Attorney General Judge Ghassan Khoury on Tuesday ordered the release of Federal Bank hostage-taker Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein.

The National News Agency said the decision was taken after the bank dropped the lawsuit against the defendant.

Gasoline was delivered to fuel distributors on Tuesday after contacts were made over the past hours, the representative of fuel distribution companies, Fadi Abu Shaqra, said, after queues returned to gas stations in some regions.

“A clarification will be issued about the modification of the mechanism that has been adopted by the Banque du Liban (central bank),” Abu Shaqra added.

British Ambassador to Lebanon Hamish Cowell met Tuesday with Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail.

"I had a good first meeting with Prime Minister Designate Najib Mikati. Our discussion underlined the importance of strengthening the longstanding bilateral relations between our countries," Ambassador Cowell said after the meeting.

A group of independent and "Change" MPs will meet Tuesday for the second time at the Parliament.

Last week, sixteen independent and "Change" MPs convened to discuss the Parliamentary sessions' agendas and the method of voting.

Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra revealed Tuesday that Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has asked to meet LF leader Samir Geagea.

"I think that Bassil has equivocally asked to meet with Geagea over the presidential file, and the latter has refused," Zahra said.

Progressive Socialist Party MP Wael Abu Faour said Tuesday that PSP leader Walid Jumblat will choose neither a March 8 President nor a "confrontational" President.

"A strong president is strong in his decisions and in his relations, not in his popular base," Abu Faour went on to say.

The Foreign Ministry denounced Monday the latest Israeli attack on the coastal region of Syria.

It condemned the Israeli violation of Lebanon's airspace to fire missiles on the neighboring war-torn country.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Monday that the next president must be "confrontational".

"We want a confrontational president," Geagea said in a press conference, adding that recovery can not be achieved, unless a president who would challenge the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah is elected.

The Lebanon Law Review and the German NGO Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Rule of Law Program have organized an international legal conference in Beirut to discuss the digitization in the fight against corruption and the digitization of law in practical business practices.

More than 200 participants, including members of Parliament, international experts, and local experts have attended the conference, Lebanon Law Review said in a statement.

Caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Sharafeddine arrived Monday in Syria to discuss with Syrian authorities the repatriation of the Syrians refugees.

Accompanied by a Lebanese delegation, Sharafeddine met with Syrian officials including the Minister of Interior and Local Administration and Environment Minister Hussein Makhlouf.