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.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday stressed that the country’s next president must have a “vision” to improve the situations.

“The people need a president who would pull Lebanon out of conflicts instead of keeping it in them,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

U.S. District Attorney Jason Schmidt has told a court judge that Hadi Matar took steps to purposely put himself in position to harm "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie, getting an advance pass to the event where the author was speaking and arriving a day early bearing a fake ID.

Israeli police said Sunday they had arrested a suspect in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, including two critically.

"The terrorist is in our hands," police spokesman Kan Eli Levy told public radio hours after the attack that took place not far from the Western Wall, the holiest prayer site for Jews.