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Al-Sharq: Bated breath on the eve of the Israeli elections… Katz: We will not attack, but!

National News Agency: Aoun followed up on the electricity file with Efram... and a question to the government about Galerie Semaan. National News Agency — Al-Sharq newspaper wrote: The region is on the brink of possibilities, and Israel is brandishing fire as military pressure intersects with Tehran negotiations and calculations surrounding the Israeli elections. While the resistance denies that Iran has…

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Al-Binaa: The Mecca pact in Tehran is a turning point… and Putin receives Pezeshkian and the Emir of Qatar today

National News Agency: “Israel” votes: Eisenkot is leading in the polls… and the Arab lists are the deciding factor. Sanaa targets the oil pipeline and Riyadh airport… and Egypt approves defensive support for Saudi Arabia. National News Agency - Al-Binaa newspaper wrote: Regional and international mediation efforts intersect with electoral deadlines and mounting pressure…

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Al-Liwaa: Lebanon bets on containing regional tensions... Hezbollah’s weapons are limited to explosives and drones

National News Agency: Wataniya – Al-Liwaa newspaper wrote: Lebanese attention is focused on consolidating internal stability, while reports about regional (Arab and Islamic) efforts to contain regional tensions—particularly on the United States-Iran front—are dismissed, at a time when Israel is preoccupied with elections amid fierce competition…

What was offered to the “Party” in exchange for handing over its weapons!

MTV Lebanon: The question is no longer whether war could return, but when… The Middle East is shrouded in an atmosphere of embers that seem more scorching than what we witnessed in the previous war. Preparations are at their peak, and we can almost hear and see the countdown, while Lebanon continues to play the same game of delay, through procrastination…

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Al-Diyar: Lebanon between diplomacy and threats of war... Caution and anticipation! Hezbollah clings to ambiguity... Is Washington escalating and threatening?

National News Agency: Wataniya – Al-Diyar newspaper wrote: Cautious anticipation prevails across the Lebanese scene. Official political leaders have chosen to cool down the hot issues and deal calmly with contentious matters with Hezbollah, while awaiting the unfolding of pressing regional and international developments amid the ambiguity prevailing in the military…

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Al-Jumhuriya: Pre-election anxiety is moving into the post-election period! And the four-way meeting in Tehran: to contain the escalation

National News Agency: Wataniya – Al-Jumhuriya newspaper wrote: The period preceding the Knesset elections in Israel and the midterm elections in the United States saw the alarmist chambers and sources of malicious domestic and foreign propaganda harness all their energies to grip the entire world with anxiety over the possibility of inevitable wars that would precede them,…

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For the first time... Sabreen reveals the circumstances behind removing her hijab

Lebanon 24: Egyptian actress Sabreen revealed the circumstances behind her decision to remove her hijab after two years of psychological struggles and hesitation. She spoke about her family’s reactions to the decision and the criticism that still follows her because of it. She also opened up for the first time about her previous marriages, speaking about her personal life and the pressures she went through…

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Al-Akhbar: Jumblatt: Lebanon was wrong to abandon “Islamabad”… and “Rubio’s path” will lead nowhere | Israeli election results do not dispel the dangers of war

National News Agency: National News - Al-Akhbar newspaper wrote: Lebanon is entering a new phase of political stagnation, against the backdrop of the Israeli elections, without major illusions about what their results may bring. Political assessments indicate that changing faces in Tel Aviv does not necessarily mean a change in the security and military approach,…

Hezbollah’s pledge to keep Lebanon out of the conflict… between Tehran’s decision and domestic calculations

CH23: Hezbollah’s pledge not to move toward military involvement if the United States or Israel launches a new war on Iran raises questions about the reasons behind the position and the group’s ability to withstand developments on the ground. After the experience of March 2026, when the group again opened the Lebanese front despite…

Internal stalemate amid anticipation of the Israeli elections and their repercussions

CH23: All eyes in Middle Eastern countries, along with those of many countries around the world, are focused on Israel today, as it enters one of its most politically complex general elections, and one that raises the most troubling questions about the fate of the region, given whatever results it produces and whatever government…

Would Lebanon suffer more if Eisenkot wins?

MTV Lebanon: An official source told Nidaa Al-Watan that “the mood in Lebanon is dominated by caution, monitoring and anticipation as it awaits the emergence of the Israeli election results,” explaining that “the result has direct implications for Lebanon, although Israeli policy in general will not change. Netanyahu promised…

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The key lies in Tehran… Will “Hezbollah” enter the war? (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Al Jadeed: The key lies in Tehran… Will “Hezbollah” enter the war? (Asharq Al-Awsat) Asharq Al-Awsat reported: Ministerial sources believe that the final decision of “Hezbollah,” which continues to refuse to implement the government’s decisions, is tied to the calculations of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and consider that the party’s leeway in making a decision…

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Hezbollah’s Explosives Stardom

An-Nahar: A detailed analysis of Hezbollah’s weapons and their political and security impact in Lebanon, with a review of officials’ positions and security-related events…

Lebanon Before the Region’s Reckoning: Will “Hezbollah” Choose to Become Lebanese Before It’s Too Late?

Nidaa Al Watan: Lebanon stands before a stage of major, historic challenges, amid mounting warnings of the possibility of a new confrontation between Israel and Iran, and the repercussions it could bring that extend beyond the borders of the two countries to affect the entire region. Despite the increasingly urgent warnings that reached Beirut about the danger of committing…

Mujra Urals and “handing over the people”

Nidaa Al Watan: Alongside the political and media pressure mixed with security threats that “Hezbollah” placed on the authorities, and which helped heighten polarization over the official handling of explosives shipments—setting the basis for how the state approaches the dilemma of the “party’s” weapons in their various functions—a difficult-to-overlook observation emerges, linked…

Al-Saddi’s reforms reveal more of the previous experiment’s failure

Nidaa Al Watan: Since Energy and Water Minister Joe Al-Saddi took office and began taking reform steps aimed at rescuing the electricity sector from its accumulated crises, the Free Patriotic Movement has begun launching continuous media and political campaigns targeting the minister, his team, and the Lebanese Forces. Campaigns based on accusations…

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Carmen Lebbos in a prominent “role” off screen

Nidaa Al Watan: Away from the camera and acting roles, actress Carmen Lebbos is today taking on a “role” of another kind, having chosen to turn her concern for the issue of stray dogs into action on the ground. Today, she is not content with merely speaking up in defense of animals; she is also following the implementation of the “TNVR” methodology, which is based on…

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Lula wins… and Brazil on the brink of division

Nidaa Al Watan: Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pulled off a major upset in the second round of the presidential election, defeating his right-wing conservative rival Flávio Bolsonaro with about 51.8 percent of the vote, compared with 48.2 percent for the son of the former president…

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October 23, 1983: The Lesson in Sovereignty We Never Learned

Nidaa Al Watan: At dawn on Sunday, October 23, 1983, a truck bomb struck the U.S. Marines’ headquarters near Beirut airport, killing 241 American military personnel. Minutes later, a second blast destroyed the “Drakkar” building in Jnah, killing 58 French paratroopers. The two forces were part of the multinational force that returned…

Eastern Zawtar: A vote over sovereignty

Nidaa Al Watan: On 21 October 2026, the image from Eastern Zawtar was not provocative merely because Israeli soldiers voted in their country’s general elections, but because they did so inside a Lebanese home, on land under Israeli military control. Here the issue goes beyond the bounds of an electoral procedure organized…

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“The Party” from preserving its weapons to preserving its community

Nidaa Al Watan: The military events that “Hezbollah” is going through, and the mounting pressure being tested by Tehran, have imposed a new reality in which the challenges have gone beyond the military sphere to strike at the organizational and social structure of “the Party” at its core. Amid fears of any slide toward a new support war, “the Party” has consciously moved toward…

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Constitutional Justice in Lebanon: Its Limits and Scope

Nidaa Al Watan: There are recent concerns, due to the general global decline in legal culture in law faculties—and we do not say rights faculties—and because of the relative newness of the field of constitutional justice, that constitutional courts may become, as is evident in many cases in Lebanon, the Arab world and globally, an extension of the ordinary judiciary or a legislative body…

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Lebanon Between Two Conferences: “Lebanon First and Last” Exposes the Falsification by the “National Gathering”

Nidaa Al Watan: Lebanon has recently witnessed two conferences that reflected the depth of the conflict underway in the country between sovereignist elites and groups aligned under the banner of Iran’s axis, and showed how this conflict is being managed between the two sides. The first conference was held under the title “National Forum for Sovereignty – Lebanon First and Last” at the Le…

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“Hajj Bahaa al-Din Hariri Mosque Complex” Celebrates the Award Ceremony for the “First Taj al-Waqar Quranic Competition” and Honors Its Participants

Saida Online: Under the patronage of Ms. Bahia Hariri, the “Hajj Bahaa al-Din Hariri Mosque Complex” held an award ceremony for the First Taj al-Waqar Quranic Competition (1448 AH - 2026 AD), which the complex organized over the course of a full month, with 850 male and female contestants from Sidon, the South, and the Iqlim al-Kharroub region, divided into four…

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