The country's constitution gives the President powers to open an extraordinary legislative session, thus rendering calls by other political parties “invalid,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

As political parties trade jibes over jurisdictions to open an extraordinary legislative session, Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan stressed that President Michel Aoun has the authority in line with Article 31 of the Constitution.

President Michel Aoun received French Ambassador Emmanuel Bonne at the Presidential Palace in Baabda who came on a farewell visit ending his two-year service in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

An elderly man found stabbed to death in the southern city of Tyre was identified as Salman Mohammed Khyami, father of Zayd Khyami, Director General of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

A personal dispute over fireworks that aggravated into an arms fight in the southern Palestinian camp of Ain el-Hilweh left one person injured, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

A personal dispute followed by gun shooting erupted in Hay al-Zainab near the vegetable market in al-Tahtani street inside Ain el-Hilweh, NNA said.

Speaker Nabih Berri emphasized that a proposal to reallocate Maronite seats from Muslim-majority to Christian-majority districts is completely “unacceptable,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

“We can never accept such a proposal and a major questions arises here: What is the purpose of this concept? Winds of division are blowing in the region and here we are amid these atmospheres going for a sectarian separation. This is totally unacceptable,” Berri told the daily.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday adjourned to June 5 a legislative session that was scheduled to convene on May 29, as the fate of a new electoral law to rule the upcoming parliamentary polls remains unclear.

This is the second time that the Speaker adjourns the parliament meeting.

The General Security Directorate arrested a Lebanese national over his affiliation and involvement with a terror group, the Directorate's media office said in a statement on Saturday.

“In line with its efforts to track down terror groups and sleeper cells in Lebanon, at the request of the competent public prosecution, the General Security apprehended Lebanese Aa. Sh. over his belonging to a terror organization,” said the statement.

The Lebanese army pounded with heavy artillery the posts of militants on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, as clashes between militant groups of the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front intensified early on Saturday, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said violent clashes erupted between al-Nusra and IS extremists after the latter waged a dawn attack at Nusra positions in Shmais al-Ajram, Kherbet Daoud, al-Shahout Serj al-Nammoura, al-Malahi, al-Ajram and Kherbet Younin in the outskirts of Arsal.

Speaker Nabih Berri was optimistic after his meeting with MP George Adwan of the Lebanese Forces, where discussions tackled the distribution of electoral districts against the backdrop of an LF initiative on new vote law for Lebanon's parliamentary elections, media reports said Saturday.

“The atmospheres are well. Some progress has been made, we hope that we get to the happy ending,” Berri told al-Joumhouria daily.