Caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi on Tuesday issued a memo revising the duration of the coronavirus nighttime curfew and allowing most sectors to reopen.

According to the memo, the curfew will now begin at 1am instead of 10pm. It will still be lifted at 6am.

The United States on Tuesday slapped sanctions on two former Lebanese ministers for alleged corruption and support of Hizbullah, vowing to isolate the Iran-backed Shiite armed group and political party.

The Treasury Department targeted former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil and former transport minister Youssef Fenianos but stopped short of targeting any current officials in the nation torn by economic crisis and the aftermath of a deadly explosion in Beirut.

Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Adib held talks Tuesday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace.

“We are in a period of consultations with the President and we will continue consultations with the rest of the parties,” Adib told reporters after the meeting.

A Lebanese judge leading the probe into Beirut's catastrophic port blast has summoned an outgoing minister and two security agency heads to testify, a judicial source said Tuesday.

A new blaze erupted Tuesday at Beirut port, sparking panic among the citizens of a nation still reeling from the cataclysmic August 4 explosion.

Around two hours later, the army tweeted that the fire had been doused.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday affirmed strong and old relations between Lebanon and Italy, noting that his country will stand on the front lines regarding the emergency response and the rapid reconstruction of the areas affected by the Beirut explosion.

After meeting President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace, Conte said “the time has come to look forward and build trust between citizens and institutions in Lebanon, as well as writing a new page in Lebanon’s history.”

President Michel Aoun and UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Stefano Del Col discussed the situation in South Lebanon after the extension of the peacekeeping forces mandate, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday slammed rumors about his resignation and assured that he has “plans to steer Lebanon out of the crisis.”

“I don’t want to resign because I have in my mind a strategy to get out of this crisis,” he told CNBC News Anchor and International Correspondent Hadley Gamble in an interview.

Crisis-hit Lebanon has not recorded a breakthrough yet in the process of lining up a government, amid different aspirations, some pressing for the formation of a cabinet of experts and others for a techno-political government, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Tuesday.

When it comes to Lebanon, the US and France have similar outlooks, but one major point of difference involves the Hizbullah movement -- shunned by Washington but tolerated by a pragmatic Parisian leadership.