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    Security

    What’s in today’s Secrets, Wednesday 28-10-2026?

    Nidaa Al Watan: Several public administrations and ministries expressed their intention to pay the electricity bills owed by them to Électricité du Liban, while the amounts to be paid remain unconfirmed, pending their transfer to the institution. Informed Lebanese sources fear the growing phenomenon of religious violence and extremism, pausing at the spread of…

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    Politics

    Israeli Elections Between the Bet on Change and the Constants of War

    Al Liwaa: Polling stations in Israel saw an unprecedented turnout yesterday, the highest in decades, in an election taking place amid ongoing escalation on the ground in Lebanon, with demolition and bulldozing operations, and the continued suffering of more than five thousand Palestinians displaced from the West Bank, alongside the fragile Gaza ceasefire and escalating…

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    Economy

    The World Bank pushes to link Lebanon with its surroundings

    Nidaa Al Watan: Progress has been made in working with the World Bank to prepare a plan to strengthen regional connectivity between Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and neighboring countries. Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced that there was “an intention to hold a domestic conference in Lebanon next December, with the participation of the relevant ministries and the private sector, followed by a regional conference…”

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    Politics

    Ad-Diyar newspaper

    Ad-Diyar: Qleiaat Airport opens to air traffic on November 22. The railway station may launch in 2027. Officials in Lebanon, foremost among them the presidents of the republic and the government, have become convinced that the road to reviving the north and Lebanon runs through investment projects that need only their signatures to get underway…

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    Security

    Israeli artillery shelling targets Wadi al-Hujair in southern Lebanon

    Al Manar: Israeli artillery shelling targets Wadi al-Hujair in southern…

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The last diplomatic corridors before the unknown... Lebanon between the specter of war and the end of the international umbrella

Nidaa Al Watan: The region is facing its last doses of diplomacy before they wear off, as contacts and initiatives accelerate in an effort to buy time and contain postponed explosions. But the distance is shrinking between settlements that move from one stop to another and potential confrontations whose course is difficult to control or whose anticipated repercussions on more than…

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The state outside the guarantees of the mini-state... war is at the door

Nidaa Al Watan: The decision to go to war is made in Tehran, and Lebanon pays the price, while the Lebanese state stands powerless 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 to go to war to Iranian calculations, leaving Lebanon exposed to a confrontation over which it has no authority…

SecurityTranslated

The Dahiyeh Held Hostage by Waiting… Who Can Guarantee It Won’t Be Slaughtered Again?

Nidaa Al Watan: In late 2023, messages began reaching “Hezbollah” through mediators: the cost of the support war would not stop at the villages on the front line. At the time, “the party” was carrying out operations it called “blinding the enemy,” targeting communications towers and radars along the southern border, while the warnings…

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The state's confrontation with “the Party”… a stock exchange that shifts depending on the regional scene

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…

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Video - Asaad Saeed recounts the history of the “Forces” from the War Council to Maarab (4 of 6): Bashir’s election and assassination, and the renewal of the “Forces’” role... This is how we handed the Souk El Gharb front over to the army

Nidaa Al Watan: After Sheikh Bashir Gemayel was elected president of the republic, he decided that the “Lebanese Forces” should be dissolved and that those among its ranks who wished to do so should join the state administrations, the army and the security forces. But his assassination put the “Forces” back at the heart of the confrontation and renewed its role. Asaad Saeed recounts to “Nidaa Al Sanin,” in this…

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Iranian Conditions Complicate Efforts to Save the Region

Nidaa Al Watan: With polling stations closing in Israel last night, the first milestone the region had been awaiting to learn the outcome of the U.S.-Iranian conflict came to an end, while the wait will continue until the U.S. midterm elections are held next week. In the meantime, regional and international efforts to avoid…

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The Hiring Scandal at the Engineers’ Syndicate - Beirut

Nidaa Al Watan: At a time when the Engineers’ Syndicate in Beirut is touting slogans of reform, competence and transparency, its latest hires, numbering 24 employees, have swept all these slogans aside. According to information obtained by “Nidaa Al Watan,” these appointments were not made through any impartial competition or committee…

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Ronaldo nears return to Portugal

Nidaa Al Watan: Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo is close to returning to his national team after his name was included in the preliminary squad ahead of the matches against Denmark and Wales in the UEFA Nations League on November 14 and 17, following his dispute with coach Jorge Jesus, which led to his departure…

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Mbappé apologizes to China after widespread controversy

Nidaa Al Watan: French star Kylian Mbappé issued a public apology after a video circulating online sparked widespread criticism in China. In it, he appeared to mock former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, leading to the suspension of broadcasts of Spanish league matches and the termination of advertising contracts with the Real Madrid striker.…

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Cleveland halts Minnesota and the unbeaten trio

Nidaa Al Watan: Cleveland Cavaliers ended the Minnesota Timberwolves’ perfect start in the National Basketball Association (NBA) after defeating them 127-125 in overtime, on a night that saw the unbeaten records of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies continue with four wins…

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What do the horoscopes hold today, Wednesday 28-10-2026?

Nidaa Al Watan: You feel very enthusiastic today about taking on new work and an important position. Try to share your dreams and future ambitions with the person you love. Acting randomly will not be easy today, so be careful. Outward appearance alone is not enough; pay more attention to the personality of the person you love. More tasks and responsibilities are piling up on you,…

SocietyOriginal Arabic

انسحاب "اليونيفيل": نهاية مهمة أم بداية أزمة جديدة؟

Nidaa Al Watan: مع اقتراب الحادي والثلاثين من كانون الأول 2026، الموعد المحدّد لإنهاء عمليات قوات الأمم المتحدة الموقتة في لبنان (اليونيفيل)، بموجب قرار مجلس الأمن الدولي رقم 2790 الصادر عام 2025، تجد الجمهورية اللبنانية والمجتمع الدولي نفسيهما أمام سؤال مصيري يتجاوز مجرّد…

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A Reading by Novelist Omar Saeed of Painter Shawki Dalal’s “The Room of the Utopian Huweik”

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…

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Whispers of the Stadiums

Nidaa Al Watan: Coach Jamal Al Hajj has returned to Al Ahed Club to take charge of the first football team in a new stint with the club, whose colors he previously defended as a player and which he coached at earlier stages. French club Paris Saint-Germain announced that its Georgian forward Khvicha Kvaratskhelia had undergone surgery…

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Brazil and Europe: The right and the left in a battle that goes beyond the ballot box

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,…

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Tripoli Municipality invokes a 1969 decree to resolve the waste crisis in 2026

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…

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Shy Paula

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…”

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The status quo policies are more dangerous than war

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…

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