The European Union has launched two new initiatives worth 25 million Euro to support vulnerable people in Lebanon and to fight food insecurity.

"These initiatives are a response to the negative impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on the European Union's neighbouring countries," the EU Delegation to Lebanon said in a statement.

The British Embassy in Beirut is launching the ‘Ambassador For A Day’ competition where winners will be able to shadow an Ambassador in Lebanon for one day. The competition aims to encourage young girls to become leaders and advocates for change.

The theme of the competition is Embrace Equity which is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023. All girls aged 15-18 years old and who are not at university are eligible. The competition is open from now until 9 February 2023.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday scheduled a new presidential election session for 11am Thursday.

This will be the eleventh electoral session since Michel Aoun’s presidential term ended last year.

Families of Beirut port blast victims on Tuesday stormed the Justice Palace in Beirut in protest at perceived political and judicial obstruction of the investigation, a few days after the judiciary ended a lengthy judicial strike.

The relatives managed to storm the outer gate of the Justice Palace and some of them were injured in clashes with security forces.

Hezbollah on Tuesday condemned the cartoons published recently by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that mocked Iran's ruling clerics and urged France to punish the publication.

Hezbollah said the offensive caricatures were an "ugly act by the magazine" that targeted Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, revered as the spiritual leader for tens of millions of pious Shiites throughout the world, including in Lebanon.

The Observatoire Européen pour l’Integrité du Liban said Tuesday that French judge Aude Buresi will arrive Monday in Lebanon, in her second visit to the country.

Buresi will continue her investigations in the ongoing case of Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, the association said.

A depositor fired gunshots at the closed door of BLOM Bank in Sidon on Tuesday in an attempt to storm the bank.

Mohammad, a member of the Lebanese Army, clashed with the bank's security guards before firing from his pistol at the bank's door after the bank refused to sell him dollars at the Sayrafa rate, media reports said.

The Free Patriotic Movement might unveil the name of its presidential candidate on Tuesday.

“There is an endeavor to put an article related to naming a third candidate for the presidency on the agenda of the periodic meeting of the Strong Lebanon bloc that will be held tomorrow, in an attempt to make a certain breakthrough in this regard,” an FPM lawmaker told al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Cabinet will convene but caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati is keen on calling for it when the political climate is calm, his circles said.

The sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Monday, that Mikati does not want to further complicate the situation and that he will make all the needed calls and consultations in the coming days in order to hold a cabinet session that could only discuss the electricity file.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab announced Monday that the joint parliamentary committees are expected to approve the long-awaited capital control law in their next session.

“In principle, one session remains to approve the law and its amendments,” Bou Saab said after a session on Monday.