A Lebanese teenager was wounded when a stray bullet from inside Syrian territories landed on his home’s rooftop in the northern border town of al-Arida, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

NNA said Samer Khaled, 17, was sleeping on the roof when the bullet struck his neck.

The controversial employment of Electricite du Liban’s contract workers, which paralyzed the cabinet and the parliament on Tuesday, is jeopardizing the alliance between Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement as President Michel Suleiman is set to decide on the matter.

The ball is in the president’s court, who will have to either ink the parliament’s approval of the workers’ permanent employment or refer it back to the legislature, local newspapers said on Wednesday.

Fears that the Syrian crisis could spill over to other countries in the region and mainly Lebanon haven’t dissipated, Russian Ambassador Alexander Zasypkin said Wednesday.

“We have said this on several occasions particularly to Lebanon,” Zasypkin told As Safir daily in an interview.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday slammed the latest “violations by the Syrian regime’s army against Lebanon’s northern and eastern border areas,” rejecting what it called the Syrian army’s “arrogance towards Lebanon and its security forces and citizens.”

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, the bloc blamed “the Syrian regime’s persistent violations” on the Lebanese state’s failure to take “decisive stances towards these continuous breaches.”

Cabinet sessions that have been scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday have been postponed due to the absence of Minister of the Displaced Alaeddine Terro and the boycott of the Change and Reform bloc ministers.

President Michel Suleiman adjourned Tuesday’s session, which was scheduled to be held at the Baabda Palace, due to the absence of 11 ministers.

Pope Benedict XVI will bring a message of peace for the Middle East on a three-day trip to Lebanon in September, the Vatican said Tuesday, amid rising tensions due to the conflict in neighboring Syria.

The 85-year-old German pontiff will meet with a variety of religious leaders during his visit to multi-faith Lebanon, which will be his 24th foreign trip since he was elected pope in 2005 and is one of his most sensitive missions.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday slammed parliament’s approval of EDL contract workers’ full-employment as “disrespectful to parliamentary conduct,” describing the decision as an “arbitrary plan.”

“Until now, we don't understand the reason behind the crisis of EDL contract workers,” said Aoun after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc in Rabiyeh.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea voiced on Tuesday his rejection of the current conduct at parliament, saying that he “supports and opposes” granting Electricite du Liban contract workers full-time employment.

He said during a press conference at his Maarab residence: “Granting such a large number of workers full-time employment is not possible because it will lead to the bankruptcy of the state.”

Hizbullah and Iran will fight alongside the Syrian regime if it is attacked by foreign forces, the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command Ahmed Jibril said on Tuesday.

In the event of "a foreign attack, we discussed with our brothers (in the Syrian regime), with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and our brothers in Iran, we will be part of this battle,” he revealed.

Beirut Examining Magistrate Judge Ghassan Oueidat decided on Tuesday to put Wissam Alaeddine, who participated in the attack on al-Jadeed television, under judicial supervision, the National News Agency reported.

According to the news agency the judge's decision after questioning Alaeddine in the presence of his lawyer Mohammed Mantash.