The Lebanese Forces and al-Mustaqbal Movement will only be allied in the Akkar and Baalbek-Hermel districts in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the LF said on Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed Tuesday that voting is a “national duty,” urging a massive turnout in the May parliamentary elections.

Justice Minister Salim Jreissati on Tuesday dubbed reports accusing President Michel Aoun of interfering in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections as false.

Jreissati described as “dishonest” those who said Aoun was meddling in the polls.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday there is a serious intention on the part of the international community to help Lebanon, pointing out to “projects worth 3-4 billion dollars that can be implemented in partnership between the public and private sectors,” he said.

In a speech he delivered at a Business and Financial Economic Forum, Hariri said: “We are heading to the Cedre Conference in Paris with an integrated vision of stability and growth, and to project our vision for the investment program.”

Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airline (MEA) announced that it will be resuming flights to Iraq's Kurdish regional capital Arbil starting April the 3rd, the National News Agency said on Tuesday.

MEA said that four flights per week are scheduled on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, NNA added.

The government is expected to convene on Wednesday in a session described as “fateful”, amid a disposition to put to vote the “highly controversial” file of renting power generating barges, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

The head of U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon praised their contribution to peace efforts on Monday as the force marked 40 years since its establishment on the frontier with Israel.

President Michel Aoun announced Monday that “there will be neither victories nor defeats” in the upcoming parliamentary elections, which will be held in May.

In light of Lebanon's dispute with Israel over Block 9 oilfield, Speaker Nabih Berri said his “insistence to adhere” to a gas field to the South of the country is meant to tell Israel that Lebanon's rights will not be wavered, stressing that “Israel is the only enemy.”

First Examining Magistrate of Beirut Riad Abu Ghida on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the hacker Elie Ghabash on charges of “fabricating a spying for Israel case against army adjutant Ishaq Dgheim.”