U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag on Tuesday visited the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Sidon, her press office said.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc led by MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday announced that it will file an appeal against the decrees that the cabinet issued during its session on Thursday which was boycotted by the bloc's two ministers and their Tashnag Party ally.

Minor skirmishes erupted at dawn on Tuesday in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, but no casualties weer reported, the National News Agency reported.

An unknown assailant randomly opened gunfire inside the vegetable market which led to material damages to cars and stores, NNA said.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam refused any mediation with the Free Patriotic Movement as he assured that the he has no conflicts to resolve with the FPM , An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.

Several contacts were held in the last 24 hours with Salam in an attempt to carry out a mediation with the FPM, said the daily.

Concerns on Lebanon's inability to join the international financial laws that ensure its survival in the global financial system will surface again by the beginning of September when the due signing date of the Global Account Tax Compliance Act GATCA agreement looms in light of an existing government crisis, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Despite the negative atmospheres that ruled the last dialogue between al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri and founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun and the rumors that it has reached a dead end, unnamed sources said they sensed some kind of mutual flexibility between the Center House and Rabieh, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

The Kataeb Party said Monday that the renewed waste collection crisis “exposes anew the corruption mafia that is controlling the country,” calling for the creation of waste sorting and treatment plants and the temporary storage of the accumulating garbage in non-residential areas.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Monday fined the editor of al-Akhbar newspaper 20,000 euros for publishing secret information about witnesses in the case against the alleged killers of former premier Rafik Hariri.

The parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee kicked off a meeting on Monday to address the trash crisis in the presence of related ministers and representatives of the Council for Development and Reconstruction.

“The solution that the government came out with is not a perfect one. There is a need to implement administrative decentralization in this file,” said Head of the Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan after the meeting.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed on Monday that he has no initiative other than the one he launched in June as he urged the political forces to shoulder their responsibility and help Lebanon overcome the political impasse it is witnessing, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

“Am I an initiative prolific to launch a new initiative each day...I already suggested what I have and the political forces must shoulder the responsibility,” stated Berri answering a question on whether he will launch a new suggestion in a speech he will deliver on August 31 marking the anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions.