The government is scheduled to convene next week with some 120 articles on its agenda, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

The regular cabinet session, set for Thursday, is also expected to tackle the issue of the state security agency.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon concluded on Friday a two-day visit to Lebanon during which held talks with Prime Minsiter Tammam Salam and toured Syrian refugee encampments in the country.

For the first time, the U.N. chief was able to closely inspect various affairs on the ground, “which will favor Lebanon,” diplomatic sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper.

The Lebanese army succeeded overnight in thwarting an attack of gunmen from Syria in the northern region of Akkar, reported various media on Saturday.

They said that the gunmen attempted to take over a surveillance tower in the border town of Hnaider, but the military was able to hold them back.

A number of residents and activists held a sit-in Friday on the Costa Brava shore at Beirut's southern entrance to protest a government decision to set up a garbage landfill at the site.

“A group of students, youths and environmental activists staged a protest this afternoon at Costa Brava following an invitation from the National Democratic Gathering,” state-run National News Agency reported.

A man was arrested Friday in the outskirts of the Bekaa town of Maaraboun for transporting fifteen handguns and an artifact worth $500,000, state-run National News Agency reported.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited on Friday the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that was destroyed in fierce battles against al-Qaida-inspired militants almost a decade ago.

He urged the international community to provide necessary funding to help finish the rebuilding of the camp.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim said that the situation at the Rafik Hariri International Airport is not worrisome and emphasized that it is under control, Ad Diyar daily reported on Friday.

“The situation at the airport is not scary to the point of panic,” he was quoted by the daily as saying.

Security officials said that Thursday’s roadside bombing on the Lebanese-Syrian border in which one soldier was killed came as an army patrol was combing the area following information about suspicious activities.

The officials told As Safir daily published on Friday that a patrol was searching for bombs after the army received intelligence reports that jihadists were plotting an attack.

Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh has warned that he would head to parliament to attend a session for the election of a president if the supporters of his rival Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun resorted to street protests.

“If Aoun wants to change the rules of the democratic game on the presidential elections by resorting to the street, then … the option of heading to parliament for the electoral session” will be on the table, Franjieh said in remarks published on Friday.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon stressed on his first day of an official visit to Lebanon on Thursday that the world body will continue to support the Lebanese army.

“I assured the Minister and the Lebanese Armed Forces Commander that the U.N. and our partners in the international community will continue to give them our strong support. The Security Council emphasized this once again in its statement last week,” Ban said following talks with Defense Minister Samir Moqbel and Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji.