Prime Minister Tammam Salam is setting the agenda of a cabinet session that he intends to chair next week following an agreement with Speaker Nabih Berri, An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.

The newspaper said that Salam's move comes amid the launching of consultations to hold an extraordinary parliamentary session.

EU foreign ministers have “strongly” reiterated their call on all the rival political parties to “take decisive action” to elect a new president and put Lebanon's stability and national interest ahead of partisan politics.

“The EU restates its call to all members of the parliament to uphold Lebanon's long-standing democratic tradition and to convene to elect a president without further delay in line with the Constitution,” the ministers said on Monday following a meeting they held in Luxembourg.

Reports that a Lebanese-Australian terrorist, notorious for holding up the severed heads of Syrian victims, has been killed fighting in Iraq have raised the potential for his young family to be repatriated from the Middle East, Australia's foreign minister said on Tuesday.

Australian intelligence agencies were attempting to verify the recent deaths of Australians Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar in the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in Iraq, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said. Both men were seen in photographs posted on social media holding heads of Syrians.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag expressed concern Monday over the reported human rights violations in Roumieh prison.

“The Special Coordinator underscored the importance of the immediate measures taken by the Ministers of Interior and Justice to address the alleged abuse, including the launch of a criminal investigation,” her office said in a statement.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Monday warned of attempts to take advantage of shocking abuse videos leaked from the Roumieh prison to undermine the Internal Security Forces and other state institutions.

“This act must not be used to undermine the reputation of the ISF,” said Mashnouq at a press conference he held after visiting Roumieh and meeting with ISF officers and the abused Islamist inmates who appeared in the videos.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam is set to preside a meeting of the ministerial committee tasked with following up the case of Lebanese hostages as a last step before their expected release.

Ministerial sources told An Nahar daily published on Monday that the Lebanese authorities have completed the file of the prisoner exchange.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam has given ministers a one-week grace period and will likely invite the cabinet to convene early next month to resolve the government deadlock.

Ministerial sources told An Nahar daily published on Monday that Salam will “definitely” call for a cabinet session on July 2 to resolve several weeks of government paralysis.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that the legislative and executive powers will enjoy the needed quorum if they convene, saying the policy of either my way or nothing is not in Lebanon's favor.

Berri told officials who visited him in Ain el-Tineh on Sunday that there was no initiative yet to resolve Lebanon’s political crises “because some parties continue to hold onto their stances.”

One person was killed and two others were injured, including a soldier, in an armed clash Sunday between members of the Jaafar family in the Baalbek neighborhood of al-Sharawneh.

“A dispute between young men from the Jaafar family erupted into gunfire, which resulted in the death of Hassan Ali Hussein Jaafar, aka Hassan Dawra, and the wounding of another person from the Jaafar family,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Two people were injured Sunday as a personal dispute between a number of citizens in the northern city of Tripoli escalated into a shooting.

“One person was wounded in a clash between a number of young men in Bab al-Tabbaneh's Syria Street outside Tabbaneh sweets shop,” state-run National News Agency reported.