ex-PM.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim warned Monday that stability in the country is in a “critical situation,” citing the regional conflicts, the presidential void and the threats at the eastern, northern and southern borders.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has assisted the country’s authorities in fighting a large fire in the general area of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon, a UNIFIL press statement said on Monday.

“The firefighting operations took place in a heavily mined areas in the proximity of the Blue Line,” it added.

An Islamic State group cell that was arrested last week in Khirbet Daoud in Akkar confessed to have carried out several sniper operations against military vehicles, in addition to the assassination of Badr Eid in 2015, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

One of the detainees, Jassem Saadeddine confessed to the assassination of Badr Eid, the brother of late MP Ali Eid, in 2015 in an armed ambush on the al-Kwaykhat-al-Hisa road in Akkar, said the daily.