A cabinet meeting scheduled on Wednesday to tackle 67 items on its agenda including the controversial file of Lebanon's electricity, is expected to witness heated debate over leasing power generating vessels to supply for the shortage and end power cuts in the country, al-Akhbar daily reported on Wednesday.

The Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement are “expected to engage in a dispute in light of the LF's insistence to abort the electricity plan initially suggested by FPM Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil,” it added.

MP Boutros Harb said on Tuesday that an invitation for a consultative gathering at the Baabda Palace should have been extended to all political parties instead of confining it to those in power, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

“The invitation should not have been limited to the parties in power, it should have been extended to those outside the authority. Only then would the meeting at the Presidential Palace be chaired by the leader of the the entire Lebanese instead of leader of the ruling authority,” said Harb in an interview to the daily.

President Michel Aoun invited political parties represented in the government for a consultative meeting in Baabda on Thursday and he addressed an invitation to Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said the issuance of magnetic card votes is a time-consuming process that may not be completed on time due to the number of voters.

“It is noteworthy that Mashnouq has voted against the adoption of a magnetic vote card for the upcoming elections, and pointed out that it will create confusion,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will make a televised address next Friday on the occasion of International Quds Day where he will address several developments, al-Liwaa daily reported on Saturday.

Nasrallah will highlight several issues including the Israeli threats, the situation in Palestine, the regional developments in light of the battle field changes in Iraq and Syria, said the daily.

Drug lord and wanted criminal known as Samir Fawzi Monzer has been killed in an army operation in the southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh, an army statement said on Saturday.

The parliament will convene on Friday to vote on the newly approved electoral law amid reports claiming that the parliament's term will be extended for 12 months instead of 11, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

Reports circulated a day earlier claimed that the parliament's term will be extended for one year, although it has been announced that the polls will be staged on May 6, 2018, said the daily.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged ten suspects of Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and Yemeni nationalities with belonging to a terrorist organization, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

NNA reported that the suspects, five of whom are already in detention, were charged with carrying out terrorist attacks, forming terror cells to carry out suicide bomb attacks in Beirut's southern suburbs and the airport road, assassinations and the possession of weapons and explosives.

Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel lashed out at the new electoral law and the extension of the parliament' term as he accused parties of aiming to secure additional financial gains out of the move.

“Extending the parliament's term is aimed at giving time for parties to garner additional financial gains,” said Gemayel in a press conference on Thursday from al-Saifi.

A five-member Lebanese family has been reported missing among the many lost people after a massive inferno tore through a London apartment block leaving at least 12 people dead on Wednesday, LBCI reported on Thursday.

The reported missing Choucair family is composed of a man, his wife and three daughters who hail from the town of Nahle in Baalbek, added LBCI.