Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday noted that electoral money can influence the outcome of parliamentary elections more than weapons, denying remarks accusing his party of being behind the electoral law proposed by the Orthodox Gathering, under which each sect would elects its representatives.

“Today, the most important topic in Lebanon is the elections and the electoral law. There is a barrage of insults and self-dissociation from debates is necessary," said Nasrallah in a televised speech marking the birthday of Prophet Mohammed.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen will hold a hearing on January 30 as part of his duties to ensure preparation for trial, announced the tribunal in a statement on Friday.

The Status Conference, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. (Central European time) will be public.

The man who shot and killed two locals from the Jbeil town of Lassa handed himself over to security forces after the family of the victims had blocked roads in protest against the murder.

Information obtained by al-Jadeed television said that the assailant had handed himself over to the concerned security authorities.

Nine Islamists were charged on Friday with the murder of a Palestinian inmate at Roumieh Prison, reported the National News Agency.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged eight Islamist inmates with murder and a ninth Islamist who is not held at the jail.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati discussed with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday the cooperation between Lebanon and international organizations on the Syrian refugees, his press office said.

Miqati met with Ban on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort Davos.

Unknown assailants have tossed a hand grenade in the eastern city of Baalbek, meters away from the house of a Hizbullah MP, causing material damage only, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

NNA said the grenade tossed in al-Rifai neighborhood around 3:00 am damaged two vehicles – a Mitsubishi with a Syrian license plate and also a Syrian-plated Hyundai van - parked on the side of the road.

France is likely to deport Lebanese leftist militant George Abdallah soon after his case became a “burden” but it has warned Lebanese authorities against organizing an official welcoming ceremony for him, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Friday.

The newspaper quoted a high-ranking French source as saying that involved French cabinet ministers intend to approve his deportation soon.

Speaker Nabih Berri has lamented that Lebanese rival political parties were seeking the adoption of an electoral law that gives them the majority of seats in parliament, a move that would take Lebanon to more divisions, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Friday.

Al-Hayat quoted Berri's sources as saying that “the electoral calculations could take back Lebanon to a new round of vertical divisions between the (opposition) March 14 and March 8 (majority) alliances.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Thursday held security forces responsible for any future security incident, in the wake of the spat that erupted earlier in the day over a controversial visit by Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and his supporters to a ski resort in the Kesrouan town of Kfardebian.

“We overcame the problem but it would be difficult to overcome such an incident if it was repeated,” Aoun said in a phone interview with his movement's mouthpiece OTV.

Special army units negotiated on Thursday with Islamists at Roumieh prison the handing over of two inmates accused of killing G. al-Qandaqli.

"The army had warned that it will storm bloc B of Roumieh if the accused were not handed over,” MTV reported.