Canada on Thursday ordered the extradition of a university professor of Lebanese descent wanted in France in connection with a deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that left four dead and dozens wounded.

Hassan Diab, a sociologist at the University of Ottawa who has denied any involvement, will have one month to appeal the justice ministry's extradition order, said ministry spokesman Christian Girouard.

A ministerial committee tasked with scrutinizing a plan to lease power-generating vessels on Thursday reached an agreement with a Turkish company after slashing the costs by nine percent.

“The ministerial panel tasked with following up on talks with the two ship leasing firms, the American Weller Marine and the Turkish Karadeniz, has successfully finished its negotiations,” Energy and Water Minister Jebran Bassil said after the committee’s meeting.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea revealed on Thursday that investigations into his assassination attempt have uncovered the location from which the snipers fired their shots, announced the LF in a statement.

He said: “I was not hasty in making political accusations in the matter.”

Syrian security authorities thwarted on Wednesday night the infiltration of an “armed terrorist group” from Lebanese territory into a town in Reef Homs in Syria, reported the Syrian news agency SANA on Thursday.

An informed source said that a member of the group was arrested after being wounded, while the rest of the members fled to Lebanon.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly expressed on Thursday concern about the “reported” assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea.

He said after holding talks with Interior Minister Marwan Charbel: “The incident underlines the need for vigilance.”

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly conveyed on Thursday to President Michel Suleiman the United States’ “deep concern over reports of an assassination attempt on a leading Lebanese political figure.

She noted that Lebanon’s embrace of and support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon demonstrates it has definitively rejected such practices.

The Army Command announced on Thursday that a stick of dynamite was thrown at a shop in the Bekaa town of Arsal.

No one was wounded in the incident that took place at dawn on Thursday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Thursday that the assassination bid of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea affects the security situation in the country.

“The incident affects the security of the nation and the citizens. I have informed the security authorities to follow up the matter,” Miqati told An Nahar newspaper.

Sources close to Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat reiterated the rejection of proportionality in the parliamentary elections as his Druze rivals advocated a new draft-law that would end the MP’s ability to create a new parliamentary majority.

The sources told As Safir newspaper published Thursday that the current draft-law proposed by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel on proportionality is rejected because they claim it does not intend to introduce reform.

President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Sir Judge David Baragwanath is keen to fully carry out his tasks in order to achieve the purpose behind the formation of the tribunal, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Thursday.

Sources told the daily that Baragwanath stressed during his meetings with senior Lebanese officials on the independence of the tribunal, slamming any attempt to exploit it.