Beirut  - Israeli forces fired bomb flares over areas near the border with Lebanon late Friday after news reports about a missing Israeli, Lebanese police said.

The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya channel reported that an Israeli soldier disappeared while exercising near the border with Lebanon.

But the Israeli military confirmed that it wasn't a soldier, but a surfer, who went missing and had apparently drowned.

Beirut  - Israeli forces fired late Friday bomb flares over areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border, shortly after news reports said an Israeli soldier went missing near Lebanon, Lebanese police said.

The Dubai-based Al-Arabia television channel said that an Israeli soldier disappeared while doing physical exercise near the border with Lebanon.

Shortly after the news report, bomb flares lit the sky over the border area of Naqoura, where the United Nations Interim Forces in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) is located.

UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bou Zayan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa "we absolutely have no information about a missing person."

Beirut  - The leader of the anti-Syrian Christian Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, called Friday on his followers to exert self-restraint after grenade attacks on his movement's offices.

"We call on all friends and supporters to maintain full calm following the grenade attacks on our offices Thursday night, because this could be an attempt to drag the LF into irresponsible responses," he said at a press conference at his residence north-east of Beirut.

Beirut  - The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has adopted "extraordinary security changes," in light of the recent discovery and arrest of a man suspected of spying on the group for Israel since the mid-1990s, a Lebanese security source said Thursday.

The source, who did not want to be identified, confirmed the measures, as reported earlier in the Lebanese daily Al Balad, but gave no details.

The changes were a reaction to the movement's detection and detention of suspected spy Marwan Faqih by Hezbollah in January. The car dealer allegedly began spying on Hezbollah in the mid-1990s for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.

Beirut  - The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has adopted "extraordinary security changes," in light of the recent discovery and arrest of a man suspected of spying on the group for Israel since the mid-1990s, a Lebanese security source said Thursday.

The source, who did not want to be identified, confirmed the measures, as reported earlier in the Lebanese daily Al Balad, but gave no details.

Beirut  - US Senator John Kerry arrived in Beirut Wednesday for talks with Lebanese leaders as part of a Mideast tour.

Kerry held talks with Prime Minister Fouad Seniora, President Michel Suleiman and parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri.

According to a government official the talks focused on Lebanon's upcoming parliamentary elections in June, as well as bilateral relations.