Head of the Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun noted that Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh has the needed characteristics to become president, adding that he is willing to back his bid for the presidency, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

His visitors told the daily that the lawmaker is “willing to give his blessing to Franjieh's candidacy if he garners the necessary votes at parliament.”

A man was arrested Monday after killing his wife and uncle in the Bekaa city of Zahle.

George Abdul Sater “brandished an assault rifle in connection with previous disputes with his wife, which prompted his uncle, Toufic, to intervene in a bid to calm him down,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Hizbullah condemned Monday a bill approved by the U.S. Senate to block its financing, describing it as "a new crime by American institutions against our people and nation."

The party said in a statement that the "American aggression" the group is facing is the price for "resisting all evil projects against our holy places, rights, nations and people."

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh stressed Monday that the country's new president must “reassure” all of the Lebanese political and social components, amid reports that his chances to reach the Baabda Palace have surged due to attempts by the rival camps to find a so-called political settlement.

“Lebanon must remain a cradle for intellectualism and an immune bastion for freedom and solidarity among all Christian and Muslim groups,” Maronite League chief Samir Abi al-Lamaa quoted Franjieh as saying after a meeting in Bnashii.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat agreed in their Paris talks Sunday on the need to “find a comprehensive national settlement,” Hariri's press office announced on Monday.

“Ex-PM Hariri met at his Paris residence with Democratic Gathering chief MP Walid Jumblat, who was accompanied by Health Minister Wael Abou Faour,” the office said.

Three rockets were fired on Monday from the eastern mountain range and landed in the Bekaa valley, various media outlets reports.

They said that the rockets landed in a field in the Hermel area.

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim reassured on Monday the Lebanese people that the various security agencies have taken “serious” measures to preserve stability in the country, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

He told the radio station: “Terrorism does not know boundaries and does not have geographic limits.”

The United States Senate approved over the weekend a bill that targets Hizbullah's finances, which includes institutions and people funding the party, reported the daily An Nahar on Monday.

The bill won the majority of votes of the Senate.

The alleged threat issued by the Islamic State extremist group against the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik was “not serious”, security sources told the daily An Nahar on Monday.

They stressed that no security agency had confirmed the threat against the university.

Former premier Saad Hariri will meet Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat in Paris after he held talks with senior officials of his al-Mustaqbal movement in the Saudi capital Riyadh, a media report said on Sunday.

“A meeting will be held in Paris in the coming hours between Hariri, Jumblat and (Health Minister Wael) Abou Faour -- who traveled to France at 4:00 pm on a private jet dispatched by Hariri,” LBCI television said.