The U.N. children's agency Tuesday called on Lebanon to take urgent action to protect children after it documented a spike in child labor rates and food insecurity since April.

President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Najib Miqati agreed in their meeting on Monday on “finding a solution through the judiciary for the issue of Beirut port blast investigative judge Tarek Bitar,” LBCI TV said.

They also agreed that “should the judiciary fail to resolve it, a solution can be found through parliament,” the TV network added.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati will make a serious attempt to resume Cabinet sessions, as soon as he returns from Rome, MP Ali Darwish said.

Darwish told Voice of Lebanon, in a radio interview that “Miqati has given all parties some time to see for themselves “the urgent need” for resuming Cabinet sessions.

Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said Monday Lebanon has received from Russia satellite pictures of the Port of Beirut on the day of last year's devastating blast. The imagery would be the first made available by a foreign government to the Lebanese probe marred by legal challenges and political disputes.

Bou Habib said he hoped the images would help figure out what happened that tragic day. He is visiting Moscow and was speaking after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

On behalf of the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday extended his “heartfelt best wishes to the people of Lebanon on their Independence Day.”

President Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati held a meeting Monday at the Baabda Palace after overseeing a military parade marking Lebanon’s Independence Day.

President Michel Aoun on Sunday noted that the solution for the country's governmental paralysis is "not implausible."

The Beirut Bar Association elected a new head Sunday in a vote that saw major losses for opposition candidates and big wins for representatives of the country's ruling elite.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri on Sunday lamented that Lebanon is nowadays “standing on the brink of hell” after it once was “the paradise of the Levant and the Arabs’ forum for civilization, dialogue, culture and democracy.”

Nearly 245,000 Lebanese living abroad have signed up to vote in next year's parliamentary polls, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday, after it closed the window for registration.