A court in the Algerian capital Algiers is expected to look into the case of an Algerian money laundering network that includes a Lebanese investor accused by U.S. intelligence of funding Hizbullah, reported Algeria’s al-Khabar newspaper.

It said that 31 suspects face “heavy” charges related to money laundering, including the Lebanese national.

The March 14 General Secretariat slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah’s recent positions, accusing it of acting as the sole authority on state decisions and the constitution due to its positions on the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “We will consider the government as collapsed should it reject the funding of the tribunal.”

Security forces arrested a teenager in the town of Sehaileh after he stole a vehicle from Ajaltoun and sped away with it, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

NNA said that the 15-year-old, who hails from Nabey, stole a GMC owned by Sami al-Khazen on Tuesday night and drove away.

U.S. Ambassador Maura Connelly has said Lebanon should be kept away from the “negative repercussions” of the situation in Syria stressing on the importance of Lebanese stability.

In remarks to al-Balad daily on Wednesday, Connelly said the U.S. agenda on Lebanon hasn’t changed. It calls for a stable, independent and sovereign Lebanon.

A lack of verbal clashes at the cabinet session that tackled the 2012 draft state budget on Tuesday was described by parliamentary sources as “the calm before the political storm.”

The sources said that the calm during the session came amid expected “political storms” when cabinet ministers begin debating the issue of the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Teachers in private and public schools carried out their strike on Wednesday protesting the “humiliating” deal that was made between the General Labor Confederation (GLC), the cabinet and the Economic Committees last week.

However, private schools refused to close their doors.

A unit from the Syrian army made a new incursion in Lebanese territories in in the area of Dawrat al-Ghazal and al-Qaa in the northern Bekaa valley, killing a Syrian man and arresting his brother, media reports said Wednesday.

The incursion took place on Tuesday as the Syrian military was chasing a group of men who escaped on motorcycles to the Lebanese side of the town of al-Douwar, they said.

A delegation from Hizbullah arrived in Moscow on Wednesday in the first official visit to the Russian capital, As Safir newspaper reported.

The delegation will discuss with Russian officials the bilateral relations, issues of common interest and the developing situation in the region, mainly in Lebanon.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday held talks with former premier Omar Karami at the latter’s residence in Beirut, in the presence of Energy and Water Minister Jebran Bassil and Sports and Youth Minister Faisal Karami.

A statement issued by the FPM’s press office after the meeting said the conferees discussed “the economic and social issues, topped by the issues of state budget and wage hike.”

The Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday strongly condemned what it called “the Lebanese government’s deafening silence” over the alleged “abduction of the two Syrian dissidents belonging to the al-Jassem family and similar cases related to other Syrian citizens who were abducted in Lebanon, including Mr. Shebli al-Aysami.”

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, the bloc also slammed the “suspicious idleness and flagrant indifference of some judicial authorities concerning this issue,” holding the government responsible for addressing the disappearance cases.