Prime Minister Saad Hariri congratulated three Lebanese men on their liberation over the weekend after their abduction a week earlier in Iraq, Hariri's media office said in a statement on Monday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi voiced calls on the international and Arab communities to work on ending wars all around the world and urged all the displaced to return to their homeland, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Al-Rahi who is on a tour in the United States said: “I call on the International and Arab communities to put an end to wars in Middle Eastern countries.”

Progressive Socialistic Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said Saturday it would be needless to squander more public funds for the issuance of biometric voter cards, and has called instead for establishing garbage sorting plants before a major landfill for the Beirut area approaches its absorptive capacity.

A delegation from the US congress arrived in Beirut where it is scheduled to meet with several Lebanese officials, the State-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

In light of the efforts exerted to return the displaced Syrians back to their homeland, Lebanon's foreign ministry initiated measures for the registration of refugees' births and civil documentation at the Syrian embassy in Beirut, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

President Michel Aoun held talks Friday in Baabda with Alistair Burt -- the UK Minister of State for International Development and the Minister of State for the Middle East.

“Lebanon demands quick efforts to find a final solution to the Syrian crisis, because any delay will worsen the suffering of the Syrians as well as the impact of their presence as refugees on the country,” Aoun told the visiting British minister.

Internal Security Forces have arrested two suspects involved in drug dealing in south Lebanon, the ISF Directorate said in a statement on Friday.

The ISF anti-narcotics bureau arrested the first suspect after tracking his mobile. He was caught with cocaine drugs in his possession, said the statement.

Lebanon's cabinet failed to reach consensus on whether to adopt biometric cards for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for May 6 with debates postponed for some other government meeting.

Thursday's meeting held at the Grand Serail witnessed long debate between Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil and Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq over the issue.

Conflicting media reports emerged Thursday on whether or not the army's Intelligence Directorate had arrested a man who cursed Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on live TV.

Some media reports said army intelligence agents arrested the man, identified as Ali Abdul Rahim Shamas, on drug-related charges.

In light of continued assurances that Lebanon's parliamentary elections will be staged on time, Lebanon's Cabinet convened on Thursday to look into several problematic files as parties remained divided over whether to issue biometric voter cards or initiate pre-registration of voters for the May 2018 polls.

Briefing reporters after the session, Information Minister Melhem Riachi said the Cabinet approved a book of conditions for organizing a call for tenders for setting up waste thermal disintegration plants, in addition to projects related to the Costa Brava and Bourj Hammoud landfills.