Nineteen MPs representing 32 Kataeb Party, independent and change lawmakers on Tuesday met in parliament and stressed that the “ultimate priority” is for the “immediate” election of a new president.

A statement said the legislators discussed “the mechanism of exiting the intractable political crisis which has plunged the country into the inferno of presidential vacuum, amid a dire economic and social situation accompanied by a total paralysis of the various state institutions and administrations in this critical period of Lebanon’s history.”

"What happened today is a farce," Free Patriotic Movement Jebran Bassil said Tuesday about a joint parliamentary session that discussed a capital control law.

"The session showed that there is no will to pass the law," Bassil went on to say.

The American University of Beirut was ranked 1st in the MENA region in sustainability and tied with Princeton University at the 140th place globally in the QS World University Rankings (WUR): Sustainability 2023, the university said in a statement Tuesday.

In its first edition, the QS Sustainability Rankings were announced by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) university ranking agency. The rankings looked at 700 of the world’s top universities that were deemed eligible and compared them against environmental and social sustainability metrics, to see which universities are doing the most to tackle major environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges. "The American University of Beirut was the only university in Lebanon to be ranked and number one in the MENA Region," the statement said.

Parliament will fail again to elect a president on Thursday, al-Akhbar newspaper said Tuesday.

The daily reported that unless Hezbollah succeeds in convincing the Free Patriotic Movement to back the group's candidate Suleiman Franjieh, the election sessions will lead to the same results and Hezbollah will not vote for Franjieh.

Chairing a regular Tripartite meeting at a U.N. position in Ras al-Naqoura, UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro congratulated Lebanese and Israeli army representatives on "the recent and historic maritime agreement." "It demonstrates that seemingly intractable differences can be resolved," Lázaro said.

Welcoming recent messages of de-escalation along the Blue Line, Lázaro urged the senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces and the Israeli Army in the room to ensure these words are backed up by concrete action.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday voiced support for the presidential bid of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, who enjoys the backing of Hezbollah and some of its allies.

Opposition, independent and Change MPs are meeting Tuesday, ahead of a parliamentary session that will be held Thursday for the election of a new president.

The aim of the meeting is to unify the blocs' position in case Speaker Nabih Berri calls for a legislative session before the election of a president, local media reports said on Monday.

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Monday charged that “some banks are still transferring money” to abroad based on some clients’ “favoritism and ties to bank owners.”

“Capital control prevents selectivity,” Bou Saab added, after a meeting for the joint parliamentary committees.

On Saturday 12 November, the British Embassy held a service at Beirut Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery to commemorate Remembrance Day. This is an annual event held in honor of people from all nations who have been killed or injured in conflicts around the world. The date of November 11 marks the end of the First World War in 1918 and around the world there will have been similar acts of remembrance over this weekend.

The British Ambassador, Hamish Cowell, was joined in giving a reading by the American Ambassador, Dorothy Shea, the German Deputy Head of Mission, Katharina Lack and the French Defense Attaché, Colonel Gregory Medina.

State Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat on Monday referred Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun to the general commission of the Court of Cassation after she failed to appear before him over a libel complaint filed by Speaker Nabih Berri and his wife Randa.

According to state-run National News Agency, Oueidat charged Aoun with “stirring sectarian sentiments, inciting conflict among the elements of the nation, libel, slander and abuse of power,” referring a copy of the lawsuit to the judicial inspection commission.