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From Decision to Implementation: Sovereignty Is the Responsibility of the Executive Authority, First and Last (Part One)

Nidaa Al Watan: Enough going around in circles with statements, evading responsibility, denial, hesitation, and fear! The claim is repeated in political and media discourse that the Lebanese army has not implemented government decisions concerning the restoration of sovereignty and the state’s exclusive control of weapons. But this claim, in my view, overlooks an issue…

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1951: The season that saw the birth of a new rivalry and Ferrari’s name begin to shine worldwide

Nidaa Al Watan: The changes between the first and second seasons of the Formula 1 World Championship were not significant, but the race calendar saw important revisions. The Monaco Grand Prix was absent from the 1951 season because of financial problems, while the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring and the Spanish Grand Prix at the Pedralbes Circuit in Barcelona were added, making it…

“Vacancy tax”… Will it unsettle the real estate market?

Nidaa Al Watan: The proposal to impose a tax on vacant apartments does not appear to be merely a fiscal measure aimed at increasing public revenues; rather, it raises a broader issue concerning the state’s ability to address imbalances in the real estate market and stimulate housing supply, amid an economic and livelihood crisis that is narrowing Lebanese people’s options in…

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A Nice chair and a hookah in Beirut

Nidaa Al Watan: La Chaise de SAB, the blue chair celebrated on the Ain al-Mreisseh waterfront, stirred the appetite of critics, activists on social media platforms, opinion-makers, and experts in the contentious relationship between the chair and power, and between the chair and the backside. I read dozens of comments on X, and one post caught my attention…

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Israel without a decisive outcome… and Lebanon between escalation and a settlement

Nidaa Al Watan: The Israeli Knesset elections on 27 October produced a result that appears decisive in its numbers, but open-ended in its implications: the Likud party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, came in first with 27 seats, but his bloc secured only 53 seats, compared with 48 for the change bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot, and 19 for the two lists…

The judiciary slaps down the “Party”: An assailant against state security

Nidaa Al Watan: Between Israeli elections and another U.S. election expected next Tuesday, the region is living through a period of anticipation tinged with caution, amid questions about whether the ballot boxes will produce political settlements or unleash military scenarios. Alongside this regional scene, open to all possibilities, it is waging…

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Elon Musk identifies 3 concerns about the Democrats returning to power

Lebanon 24: American billionaire Elon Musk warned that a Democratic victory in the White House and both chambers of Congress in the 2028 elections could, in his estimation, lead to a radical change in the American political system, describing the potential scenario as possibly meaning “the end of democracy” as it is known.…

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8 oil tankers were blown up by mines in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 48 hours

Al Manar: The commander of the U.S. Central Command stated hours ago that the Strait of Hormuz was completely cleared of mines and that all types of vessels were passing through it. However, the number of oil tankers blown up by Iranian mines in the past 48 hours alone reached 8. Six days ago, while the Iranian Revolutionary Guard published a clip…

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Poland is witnessing political and judicial escalation amid the conflict between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government and President Karol Nawrocki

Al Manar: Poland is witnessing political and judicial escalation amid the conflict between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government and President Karol Nawrocki over the Constitutional Tribunal and the powers of state institutions. The crisis worsened when police entered the Tribunal’s headquarters and suspended its president’s duties, in a move the Tribunal described as…

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فرنسا تستنفر 70 ألف عنصر أمني خشية تكرار "السبت الأسود"

Lebanon 24: تستعد السلطات الفرنسية لموجة جديدة من الاحتجاجات، السبت، وسط مخاوف من تكرار أعمال العنف التي شهدتها البلاد في 17 تشرين الأول، مع استمرار التعبئة التي تقودها حركة "السترات الصفراء" بمشاركة نقابات عمالية وطلابية. Advertisement وأعلن وزير الداخلية الفرنسي لوران…

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Despite leading the election, why is Netanyahu acting as if he has been defeated?

Lebanon 24: The results of the Israeli election, despite not resolving the political landscape, indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may remain in power in the coming period, as neither camp has managed to secure a parliamentary majority that would allow it to form a new government. However, Netanyahu’s behavior after the election does not…

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U.S.-Iranian communication… a serious opportunity or a new deception!

Lebanon 24: The information circulated over the past hours about the existence of serious channels of communication between U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei was notable, along with talk of an exchange of messages concerning the possibility of returning to negotiations between Washington…

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Advice from ChatGPT ends young Chinese woman’s life!

IMLebanon: The family of young Chinese woman Bowen Wan is suing OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT of encouraging their daughter to stop taking epilepsy medication, before she was found dead in February 2026. The young woman followed the AI’s guidance to reduce her dose of “lamotrigine” from 400 mg to zero, over 25 days without a prescription…

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Lebanon in the calculations after the Israeli elections... A postponed settlement or open-ended escalation?

Al Liwaa: The Israeli elections held on 27 October this month did not settle the identity of the next government so much as reveal a political impasse open to complex coalition negotiations, amid the rival camps’ inability to secure a clear parliamentary majority. But the paradox that directly concerns Lebanon is that the ambiguity…

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What are the constitutional and Taif Agreement criteria for achieving administrative decentralization in Lebanon?

Al Liwaa: Administrative decentralization in Lebanon is not merely a means of speeding up transactions or improving services; rather, it is an essential part of a project to rebuild the constitutional state and its institutions. The real challenge lies not in transferring powers from Beirut to the regions, but in determining how authority, responsibility and resources are distributed…

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From the enemy’s media: No conditional citizenship… and no veto on a government that includes Arab parties

Al Liwaa: Raise your heads, we have won; Israel’s democracy has made its position clear. The election results show that the public is tired of Benjamin Netanyahu; the public has made its decision, and now only one question remains: Will we, the leaders of the bloc, be able to respect the voters’ will? And will we send Netanyahu and his government to…

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Between the train and the chair!

Al Liwaa: - And so... Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref: Our readiness today to seriously confront any malicious act is far greater than during the 12-day and 40-day wars! - And so... If these cultural (Ain al-Mreisseh chair) or tourism-related (electric train) events were taking place amid achievements on the level of…

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Beirut Is the Foundation (8)

Al Liwaa: After examining Beirut’s resources, the question arises: who will turn these resources into work, income, and a dignified life? It begins with Beirut itself. The city cannot tie its future to waiting for a state exhausted by wars, chaos, corruption, and cronyism across all its sectors and administrations, nor reduce the role of its people to complaining.…

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The Dangers of Security Failures in Lebanon

Al Liwaa: Based on security sciences, security threats in Lebanese, Arab and international law are acts and activities that pose a direct threat to the vital interests of the state and its legitimate political and security institutions, or to political, social and economic stability, or to the safety of any citizen…

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