A Lebanese army explosives expert defused a bomb found at the entrance of Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon on Sunday, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said that the bomb was found along with tapes and a battery at al-Tahtani entrance of Taamir Ain el-Hilweh.

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari blamed the March 14 forces for not taking fundamental stances from the government after the indictment of four Hizbullah members in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination.

In an interview with the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper on Sunday, Makari called for a strong confrontation of the Hizbullah-led government.

Former Premier Omar Karami stressed on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar Assad comforted him earlier in the week that he had “turned the page of the events” in his country.

Karami, who visited Assad along with his son Minister Faisal Karami on Wednesday, told An Nahar daily that the “the story is over.”

Sources close to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri denied that he would hold meetings with Lebanese officials in France.

In remarks to An Nahar daily Sunday, the sources said that Hariri is currently in Riyadh.

A March 8 ministerial source that rejects the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has criticized Premier Najib Miqati for promising the international community that Lebanon would pay its share of funds for the STL.

The source unveiled to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday that Miqati hasn’t yet proposed any suggestion to fund the court and hasn’t discussed any approach with Hizbullah, which rejects the funding.

Hizbullah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met with Marada movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh on Saturday and discussed the latest developments in Lebanon and the region.

A statement issued by the Hizbullah's media office stated that Nasrallah and Franjieh "evaluated the government's recent work, as well as upcoming issues."

The Higher Sunni Legal Council on Saturday stated that "what was being said about the fear on the future of the Christians in the Arab World is only an attempt to cause sedition."

During its regular meeting, the Council, headed by the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani issued a statement calling on "the Arab regimes to stop the bloodshed and the violation of human rights."

A woman and her two daughters were wounded Saturday near Al-Nasiri mosque in Tripoli’s Bab Al-Tebbaneh neighborhood due to a hand grenade explosion, the National News agency reported.

The Agency added that the security forces arrived at the scene and started investigating, adding that the wounded were taken to Al-Khairi hospital in Tripoli for medical treatment.

A debate over Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi’s positions on Syria, Hizbullah’s arms, and Christians in the region during the Maronite bishops council meeting on Wednesday prompted the gatherers to remove these issues from their final proclamation.

The Bishops’ meeting last Wednesday was not as rosy as depicted in the press, especially the March 8 media. It was an opportunity for the bishops to give the Patriarch their opinion on his Paris declarations.

Speaker Nabih Berri noted on Saturday that Lebanon remains Israel’s main enemy because it is its major competitor in the region, adding that the Jewish state is seeking to fragment Lebanon.

He said during the opening of the international conference in support of the Palestinian intifada held in Iran: “The Resistance is the main deterrent power against Israel and given the current circumstances, it is a necessity to prevent Israeli exploitation of the situation in the Arab world to harm Lebanon.”