Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged Lebanese factions on Sunday to get rid of the obstacles hampering the election of a president, as he extended condolences over the victims of the Bourj al-Barajneh and Paris bombings that left several dead, the National News Agency said.

“We urge the Christian political forces to seek to remove all the hurdles hampering the election of a president, and to facilitate the process as fast as possible and to agree with the allying political factions on a new electoral law,” said Rahi during the Sunday mass in Bkirki.

Two Individuals were injured overnight in an armed dispute in Tripoli's al-Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp, the state-run National News Agency said on Sunday.

The conflict, that erupted between a man from the al-Shams family and another from the Abou Arab family, inside the camp quickly developed into a shooting that injured both men.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri stated on Sunday that he is eager for a solution that meets the will of the Lebanese in a bid to end the vacuum at the top state post.

“We are eagerly waiting for a course that meets the will of the majority of the Lebanese in order to find a solution for the presidential vacuum,” said Hariri via twitter.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, strongly condemned Saturday the Islamic State group's attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people, while also saying that the Bourj al-Barajneh suicide attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs was aimed at creating strife in the country.

The attack on Bourj al-Barajneh was executed by the IS, he declared, while vowing to “seek fronts with the group for a real confrontation with the group.”

Prime Minister Tammam Salam held an urgent security meeting on Friday over the backdrop of the twin bombings that targeted Bourj al-Barajneh south of Beirut a day earlier, the National News Agency said.

Several Ministers attended the meeting including Defense Samir Moqbel, Finance Ali Hassan Khalil, Health Wael Abou Faour, Interior Nouhad al-Mashnouq and Justice Ashraf Rifi in addition to Army Commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji, Higher Defense Council chief Mohammed Khair, Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous, Lebanese Army Intelligence Chief Brig. Gen. Edmond Fadel, Information Branch chief Brig. Gen. Imad Othman, State Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud, and Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr.

Twin suicide bombings rocked a busy shopping street Thursday in the Beirut southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh, killing 43 people and wounding 239 others, in the worst such attack in years.

NNA said the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers who blew up their explosive vests in the Ain al-Sikkeh street.

The Information Branch arrested a dangerous fugitive after raiding his place of residence in the northeastern town of Arsal and chasing him, an army statement said.

Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hujeiri, nicknamed “Abou Ibrahim” and “Kahroub”, was arrested by the Information Branch with the assistance of military forces in the al-Sabil neighborhood, the statement added.

You Stink activists dumped trash early on Thursday in front of several ministries protesting the government’s dysfunction on a months-long trash crisis, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The activists dumped waste near the ministries of Environment, Labor, Energy, Foreign, Culture, Education, Social Affairs, Industry and Displaced.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon UNIFIL said Wednesday it has turned over a longtime local staffer to Lebanese authorities who accuse him of spying for Israel.

The Lebanese man who had worked in the UNIFIL administration for over 20 years is among three people accused by authorities of spying for Israel.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam stated on Wednesday that Lebanon is carrying the burden of some 1.5 million Syrian refugees with limited help from donor countries, assuring that Lebanon adheres to the dissociation policy towards Syria.

“In Lebanon, we suffer from the presence of about 1.5 million displaced Syrians, a burden unparalleled by any other in the world compared to the small size of our country,” said Salam during the Arab-South American summit in Riyadh.