Education Minister Elias Bou Saab stated on Thursday that preparations to set a waste processing incinerator in the Metn town of Dhour al-Shweir continue and that it will be completed within one week, As Safir daily reported.

“Efforts to prepare an incinerator to process the waste of Dhour al-Shweir and the neighboring towns are ongoing and they will be completed within one week,” said Abou Saad, assuring that the incinerator is environmentally friendly.

Speaker Nabih Berri stated that the twentieth dialogue session between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal was successful, adding that a decision to activate the security plan in the eastern Bekaa valley has been reached, As Safir daily reported on Thursday.

“An agreement has been reached to activate the security plan in Bekaa with the full support of Amal and Hizbullah,” Berri told the daily.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed the willingness of the Amal movement and Hizbullah to shoulder the burden of the trash that originates from the areas under their influence, which could end the almost five-month trash management crisis, As Safir daily reported.

“Unfortunately, some parties have insisted on involving the waste file in sectarianism,” Berri told the daily on Thursday.

Unknown assailants opened fire in the northern city Tripoli at a Lebanese army Intelligence Adjutant without injuring him, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Adjutant A.M. was subject to gunfire in the area of al-Qobbeh, NNA added.

The eighth dialogue session convened at parliament on Monday after it tackled several pressing issues mainly the lingering trash crisis that saw the streets of the capital swirling with trash bags on Sunday.

Another session will be held next week on November 3.

The Syndicate Coordination Committee held a partial strike on Monday in the public institutions and schools demanding that the new wage scale be included on the agenda of the expected legislative session.

The public institutions, private, elementary and intermediate public schools closed on Monday while public high schools did not join the protest.

A suggestion to export the trash that has been piling in the country since July seems to emerge again, despite the fact that it is a complicated and expensive solution, unnamed sources following up closely on the trash crisis told the daily al-Akhbar on Monday.

There are three companies interested in taking this matter into their own hands and they have in that regard contacted the premiership and the committee of Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb, and the discussions have reached an advanced phase, the sources added.

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb stated that the ongoing problem in tackling the garbage disposal crisis lies in some parties' “lack of seriousness” in addressing the issue, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper Monday.

He told the daily: “A final decision on the matter should be taken within two days.”

Prime Minister Tammam Salam is not ready to resign from his post and expose the country to more vacuum, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

Sources denied to the daily recent media reports that said that the premier would step down from his position on Thursday due to ongoing political disputes, most notably those on the trash disposal crisis.

Internal Security forces carried out raids on the northeastern border town of al-Qasr and were able to free a Syrian girl who was kidnapped a few days ago.

Intelligence bureau of the ISF raided the border town in Hermel and were able to free Abir al-Jaour after four days in captivity, the state-run National News Agency said on Saturday.