Seventy-three kg of cannabis were seized on Wednesday in an encampment of Syrian refugees in Baalbek in the eastern Bekaa valley, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil of the AMAL Movement emphasized on Wednesday that Free Patriotic Movement chief and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil is “most welcome in South Lebanon,” affirming that “AMAL is keen on the country’s stability.”

Khalil said in a televised interview on OTV: “Minister Bassil is most welcome in South Lebanon,” a region with a majority of Shiite inhabitants.

A meeting between Speaker Nabih Berri and US Acting Secretary of State David Saterfield “was not positive,” and Israel “did not agree” that border demarcation talks with Lebanon be held under the auspices of the United Nations, media reports said on Wednesday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil on Tuesday defended his latest tour of the Aley district, stressing that he does not a “permission” from any party to go to any Lebanese region.

“What happened in Qabrshmoun is rejected and we have a responsibility to contain what happened and no one wants strife,” Bassil said after the weekly meeting of the Strong Lebanon bloc, referring to an armed clash involving the convoy of State Minister for Refugee Affairs Saleh al-Gharib which resulted in the death of two bodyguards and the injury of two people.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday met for the first time since their latest war of words.

The meeting was held at the headquarters of the Druze religious authority in Verdun on the sidelines of condolences over the death of Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Ali Zeineddine.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat stressed Tuesday that his party is not “above the law,” in the wake of the deadly Qabrshmoun incident.

“Away from this torrent of attacks, insults and incitement, the PSP is not above the law, seeing as it was the party that called for an investigation from the very first moment,” Jumblat tweeted.

The handover of those involved in the deadly Qabrshmoun incident began on Tuesday following a mediation by General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.

“The first steps towards restoring security lie in handing over the culprits and we have started to receive the fugitives,” Ibrahim said after meeting Lebanese Democratic Party chief MP Talal Arslan in Khalde.

Waiting almost two hours for the quorum to be met, Prime Minister Saad Hariri adjourned the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday saying the move was necessary in order to vent tension after Sunday's deadly incident in the Alley village of Qabrshmoun.

President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri held separate meetings on Tuesday with French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly leading a delegation of military officials, the National News Agency reported.

During the meeting Aoun has hailed the “brethren relations between Lebanon and France,” stressing eagerness on “promoting them at various levels mainly at the level of military aid provided by France to the Lebanese Armed Forces, and its participation in the UNIFIL peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon,” said NNA.

125 Lebanese nationals arrived at dawn on Tuesday at the Beirut airport coming from Kazakhstan after the weekend brawl between Kazakh and Arab workers in one of the country's largest oil fields.