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.

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.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut has announced the expansion of interview waiver eligibility for Lebanese citizens who are renewing B1/B2 tourist and business visas.

Lebanese citizens of ages 50 and older and whose B1/B2 visas have expired within the last 24 months may qualify for Interview Waiver which allows for visa renewal without an interview.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday warned that Lebanon can only bear a few more “weeks” of further deterioration at all levels.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab has said that he will not cast a blank vote in Thursday's presidential election session.

Bou saab told LBCI that "blank ballots are no longer acceptable," and that all the MPs of the Free Patriotic movement have agreed on this.

A parliamentary committees session to discuss the long-awaited capital control law was adjourned Monday due to the absence of Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab said.