Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Tuesday announced that he will not nominate a certain candidate for the presidency, calling for the election of a president who is able to “heal the rifts” among the Lebanese.

“I do not have names to nominate for the presidency and I will not nominate anyone ... We need a president who knows how to talk to the world and how to heal the rifts,” al-Rahi said in an interview on LBCI television.

The cycle of violence against women in Lebanon continues as a new victim was killed by her husband, media reports said on Tuesday.

Roqayya Monzer was shot dead by her husband last Thursday, one day before Mother's Day, after she asked him for divorce.

A video of a school headmaster assaulting students at a school in southern Lebanon went viral on the internet on Tuesday.

The video showed the principal, M. D., brutally foot whipping one terrified student after another, while they cried and begged him to stop.

A “dangerous” Syrian fugitive and a Lebanese State Security agent were arrested Tuesday in the Bekaa border town of Arsal.

“The army arrested at its Ain al-Shaab checkpoint in Arsal the Syrian dangerous fugitive Mohammed al-Hakami and a Lebanese person called M. H. who was trying to help him escape,” state-run National News Agency reported.

President Michel Suleiman demanded Arab nations on Tuesday to share the burden of hosting Syrian refugees, urging also encouraging factions to neutralize the country from the ongoing turmoil in Syria.

“We urge convincing the largest number of Arab countries to share the burden and the number of Syrian refugees,” Suleiman said in a speech he gave at the Arab Summit in the Kuwaiti capital.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc on Tuesday called on the government to “provide the proper political and security atmospheres” for holding the upcoming presidential election on time, calling for keeping the issue of disappeared persons away from political bickering.

“Solutions can only come through activating the work of state institutions and the political system we have, so that we can securely hold the presidential election,” MP Ibrahim Kanaan told reporters after the bloc's weekly meeting in Rabiyeh.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed Tuesday that “the Lebanese need a president who does not compromise,” calling for an urgent plan to address the dire security situations in Tripoli and the Bekaa.

“The battle of the presidential vote is the battle of the March 14 forces and the presidency is not for paving the ground for a political leadership but rather for selecting a strong president who has a clear vision for Lebanon according to March 14's legitimate political objectives,” Geagea said.

A personal dispute erupted into gunfire in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp near Beirut's Tariq al-Jedideh neighborhood on Tuesday, sparking panic in the area in the wake of the deadly clashes that broke out near the Sports City on Sunday.

“A dispute between members of the al-Shamma family erupted into gunfire in the Shatila camp,” a military source told al-Jadeed television.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil announced on Tuesday that he withdrew from the Arab League meeting during Syrian National Coalition chief Ahmed Jarba's speech.

“I pulled out from the hall in harmony with my own convictions and allegiances,” Khalil, who is the political adviser of Speaker Nabih Berri, said via Twitter.

A police checkpoint in Dahr al-Baydar seized a quantity of drugs stashed in a minibus and detained the driver, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

According to NNA, police officers seized on Monday 250 grams of hashish hidden in a “professional way” inside a white Mercedes minibus that was heading from the Bekaa towards Beirut.