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7252 in English · 217 original-language storiesNational News Agency: An-Nahar notes that a number of lawmakers belonging to political parties and movements are avoiding taking positions on diplomatic and military developments in the region, given the delicacy of the situation and the rapid shifts and changes, and following recommendations from their party leaders not to engage in any press interviews. A political activist said…
Lebanon 24: Al-Akhbar wrote: Bilal Erdoğan’s visit to Lebanon, the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is no longer mere speculation that has circulated over the past months. According to information, the visit has been scheduled for the middle of next month, as part of a program with a predominantly humanitarian and social character. The visit comes in the context of…
Lebanon 24: Al-Nahar wrote: The Kataeb Party is facing mounting political pressure over the two files concerning land purchases in Metn and the referral of the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council, while finding itself facing a dual confrontation with opponents seeking to hold it responsible for contentious cases, and awkward questions within its political circle, particularly in…
LBCI: An-Nahar — It is noted that a number of MPs belonging to political parties and movements are avoiding expressing positions on diplomatic and military developments in the region, given the delicacy of the situation and the rapid shifts and changes, and based on recommendations from their party leaders not to engage in any press interview. — An activist said…
Al Anbaa: In his latest television interview, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam addressed the shortcomings of the trilateral framework signed between Lebanon and Israel under U.S. auspices at the end of last June, and said that former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt is right to be concerned about it, indeed…
Nidaa Al Watan: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new government after an election with close results, saying that no leader should govern relying on the support of Arabs in Israel, whose parties made strong gains. Netanyahu told his supporters in Jerusalem, “We must form a government…”
LBCI: 0 min Central Elections Committee: Netanyahu’s party receives 21.7% of the votes so far, compared with 15,7% for Eisenkot’s party. Breaking news. Central Elections Committee: Netanyahu, votes, compared with 15,7%, Eisenkot. Next: The Times of Israel: After 42% of the votes were counted, Netanyahu’s bloc is leading the opposition by 57…
An-Nahar: Sources in the Presidency deny any intention of a government reshuffle in Lebanon at present, and Nawaf Salam confirms that it is not possible to consider it at this time…
An-Nahar: A number of MPs belonging to political parties are avoiding making statements on diplomatic and military developments because of the sensitivity of the situation and recommendations…
Elnashra: The leader of the Israeli opposition Yashar party, Gadi Eisenkot, indicated in a statement, as the counting of votes in the Knesset elections continued, that there is no confidence in the Israeli prime minister…
An-Nahar: It reviewed the history of violence and protests in Paris, from the 1871 Commune to modern protests and their impact on French society…
Lebanon 24: As the mission of the “UNIFIL” forces nears its end, the future of the international presence in the south is moving to the forefront of diplomatic contacts, amid fears of a security vacuum that the departure of international forces could leave behind, and official assurances of the need to support the army and enable it to extend the state’s sovereignty over all its territory. Advertisement…
An-Nahar: An analytical article discusses the impact of the American and Israeli elections on policy toward Iran and the region, with a focus on Lebanon, Hezbollah, and tensions…
Elnashra: Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the counting of 1.6 million votes in the Knesset elections has been completed, with the Likud Party leading with 22.2% of them and the Yashar Party getting 15.4%.…
An-Nahar: U.S. sanctions against Hezbollah continue to target its funding and disarm it, with effects on politicians and security officials in Lebanon during…
Al Manar: Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said that Trump’s admission that he never believed…
Al Manar: Baghaei: Trump considered the Islamabad agreement a mere waste of time and never believed in it…
Lebanon 24: Eisenkot: Netanyahu’s political life…
Ya Libnan: Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (L) and his son Flavio Bolsonaro, whose own campaign for president has ended in defeat, are seen during a press conference in Brasilia in 2022 — EVARISTO SA / AFP SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senator Flavio…
Al Manar: Hebrew Channel 12 sample update: Netanyahu’s camp gets 52 seats, Eisenkot’s camp gets 49, and the Arab lists get…
Ya Libnan: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners made a last-ditch push on Tuesday to get their supporters to the polls, warning of surging Arab voter turnout, a tactic Arab politicians denounced as racist and inflammatory.…
Al Jadeed: Netanyahu: Israel cannot have a government formed with support…
Lebanon 24: The right-wing Shas party, which won 6 seats counted as part of Netanyahu’s camp, hinted a short while ago that it would agree to join a government led by…
Ya Libnan: Eisenkot supporters join in national anthem After finishing his speech, Eisenkot borrowed an Israeli flag from someone in the audience and waved it on stage as his supporters sang the national anthem of Israel. Israeli TV stations revise their exit polls The…
Nidaa Al Watan: The region is facing its last doses of diplomacy before they wear off. Contacts and initiatives are accelerating in an effort to buy time and contain postponed explosions, but the distance is shrinking between settlements postponed from one stop to another and possible confrontations whose trajectories or expected repercussions on more than…
Nidaa Al Watan: The decision for war is made in Tehran, and its price is paid in Lebanon, while the Lebanese state stands helpless to prevent a decision it does not control. As the south approaches the brink of a new explosion, the value of guarantees collapses in the face of a reality that entrenches the subordination of the decision for war to Iranian calculations, leaving Lebanon exposed to a confrontation over which it has no authority…
Nidaa Al Watan: Justice Minister Adel Nassar confirms that he will raise again the issue of referring the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council, at a Cabinet session in two weeks. The settlement reached on it, through the efforts of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and in which Baabda and the Grand Serail took part, with the Kataeb Party not far removed from it, secured…
Nidaa Al Watan: Color was never just for painting. Colors have always been a means of expanding geography and time. In his painting of the utopian Elias Huweik in Abrine, Shawki Dalal presents us with overlapping philosophies: the philosophy of place, the philosophy of time, the philosophy of color, and the philosophy of contemplation. In this work, the light shifts into color across the walls…
Nidaa Al Watan: Elections in contemporary democracies are no longer merely a competition between economic and social platforms, and their results alone are not enough to determine the direction society is taking. The ballot box may settle the identity of the ruler, while the direction of the state remains contested. This is what Brazil’s recent elections reveal,…
Nidaa Al Watan: Ahead of the Cabinet session on Thursday, October 29, which will follow up on the waste file discussed in previous sessions, striking contradictions are emerging in the file of the proposed marine waste landfill to be established in the "Saqi al-Badawi" area - Tripoli, while it is worth noting that this proposed solution by the Municipality…
Nidaa Al Watan: I was flipping through the pages of the blue giant, “Facebook,” when a video appeared before me, dating back 15 years. It shows President Saad Hariri shouting and saying, in keeping with the color of his navy jacket and blue tie matching the color of his movement: “We want to breathe... I came to speak to you in colloquial Arabic, in the language of Lebanon’s youth, and the language of…”
Nidaa Al Watan: The challenge remains, even if the truck carrying explosives had not been discovered in Dahr al-Baidar, and there had been no proposal before the Council of Ministers to refer the threat to national security to the Judicial Council. It has become greater and more dangerous after "Hezbollah" declared that the explosives belonged to it, demanding their return, and all that was missing was a call to award medals…
Nidaa Al Watan: Israelis entered their long election day yesterday carrying to the ballot boxes the weight of three years of fateful wars and political divisions, and emerged from it facing a scene suggesting that the battle for power will be prolonged. Exit polls conducted at polling stations by major television networks showed…
Al Manar: Eisenkot: “The Israelis” voted for change and against the policies…
Al Manar: Eisenkot: Netanyahu must not use “Israel’s” security for his considerations…
Al Manar: Leader of the Yashar party Gadi Eisenkot: Netanyahu has found himself facing a large majority…
