First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida received on Wednesday a file on the complete identity of Syrian security chief Ali Mamlouk, reported the National News Agency.

The file contains the name of the mother of the Syrian official, who is charged, along with former Minister Michel Samaha of forming a criminal gang aimed at carrying out attacks in Lebanon at Syria's behest.

Umm Khaled's living room in the Baddawi refugee camp in north Lebanon is now a bedroom for Palestinians fleeing fierce battles in another refugee camp -- in the Syrian capital.

"Twenty people from Yarmuk (in Damascus) arrived at my house, among them children, women and elderly people" on Monday, said Khaled, 50, herself a long-time Palestinian resident of Baddawi.

Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar was admitted on Wednesday to hospital in Beirut, reported al-Jadeed television.

A Lebanese minister told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity that al-Shaar arrived at 7:30 pm (1630 GMT) at Beirut airport, and he was taken to the American University Hospital.

The March 14 General Secretariat stressed on Wednesday its commitment to holding the parliamentary elections on time, saying that it seeks an agreement over a new electoral law.

It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “We respect constitutional deadlines, while the March 8 camp appears to be afraid of the elections as it is worried that it will be defeated.”

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed on Wednesday the need for the parliamentary elections to be held on time.

He said during his weekly meeting with lawmakers: “The March 14 camp is dealing positively with this issue.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Wednesday that Lebanon is committed to its moral and humanitarian duties towards refugees fleeing Syria to Lebanon.

He made his remarks during a cabinet session at the Grand Serail after which Information Minister Walid al-Daouq revealed that another meeting will be held soon in order to tackle the flow of Syrian and Palestinian refugees to Lebanon.

Around twenty-eight Lebanese pilgrims whose bus was targeted by a bomb blast in Iraq returned to Beirut on Wednesday aboard an Iraqi plane, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said flight number 139 from Najaf landed at Rafik Hariri International Airport at noon carrying 145 passengers on board, including two pilgrims who were injured in Monday's bombing in Samarra, 125 kilometers north of Baghdad.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel voiced hope on Wednesday that the rival parties would reach consensus over the new electoral law, rejecting attempts to thwart the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections.

He revealed after talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi at Bkirki that the March 14 opposition leaders held a meeting on Tuesday night to discuss a proposal by Speaker Nabih Berri to resume the meetings of an electoral subcommittee tasked with studying electoral draft-laws.

The U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set to try ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's suspected assassins, has set its annual budget for 2013 at 59.9 million euros, al-Joumhouria daily quoted well informed sources as saying on Wednesday.

The STL, which is headquartered in the Dutch town of Leidschendam, informed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the budget.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati and al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc were involved in a verbal duel over statements issued by the premier regarding the recent clashes in the northern city of Tripoli.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc lashed out on Tuesday in a statement after the MPs' weekly meeting at the Center House at Miqati's comments on Tripoli's events, saying that his remarks are a “political scandal serving the Syrian regime.”