From bold portraits to wry cartoons on the Islamist resurgence at the polls, a Paris show explores the roots and branches of Tunisia's revolution, one year on, as seen by home-grown artists.

Photographs, graffiti, paintings, videos and sculpture explore the issues spotlighted with the ouster of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali: freedom of speech and religion, women's rights, the online world, democracy building and Islamism.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati urged on Tuesday the Lebanese officials to resume the national dialogue which he said would be the main guideline for Lebanon to disassociate itself from the turmoil in the region.

“It’s a start for Lebanon to set the principles that highlight its neutrality in order to avoid any negative repercussions,” Miqati said in an interview with al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Efforts to evacuate foreign journalists from the rebel-held Baba Amr district of the flashpoint city of Homs failed on Monday, a Western diplomatic source in the Syrian capital said.

"The evacuation of journalists did not take place but three wounded Syrians were able to leave in Syrian Red Crescent ambulances," the source said.

Syrian security forces and pro-regime gunmen killed 125 people across the country on Monday, among them 68 in a "massacre" in the rebel central province of Homs, activists and a rights group said.

"Sixty-eight civilians were killed today in the western countryside of Homs, in a rural area between the villages of Ram al-Enz and Ghajariyeh, and were taken to the state hospital in the city of Homs," said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Hizbullah’s international relations officer, Ammar al-Moussawi, on Monday slammed “those occupying ministerial posts and making wrong bets,” accusing them of “impeding the government’s productivity.”

“This government is supposed to be responsible for the national duties, topped by the responsibility for preserving social and economic stability,” Moussawi said.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat has slammed the referendum held in Syria on a new constitution for the revolt-hit country, noting that a Yemen-style solution was the best to resolve the crisis.

“Wretched are those days when constitutional theatricals are being held over the remains of bodies and amid the roar of cannons and the sound of bullets,” Jumblat said in a weekly column in his party’s al-Anbaa newspaper to be published Tuesday.

Almost 90 percent of voters approved Syria's new constitution brought in after 11 months of anti-regime protests, the interior minister announced on Monday.

Mohammed al-Shaar also told a press conference that turnout reached 57.4 percent of eligible voters, with 89.4 percent of the 8.376 million who cast their ballots in Sunday's referendum saying "yes" to the new constitution.

Saudi Arabia on Monday accused some countries of being complacent regarding the bloodshed in Syria.

"The kingdom holds all parties that delay international action (on Syria) morally responsible for developments there, especially if they continue being complacent and ignore the interests of the Syrian people," a statement said.

International diplomats at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday ramped up the pressure on the Syrian regime to allow the delivery of aid to civilians caught up in the bloodshed.

"We hope there will be a positive response from the Syrian authorities so that we can help all those affected" by the violence, council president Laura Dupuy Lasserre said as delegates met in Geneva.

France said on Monday that it wants to see the Syrian regime dragged before an international court of justice, as Qatar announced it was in favor of delivering arms to rebels battling the Syrian government.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, speaking during a break in talks between EU foreign ministers, said he would plead for legal action during a visit later Monday in Geneva, where he will attend the United Nations Human Rights Council.