DAILY SCOPE: Yemeni Mansour Supporters Fighting Alongside al-Nusra in Syria!

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Lebanese newspapers on Tuesday discussed different domestic and regional topics, with focus on the two major files of the presidential impasse and waste management crisis that remain in deadlock so far. Papers shed light on the developments in Syria and Yemen as well as other files that have been in the spotlight.

AS-SAFIR: French Interested in Resolving Lebanese Presidential Impasse

As-Safir newspaper said on Tuesday that the French are once again interested in the Lebanese presidential file on two levels.

According to the paper, on the first level, French President François Hollande is expected to hold talks with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani during his upcoming visit to Paris on the ongoing deadlock in Lebanon over the election of a new president.

Rouhani had previously refused to discuss the presidential issue with Hollande on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in October, as-Safir added. Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.

Sources added that on the second level, Hollande continues to demonstrate readiness to pay a visit to Lebanon, only on condition that it pave the way to negotiations on reopening discussions on the presidential dossier in the country."

Also, the paper noted that advisors at the Elysées Palace said that tackling this issue with Prime Minister Tammam Salam can be achieved through Lebanon's participation at a forthcoming climate meeting held in Paris at the end of November.

AN-NAHAR: Cabinet Session to End Waste Crisis

An-Nahar Lebanese daily on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Tammam Salam is expected to call the cabinet to attend a session this week now that the plan to end the waste crisis has reached its final stages.

Ministerial sources predicted that the PM will convene the session on Wednesday, as he will make the call at the end of the national dialogue session set to be held at parliament on Tuesday.

The paper also said that the cabinet session will discuss the allocation of landfills and the carrying out of the trash disposal plan, amid necessary security measures.

Officials had last week proposed that a landfill be established in the Khaldeh region. After months of disputes, politicians have reached a cautious agreement to set up a landfill in Srar in the northern region of Akkar, while question marks remain over setting one up in either the southern Kfour area or Costa Brava.

MP Talal Arslan had over the weekend expressed his rejection to the establishment of a landfill in Khaldeh, a plan suggested lately in order to resolve the issue, saying that it is unacceptable to have a landfill at the Southern entrance of the capital Beirut.

Sources also said that among the reasons for the objection is that the landfill would be located near the airport, posing a risk to aviation because the garbage would attract birds and that is a threat to planes.

The waste crisis had erupted in July when Lebanon's largest landfill in Naameh was closed. Trash began piling up on the streets of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, forcing the dumping of wastes in makeshift sites and along riverbanks. Heavy rain last week brought with it flooded streets coupled with waste, as experts warned of the health and environmental impact of the crisis.

AL-AKHBAR: Yemeni Mansour Supporters Fighting Alongside al-Nusra in Syria

Al-Akhbar newspaper uncovered that the bodies of five extremist fighters in Syria killed in one of the military camps belonging to al-Nusra front were those of supporters of the Yemeni ousted leader Abed Rabbo Hadi Mansour.

According to the paper, an explosion took place in one of the al-Nusra Front military camps in the rural areas of Idlib in Syria. Al-Nusra did not comment on the matter, turning a blind eye to what had happened, and sources claimed that Russian planes had raided the area.

The paper notes that what is alarming is that these are Yemenis fighting in Syria, alongside others who have come from Yemen and have been undergoing training in the military camps of al-Nusra front in Syria and in other camps belonging to extremist Wahhabi groups in other countries as well. Sources said that the explosion was due to a technical mistake in preparing an explosive device.

This comes after dozens of "ISIL" fighters have been transported to Yemen to fight against the revolutionary Houthis and the popular committees.

Earlier last week, sources said that Turkish, Qatari and Emirati airplanes have transferred hundreds of "ISIL" takfiri militants from Syria to Yemen following Russian airstrikes on the terrorists' positions, the spokesman for the Syrian Armed Forces says.

Source: al-Ahed News