Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah revealed Tuesday that the Free Patriotic Movement and al-Mustaqbal Movement have reached “agreements” regarding the presidential election, calling for involving Speaker Nabih Berri and Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh in the understandings.

Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun held phone talks Tuesday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Aoun lauded al-Rahi's stances and it was an occasion to discuss the latest developments regarding the presidential juncture,” NNA said.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc led by MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday stressed that “national partnership” is the solution to Lebanon's compounded problems, urging a mass turnout at the Free Patriotic Movement's annual October 13 rally which has been pushed to October 16 this year.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh stressed Tuesday that he will carry on with his presidential nomination, calling on his electoral rival – Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun – to attend the next voting session.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Tuesday pressed charges against detained Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras and two other fugitives, Mohammed Qassem al-Ahmed and Mahmoud Rabih, for having ties to the Islamic State group, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The cleric was re-arrested last Wednesday after a brief detention in connection with the August 31 Ksara bombing.

Head of the Free Patriotic Movement Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said on Tuesday that resorting to the help of foreign countries, sabotages agreements between the Lebanese, and stressed that he will stop this from happening by reinforcing Lebanon's internal arena.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc member MP Jamal Jarrah stressed on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia will not interfere in Lebanon's presidential elections, as he assured that the comments made by Saudi chargé d'affaires in Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari on Twitter were simply to overview the history of late Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, thus dismissing any indication of Riyadh's support for a specific candidate.

The body of a dead man was found on the Karantina highway northeast of Beirut, the Traffic Management Center said on Tuesday.

Red Cross operations director George Kettaneh told VDL (100.5) that the body reportedly belongs to a Lebanese man in his 60s who was a victim of a hit-and-run incident.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour briefed Speaker Nabih Berri and al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri on his latest visit to Saudi Arabia that failed to bring a decisive answer as for the Saudi stance with regard to the nomination of MP Michel Aoun, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

“Abou Faour met with a high-level Saudi figure during his visit to the Saudi kingdom two days ago,” well-informed sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Saudi chargé d'affaires in Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari took to Twitter on Monday to remind of remarks by late Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal about Lebanon's former foreign minister Jean Obeid.