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9738 in English · 268 original-language storiesLebanon 24: Former head of the Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt received Egypt’s new ambassador to Lebanon, Tameem Khallaf, at his residence in Clemenceau in an introductory meeting attended by Progressive Socialist Party Deputy Head Zaher Raad. Advertisement The meeting discussed Lebanese-Egyptian relations and ways to strengthen and develop them, and also…
Al Liwaa: Local and cross-border contacts succeeded in containing tension and frustration that had prevailed until the Council of Ministers session, which did not refer the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council, opting to proceed with investigations before a possible referral at another session, a move that angered the Lebanese Forces ministers, who…
Al Liwaa: French authorities decided yesterday to ban new demonstrations or impose restrictions on them following protests at the end of last week that were marked by widespread violence, while President Emmanuel Macron accused groups on the far left of seeking to “overthrow the Republic.” Macron announced at the end of a meeting held at the headquarters…
Al Liwaa: All regional developments indicate that the regional situation has reached a high level of tension on the eve of the American and Israeli elections, while Lebanon’s domestic situation remains unchanged, marked by tension and division over procedural matters and over crucial national issues. The events of recent weeks have shown that…
Al Liwaa: The Israeli election battle does not hinge on the number of seats each bloc will win, but on Gadi Eizenkot’s ability to attract part of the social base that has kept Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud in power for decades. The war, security failures, and the Haredi conscription crisis are opening cracks within…
An-Nahar: Violent protests erupted in Tunisia after a man died while in custody, amid a worsening economic and political crisis and mounting anger against the government and the leadership of Kais…
Al Liwaa: Five days before Israelis head to the ballot boxes, Lebanon faces a pivotal question that opinion polls cannot answer precisely: Do the Israeli elections scheduled for the twenty-seventh of October this month have the ability to change the rules of engagement and confrontation in southern Lebanon,…
Al Liwaa: MP Fouad Makhzoumi visited Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Dr. Fahd Al-Dosari and said: “I was pleased to meet with him, and we exchanged views on a number of issues related to Lebanese affairs and current regional developments. On the anniversary of the Taif Agreement, I affirmed our commitment to this agreement as a pact for national consensus…”
Al Liwaa: At its session held yesterday at Baabda Palace, chaired by President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun and attended by Prime Minister Dr. Nawaf Salam and the ministers, the Cabinet decided to proceed with the investigation into the explosives case without any restrictions or limits other than the limits of the law, and to continue discussing the Justice Ministry’s request to refer the case…
Al Liwaa: Lebanon stands suspended, waiting on the sidelines for the course of developments between the United States and Iran, whether peace or war. It cannot emerge on its own from the crisis of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, nor stop the daily Israeli attacks and the demolitions and bulldozing of homes and property, while conditions…
Al Liwaa: Lebanon’s political authorities are monitoring the contacts and developments concerning the Iranian-American file, while officials are following the details of positions, warnings and expectations regarding any new escalation whose shrapnel could hit Lebanon, especially since Israel is prepared to wage war against Iran and Hezbollah together. And it has become…
Al Liwaa: The Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan, received at Dar al-Fatwa the head of the «Beirut Manarati» Association, lawyer Marwan Salam, who said after the meeting: “We affirmed to His Eminence that Dar al-Fatwa is our reference, its master’s standing is our standing, and his dignity is our dignity. We will not allow anyone, no matter how highly regarded, to undermine…
Al Liwaa: The scholar Sayyed Ali Fadlallah received the political, environmental and reform activist Dr. Sami al-Rishouni, and they discussed health and environmental affairs and developments in Lebanon and the region. At the outset, al-Rishouni affirmed “the depth of the relationship that binds him to the household of the late religious authority Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah,” placing…
Al Liwaa: Lebanon’s First Lady, Mrs. Neemat Aoun, took part in the Second International Conference on Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, held as part of the Summit on Children’s Well-Being in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, at the invitation of First Lady Ziroat Mirziyoyeva, and within the framework of the Global Summit on Investing in Child Well-Being, attended by the first ladies…
Al Liwaa: ☐SWIM Initiative Association is organizing, at nine o’clock tomorrow morning, Saturday, in cooperation with Calypso Diving Center, a cleanup campaign for the Bat Cave and the caves adjacent to the Raouche Rock, under the patronage of: Environment Minister Dr. Tamara El Zein, Beirut Governor Judge Marwan Abboud, and the head of the municipal council…
Al Liwaa: It is no small matter for the Lebanese Forces ministers to withdraw from the cabinet session in protest at the failure to refer the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council. The case is extremely serious, and demanding that it be referred to the highest exceptional judicial authority is a legitimate political right, but leaving the session does not serve the investigation, nor…
Al Liwaa: The passing of the southern Lebanese poet Mustafa Sbaiti on 19 September 2026 was not merely the passing of a poet, but the loss of a poetic and cultural experience that, over decades, was bound to the Arabic language, the South, humanity and its causes, and the memory of a homeland whose transformations, defeats and dreams the poet lived through. He passed away, leaving behind collections…
Al Liwaa: Dr. Marwan Mohieddine Badr. Praise be to God, who decreed death for His servants, made this world a place of passage, not a place of settlement, and made the Hereafter the abode of permanence. May prayers and peace be upon our master Muhammad, who delivered the message, fulfilled the trust, advised the community, and through whom God dispelled distress, and upon all his family and companions. To proceed, O you…
Al Liwaa: The legal review with which the muftis intervened to invalidate the Shura Council’s latest report revealed numerous violations in the body of the report, in addition to citing foreign texts and testimonies unrelated to the substance of the case at the heart of the complaint. A Shiite authority strongly opposed to the doctrine of “Wilayat al-Faqih” stopped…
Elnashra: Walmart announced the launch of new tools that allow AI agents to shop and complete purchases on behalf of customers, as part of its effort…
Lebanon 24: In a statement, the “Lebanon Judges Club” denounced “the threats and acts of intimidation witnessed at the Tripoli Palace of Justice,” warning of “the danger of the continued absence of the necessary protection for judges, lawyers, litigants and employees in Palaces of Justice.” Advertisement The club affirmed that “protecting the justice facility and securing the requirements for its work…”
Ad-Diyar: Tensions escalated 4 days before the Israeli legislative elections, coinciding with an escalation in attacks by occupation forces in the south, amid a wave of high-level threats against Lebanon and Iran. As the region remains on tenterhooks with the “drums of war” beating again, the Lebanese breathed a sigh of relief…
Ad-Diyar: Hanna Ayyoub, Abdel Moneim Ali Issa: What does it mean for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to come out and congratulate the Turkish and Syrian intelligence services on the arrest of Miraj Orale, known as Ali Kayali, while Agence France-Presse reports, citing a Lebanese security source, that the man was kidnapped from Mansourieh, without the authorities’ knowledge…
Elnashra: The White House announced that the United States would not launch any attack on Iran before the midterm congressional elections scheduled for November 3, in a statement made by…
Elnashra: Justice Minister Adel Nassar said that a large number of ministers supported referring the case of the explosives shipment in Dahr al-Baidar to the judiciary, and noted that the seized explosives shipment…
Ad-Diyar: Lebanese Forces Party leader Samir Geagea affirmed that his party’s positions stem from political convictions, not populist considerations, saying that “the height of populism was the Taif Agreement,” and noting that the “Lebanese Forces” know well the cost that resulted from it. In an interview with the “Saar el-Waat” program, he noted…
ASAS Media: The war was not a failed military adventure, but a reckless gamble with the future of the South and the interests of the Shiites before anyone else. This is exactly what Walid Jumblatt tried to warn about through the messages he conveyed to Sayyed Nasr…
ASAS Media: The “party” turns its back on the Lebanese authorities, acting as though it is isolated from what is happening around it. More than that, as though these authorities do not exist and their decisions have not…
ASAS Media: He is the “political magician.” The man’s magic enabled him, over more than three decades, to bury dozens of opponents and generals, dismantle party blocs, and emerge alive from every judicial crisis…
Tayyar: With deep sorrow and strong condemnation, His Beatitude Patriarch Raphael Bedros XXI Minassian, Catholicos Patriarch of the Armenian Catholics’ House of Cilicia, received the news of the terrorist attack that targeted St. George’s Church in Karak Governorate in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, leaving casualties and wounded…
El Shark: Deputy head of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council, the scholar Sheikh Ali Al-Khatib, expressed surprise in his Friday sermon at the council’s headquarters at “the authorities’ insistence on continuing negotiations with the Israeli enemy despite the repeated failure in all the rounds that have taken place.” He said: “It appears from the available information that…
El Shark: In his Friday sermon at Imam Hussein Mosque in Burj al-Barajneh, the Grand Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Qabalan addressed “the Lebanese people of all sects: ‘At this fateful moment in the history of our country, Lebanon, most political forces do not want to make any effort toward national recovery, or to prevent any…’
El Shark: The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Lebanon, Dr. Mohammad Al-Assad, met yesterday with the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Dorothy Klaus, in the presence of the head of the embassy’s media department, Wissam Abu Zaid. They discussed the situation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and ways to improve their living conditions and livelihoods, in addition…
El Shark: Minister of Interior and Municipalities Ahmad al-Hajjar received the ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Tamim Khilaf, on a courtesy visit. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to strengthen them and develop prospects for joint cooperation, particularly in the security fields. The Egyptian ambassador also visited the head of the party…
El Shark: A U.S. source told Al Hadath that the meetings held in the city of Tampa, in the U.S. state of Florida, between the Lebanese and Israeli sides ended without any notable breakthroughs. The source explained that the negotiating rounds concluded without a date being set for a new round, noting that the point…
El Shark: Prime Minister Dr. Nawaf Salam received MP Neamat Efram at the Grand Serail, and discussed the general situation with him. He also received former minister and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Saint Joseph University, Dr. Marie-Claude Najm. In the afternoon, President Salam received the Deputy Speaker of the…
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