Sources close to Prime Minister Tammam Salam have expressed confidence that there is consensus to confront Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun's call for street demonstrations against the military extensions.

“Each day has its own events,” the sources said. “Salam is not alone responsible for confrontation.”

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun lost the opportunity of bringing his son-in-law as army chief by rejecting the names proposed by Defense Minister Samir Moqbel.

Berri, whose remarks were published in local dailies on Monday, told his visitors that an opportunity, which will not come again, has been lost.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed Sunday that only the state and its institutions can protect the Lebanese.

“We reject to receive protection from anyone and only the state, the presidency, the institutions, the army and the security forces can protect us,” al-Rahi said during a visit to Rashaya's mufti Sheikh Ahmed al-Ladan.

An Italian young man was killed and another was injured Sunday during a mountain climbing trip in the Jbeil area of Shwan-Ain Jrein, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

It said one of them received a fatal head injury and the other was wounded after they fell into a steep area.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Sunday that the Minister of Environment is not to blame for the waste management crisis and that those who put the letter of conditions are accountable.

“The areas of Metn, Aley and Chouf need to know where they should throw the trash. Those who put the letter of conditions are to blame. It is not the fault of the Environment Minister,” said Jumblat in statement addressing people of Shahhar.

Israel has arrested a Swedish man of Lebanese origin and charged him with being an agent of Hizbullah, Israeli authorities said on Sunday.

Hassan Khalil Hizran, 55, was detained on July 21 but his arrest was kept under wraps until now.

Speaker of Paraguay arrived in Beirut at the head of a parliamentary delegation at the official invitation from Speaker Nabih Berri, the state-run National News Agency said on Sunday.

Six members of parliament and several members of the Lebanese community in Paraguay accompanied the Speaker.

A 25-year-old man who was believed to be missing overnight came back home Sunday morning after claims that he was tortured and robbed by unknown assailants, the National News Agency reported.

Janah Chafiq Abdul Khaleq, from Aley's Majdal Baana was believed to be missing when contact was lost with him at night.

The Lebanese army said on Saturday that it has arrested a Syrian national in the northern city of Tripoli for belonging to terrorist organizations.

An army communique said Mohammed Assaad Awad was apprehended in the area of al-Mankoubine.

“You Stink" campaign activists held a protest in downtown Beirut on Saturday to shed light on the country's ongoing waste management crisis and to pour their anger on officials for failing to find a solution to the problem.

The demonstrators, who gathered in Martyrs Square, criticized the authorities for lacking the ability to resolve the garbage crisis that erupted when the landfill in the town of Naameh, south of Beirut, was closed on July 17.