Speaker Nabih Berri is “still clinging to his constitutional and legal viewpoint regarding the officers decree and whoever tries to depict the issue as being targeted against Christians would be mistaken,” MP Ali Bazzi of Berri's Development and Liberation bloc said.

“Speaker Berri does not approach things in this manner and maybe if his opinion had been taken into consideration there would have been more than one solution,” Bazzi told reporters after the Speaker's weekly meeting with lawmakers in Ain el-Tineh.

Grand Mufti of the Republic Sheikh Abdul Latif Deryan praised Saudi Arabia saying the “Kingdom is the cornerstone of Islam,” the State-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

“SA has always been keen on serving the Two Holy Mosques. SA is keen on the present and future of Islam away from extremism and tension,” said Deryan.

Saudi Arabia has accepted accreditation of Fawzi Kabbara as the new Lebanese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said pan-Arab al-Hayat daily Wednesday, after months of delay over what was perceived as a diplomatic tussle between the two countries.

The daily quoted unnamed sources at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry who said they “received a letter from the Saudi Foreign Ministry accrediting ambassador Fawzi Kabbara as Lebanon's ambassador to Riyadh.”

An aggravating political spat between President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri over a controversial officers' decree "threatens political consensus" with an open crisis expected to weigh on all other political files, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

A man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head near the Akkar town of al-Qolaiat, LBCI said on Tuesday.

The victim, a Lebanese, has sustained a gunshot wound to his head from a hunting rifle, added LBCI.

Dozens of contract workers for Debbas Company, a subcontractor for Electricite Du Liban, briefly blocked the Corniche al-Nahr road near service provider Debbas protesting over outstanding salaries.

The campaigners complained that they have not received their salaries for the last three months now, criticizing what they said was “negligence of related authorities.”

Change and Reform bloc secretary MP Ibrahim Kanaan has stressed that the reconciliation agreement between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces “will not collapse.”

Former justice minister Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi on Monday accused Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil and the Free Patriotic Movement of being “responsible for the theft of $26 billion.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday warned against “the elimination of any component” while stressing that Lebanon should not restrict public freedoms.

Information Minister Melhem Riachi of the Lebanese Forces responded Sunday to remarks by MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi, an outspoken member of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc.