President Michel Aoun on Monday signed a decree setting the dates of the parliamentary elections that will be held in the spring, the country's first in nine years.

The decree also carries the signatures of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq.

A man opened gunfire shots at his wife on Monday leading to her eventual death in the Beirut neighborhood of Ras al-Nabaa, media reports said.

The man was identified as Fadi A.. He opened gunfire at his wife, Nada, in broad daylight in the street.

President Michel Aoun is set to kick start an official visit to Kuwait on Tuesday to hold talks with Emir of Kuwait Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah and to meet with several senior Kuwaiti officials, media reports said on Monday.

In an interview with Kuwait News Agency, Aoun said: “The message I carry with me to Kuwait is no different from the ones I carried to countries I have visited since my election as president.”

Hundreds of protesters have rallied in the Lebanese capital demanding that Islamist prisoners be part of a discussed general amnesty.

The rally in central Beirut Sunday was attended by hundreds of families of Islamist prisoners. They were pressing the government to include their relatives in a general amnesty expected to come ahead of the country's first election in ten years.

Mustaqbal Movement secretary-general and his family escaped unharmed Sunday when a car he was driving caught fire.

Speaker Nabih Berri “waged the fiercest campaign” against Foreign Minister Jebarn Bassil and his request to amend the electoral system stressing he won't allow any changes and assuring that the country will stage timely polls, al-Joumhouria daily reported Saturday.

Bodies of two Syrians were found dead on Saturday raising the toll to 15 dead while trying to flee war-torn country into Lebanon trying to cross the mountainous frontier between the two countries.

President Michel Aoun has reportedly "refrained" from signing a decree launching preparations for the upcoming parliamentary polls because it “did not bear the signature of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Jebran Bassil,” An Nahar daily reported Saturday.

Lebanon's Higher Defense Council convened on Friday and announced that the country will take all the possible measures to prevent Israel from violating U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 through its controversial border wall plan.

Lebanese authorities say the wall would go through 13 points disputed by Lebanon.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq and General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim on Friday dismissed a report accusing General Security of a major hacking operation as “exaggerated.”

“We discussed the issue of the report related to General Security, which is an exaggerated report,” Mashnouq said after a Higher Defense Council meeting that also tackled other issues.