Lebanon's Foreign Ministry denounced Monday's bombing attack that rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad killing and wounding several, a ministry statement said.

Assurances that Lebanon is going to stage timely parliamentary elections is marred by rumors that it could be postponed for “circumstances beyond the State's will, or for technical reasons having to do with reforms,” while Speaker Nabih Berri stresses timely polls, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Preparations at the political, administrative and field levels are underway to stage the May 6 polls, but a senior political source who spoke on condition of anonymity said “two reasons could delay the elections.”

AMAL Movement official N. Baalbaki came under gunfire Sunday in the southern border town of Adaisseh, a media report said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Sunday warned of "foreign attempts" to meddle in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday urged “honest dialogue” among bickering politicians in Lebanon, amid an ongoing spat between President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

Speaker Nabih Berri’s latest proposal is the “only solution” for the ongoing spat over the controversial officers seniority decree, a ministerial source told al-Hayat daily in remarks published Sunday.

An official in the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was wounded in a car bomb blast in the southern city of Sidon on Sunday, military and medical sources told French news agency AFP.

In light of Lebanon's preparations for its long-awaited parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and figures from March 14 alliance have reportedly been ”summoned to Saudi Arabia” to be “informed of the Kingdom's will to reunite them together in the upcoming polls,” al-Akhbar daily reported Saturday.

State Minister for Planning Affairs Michel Pharaon said Saturday there is “near unanimity (among political parties) that there is no alternative to the parliamentary elections and no alternative to the new electoral law.”

The Internal Security Forces arrested 21-year old Syrian national who hacked into several social media accounts and threatened their users of sharing their photos, the ISF said in a statement on Saturday.