Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb assured on Sunday that the an area detected with an H5N1 bird flu virus in al-Nabi sheet has been put under supervision, An Nahar daily reported.

“The area where the virus was detected has been controlled,” he told the daily in an interview.

The threat of an H5N1 bird flu virus that plagued a poultry farm in al-Nabi Sheet in Baalbek has been contained and the necessary measures to stop the spread of the virus were taken, media reports said on Friday.

On Thursday, Agriculture Minister said that the virus has been detected in one of the poultry farms and that the ministry has kicked off efforts to prevent full-fledged epidemic.

A young man was stabbed six times Thursday night in the area of Dbayeh north of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said that Joseph Qasouf was stabbed three times in his abdomen, twice in his back and one time in the head.

The circumstances required to hold an over two-year delayed presidential elections are not appropriate yet and they are linked to a political solution that could be brought on to Syria and the region, al-Joumhouria daily said on Thursday.

Al-Mustaqbal movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri was informed during his latest visit to Moscow and after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the “conditions required to hold the Lebanese presidential elections are not ready yet,” Russian sources following up closely on the Lebanese file told the daily.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam traveled to New York on Thursday to participate in the ceremony aimed at signing the climate-change pact that the world adopted in principle in Paris last December.

The state-run National News Agency said Salam is expected to give a speech at Friday's ceremony, which will be attended by leaders and envoys from more than 160 countries.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter stated on Wednesday that Hizbullah is a “perfect example” of Iran's role in the Middle East.

“The United States has kept the sanctions against Iran in relation to terrorism and ballistic missiles. Hizbullah is the perfect example of Iran's malicious activity in the region,” said Carter.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq postponed the municipal elections in the Zahle town of Terbol until the completion of the administrative procedures, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

“The administrative procedures linked to the civil registry of residents of the village of Shehabieh-Faour have not been completed yet,” an interior ministry statement said.

Lebanon ranked 98th out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index that was released by advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday.

World press freedom deteriorated in 2015, said RSF after it released the index which ranks the countries on indicators such as media independence, self-censorship, the rule of law, transparency and abuses.

Analysis of a windfall of data from inside Islamic State shows fighters of more than 70 nationalities, including Lebanese, joined the ruthless jihadist group, researchers said after examining thousands of records.

The treasure trove came from an IS defector who handed over some 11,000 personnel files to US television network NBC, although more than half were found to be duplicates.

A parliamentary committee that witnessed a slight clash between Health Minister Wael Abou Faour and OGERO Telecom chief Abdul Menhem Youssef over the thorny file of the illegal internet network confirmed reports that the equipment had entered Lebanon through legal crossings.

MP Hassan Fadlallah, the head of the committee, confirmed that the equipment for the illegitimate internet networks had entered the country through legal crossings but via fake documents.