A number of Nepalese members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon were wounded on Monday when their vehicle overturned in southern Lebanon, reported the National News Agency.

It said that six members of the Nepalese unit were wounded when their pick up truck overturned while they were conducting a routine mission.

The controversial issue of appointments is expected to be settled shortly as disputes over the matter have been resolved before President Michel Suleiman's visit to Latin America last week, An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday.

According to the daily, Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati agreed on the names of the three candidates to be appointed as the head of the Higher Judicial Council, the General Prosecutor and the head of the Judicial Inspection Board.

The security agencies, AMAL movement, and Hizbullah agreed on a scenario to help implement a security plan that will kick off this week in the Bekaa region, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

The plan to control the spread of outlaws, thieves, carjacking and kidnapping fanning out in the eastern region aims to gain the people's support in a bid to assist the Lebanese army's mission and make it a success, the daily added.

Lebanon is expected to witness this week massive demonstrations as the Lebanese University contract professors will kick off a three-day strike on Monday, while the Syndicate Coordination Committee is set to hold a protest on Wednesday, local newspapers reported.

LU contract teachers' three-day strike is set to protest the cabinet's failure to approve a draft law to make them full-time teachers.

Speaker Nabih Berri is seeking to ease the differences between the various Lebanese powers over the new parliamentary electoral law, reported An Nahar daily on Monday.

Information obtained by the daily revealed that the speaker, through Hizbullah's backing, had held separate talks with Mustaqbal bloc head MP Fouad Saniora, National Struggle Front ministers, and Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel to that end.

The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surged into more than 85,200, receiving aid through the efforts exerted by the Lebanese state and its U.N. and non-governmental organization partners, a weekly report issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees said.

“Nearly 60,089 are currently registered at the UNHCR in addition to 25,150 refugees who have contacted the organization to be registered,” the statement said.

Syrian President Bashar Assad's media adviser Buthaina Shaaban has declined to comment on a probe in Lebanon into her possible involvement in a plot by former minister Michel Samaha and Syrian security chief Ali Mamlouk to carry out strife-inciting bombings in Lebanon, sources close to Shaaban told Agence France Presse on Sunday.

The sources said Shaaban has rejected to comment on “the leaks” about her in Lebanon, dismissing them as “part of the polemics and political debates that Lebanon is known for and which do not deserve any response or comment.”

Former minister Michel Samaha's personal computer represents a “valuable treasure” for the security agencies because it will reveal further details about his plot, a media report said on Sunday, as Mustaqbal bloc MP Ziad al-Qaderi warned of attempts to wrap up the case by claiming that the seized explosives were targeted at resisting Israel.

Lebanese security agencies unveiled the involvement of Syrian President Bashar Assad's adviser Buthaina Shaaban in the case “given the fact that Samaha, who owned three cellphones, used to regularly record all his phone conversations throughout the period of three years, before copying them to the computer that was seized on the day his house was raided by Intelligence Bureau agents,” security sources told al-Mustaqbal newspaper in remarks published Sunday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Sunday stressed his keenness on the new wage scale and his commitment to the agreed timeframes -- whether in terms of it coming into force on July 1, 2012 or the agreed monthly installments.

In an interview with LBCI television, Miqati also denied that he had sent the wage scale plan to parliament, noting that expenditure is impossible without revenues.

Hizbullah is “covertly providing men and support to the Assad government and currently has about 1,500 members inside Syria,” British newspaper The Times has quoted a Syrian defector as saying.

The claims come amid reports of Hizbullah fighters, including a senior founder member of the organization, being killed in Syria and buried in Lebanon.