The latest developments in Yemen may have an impact on the Axis of Resistance in Lebanon and the region, but they “will not affect” the political settlement that will set the broad lines for the country’s so-called dissociation policy and end the political crisis, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

“The latest field and political developments in Yemen will likely have no impact on the political settlement in Lebanon because it is subject to international communications, mainly French and American. It will help reach an agreeable formula for the dissociation policy that can be translated on the ground,” diplomatic sources told the daily.

The Cabinet will convene Tuesday for the first time since Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Nov. 4 resignation, which he eventually reversed, TV networks reported late on Monday.

The decision to hold the extraordinary session was reached after the political parties reached an agreement on a statement that will reaffirm Lebanon's so-called dissociation policy, the reports said.

Prominent talk show host Marcel Ghanem will be interrogated on December 18 over hosting Saudi journalists who branded the Lebanese president and parliament speaker as "terrorists" during one of his show's episodes.

“The lawyer Joy Lahoud, representing MP Butros Harb's law firm, appeared before Baabda First Examining Magistrate Nicolas Mansour and submitted the firm's authorization to represent the journalist Marcel Ghanem,” the National News Agency reported.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Monday referred to the Council of Ministers the draft bylaws of the Electoral Supervisory Commission that will oversee the upcoming parliamentary elections.

As part of the ministry's preparations for the elections, Mashnouq also presided over a periodic meeting for senior ministry officials to “follow up on the preparations and give instructions,” the National News Agency said.

During talks with al-Mustaqbal Movement officials, Hizbullah has shown “flexibility” in approaching “any format” of Lebanon's dissociation policy “inspired by the ministerial statement that it had already approved,” al-Ittihad newspaper reported on Monday.

The newspaper said that lengthy consecutive meetings were held recently between Hizbullah secretary-general's political aide Hussein Khalil and Nader Hariri, senior aide of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, with the aim of finding common ground regarding the “dissociation policy concept.”

Lebanon's Armed Forces seized on Monday ample amounts of narcotics, cannabis and weapons in the outskirts of the eastern town of Hermel, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri is expected on Monday to call the ministers for a meeting this week to tackle the “government statement” following a political crisis that paralyzed the country after his shock resignation on November 4, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

France will host the International Lebanon Support Group at the Quai d'Orsay on Friday at the level of foreign ministers to discuss the political crisis that emerged in in the country, An Nahar daily reported on Monday.

Lebanon's delegation will be led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri and French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian will lead the French side, it added.

The United Arab Emirates on Sunday denied a claim by Yemen's Shiite rebels that a rebel missile had been fired toward the country's under-construction nuclear plant.

The rebels, known as Huthis, earlier in the day claimed they had launched a “winged cruise missile” toward the plant in Abu Dhabi in the first such strike toward the country.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea defended on Saturday Lebanon's banking system stressing that it can't be passing funds for the US-sanctioned party Hizbullah.