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.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel warned that the situation in Lebanon could remain fragile as long as Syria is engulfed in violence but stressed that Lebanese security forces are exerting all efforts to preserve stability.

In remarks to several Beirut newspapers published Wednesday, Charbel said: “Anything could take place at the security level in Lebanon as long as the situation in Syria is volatile and as long as there is lack of internal consensus.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, said Tuesday that the security events recently witnessed in Lebanon “are not coincidences because there are internal sides contributing to sow chaos,” adding that “blocking roads to protest electric shortages is useless.”

After the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting at Rabiyeh, Aoun said that “the security events taking place are not considered a coincidence because certain sides are seeking to sow chaos in the streets,” warning the Lebanese to be aware of such attempts.