Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq reassured Monday that the security situation in Lebanon is “excellent,” while hailing the Internal Security Forces over its swift arrest of a taxi driver accused of killing a female British embassy staffer.

“The security situation is excellent and the clearest example is the special achievement of the ISF and its Intelligence Branch, who arrested the killer of the British embassy employee only hours after the murder,” Mashnouq said.

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, will visit Lebanon on December 19 to “reaffirm strong partnership and continued EU support to Lebanon's stability, security and prosperity,” the EU Delegation to Lebanon said.

She will meet with President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Pernille Dahler Kardel met Monday morning with President Michel Aoun and separately with Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed the need on Monday to develop a strategy to prevent violence as he called for combating terrorism with education and knowledge.

Lebanon's waste management crisis surfaces once more as the two major landfills in the country approach maximum capacity, meanwhile the government prepares to tackle the controversial file in addition to 67 items on its agenda during its meeting on Tuesday.

A number of options are placed on the Cabinet table which include a suggestion proposed by the Council for Development and Reconstruction CDR for expanding the Costa Brava and Burj Hammoud temporary landfills, al-Liwaa daily said Monday.

The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch on Monday arrested a taxi driver suspected of killing British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes after attempting to rape her, according to officials and the National News Agency.

The Lebanese news agency said the Lebanese man, Tarek H., had confessed to killing the young woman, who worked at the UK embassy in Beirut.

MP Fadi Karam of the Lebanese Forces on Sunday accused some Free Patriotic Movement officials of “sowing discord” between the LF and Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal Movement.

The Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces may restore their political alliance anytime despite the current disputes, Change and Reform bloc secretary MP Ibrahim Kanaan said on Sunday.

Foreign Minister and Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has announced that oil production in Lebanon will “protect” the country.

Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council, said on Saturday that his party will give full support for the resistance in Palestine after a US decision that recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel.