The Phalange Party noted on Monday that the recent instability in Lebanon has made the state “appear like the weak and losing authority” in the country.

It said in a statement after its weekly politburo meeting: “The government must tackle the catastrophic repercussions the recent developments have had on the authority and image of the state.”

President Michel Suleiman said on Thursday that Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour obtained information confirming that the 11 men abducted in Syria are doing well.

The president made his comments ahead of presiding the national dialogue session at Beiteddine.

The results of the middle school official exams, Brevet (BR), were announced on Saturday afternoon for Beirut, the South, Nabatiyeh and the North.

The results for the rest of the districts, Mount Lebanon and the Bekaa, are set to be announced on Monday.

The Foreign Ministry denied that Lebanon’s Ambassador to Damascus Michel al-Khoury left the mission’s headquarters over the deterioration in the security situation of the Syrian capital.

In a statement it issued on Friday, the ministry said al-Khoury is in Beirut on a two-day administrative leave.

Twelve people were wounded in a huge fire that broke out on Tuesday at the Justice Ministry building, trapping several employees in their offices, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.

The blaze erupted in the fourth and fifth floors of the building located in Beirut’s Mathaf area and firefighting teams have succeeded in extinguishing most of it, said the National News Agency.

The Preliminary results for the General Sciences (SG) and Life Sciences (SV) have been released. Other categories will be announced next week.

A massive fire broke out on Tuesday at a residential building in the Beirut neighborhood of al-Msaitbeh.

The fire was caused by the burning of a power generator and spread to the building’s ground floor.

The residents of Beirut and the Lebanese coast felt on Monday a 5.6-magnitude earthquake.

Lebanon’s state-run Bhannes Center for Seismic and Scientific Research said that Beirut and its suburbs felt the minor quake, whose epicenter was located between Cyprus and the Greek island of Rhodes.

A U.S. federal judge has ordered Iran to pay more than $813 million in damages and interest to the families of 241 U.S. soldiers killed in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon.

"After this opinion, this court will have issued over $8.8 billion in judgments against Iran as a result of the 1983 Beirut bombing," Judge Royce Lamberth wrote in a ruling this week, a copy of which was seen Friday by Agence France Presse.

The former chief of the main opposition Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun visited Beirut during the past two days “on a secret visit”, revealed al-Jadeed television on Thursday.

It said that he held talks with a number of Lebanese officials away from the media spotlight.