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27349 in English · 738 original-language storiesNidaa Al Watan: Preparations for the 23 April 1969 demonstration. That demonstration would remain a pivotal moment in the history of modern Lebanon, and was one of the main reasons that led to the Cairo Agreement. What happened that day? With the arrival of spring that year, the voices of Christian leaders rose in rejection of what was happening, and Sheikh Pierre Gemayel’s voice was the loudest, so he issued…
Nidaa Al Watan: The year 1950 is considered a turning point in the history of motorsport. It was then that the first official world championship began, bringing together the elite drivers and teams in a single competition. Although Formula 1 at that time was very different from what it is today in terms of regulations, cars and safety standards, that era laid the foundations…
Nidaa Al Watan: With the vote count in Israel concluding yesterday, the Hebrew state entered a phase of seeking a coalition government capable of governing, after both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp and that of his rival Gadi Eisenkot failed to secure the majority of 61 seats needed to win the confidence of the Knesset, according to unofficial results.…
Nidaa Al Watan: Since entering Washington’s turbulent political arena, President Donald Trump has understood that a politician who masters the art of theater and speaks to the masses in their language wins their hearts and fills the largest arenas. The Republican businessman changed the rules of the game in political rhetoric, breaking records on the podiums and directing his sarcasm…
Nidaa Al Watan: In a country where security, political and living crises overlap, the government is expected to know how to set its priorities and distinguish between an issue whose handling can be postponed for days and a matter that may be connected to state security, the safety of citizens and its sovereignty. But what happened in the Council of Ministers raises a legitimate question: how can it allocate…
Nidaa Al Watan: “We remain, we remain, we remain until death.” They remain despite the wars, despite displacement, and despite fears of an unknown future. This is how the southern border Christian villages sum up their daily struggle to preserve their presence and identity, in a Middle East where maps of influence are changing and geopolitical shifts are accelerating, amid…
Elnashra: Amid the state of uncertainty prevailing over the regional situation, as the region’s outlook after the Israeli and American elections remains unclear, it appears…
Al Manar: The Wall Street Journal, citing sources: The Ukrainian military halted its strikes on Russian oil refineries after weeks of pressure…
Al Manar: Israeli artillery shelling targets Wadi al-Saluki in the south…
Lebanon 24: Syrian Ports and Customs Authority: A customs officer was killed and others injured in an armed ambush on the Baniyas–…
Lebanon 24: Zelensky: Russia is preparing to launch new attacks with ballistic missiles, and we need the means necessary to eliminate this evil…
Al Manar: Port workers in 22 countries will strike tomorrow, Friday, to protest wars and the use of ports to export weapons, in a move organizers say could disrupt more than 40 percent of shipping traffic in the Mediterranean and hold up shipments worth more than two billion dollars. Port workers’ unions in Italy…
Lebanon 24: Yemen’s Houthi group announced that it had targeted the Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi Arabia, the largest in the kingdom, the Rabigh refinery and an Aramco facility in Buqayq, in addition to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam.…
Lebanon 24: Port workers in 22 countries are preparing to organize strikes and protests tomorrow, Friday, in rejection of the arms trade and the use of seaports to ship weapons, as part of a global movement opposing the war and what organizers describe as genocide in the Gaza Strip. The movement’s organizers say the strikes could disrupt more than…
Lebanon 24: Fars News Agency, citing residents of Qeshm Island: Reports of air defense systems being activated in…
Lebanon 24: IRNA news agency: An explosion was heard in the vicinity of the Strait…
Lebanon 24: Israeli occupation forces raid the eastern area of the city…
IMLebanon: The Ports and Customs Authority reported that a member of the customs police was killed and others were injured after a patrol was ambushed on the Baniyas–Tartus road in Syria. The authority indicated that remnants of the former regime carried out the ambush, which targeted…
Lebanon 24: TASS agency quoting the mayor of Moscow: We destroyed 16 drones that were heading toward…
Al Liwaa: Lebanon is a state of institutions, and to save its state it needs neither anything extraordinary nor the invention of a new political system; what it needs is for the state to resume its original function: applying the law to everyone, protecting people, safeguarding security, enforcing public order, and confining armed force to the framework that…
Al Liwaa: If what was attributed to The Wall Street Journal about the Donald Trump administration warning Gulf states of the need to prepare for a short, intense military campaign after the U.S. congressional elections is true, the region may be facing one of the most dangerous windows of time in its modern history. The period extending between…
Al Liwaa: The elections are a popular referendum on the next four years toward which the state is heading, but the 2026 elections were also, and perhaps primarily, a referendum on the past four years, in the absence of any commission of inquiry or any serious, in-depth process of self-examination regarding those turbulent years…
An-Nahar: The sound of explosions and warning sounds near the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Qeshm Island raise questions about defensive movements in the region…
Al Liwaa: — And so... President Aoun: If Lebanon loses its Christian wing, extremism will be the alternative and will spread to Europe; and if it loses its Muslim wing for any reason, moderation will be lost! — And so... Sheikh Naim Qassem: The resistance continues with the legitimacy of the right to resist and what the Taif Constitution guarantees; there is no room for discussion about withdrawing…
Al Liwaa: There are scenes in the life of nations that go beyond their immediate security significance, touching people’s feelings, memories and fears. One such scene is that of citizens seeing their country’s army present in the streets, keeping watch over the city’s security and protecting people’s lives and their right to live in peace, away from anxiety and apprehension. Hence, comes…
Al Liwaa: The problem in Lebanon is no longer simply that the state is weak, but that its weakness has, over decades, become a reality with which political forces coexist, while citizens bear the consequences of settlements whose authors they have no ability to hold accountable. And while generations have grown accustomed to seeing the avoidance of war as a political achievement in itself,…
Al Liwaa: Lebanon’s wait for the elections to the Knesset of the Israeli entity is not over, as it awaits the official results at the beginning of next month and the true size of the parliamentary blocs, one of which will form the new government. This is a formation that takes a long time, given the nature of the political and electoral makeup…
Al Liwaa: President General Michel Suleiman received the new Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Tameem Khallaf, at his residence in Yarzeh. During the meeting, they reviewed the latest political and security developments in Lebanon and the region, as well as Arab and international developments and their repercussions for the security of the region…
Al Liwaa: Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Ms. Reem Alabali Radovan, affirmed her commitment to strengthening cooperation with the government, and that her visit was a show of solidarity with Lebanon and support for reform steps despite the challenges. The German minister toured at the head of a delegation that included German Ambassador Thomas…
Al Liwaa: President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun chaired a meeting attended by Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal, the head of Lebanon’s delegation to the Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations, former Ambassador Simon Karam, and the head of the military delegation to the negotiations, Brigadier General George Rizk, and members of the delegation: Brigadier General…
Al Liwaa: The Cabinet devoted its session to the waste issue and ways to address it, and heard a presentation from the environment minister and the heads of the Council for Development and the National Authority. It asked them to return within two weeks with concrete proposals, while the issues of the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives and electricity were absent from its agenda, prompting the Lebanese Forces ministers to…
MTV Lebanon: Dead and wounded after two patrols were ambushed on the Baniyas–…
Al Liwaa: Lebanon has no choice but to wait for the Israeli and American election milestones, and then for the outcome of the heated confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran—whether peacefully, in a deal being worked on by many countries in the region, or through a war being prepared that would this time include targets…
Al Liwaa: It will not be long before the Shiite duo realizes that a split between them is inadmissible and has repercussions. Therefore, they must return to reinforcing their longstanding coordination, or at least put an end to any misunderstanding, whether or not the relationship regains its warmth. The messages exchanged between Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri…
Lebanon 24: Fars News Agency, citing residents of Qeshm Island: Lights seen and sounds heard in…
Nidaa Al Watan: Communications Minister Charles Al-Hajj confirmed that the C4 shipment was not intended for storage, but for use, and regardless of whether its destination was inland or abroad, it would have led to an explosion of the situation in Lebanon. Minister Al-Hajj, speaking on the program “Saar el-Waet” with journalist Marcel Ghanem, stressed the need to…
