The council of ministers decided on Friday to refer all bombings and all cases of booby-trapped cars to the Judicial Council.

The ministers also discussed the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's summons of al-Jadeed television ad al-Akhabar daily's journalists, expressing their keenness on preserving freedom of the press, but noting at the same time that the STL's internal system allows it to summon media personalities.

Two rockets launched from the Syrian side of the border landed in the Bekaa region of Hermel, the military institution announced on Friday.

"Army units are inspecting the location where the rockets landed, to identify their types and where they were launched from," the army added in a communique.

Several journalists rallied near the Ministry of Information in Beirut on Friday afternoon, to protest the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's summons of al-Jadeed TV and al-Akhbar newspaper's journalists on charges of “contempt and obstruction of justice.”

The STL announced on Thursday that it has summoned Karma Mohammed Tahsin al-Khayat from al-Jadeed, as well as the station’s parent company New TV S.A.L., to appear before it on two counts of Contempt and Obstruction of Justice.

The Internal Security Forces announced on Friday the arrest of a wanted Jordanian, who has entered Lebanon from Syria, in the eastern region of the Bekaa.

It said that the suspect, M.A., was arrested in the town of Arsal after entering the country from the Syrian city of Yabrud.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi discussed the upcoming presidential elections with President Michel Suleiman and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

Al-Rahi telephoned on Thursday night Hariri to discuss the presidential elections, and the two leaders stressed the need to hold the elections “within the constitutional deadline,” according to the NNA.

Renowned Lebanese actress Leila Hakim passed away on Friday after suffering from illness, the state-run National News agency said.

Hakim, who died at the age of 83, will be buried on Saturday in the Sacre-Coeur Church in Badaro at 4:00 pm.

An Israeli military unit crossed on Friday the technical fence near al-Wazzani river and then left, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the soldiers searched the area before pulling out.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stressed on Friday the importance of electing a new head of state in Lebanon, who would be up to the level of the circumstance that will confront him.

He voiced hope during his sermon at the Saint Maroun Church at the Maronite College in Rome that peace “would prevail in the Middle East.”

The U.N. secretary-general is warning that the 3-year-old conflict in Syria poses a serious threat to the stability of Lebanon, as thousands of refugees stream into the small country and weapons and fighters are transferred out.

Ban Ki-moon's latest report to the U.N. Security Council, circulated Thursday, says the involvement of Lebanese groups in the Syrian fighting "has had a devastating impact on security," including several terrorist attacks in Lebanon "by groups claiming that they are acting in response to Hizbullah's fighting in Syria."

A ministerial-parliamentary committee is expected to submit its report on the wage hike mid-next week amid a renewed warning by public sector employees that they would not accept compromises.

MP Ghazi Youssef, a member of the committee, told al-Liwaa newspaper on Friday that the suggested amendments on the pay raise draft-law would be complete next week within the deadline set by parliament.