Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged Hizbullah on Wednesday to stop sending fighters to Syria and stressed the need for the international community, led by France, to take action on Syria.

“We don't accept for any Lebanese to fight alongside the crimes” committed by the Syrian regime, Hariri said following talks with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace.

Hizbullah slammed on Wednesday the film, “Innocence of Muslims”, that has been deemed offensive to Islam, accusing Jewish and extremist Egyptian Christian Coptic powers of funding it.

It demanded in a statement that laws be issued in order to incriminate such acts similar to laws that condemn antisemitism.

Speaker Nabih Berri stated on Wednesday that he will support any Christian agreement over a parliamentary electoral law.

He said: “I will not reject any law that enjoys the agreement of all Christian powers.”

Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Wednesday eight people, including a Syrian officer, with kidnapping Syrian opposition members in Tripoli in order to transport them back to their country.

Five of the suspects have already been arrested, while the rest remain at large.

Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr tasked on Wednesday the Intelligence Bureau with providing him with the identities of all the individuals whose names were mentioned in former minister Michel Samaha's case.

Samaha was interrogated on Tuesday as part of ongoing investigations over his transfer of explosives from Syria to Lebanon in order to carry out attacks in the country at Damascus' behest.

U.N. refugee agency's special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday to visit the Syrians who fled the turmoil in their country.

Jolie expressed concern for the alarming humanitarian situation the Syrians are passing through.

President Michel Suleiman congratulated on Wednesday the Lebanese army for the various security operations it carried out in recent days, most notably the release of the kidnapped Syrian and Turkish nationals.

He stressed the need to follow up on these measures and take the legal measures against violators.

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday called for peace in the Middle East based on "respect for legitimate differences" before his Lebanon trip this week as the conflict in neighboring Syria rages.

"We ask God to give this region of the world the peace it so desires, based on respect for legitimate differences. May God bless Lebanon and the Middle East," the pope said at the end of his weekly audience in the Vatican.

Change and Reform bloc MP Alain Aoun announced on Wednesday that the bloc will no longer cooperate with the Lebanese Forces and Phalange Party at the Bkirki committee aimed at devising a new parliamentary electoral law.

He said during a press conference: “We are no longer concerned with any joint work with the members of the Bkirki committee on devising a new electoral law.”

Lebanese customs at Beirut Port thwarted on Wednesday an attempt to smuggle equipment that produce narcotic pills.

“The machines arrived in containers last week at the port from china,” acting director-general of the Customs Administration Shafiq Merhi said in a press conference.