The meeting between President Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and outgoing PM Hassan Diab on board the plane forth to Kuwait and back to Beirut again, did not produce a “magic bullet" for the government formation after the resignation of PM-designate Mustafa Adib, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

At a stage open to all possibilities for “changing the system” in Lebanon, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a joint meeting of the parliamentary committees on Wednesday to study draft laws related to the parliamentary elections, al-Joumhouria daily said on Tuesday.

Upon Berri’s invitation, the joint session will be held for the committees of: Budget and Finance, Administration and Justice, National Defense, Interior and Municipalities, to study the following electoral draft law proposals:

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is leaving hospital at 2230 GMT and that he is "feeling really good," even "better" than he did "20 years ago."

"I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M.," Trump tweeted.

Demonstrators on Monday blocked the vital Jal el-Dib highway in protest at plans by authorities to end the subsidization of essential goods.

Minor scuffles with army troops were recorded during the sit-in.

The relatives of ten firefighters killed in the Beirut port blast on Monday made a host of demands and requested answers to several questions, vowing escalation if authorities do not heed their grievances.

The families voiced their remarks at a press conference marking two months since the August 4 tragedy. The conference was attended by the lawyer Imad Martinos, who represented Beirut Bar Association chief Melhem Khalaf.

Lebanon's caretaker health minister said Monday said he fears increasing coronavirus cases in the country could reach European levels and urged more private hospitals to help prepare for any new deterioration.

The Mediterranean country had kept its numbers relatively low since its first case in February, but the easing up of measures this summer has set infection rates back on the rise.

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil was discharged from hospital Monday after a several-day stay for coronavirus treatment, his press office said.

“He headed to his house where he will continue quarantine and minor treatment for the next few days,” the press office added in a statement, noting that Bassil had finished the “main treatment.”

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan warned on Monday that Lebanon has reached the peak of coronavirus phase 2, adding that only few intensive care beds are still unoccupied, the National News Agency reported.

"We are at the peak of phase 2, ICU beds are full and only a few beds remain vacant," Hassan said in televised remarks.

Despite the failed endeavors to form a new government in Lebanon under now-resigned PM-designate Mustafa Adib, President Michel Aoun reportedly pins hopes on the French initiative to form a reform-minded government to stop the country’s ongoing collapse, Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said on Monday.

President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker PM Hassan Diab arrived in Kuwait on Monday to extend condolences to the new emir, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who was sworn in last week.