Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq issued on Wednesday a decree to postpone the mayoral elections in a town in the northern region of al-Minieh-Dinnieh, reported the National News Agency.

The decree explained that the polls in the town of Kohouf al-Mloul have been delayed to July 31 because the majority of its residents reside abroad.

Speaker Nabih Berri proposed before the national dialogue participants on Wednesday a package deal aimed at ending the political deadlock in Lebanon, media reports said.

The deal calls for shortening the term of the current parliament and staging the parliamentary polls and later the presidential ones.

Families of the Aley district town of Ain Dara held a sit-in on Wednesday protesting an attack waged by armed gunmen against the municipality's building, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb announced on Wednesday that the Naameh landfill will be “permanently shut at midnight.”

He said during a press conference that the dump will then be transformed into a green space.

Lebanon's presidential elections is approaching a new phase amid reports claiming that the chances of MP Suleiman Franjieh to reach the top state post are dimming, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

The daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that Hizbullah did not take in the initiative of Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri to elect Franjieh, because Tehran has rejected the offer and considers it a Saudi Arabian maneuver against it in Lebanon.”

Hizbullah hailed the stance of Central Bank Governor Riad Salemeh, which urged Lebanese banks to consult with the Central Bank before suspending accounts suspected of violating anti-Hizbullah U.S. sanctions law, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

“The stance of the Central Bank Governor is considered positive,” Hizbullah sources told the daily.

Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun alleged Tuesday that “invisible players” confronted the FPM-backed list in Jounieh's municipal polls, while stressing that the elections will not affect his movement's rapprochement agreement with the Lebanese Forces.

Thieves stole the car of the head of the Zahle army intelligence department on Tuesday, a media report said.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc warned Tuesday that Lebanon's economy was facing “extreme danger” from Hizbullah's criticism of the measures that the Lebanese banks have started taking in compliance with an anti-Hizbullah U.S. sanctions law.

“The bloc strongly condemns the stance of Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc, which has called on Lebanese banks not to abide by the regulations of the international financial system, knowing that all world countries respect this system,” said Mustaqbal's bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

The chief suspect in a deadly attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980 has been released on bail after being held for 18 months, judicial and investigation sources told AFP Tuesday.