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.

The cabinet on Thursday approved the payment of the so-called “secret funds” that the security agencies use in their clandestine activities, as the Free Patriotic Movement continued its partial boycott of the cabinet meetings.

Military Examining Magistrate Judge Fadi Sawan carried on the investigations into the Ksara bombing file, as he listened to the testimony of some witnesses, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

NNA added that 13 persons have been detained so far over involvement in the case and 5 others were sentenced in absentia.

Three associates of Hizbullah party suspected of laundering cocaine money for the Colombian cartel have been busted after agents said they illegally moved $500,000 into Miami banks through a series of complicated financial transactions stretching from Australia to Europe, the Miami Herald reported.

The Muslim Scholars Committee urged the Sunni community to withdraw the confidence from the Sunni political leaders and accused them of neglect, mainly after the detention of former Mufti Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras over his alleged involvement in terror groups, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily reported on Thursday.

The Scholars accused the Sunni politicians of “neglecting and abandoning the community,” as they affirmed that former Tarras was innocent of the charges filed against him of belonging to the Islamic State group, said the daily.

The body of a man who had been shot dead was found in the southern Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

The body was found lying in one of the alleyways in the camp, and he was shot three times in his head. The body showed signs of torture, added NNA.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed on Wednesday that the army, people and Resistance equation protects Lebanon as he refused any attempts aiming to obstruct the government’s work.

“The army, people and Resistance equation protects us and we refuse obstructing the government under any pretext,” stressed Nasrallah in the second live appearance within 24 hours addressing thousands of supporters in the southern suburb of Beirut marking Ashoura.