The March 14 General Secretariat said on Wednesday that the memorandum the alliance presented to President Michel Suleiman serves as a roadmap for all the Lebanese people who seek their country's salvation.

It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “This salvation is a collective responsibility of the people, and not one political or sectarian camp against the other.”

Popular Nasserite Organization head Osama Saad stressed on Wednesday that the security deterioration in the southern city of Sidon endangers the civil peace and aims at creating a sectarian civil war.

He expressed regret in a press conference over the security, stability and economy losses in the city, a day after clashes erupted between Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and the Hizbullah-affiliated Resistance Brigades in the suburb of Abra.

A Lebanese blogger has been questioned by the Internal Security Forces for his insulting tweets and not as reported for criticizing President Michel Suleiman.

A careful examination of Jean Assy's twitter account reveals swearing and name-calling against Suleiman which go beyond society's morals and ethics.

The trial of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, who is in custody, and of two wanted Syrian officers kicked off at the military court in Beirut on Wednesday.

Samaha, who is considered close to the Syrian regime, was arrested in August last year for planning attacks in Lebanon along with Syrian security chief General Ali Mamlouk and a colonel known only by his first name as Adnan.

Two Lebanese men were briefly kidnapped on Wednesday from the area of al-Amhazieh in Labweh in northeastern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said that unknown assailants abducted Adib Nasrallah and Izzat Zanoubi as they were heading to Arsal.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said that the ties with President Michel Suleiman are “excellent,” denying that there is a sharp dispute with the president despite the difference in points of view over certain issues.

“Coordination is ongoing with the President despite all the attempts to create a rift between us,” Mansour said in comment published in al-Joumhouria newspaper on Wednesday.

The head of the Constitutional Council regretted that the 10-member body failed to issue a ruling on petitions filed against the extension of parliament’s term, warning that it would lead to a “dangerous constitutional precedence.”

In remarks to al-Joumhouria daily published on Wednesday, Judge Issam Suleiman expressed “deep regret” that the council failed to take a decision on the extension over lack of quorum.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi received on Tuesday ahead of his trip to the Vatican a letter from Speaker Nabih Berri explaining the reasons behind the parliament's tenure extension.

“I don't mind the adoption of the 1960 law if you agree,” Berri told al-Rahi, according to local newspapers published on Wednesday.

Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir reportedly contacted Palestinian factions in the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp asking for a military aid.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Wednesday, Asir asked the Palestinian groups to launch rockets from Ain el-Hilweh towards Haret Sidon.

Forced by Syria's war to sit her secondary school diploma exam in northern Lebanon, Riham Othman, 19, bursts into tears, fearing the Lebanese authorities will never recognize the test results.

Worse still, she dreads her dream of becoming a journalist may also never come true.