A former student, who allegedly suffers from mental problems, opened fire inside the Lebanese University’s Faculty of Sciences in the northern city of Tripoli Friday, slightly injuring a student.

The LU administration said in a statement that the former student entered the faculty in the morning stashing a firearm in a bag.

The March 14-led opposition is seeking to withdraw confidence from Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour in its attempt to topple the government, Ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Friday.

Opposition sources told the daily that the government’s position at the Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Syria proved that the cabinet is dominated by Hizbullah and the March 8 forces.

Salafists based in the Palestinian refugee camp of al-Rashidiyeh might be behind the bombings that targeted a hotel and a liquor store in the southern city of Tyre, An Nahar daily reported Friday.

The newspaper said investigators have found unconfirmed leads that Salafist groups in al-Rashidiyeh could have bombed the Queen Elissa hotel and the shop on Wednesday in an effort to combat the liquor trade in the area.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has said he was provoked by the fact that officials were using security officers for their own protection rather than putting them in the service of security missions.

In remarks to al-Mustaqbal newspaper on Friday, Charbel said: “The interior ministry is suffering from a huge lack in the number of policemen.”

The controversial increase on the minimum wage hasn’t reached a safe haven yet, as the package proposed by Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas was rejected by the General Labor Confederation with a reluctant flexibility by the private sector.

“Prime Minister (Najib Miqati) is seeking to take this matter forward to reach common grounds,” the premier’s sources told As Safir newspaper on Friday.

Premier Najib Miqati’s sources have stressed that disagreements between Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi and Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi should be solved away from the media glare.

In remarks to al-Liwaa daily published Friday, the sources said: “This problem should not be solved through the media.”

Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi and Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi traded salvos of accusations on Thursday over the funding of ministry projects.

Aridi, who has been boycotting cabinet sessions over the past two weeks, said in a press conference that he cannot be a “partner in mismanagement.”

Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday called on his supporters to endorse the approach of “peaceful resistance” in the domestic arena.

Addressing an AMAL student delegation from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Berri said: “If the effective tactic to confront the Israeli enemy is armed resistance, the tactic in the domestic arena should be peaceful resistance.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Thursday noted that the proportional representation law “will not be adopted” in the current form proposed by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, warning against creating “annexes” to the law.

In an interview with Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television, Aoun said the law “will not be adopted as proposed by minister Charbel; I’m with this law and there can be many variations to the electoral process, but before endorsing them there should be a discussion so that we can choose the most representative one.”

President Michel Suleiman on Thursday called for “creating a safety net, spearheaded by the army, that would protect Lebanon’s south, coast, sea and mountains.”

In a speech at the opening of the CNAM educational institute in Nahr Ibrahim, Suleiman said “only a permanent interaction with other cultures would lead to tolerance.”