The Lebanese Forces’ Strong Republic parliamentary bloc on Tuesday charged that “the dialogue wanted by the defiance camp is only aimed at torpedoing the Taif Accord and the Lebanese constitution.”

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati accused again those opposing cabinet meetings of "seeking to spread vacuum."

In a statement Tuesday, Mikati said, in an apparent reference to the Free Patriotic Movement, that those who are claiming to preserve the president's powers have themselves practiced obstruction for years.

A son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was taken to hospital for the third time after his health deteriorated due to a hunger strike to protest his detention without trial in Beirut, Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV said.

Al-Hadath said Gadhafi was in "critical condition" after he suffered a sharp drop in his blood sugar level. He was taken to Beirut’s Hotel-Dieu de France hospital on Sunday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has met in London with the British deputy national security adviser for Middle East affairs, Ajay Sharma, and the Middle East official at the British premiership, George Bowman.

Hezbollah has removed one of two tents set up in the Shebaa Farms between Lebanon and Israel, several Israeli media reports said.

On Sunday, Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz told a radio station that Israel was trying to let diplomacy work to resolve the issue.

Two young men who hail from the northern region of Bsharri have been killed in the Qornet al-Sawda area, which is disputed by residents of Bsharri and Dinniyeh, triggering sectarian tensions and an intervention by the army.

The Foreign Ministry condemned Thursday as "violent" and "provocative" the burning of a copy of the Koran by an Iraqi living in Sweden during a protest authorized by the police.

Under a heavy police presence, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old who fled to Sweden several years ago, on Wednesday stomped on the Koran before setting several pages alight in front of Stockholm's largest mosque.

The Finance Ministry on Tuesday denied accusations that it has “hidden” a report submitted by the Alvarez & Marsal international auditing firm.

Caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Sharafeddine has expressed optimism on the possibility of launching practical steps for the repatriation of Syrian refugees to their country, following a visit that he made to Damascus in the weekend at the request of caretaker PM Najib Mikati.

The Internal Security Forces on Tuesday announced thwarting an attempt to smuggle around 450,000 captagon pills from Beirut’s port to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.