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.

A Lebanese man fatally shot his wife in Beirut Monday, the latest in a string of murders a rights group said showed much work remained to eradicate violence against women.

A law on domestic violence was passed by Lebanon's parliament in 2014 but watchdogs said many changes were still needed.

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.

An Oklahoma man facing first-degree murder and hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of his Lebanese neighbor is set for trial this week.

Stanley Vernon Majors is accused in the killing of 37-year-old Khalid Jabara in August 2016. Prosecutors say Majors, who is now 63, killed Jabara after bombarding him with racial insults in a feud with Jabara's family that lasted several years.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday waded into the debate over whether or not Lebanon should ban Steven Spielberg's latest film, "The Post".

In an interview with al-Markazia news agency, Geagea described calls for banning the movie as “laughable yet lamentable,” calling for “rising above trivial matters and keeping culture and art away from politics.”

Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel on Monday blasted the government anew over the waste management crisis, announcing that he will take it to “international courts” for polluting the sea with garbage.

“Words cannot describe this scene. Today we are present at Keserwan's shore but the entire shore of Mount Lebanon is witnessing a similar situation,” Gemayel said at the Zouk Mobseh-Nahr el-Kalb shore, where seawater has invaded a garbage landfill that is present there and pulled piles of trash into the Mediterranean.

Dispatched by Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, MP Wael Abu Faour held talks Monday in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, amid a growing spat between the latter and President Michel Aoun over a disputed decree.

“It seems that the debate over this issue has started to raise another debate over the issue of the Taef Accord and the need to respect its stipulations and spirit,” Abu Faour said after the meeting.

After a bombing attack targeted a Palestinian member of the Hamas group in the southern city of Sidon on January 14, Turkey is expected to extradite a Lebanese suspect involved in the bombing after reportedly fleeing into Istanbul following the assault, pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Monday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri has contacted the Turkish authorities for cooperation in extraditing the suspect, and Turkey will expectantly hand him over either on Monday or Tuesday, according to the daily.

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.”