Parties are gearing up for the municipal elections that are set to kick off on May 8 in the Bekaa Valley and Beirut, in light of reports alleging that Hizbullah has no nominees so far for the Shiite seats allocated in the capital's municipal council, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

Reports said that leader of al-Mustaqbal Movement ex-PM Saad Hariri has voiced hopes on Hizbullah to keep unchanged the current Shiite municipal council members Khalil Choucair and Fadi Shahrour.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh stated on Sunday that the most important accomplishment is that the future president will be elected from the March 8 camp whether it was founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun or himself.

“The most important accomplishment has been achieved. The president will be elected from our (March 8) group and we must not lose that whether it was Aoun elected or Suleiman Franjieh,” said the MP via Skype addressing his Marada supporters in Australia.

Lebanon's Armenians marked on Sunday the 101 anniversary of when some 250 Armenian intellectuals were rounded up by Ottoman Turks as the first step of the genocide against them.

A demonstration marched from the Antelias Square to the town's main highway marking the genocide that was committed around the time of World War I.

A suggestion to elect the founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun as president could be underway, garnering the blessing of two political parties, the Saudi Okaz daily reported on Sunday.

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.