Speaker Nabih Berri held talks on Tuesday night with head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri on the latest developments in Lebanon.

The speaker hosted the lawmaker to a dinner banquet at his Ain el-Tineh residence.

The army kicked off a security campaign to arrest Maarouf Hamieh, who confessed on Tuesday to the murder of Mohammed al-Hujeiri to avenge his son's death, reported As Safir newspaper on Wednesday.

An informed security source told the daily that the army considers Hujeiri's murder to be a violation of the law, regardless of the motivation behind it and that the father had avenged a slain soldier.

General Security chief Major General Abbas Ibrahim expressed his confidence that the murder of Mohammed al-Hujeiri in the eastern Bekaa region on Tuesday will not have “security repercussions” in Lebanon, reported As Safir newspaper on Wednesday.

He told the daily that he is “not worried that sectarian strife” will erupt in wake of the crime.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon welcomed Tuesday the municipal and mayoral elections that started in Lebanon on May 8 while urging the country's leaders to elect a president as soon as possible.

A hand grenade was discovered Tuesday under the car of a son of a top Palestinian official in Wadi al-Zayneh near the southern city of Sidon.

Al-Mustaqbal movement condemned Tuesday the killing of a member of the al-Hujeiri family in the Bekaa earlier in the day, urging the government and the political and religious leaders to “intervene to foil strife.”

The Change and Reform bloc demanded on Tuesday that an electoral law that offers fair representation be adopted during the parliamentary elections.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “We stress our constant support for the Orthodox Gathering electoral law, which has not been given a chance by officials.”

U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Jones urged on Tuesday the Lebanese people to exert all possible efforts to end the vacuum in the presidency.

He deemed after holding talks with Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri Speaker Nabih Berri's proposal to end the deadlock as “interesting.”

The body of Hussein Mohammed al-Hujeiri, who was kidnapped Tuesday, was found in a cemetery in the eastern city of Baalbek, the National News Agency reported.

Unknown assailants kidnapped al-Hujeiri Tuesday morning from the city of Baalbek and took him to an unknown destination, NNA said.

The army arrested on Tuesday a prominent Islamic State group terrorist in the northeastern border town of Arsal, announced the National News Agency.

It said that Sameh al-Breidy was detained in a military operation in the town.