Speaker Nabih Berri stated on Tuesday that efforts to keep the current 1960 electoral law does not only reflect “negatively” on the country, but also harms everyone including President Michel Aoun's term, al-Joumhouria daily reported Tuesday.

“Attempts to maintain the 1960 electoral law, negatively affects the country and harms everyone, at the forefront of which is the term of Aoun,” said Berri.

Head of the Democratic Gathering bloc MP Walid Jumblat said he no longer supports holding the upcoming parliamentary elections based on a hybrid law system as agreed previously with the Lebanese Forces and al-Mustaqbal, as he stressed backing for a majoritarian electoral system, Ad-Diyar daily reported Tuesday.

“A hybrid electoral law that mixes the proportional representation and the winner-takes-all systems is no more acceptable on my part,” said Jumblat, stressing his support for a majoritarian voting system.

A mediator to negotiate the release of Lebanese servicemen abducted by the Islamic State group has arrived in the city of Raqqa, IS's stronghold in Syria, after coordination with the General Directorate of General Security to kick start efforts in that direction, al-Akhbar daily reported Tuesday.

The daily said, Turkish authorities have facilitated the transfer of the mediator from Turkey to Syria in an effort to negotiate the release of the troops who have been in captivity since August 2014.

Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel on Monday lashed out at the political forces over their failure to approve a new electoral law until the moment, noting that “temporary alliances” cannot secure “correct Christian representation.”

Prime Minister Saad Hariri praised the closing statement of the Middle East peace conference in Paris, which renewed the commitment to the two-state solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

On Twitter Hariri said: “We thank France for organizing the Mideast Peace and we thank President François Hollande for his just and courageous stance”.

Hizbullah on Sunday condemned the execution of three Bahraini men found guilty of killing three policemen, calling it "a crime" and "extrajudicial killing" that would undermine any chance for a political solution in Bahrain.

The Iran-backed group, which has been critical of the Bahraini government's crackdown on the Shiite-led uprising, said international silence toward what takes place in Bahrain must be met with the "largest solidarity campaign."

Speaker Nabih Berri called on Saturday for two general legislative sessions to be held on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

It is to note that sessions will begin at 11:00 a.m. to discuss and approve 46 items on the parliament's agenda.

Following the latest warnings that flights in and out of Lebanon's Beirut airport are at risk because of the large number of birds flying over a nearby garbage dump, reports said Saturday that hunters are shooting down the seagulls which angered environmentalist movements in Lebanon.

A Lebanese environmental movement condemned in a statement on Saturday what it described as the “extermination of seagulls."

A task force from the Information Branch of General Security in Mount Lebanon arrested two Syrian nationals for having terror links and planning to carry out attacks in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

One of the suspects, H.Kh, was arrested in the Baabda district for having links to the Islamic State extremist group, and communicating with an IS leader with the intention of carrying out terror acts in Lebanon, added NNA.

The body of a dead infant was found early on Saturday in a waste container southeast of Beirut, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The body of the baby, who was assumed to be less than a year old, was found in a plastic bag in a garbage container in Filmon Wehbe street in the Kfarshima area, NNA said.