Riots erupted at Roumieh Prison on Tuesday and inmates set belongings on fire as the Internal Security Forces managed to successfully escort a 3-member gang out of the facility.

"The ISF is now in control of the juvenile ward in Roumieh and has referred the mutineering inmates to investigation," Future TV quoted security sources as saying.

A meeting was held on Tuesday in Paris between former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on the eve of the second round of the presidential elections.

The meeting comes as the French capital is witnessing a flurry of political activity as the Free Patriotic Movement is awaiting the support of al-Mustaqbal movement for FPM leader MP Michel Aoun's presidential bid.

The Change and Reform bloc on Tuesday hinted that the Free Patriotic Movement MPs will not attend the parliamentary session dedicated for electing a new president on Wednesday.

"We do not believe in vacuum (in the presidency), and it is not in our considerations,” MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the bloc's weekly meeting.

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari ruled out the possibility of an agreement between the Mustaqbal Movement and the Free Patriotic Movement over the election of FPM chief MP Michel Aoun as president, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Tuesday.

He told the daily: “The only good thing to come out of such an agreement would be the elimination of Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat's role as a swing vote at parliament.”

Three people were killed on Tuesday in an individual dispute in the town of Hrar in the northern region of Akkar.

"Three people died of their wounds in an individual dispute that erupted in Hrar,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam highlighted on Tuesday the need to hold the presidential elections on time stressing that a vacuum in that post is a hateful option.

“Talks that the Premiership will run the state's affairs in case of a presidential vacuum, is a bitter cup that we don't wish for,” stated Salam.

The army announced on Tuesday the arrest of four Lebanese and a Syrian in Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahieh on different shooting charges.

It said that it arrested Ali Jamaleddine, Hassan Rafiq al-Meqdad, Abbas Nasseredine, and Maher Issam al-Ali for opening fire on various occasions and brandishing weapons in the face of citizens.

The Internal Security Forces have seized boxes of sweets containing drugs ready to be smuggled abroad, the ISF general command said Tuesday.

The communique said that judicial police raided on Monday a house in the area of Minieh in the North after receiving information about a drug smuggling operation.

Civil servants and teachers upped on Tuesday their pressure on lawmakers as they held a nationwide strike and a protest in Beirut to demand the approval of the new wage scale.

Public schools and the majority of private schools were shut to abide by the call of the Syndicate Coordination Committee to hold a strike.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi will travel to the Holly Land next month along with the delegation accompanying Pope Francis, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Bishop Boulos Sayyah, who will be accompanying al-Rahi in his trip, told the newspaper that the Patriarch will be within the delegation traveling with the Pontiff.