Samantha Power, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Lebanon Tuesday for a three-day visit focused on “providing support to the Lebanese people, particularly those impacted by the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis,” the U.S. Embassy said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held talks Tuesday in Sharm el-Sheikh with French President Emmanuel Macron, on the sidelines of the U.N.'s COP27 climate summit.

Detained lawyer and activist was rushed Tuesday to the emergency room of al-Hayat Hospital after his health deteriorated due to a hunger strike, the Mottahidoun alliance of anti-corruption lawyers and activists said.

The Free Patriotic Movement asked Tuesday its members and officials to boycott the Sar el Waqt show, after a heated argument escalated into a large fistfight last week in the studio of the popular political talk show hosted by journalist Marcel Ghanem.

“After the flagrant attack on the young men and women of the FPM in the Sar el Waqt show, by the MTV security guards, all FPM officials and activists are required to abide by the decision to boycott the program, whether they are participating as guests or as audience members," the statement said.

The “strong president theory” that ex-President Michel Aoun used as a slogan for his tenure “has miserably failed,” Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said.

The Lebanese pound's market value reached again 39,000 against the dollar Tuesday after it had slightly recovered in the past few weeks.

Last month, the dollar exchange rate had dropped from LBP 40,600 to 36,000 on the black market, shortly after Central Bank Governor Riad Salamah said in a statement that the Central Bank would stop buying dollars on the Sayrafa platform.

Britain and France have raised the case of a dissident hunger striker with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, a day after the jailed activist started refusing water.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian, stopped drinking water on Sunday to coincide with the opening of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.

The American father and son duo who helped former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn dramatically escape from Japan have been returned to the United States after spending 20 months in Japanese jails, their lawyer said Monday.

Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has said that his Iran-backed party is not seeking a change of the political system in Lebanon.

“During this period, Hezbollah has not called for amending or changing the political system related to the Taif Accord, in light of the sensitivities present in Lebanon, and because the problem in the first place is not in amending it or not but rather in implementing what was stipulated in the Taif Accord,” Qassem said in an interview with Iran’s FARS news agency.

As several Free Patriotic Movement lawmakers announced that their parliamentary bloc will not cast blank votes in Thursday’s presidential election session, an independent MP told ad-Diyar newspaper that a “surprise” candidate will be voted for in the session.