As endeavors to endorse a new electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary polls stutter, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat recently submitted to Speaker Nabih Berri a new draft law proposal that was kept away from media spotlight, media reports said on Thursday.

“Jumblat has submitted some general ideas about an electoral law that involves specific acceptable proportionality, agreeable for him, and very much unlike other formats that tend to marginalize some political components,” unnamed sources following up on electoral law discussions told al-Joumhouria daily.

Following his tour that included several Arab countries, President Michel Aoun prepares to kick start a trip that will involves the Vatican and Kuwait, media reports said on Thursday.

A specific date has not been set as yet, but reports said it will be some time soon.

An Israeli court Wednesday postponed the deadline for a container in Haifa capable of holding 12,000 tons of ammonia to be emptied of its toxic content, judicial sources said.

A Syrian national was arrested Wednesday in a northern border region for carrying a Lebanese military suit, state-run National News Agency reported.

An Islamic State group official was shot dead on Wednesday in the restive Bekaa border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Wednesday stressed that only the army and the other security forces have the “legitimacy” to “protect Lebanon and its land and people,” several days after President Michel Aoun announced that Hizbullah's arms “do not contradict with the State.”

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc on Wednesday lauded President Michel Aoun's latest stance on Hizbullah's controversial arsenal of weapons.

The General Directorate of General Security on Wednesday announced the arrest of three people who were tasked by a Syria-based terrorist group to scout possible targets for “bomb and vehicle-ramming attacks” in Lebanon.

In a statement, General Security said “Lebanese national M. Kh., his Lebanese wife H. H. and Palestinian refugee M. M. were arrested for belonging to a terrorist group, communicating with senior officials in it, and attempting to leave for Syria to join its ranks.”

Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday stressed that “protecting Lebanon and preserving diversity in the Lebanese formula can only be realized through passing a new electoral law based on proportional representation.”

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Lebanon next week for talks with Lebanese leaders, a Lebanese government source said Wednesday.