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36630 in English · 994 original-language storiesNidaa Al Watan: There is a paradox worth reflecting on in our contemporary world: human beings have never possessed this much knowledge or had such easy access to it, yet they seem more perplexed by questions concerning their existence and fate. We know a great deal about the universe and nature, and develop machines capable of answering…
Al Manar: UK Maritime Trade Operations: A fire breaks out on a commercial vessel transiting northeast of Oman’s Khasab in the Strait…
Nidaa Al Watan: “Dar Al-Mu’allif” has published a novel titled “On the Account of Absence” by writer Qais Nimr. The novel revolves around love that does not end when its beloved is gone, war that can only be told in the voice of those who remain, and writing as the only way we resist forgetting. “Manar,” the protagonist of “On the Account of Absence,” returns to…
Nidaa Al Watan: Finance Minister Yassine Jaber received a World Bank delegation yesterday, including the World Bank’s country director in Beirut, Enrique Armas, and the bank’s infrastructure division director, Catherine Sin. During the meeting, they reviewed progress in implementing recovery and reconstruction projects funded by the World Bank,…
Nidaa Al Watan: Batroun’s loaves break the siege of eastern Beirut during the Hundred Days’ War; a shop called “Hand It to Me,” dedicated to drugs, between Keserwan and Byblos, evoking the “Ladies of Light” in Byblos... Music confronts the darkness with Jahida…
Nidaa Al Watan: Diplomatic efforts to avert a renewed war in the region have not yielded tangible results so far, as the Iranian regime remains committed to its seven preconditions, which make negotiations over the nuclear program impossible, according to what Iran’s chief negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, confirmed,…
Nidaa Al Watan: Do not give up at the first difficulty you face, and try to be capable of shouldering responsibility. You are trying to make your relationship with your beloved succeed, but feel that these efforts are futile. You are brilliant today and enjoy intelligence because you will overcome the difficulties you face with ease. You are planning a romantic meeting to spend with your partner. Today is suitable…
Nidaa Al Watan: The refusal by residents of Akkar, Minieh and Deir Ammar to receive Tripoli’s waste did not deter the municipal council from continuing to “devise” catastrophic solutions for the north. Instead of reviewing the options on the table and seeking a sustainable, scientific plan to process the waste, attention has this time shifted to Beddawi, with Tripoli Municipality proposing…
Nidaa Al Watan: The President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, received at Baabda Palace a delegation from Al-Hikma Club that included its president, Ragheb Haddad, its honorary president, MP Jihad Baqradooni, and the club’s members and players, in the presence of Lebanese Basketball Federation President Akram Halabi, on the occasion of Al-Hikma winning the Arab Club Championship…
Nidaa Al Watan: Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo outperformed his Argentine rival Lionel Messi in a fan vote organized by the Ballon d'Or website to select the best performance by a player who has won the award throughout its history, under the title “B.O.A.T”. Ronaldo came first for his performance in 2008, ahead of Messi for the 2012 edition. The announcement came…
Nidaa Al Watan: A tribute lunch is being prepared for representatives of one of the funds, on the occasion of the opening of a hospital in the Baalbek area, at the home of a figure who supports and backs Hezbollah. Informed sources confirmed that the Arqoub area and its villages are now free of illegal weapons and party-affiliated elements, which explains the end…
Nidaa Al Watan: What I remember most from my adolescence is my first emotional ordeal, which I experienced vicariously through others. It cost me neither sleepless nights nor tissues for crying, but hours spent following characters who had everything needed for happiness, except for one thing: common sense. And the “Romans-Photos” novels, published…
Nidaa 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…
