Under the supervision of the High Relief Committee and at PM Saad Hariri's orders, trucks have started Tuesday removing the trash that accumulated on the Keserewan shore after rough waves broke down a faulty retaining wall around a coastal dump just east of Beirut, spilling the trash into the sea.

Maj. Gen Mohammed Kheir, the head of the High Relief Committee stressed that the cleaning process "will continue despite bad weather conditions and in commitment to Hariri's directions."

Environment Minister Tarek al-Khatib said he is still “not certain” about the source of the trash that accumulated on Monday at the Keserwan's shore and accused Kataeb Party leader Sami Gemayel of trying to gain popularity for the upcoming parliamentary elections, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

“I can not define the source of the trash. A technical team has been dispatched to conduct a detection report after which I can determine the source,” Khatib told the daily.

President Michel Aoun reassured Monday that Lebanon is actively fighting money laundering during talks in Baabda with Marshall Billingslea, the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

“Lebanon is taking part effectively in the global efforts aimed at combating terrorist financing and money laundering, through its central bank and competent financial authorities and according to the applicable international standards and laws,” Aoun told the U.S. official.

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.