A huge fire broke out in Ghazir in the district of Keserwan causing serious damage to the fiber networks of the Telecoms Ministry, the press office of Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb said in a statement on Friday.

Marada Movement chief and a runner in the presidential elections MP Suleiman Franjieh, posted a video on Twitter that some interpreted as a message to his rival in the race MP Michel Aoun.
Franjieh posted a video of a remote controlled toy car with orange wheels (the color of the Free Patriotic Movement's slogan) moving randomly and spinning around itself in a room with a closed door.

The General Security and the Army Intelligence were able to arrest two would-be suicide bombers who had plans to blow themselves up at two religious locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut, As Safir daily reported on Friday.
One of the bombers was arrested by the General Security on October 5 at the Cola area in Beirut. During investigation, he confessed that he had been preparing to blow himself up within two days (Friday, October 7) inside one of the biggest mosques in Dahiyeh during Friday prayers, according to the daily.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Friday that Lebanon's political forces should end the conflict over the presidency and elect a head of state away from “useless packages” and illusions that foreign countries might help Lebanon to a solution.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Thursday that ex-PM Saad Hariri spoke of a “specific deadline” for declaring his stance on the presidential nomination of FPM founder MP Michel Aoun during their latest meeting in Rabieh.

The Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon, Ambassador Christina Lassen, visited Thursday the 3rd Land Border Regiment of the Lebanese army at the eastern border.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri held talks Thursday in Paris with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, his press office said.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc noted Thursday that the latest stances of Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah have “once again” confirmed that Hizbullah and its regional backer Iran are “obstructing” the presidential election in Lebanon.

Four people were killed on Thursday in the Keserwan town of Ashqout in a dispute between neighbors, state-run National News Agency reported.

Mustaqbal bloc MP Ahmed Fatfat visited Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji on Thursday to ask him to address the “recurrent security incidents” in the outskirts of the northern Dinniyeh region “near the outskirts of neighboring Hermel,” the MP's office said.
