The successive suicide attacks that targeted on Monday the northeastern town of al-Qaa were not surprising after intelligence reports indicated the presence of threats that could possibly target Lebanon's internal arena, al-Mustaqbal daily reported on Tuesday.

“The military and security vigilance are at their highest levels, but that does not prevent the existence of some gaps exploited by the terrorists to carry out their criminal suicide operations,” a military source told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Fresh suicide bombings rocked the eastern border town of al-Qaa on Monday evening, injuring eight people, only hours after four suicide bombers killed five people and wounded 15 others in the town before dawn.

In the latest violence, three suicide bombers riding motorcycles blew themselves up in the center of the predominantly Christian town, a security source told AFP.

Following the successive suicide bombings early Monday that hit the town of al-Qaa near the volatile border war-ravaged Syria, several politicians denounced the attacks and described them as an act of terror.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief and ex-PM Saad Hariri said in a statement: “The terrorist operation that targeted the Bekaa town of al-Qaa is an episode in a series of hellish plans to spread the Syrian fire (war) to neighboring countries, and the dissemination of chaos and havoc on the rest of the communities.”

The Health Ministry ordered on Saturday the closure of a dental clinic in the northern town of Ghazir that is run by a Syrian doctor, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The Health Ministry inspectors found out that the clinic, in the Blat neighborhood, is situated inside a residential apartment where the practitioner lives with her family.

Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq stressed on Saturday that there are no “suspicious” deals being struck at the cabinet describing the government’s work as “critical” due to the unusual circumstances it is facing.

“There are no suspicious deals at the cabinet. The cabinet's work is critical because it was formed during difficult circumstances and PM Tammam Salam has given the needed time for each subject to be discussed,” said Mashnouq to the Voice of Lebanon radio station (93.3).

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has indirectly shrugged off claims of an Iranian intervention in Lebanon's controversial presidential file and said that Iran is "against foreign interference," the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Saturday.

French President Francois Hollande told Zarif during his trip to France that the situation in Lebanon is dangerous and fragile, added the daily.

A consensual president to fill Lebanon's two-year vacuum is ready and waiting to be elected, and he garners the support of international and regional powers, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

If Hizbullah remains adamant to elect founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun for the post, that means that a consensus nominee is ready somewhere and waiting to fill the seat, visitors to Washington told the daily without elaborating.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday described the fight for the Syrian province of Aleppo as the “greatest battle” to date in the Syrian war, noting that the outcome would have an impact on “Damascus, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan.”

The cabinet held a meeting at the Grand Serail on Friday where it mainly discussed the projects undertaken by the Council for Development and Reconstruction in various Lebanese areas.

The cabinet which was chaired by PM Tammam Salam “asked the CDR to prepare, within a month, an analytical study of the financial figures of the projects that it has been asked by the state to implement,” said Information Minister Ramzi Jreij after the meeting.

A man sustained stab wounds to his abdomen by a relative of his after a personal dispute erupted between them in the town of Kfar-Hazir in Koura, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.

A dispute erupted between G.A. and his cousin A.A. while they were working at a construction site in Kfar-Hazir, NNA said.