Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat noted that it would be unacceptable for Lebanon to remain idle in its approach towards Syrians who have fled to Lebanon to escape their country’s crackdown against anti-regime protests, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

He told the daily: “They should be granted aid and social guarantees regardless of their numbers.”

The indictments in the assassination of former Communist party chief George Hawi and attempted assassinations of former ministers Marwan Hamadeh and Elias Murr may result to new leads in other assassinations that had taken place in Lebanon, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

Opposition sources revealed to the daily that indictment in these three cases will be released within 10 to 12 days.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said on Saturday that officials are working on resolving the cabinet crisis, stressing that his party is not linked to the red diesel scandal.

“We are working on legalizing the cabinet’s decree concerning the transportation allowance instead of raising the issue to the Shura Council,” Aoun said during a dinner banquet for his party’s Engineers Association.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati reiterated on Saturday that the cabinet crisis requires the efficiency of its members in order to be solved.

“Keep the faith… and let’s all work together for the national interest of our country,” Miqati said on twitter.

A young man and woman were killed in Faraya on Saturday after gas leaked in one of the rooms they were staying in, media reports said.

According to MTV, the young man and woman were staying at one of the cabanas at Faraya ski resort.

The Hizbullah leadership in the South and top members of Amal in Jabal Amel backed on Saturday Syrian President Bashar Assad’s reform efforts which they said aim at consolidating the country against foreign plots.

Following a meeting they held at Hizbullah’s offices in Tyre, the two sides said in a statement that the attempts to target Syria’s stability and the unity of its people and army are aimed at hindering its support for the Palestinian people and their right to liberate their land.

A 52-year-old Lebanese identified as Habib Youssef Hashem was found stabbed to death in his hotel room in the Nigerian capital Lagos, the National News Agency said Saturday.

The parents of Hashem, who hails from the town of Hasbaya, urged the foreign ministry to cooperate with the Lebanese embassy in Lagos to investigate his murder and help them take the necessary measures to repatriate his body.

A severe snowstorm lashing Lebanon since Friday has caused considerable damage to crops, blocked major roads and downed power lines in several areas.

Strong winds in the northern district of Akkar blocked the international highway of al-Abdeh-Abboudiyeh after it toppled trees. The residents later reopened it.

British Ambassador Tom Fletcher has expressed hope that the Lebanese government and officials would be united in their stance in distancing themselves from the Syrian crisis.

“The messages of President Michel Suleiman and Premier Najib Miqati in that regard have been very clear and have been welcomed by us,” Fletcher told As Safir daily in an interview published Saturday.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that he hasn’t launched a new initiative to resolve the cabinet crisis but sources have said that he discussed with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun ways to find a solution to the controversial transportation allowance that was at the origin of the government’s deadlock.

Berri hinted to As Safir daily on Saturday that he isn’t making any mediation between Aoun and Premier Najib Miqati, who suspended cabinet sessions on Feb. 1 after he bickered with ministers loyal to the FPM chief and accused them of hindering the government’s work.