Lebanese Forces Leader Samir Geagea said Wednesday that the “government is leaving the army without a policy or plan to confront security events,” adding that Energy Minister Jebran Bassil “should resign if he cannot address the electricity issue.”

At a press conference held in Maarab, Geagea said that “the electricity shortage is unacceptable and Lebanon did not witness such a blackout in all areas, even during war.”

The March 14 General Secretariat slammed on Wednesday the ongoing Syrian violations of Lebanese sovereignty, saying that it has counted over 20 of such violations.

It urged in a statement after its weekly meeting “the Lebanese army to comprise a list of the violations and present them to the Lebanese and international communities.”

British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher stressed on Wednesday the importance of preventing the Syrian crisis from spreading to Lebanon.

He said that the international community is facing this challenge and it is working on keeping the country away from the unrest.

A thief failed on Wednesday in robbing Audi Bank in Verdun.

The robber, identified as S.Q., attempted to steal money from a safe, but he was stopped by one of the security guards.

The foreign ministers of Poland, Bulgaria and Sweden will focus on the conflict in Syria during visits to Lebanon and Iraq from Thursday to Sunday, the Polish foreign ministry announced Wednesday.

Poland's Radoslaw Sikorski, Bulgaria's Nikolay Mladenov and Sweden's Carl Bildt will also discuss the countries' relations with the EU.

Lebanon was among five countries that moved up from U.S. State Department’s blacklist of human trafficking to be included among the 42 countries now on a watchlist.

Last year, U.S. President Barack Obama granted Lebanon a waiver to allow the continuation of U.S. assistance to Lebanon, which was at risk of being blocked due to the country’s ranking in the bottom blacklist known as tier 3 in the 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report.

Residents of the Bekaa region Jeb Jennine stormed on Monday the local power plant demanding more hours of electricity, said Electricite du Liban in a statement.

It said that residents gathered outside the station at 8:00 a.m. and demanded that they be granted entry to the plant’s main control room.

The U.N. assistant secretary-general for political affairs warned Tuesday that Lebanon continues to faces security challenges due to the upheaval in Syria.

“The country continues to face challenges to its security and stability, partly due to the crisis in Syria,” Oscar Fernandez-Taranco told a U.N. Security Council session.

Palestinian factions and the Lebanese army have agreed on forming a committee to investigate the deaths of two Palestinians at the northern refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared and cancel passes to the shantytown in an effort to end the tension between the two sides, a Palestinian official claimed.

The official identified as Arkan Badr told An Nahar newspaper published Wednesday that the agreement also included the release of 11 Palestinians arrested by the army during the confrontations between the two sides on Monday.

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Wednesday of a foreign plot coupled with a local participation to drag the Palestinian camps throughout Lebanon to strife.

“The incidents at the Palestinian camps and the targets against the Lebanese army are not innocent and call for concern,” Berri told several newspapers.