The next few weeks will witness intensive consultations, mainly between some political leaders and heads of parliamentary blocs, in a bid to reach consensus over an electoral law, a media report said on Sunday.

An Nahar newspaper attributed the expectations to ministerial sources, who said that the issue of parliamentary elections can have an impact on the domestic situation similar to that of the presidential vote.

An explosion shock the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp overnight, state-run National News Agency reported Sunday.

The Internal Security Forces said that a Syrian woman was put under arrest on prostitution charges in the southern suburb of Mreijeh, an ISF statement said on Saturday.

ISF said that the Mreijeh police “obtained information from unknown sources about a woman, Z. B., who was practicing prostitutions while leaving her three children in an “inappropriate place” where they were subject to humiliation and beating.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi visited Mount Lebanon on Sunday where he marked the 15th anniversary of the mountain reconciliation between the Christians and Druze and to inaugurate a church in the Shouf town of al-Moukhtara.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and Lebanese Democratic Party leader Talal Arslan received the Patriarch in the presence of former President Amin Gemayel, Michel Suleiman, former minister Walid Daouk representing ex-PM Najib Miqati, Papal Ambassador to Lebanon Gabriel Caccia, MP Ali Fayyad, Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji and a number of bishops and priests.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed fears that the country is approaching the “verge of the abyss” if the deadlock in Lebanon’s political work prolongs and a vacuum at the presidential post lingers, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Sunday.

“The country can no longer tolerate. What do I do to make everyone believe that we are in danger and approaching the abyss?” Berri told the daily.

Two Syrians were arrested Friday in the southern region of Jezzine on terror-related charges, state-run National News Agency reported.

A sneakers has been used in the latest unusual attempt to smuggle drugs into a Lebanese prison, the Internal Security Forces announced on Friday.

A Russian woman has been arrested at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport on charges of running a prostitution and sex trafficking network operating in Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, a media report said on Friday.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has stressed that Lebanon will win the battle against terrorism although he described the current security situation in the country as “worrisome.”

Some political parties are deliberately hampering an agreement on a new electoral law in order the keep the 1960 in effect, al-Liwaa daily reported on Friday.

“A failure to agree on a new electoral law is a sign of the complicity of the political parties to keep the law in force under the pretext of inability to agree on a new one,” unnamed sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.