Dozens of citizens, activists and members of political parties staged a sit-in at the Samir Qassir garden in downtown Beirut on Tuesday to condemn the bloodshed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Heavy clashes erupted Tuesday in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal between jihadists from the rival Islamic State and Fateh al-Sham groups, state-run National News Agency reported.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri held talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his media office said on Tuesday.

Hariri had arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian officials on the latest developments in Lebanon and the region, and the bilateral relations between the two countries, added his media office.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said on Tuesday that the package deal suggested by Speaker Nabih Berri, was flatly inadmissible, stressing that MP Michel Aoun will not negotiate any settlement to help him reach the presidential post.

“There cannot be a new national contract at every due date,” said Geagea from Bkirki after a meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed on Tuesday that it is “unacceptable to set conditions in return for the election of a president.

“Setting conditions for the election of a president is what made Bkirki raise its voice, and we understand that,” Bassil said after a visit to Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement Politburo member Mustafa Alloush said on Tuesday, the majority of the movement’s deputies reject the nomination of MP Michel Aoun for the post of presidency and consider it as the “greatest evil.”

“%80 of the Mustaqbal deputies are not in favor of the nomination of Change and Reform bloc head MP Michel Aoun,” Alloush told LBCI in an interview.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed on Tuesday that everyone has reservations about, or reject the nomination of MP Michel Aoun for the post of presidency, As Safir daily reported on Tuesday.

“The political figures that (al-Mustaqbal Movement chief) ex-PM Saad Hariri has met during his consultations have either rejected or expressed reservations about the election of the General (Aoun),” Berri told the daily.

Ten countries accounting for 2.5 percent of world GDP are hosting more than half the world's refugees, Amnesty International said Tuesday as it slammed what it called the selfishness of wealthy nations.

In a report on the plight faced by the world's 21 million refugees, the London-based human rights body lamented that countries immediately neighbouring crisis zones bear the brunt of the global refugee problem.

The Kataeb Party on Monday slammed what it called “political blackmail” and attempts to “impose” a sole presidential candidate on the country.

Industry Minister Hussein al-Hajj Hassan has stressed that Hizbullah “is not only defending itself and its supporters” in its participation in Syria's conflict but rather “all Lebanese and their creeds and existence.”