A new location to establish a landfill to address Lebanon's mounting garbage crisis will be assessed on Tuesday, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper.

It said that the landfill is located on the outskirts of Kfar Zabad in the eastern Bekaa region.

Parliament convened on Tuesday to elect members of its various committees, as well as members of its bureau.

It re-elected the members of the committees and renewed the terms of its treasurers, reported al-Jadeed television.

The tensions that erupted between the Mustaqbal Movement and Hizbullah over the weekend will be limited, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Tuesday.

Informed sources told the daily that mediations are being conducted between the two sides in order to “contain the repercussions of the dispute.”

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour announced Monday that Prime Minister Tammam Salam's government is on the brink of entering a “coma.”

“The government will enter a coma and it will only wake up to address the garbage crisis exclusively,” Abou Faour, who is close to Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag visited Monday the northern district of Akkar where she inspected Syrian refugee encampments and a Lebanese army base.

“She met with authorities in Halba to discuss political and socio-economic challenges and the impact of the Syria crisis,” her office said in a statement.

The Kataeb Party declared Monday that it will hold Prime Minister Tammam Salam responsible should he “bow to the boycotters' will” and “fail to call a cabinet session.”

“Amid the deteriorating economic situation, the aggravating garbage crisis, the school tuitions crisis, the other social and developmental junctures, and the Syrian refugee burden … the obstruction of cabinet sessions becomes a crime against the Lebanese whose responsibility falls on the shoulders of the boycotting camp,” said the party in a statement issued after its political bureau's weekly meeting.

Eight people were killed and many wounded on Monday when the Lebanese army targeted militant positions along the eastern border with war-torn Syria, security sources told AFP.

"The Lebanese army targeted militants on the border" with Syria, a security source said.

The Military Court of Cassation approved on Monday the release of the remaining civil society activists, reported various media outlets.

Waref Suleiman and Pierre Hashash were released from custody following over a week of detention over their involvement in civil society protests that turned violent on October 8.

Tensions between the Mustaqbal Movement and Hizbullah reached their peak over the weekend in light of party chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's response to Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq's recent speech, with the cleric stressing his commitment to dialogue and the minister threatening to quit it, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

The dispute between the two sides is threatening the 20th Mustaqbal-Hizbullah dialogue scheduled for October 26 and the country's national dialogue.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam hoped that the obstacles hindering the cabinet from convening would be overcome this week in order to call it to session, reported the daily An Nahar on Monday.

He told the daily: “How is it that all sides are committed to the government and yet they do not help eliminate hurdles that are hampering its productivity?”