Hizbullah decided to boycott Thursday's cabinet meeting in solidarity with a similar stance taken by its ally head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun, sources close to the party told As Safir daily.

The sources said that Hizbullah decided to be absent from the meeting in solidarity with Aoun and to show an understanding of his party's apprehensions and the seriousness of a continued “marginalization of a major Lebanese component.”

A Lebanese citizen wanted in the United States and Brazil for suspected links to terrorism and arms trade was detained at the Ezeiza aiport in the Argentinian capital, Argentine's national news agency Telam reported on Thursday.

The detainee, Khalil Mohammed el-Sayyed was arrested by Argentinian authorities late on Wednesday, added the agency.

Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan stated on Wednesday that relations between the LF and al-Mustaqbal Movement are not tense as he assured that the the only solution lies in an agreement.

“There is no tension in relations between the two, it is a mere difference in points of view because (Samir) Geaega (LF chief) insists on electing (MP Michel) Aoun as president which Saniora (head of the Mustaqbal bloc) rejects,” said Adwan after meeting Saniora on the sidelines of a parliamentary meeting to elect a president.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat emphasized that the rights of the Christian community are not marginalized as some officials claim but that the latter are “marginalizing themselves” because of their “stubbornness and adamant conditions”, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

“Allow me please...I object to this whole equation. What is true is that self marginalization is brought about by some Christian component because of its stubbornness and insistence on certain conditions,” said Jumblat to the daily.

Hizbullah has initiated efforts to mend the rift that emerged recently between its two allies, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Marada Movement, and has therefore dispatched Wafik Safa, the person responsible for the Liaison Committee and coordination in the party, to Rabieh for talks with the FPM leader Jebran Bassil, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

The party began endeavors to contain the “aggravating” FPM-Marada tension, as well as to renovate the internal party's ranks and address its alliances mainly that the tension between the allies is threatening these coalitions with further rifts, added the daily.

Speaker Nabih Berri refrained from setting a date for a new national dialogue session after the Free Patriotic Movement vowed during Monday's meeting that it would boycott the all-party talks, media reports said.

Singer turned salafist Fadel Shaker, an affiliate of detained extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, has requested the security apparatuses to facilitate his travel to Qatar, As Safir daily reported on Monday.

“Repentant singer and fugitive Fadel Shaker has asked the security agencies (in Lebanon) to facilitate his travel to Qatar,” reported the daily.

A Syrian man killed his younger sister after she was absent from her parent's house in Tyre, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

An 18-year old man A.M. stabbed his sister R.M., 16, to death after she left her parent's home in the neighborhood of Qadmous-Jwar al-Nakhil north of Tyre, added NNA.

Head of the Free Patriotic Movement Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said his movement will decide the steps it plans to take depending on the outcome of the national dialogue session and the discussions on the perception of the national pact, As Safir daily reported on Monday.

Assassination threats against Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat emerged lately and the security measures were upped around his place of residence in Beirut, ministerial sources told Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

“The security team of head of the Democratic Gathering bloc leader Jumblat has intensified the measures near his place of residence in Beirut after reports that his name is on a list of assassinations to be carried out by the Islamic State group,” the source told the daily.