Security precautionary measures were upped lately in the southern suburbs of Beirut six months after the last terror bombing attack that rocked the Bourj al-Barajneh area in November, An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.

“The terror threats might resume any moment despite the vigilance of the security forces,” sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

State Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud denied on Tuesday the accusations claiming that the investigations in several judicial issues particularly the illegal internet file are being deliberately delayed, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

He called on those spreading rumors to look closely at the judicial mechanism and at the action of procedures provided by the law.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said that the security apparatuses in Lebanon were able to uncover and thwart schemes by the Islamic State group to carry out terror acts, mainly in crowded areas in Beirut, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Mashnouq said that the security forces are waging the “fiercest battle” against attempts to shake the security situation, and that the army intelligence was able to thwart a plan of a terror act in one of the capital's streets.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag visited the United Arab Emirates on Monday for talks on Lebanon, her office said.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri met in Kuwait on Monday with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah al-Sabah where talks focused on the developments in Lebanon and the region and Iran's “unacceptable” interference in other countries, Hariri's press office said in a statement.

The meeting was held in the presence of several Kuwaiti officials and Lebanese ex-MPs Bassel al-Sabaa and Ghattas Khoury and Hariri's adviser Nader Hariri.

Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri congratulated on Monday the winners in the North municipal elections and stressed the need for efforts to be put together for the benefit of Tripoli.

“I urge everyone to work for the city's interest. We reiterate our respect for the democratic will of the people of Tripoli who chose their new municipal council,” said Hariri via Twitter.

Democratic Gathering bloc MP Walid Jumblat commented on the initial victory of resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi in the municipal elections in the northern city of Tripoli and said that the lists that faced him in the polls were unsuccessful.

“It seems that the Titanic (in reference to a list backed by the Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri, former Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and former ministers Faisal Karami and Mohammed al-Safadi) that carried strongmen from Baysour and Kfar Matta has arrived in Tripoli to drown there,” said Jumblat via Twitter.

A Syrian child was rescued after his father tried to drown him in the sea off Tripoli's el-Mina area, state-run National News Agency reported.

Israel's prime minister has thanked the Russian president for agreeing to return a tank from a battle in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon from which three Israeli soldiers are still missing in action.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Sunday thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin. It says that after the war Syria delivered the tank to the Russian army and it later ended up in a Moscow museum.

Resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi declared on Sunday that “no one” can impose his will on the northern city of Tripoli.

He said after casting his vote in the municipal elections in the city: “I will confront any side that seeks to divide Tripoli according to its agenda.”