Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat expressed distress over the ongoing presidential stalemate as the Lebanese no longer sense the vacuum at the state's higher post due to the rift between the rival Christians.

He pointed out in an interview with al-Akhbar newspaper published on Wednesday that the Lebanese are more concerned with the daily crises.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that the road to the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal is “safe” despite concerns following Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's latest speech.

Berri told his visitors on Tuesday that the dialogue has not stopped and will go ahead in implementing the decisions reached between the two parties.

Director of the Department of the Middle East and North Africa at the French Foreign Ministry Jean-François Girault continued on Wednesday his tour on Lebanese officials in an attempt to push forward the presidential stalemate.

A meeting was held between Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun and Girault in Rabieh.

Al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah stressed Tuesday during their fifth dialogue session their rejection of gunfire “on all occasions” and “under any excuse,” four days after a fiery speech by Hizbullah's secretary-general was marred by heavy celebratory gunfire that sparked panic among the citizens of Beirut and its suburbs.

“The conferees underlined their rejection of gunfire on all occasions, in all Lebanese regions and under any excuse,” said the two parties in a joint statement issued after the talks in Ain al-Tineh.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday described the remarks of Hizbullah's secretary-general on disavowing the rules of engagement in the conflict with Israel as a “unilateral stance that disregarded the people's will and breached the international resolutions,” as it condemned the deadly bombing of a Lebanese bus in Syria.

Describing the bomb attack that killed six Lebanese citizens as “blind, evil terrorism,” the bloc said “this condemned incident must push all Lebanese political forces to carefully and profoundly reflect on the causes behind the escalation on tensions and extremism in the country and the spread of these terrorist acts.”

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced Tuesday that Egypt will continue to support Lebanon, stressing the importance of “spreading the values of coexistence” in the Arab countries.

After a meeting between Sisi and Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan, the Egyptian presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said that “President Sisi welcomed Lebanon's mufti and stressed that Egypt will keep backing and supporting Lebanon.”

The Lebanese army and militants clashed on the outskirts of the northeastern village of Ras Baalbek overnight as troops targeted fighters in the areas surrounding the town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

NNA reported shooting incidents and skirmishes between armed groups and the military's bases in the area of Tallet al-Hamra that lies in Ras Baalbek's outskirts.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc on Tuesday condemned the suspension of construction works at the Jannah Dam in the Nahr Ibrahim region, rejecting what it called “the encroachment on people's rights.”

“The decision to stop the construction works was political par excellence,” the bloc said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting in Rabieh.

First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abou Ghida issued on Tuesday an indictment against two Islamist militants and their terror group.

Abou Ghida formally charged Mahmoud Ahmed Abou Abbas and Sirajeddine Zureiqat, a so-called spokesman of the Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, with Dahr al-Baydar and Beirut's Tayyouneh bombings in June 2014.

Inspectors from the Health Ministry were assaulted on Tuesday while they were raiding a warehouse in a district in Beirut's southern suburbs, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the inspectors were seeking to shut down the depot for storing food that does not meet safety standards.