French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron held talks with President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday and said his country needs a more "balanced" policy toward Syria.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri met Tuesday at the Grand Serail with the ambassadors of the European Union member states to Lebanon and discussed with them the political situation in Lebanon and the region.

After two days of search operations, the dead body of Lebanese citizen Majid Raji al-Hashem, 61, was found Tuesday buried in sand at a stone factory in the Jbeil town of Akoura, state-run National News Agency reported.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc stressed Tuesday that “there will be no extension of the parliament's term or a return to the 1960 law.”

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held talks Tuesday with a visiting Iranian official, Hizbullah said in a statement.

A Democratic Gathering bloc delegation held a meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail, talks focused on a new electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The delegation included ministers Marwan Hamadeh and Ayman Choucair, and MPs Akram Shehayyeb, Henri Helou, Alaeddine Terro and Wael Abou Faour.

Urgent Matters Judge of Baabda Hassan Hamdan ordered on Tuesday an extension for the deadline to close the controversial landfill of Costa Brava until a final verdict is issued in the case on January 31, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The landfill was purported to be permanently closed on Tuesday, January 24, pending a final verdict in the case, according to a judge ruling.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday he was confident that a Saudi-funded military aid package for Lebanon would be restored.

On a visit to Riyadh where he is to meet senior Saudi officials, Ayrault said the package was needed to help bring stability to Lebanon.

President Michel Aoun signed a decree on Tuesday appointing Imad Kreidieh as the director-general of OGERO telecom authority, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Early in January, the cabinet appointed two successors to Abdul Menhem Youssef -- the controversial director general of the OGERO telecom authority who was also serving as director general of investment and maintenance at the telecom ministry.

A Lebanese man fell to his death on Tuesday from the balcony of his house in Beirut neighborhood of Zqaq al-Blat, the National News Agency reported.

Elias Chahin, 54, fell from the 5th floor and died instantly, added NNA.