The Saudi Embassy in Lebanon denied on Friday that it asked its nationals that are currently present in the country to leave by the end of June.

"The report, which was published in a Lebanese newspaper, is completely false,” the embassy said in a statement.

Premier Najib Miqati stressed on Thursday Lebanon’s commitment to sustainable development and made several recommendations at the Rio+20 summit that included the formation of an international environment tribunal.

“Lebanon is committed to this basic cause that should be at the priority of states and peoples,” Miqati told the 190-nation summit, the first large-scale conference on sustainable development in a decade held in Rio de Janeiro.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Friday that he is still part of the cabinet “until further notice,” confirming his centrist stance.

He slammed some of the March 14-led opposition members for continuously calling on the cabinet to resign.

The misunderstanding between some March 14 Christian officials and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has ended and talks between the two sides will continue, a delegation that visited the head of the church in Bkirki announced on Friday.

“If there has been any summer cloud with Bkirki, then it has dissipated,” Phalange leader Amin Gemayel said after holding talks with al-Rahi along with the delegation that included MPs Butros Harb, Strida Geagea and Dori Shamoun, and former lawmakers Nayla Moawad, Fares Soaid, who is also the March 14 general-secretariat coordinator, and Camile Ziade.

President Michel Suleiman is exerting strong efforts to garner the support of 17 Lebanese leaders on the agenda of the next national dialogue session that is scheduled to be held at Baabda palace on Monday.

An Nahar daily reported Friday that Suleiman has launched secret consultations with the top officials to guarantee the success of the second round of the all-party talks that are set to tackle the defense strategy and how to benefit from Hizbullah’s arsenal in addition to resolving the proliferation of arms in Lebanese cities.

Five citizens were injured Thursday when heavy gunfire erupted between the towns of al-Hosniyeh and Beit Hadara in Akkar, after a car accident that turned into a fight between the Hadara and al-Hawda families, National News Agency reported.

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called Thursday for "massive intervention" by the international community in Syria to prevent the conflict there engulfing neighbors Lebanon and Iraq.

"The longer the wait, the more chaos and victims there will be," Ayalon told a small group of journalists in Paris ahead of talks with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

A dispute between al-Ghossein and al-Karaki families erupted in al-Musharrafieh area in Beirut’s southern suburb on Thursday.

A source from al-Moqdad family told Naharnet that the dispute included two people from al-Karaki family and two others from al-Ghossein family.

Four rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) fired from Syrian territory landed in a village in the Bekaa region of Hermel.

The rockets landed in the village of al-Msharrafeh and were fired during a clash in the Syrian town of Qusayr.

A joint Lebanese-Palestinian investigation committee stressed on Thursday the importance of cooperating with the army and facilitating its task in maintaining peace, stability and security.

“The matter falls in the interest of both the Palestinian and the Lebanese people,” the committee said in a statement.