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Fleetwood Pulls Off a Stunning Upset and Knocks Out Arsenal

Nidaa Al Watan: Arsenal, champions of the English league, suffered a heavy blow as they exited the fourth round of the League Cup after losing to Fleetwood Town, a fourth-tier club, 3-5 on penalties, following a 1-1 draw at the end of regulation time in one of the competition’s biggest surprises. Aaron Lobalo-Pe opened the scoring…

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Salam: Supporting Lebanese industry is a national interest linked to growth

Nidaa Al Watan: Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said during the opening of the second edition of the National Industry Exhibition 2026 that supporting Lebanese industry is not a sectoral demand, but a national interest linked to economic growth, job creation, financial stability and economic sovereignty, stressing that “the government views…

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What do the stars have in store today, Thursday 29-10-2026?

Nidaa Al Watan: Don’t give up, and try to be somewhat responsible. You are trying to make your relationship with your loved one work, but you feel these efforts are in vain. You are shining today and are intelligent, as you will easily overcome the difficulties you face. You are planning a romantic date to spend with your partner. Today is a good day for building relationships…

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هبة طوجي تغنّي للأمل

Nidaa Al Watan: في أمسية جمعت الفن بالرسالة الإنسانية، أحيت الفنانة هبة طوجي حفلاً غنائياً مميزاً على مسرح كازينو لبنان، بإشراف وإدارة الفنان أسامة الرحباني، دعماً لجمعية بسمة بالتزامن مع اقتراب الذكرى الخامسة والعشرين لتأسيسها، على أن يعود ريع الحفل بالكامل لدعم برامج…

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Two Events from Which We Can Learn a Lesson

Nidaa Al Watan: Two events, perhaps pivotal, face Lebanon. The Israeli parliamentary elections, and more importantly in the long term, Europe’s ability to find solutions to the population replacement sweeping across its West. The standards of democracy in Israel cannot be understood unless we place the parliamentary elections within a framework chosen by its legislators. For the will of the people…

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Charlotte Hornets retire No. 1 jersey in honor of Muggsy Bogues

Nidaa Al Watan: The Charlotte Hornets announced the retirement of Muggsy Bogues’ No. 1 jersey. The shortest player in NBA history, he is being honored for a career spanning 14 seasons, during which he succeeded in overcoming all the prejudices associated with his height and established himself among the leading players of his generation. The No. 1 jersey will be raised to…

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At Manchester United, millions are wasted and trophies do not return

Nidaa Al Watan: What if Manchester United decided to sack Michael Carrick? The question brings back into focus the huge financial bill the club has paid since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, without the repeated changes succeeding in bringing the English league title back to “Old Trafford.” Despite the management’s continued confidence in Carrick…

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Whispers of the Stadiums

Nidaa Al Watan: İsmail Kartal resigned as coach of Turkey’s Fenerbahçe following a 1-2 defeat to Galatasaray in the Istanbul derby in the ninth round of the league. His departure came amid the team’s declining results domestically and in Europe, after it lost 0-6 to English side Aston Villa and drew 2-2 with Czech side Slavia Prague in the …

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What’s in Al Asrar today, Thursday, 29-10-2026?

Nidaa Al Watan: Information originating from the U.S. capital reveals that sanctions will be imposed on Lebanese judges for reasons including proven corruption and cooperation with Hezbollah. Figures in Baalbek-Hermel are moving to form a cross-sectarian tribal gathering, bringing together the region’s tribes and families, with the aim of shaping a political force opposed to the Shiite duo,…

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Obama and Trump: The Battle for Congress and the Limits of Power

Nidaa Al Watan: The dispute between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is no longer merely a verbal confrontation between a former president and a sitting president, but has become part of a broader political battle over the future of power in the United States. Just days before the midterm elections, scheduled for the third of November, the two men entered into…

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Jean-Michel Frodon defends film criticism from Beirut

Nidaa Al Watan: As part of the events of the thirtieth edition of the “European Film Festival,” Nidaa Al Watan met French film critic and historian Jean-Michel Frodon (Jean-Michel Frodon) at the “Metropolis Cinematheque.” The conversation brought together cinematic memory and current questions, from his relationship in Beirut and “Metropolis”…

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Arts – Branch One: “Drug users” and students in the same faculty!

Nidaa Al Watan: The start of programs at the Faculty of Arts – Branch One in Beirut was delayed by a month compared with the other branches of the Lebanese University, because displaced people remained there after the war stopped and negotiations to evacuate them failed. After public threats against the faculty administration and the arrival of new families, Beirut Branch Intelligence intervened and confined them to one…

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President Eisenkot’s Country! - Imad Moussa | Nidaa Al Watan

Nidaa Al Watan: The Lebanese were divided between supporters of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and backers of Tiberias’s distinguished son, Gadi Eisenkot, in an electoral contest in which, for the first time in the history of the Jewish state, Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza, Syria (the security zone), and Zawtar al-Sharqiyah took part. It was clear that…

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The “Rejecters” Group

Nidaa Al Watan: Some believe there is a mutually deceptive relationship between “Hezbollah” and Israel, and therefore equate their rejection of the party’s weapons with their rejection of the peace project between Lebanon and Israel. This approach, whose proponents claim to present themselves to the public as idealistic and morally superior, ignores a fundamental truth: rejecting peace…

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Civil War

Nidaa Al Watan: No project has legitimacy at the expense of legitimacy and the project of the national state. No force, however much regional depth may lie behind it, is capable of achieving the equation and putting it into practice: that the weapons remain constant while Lebanon changes. But what remains of the arrogance of power in days of weakness leads to threats of civil war being made lightly in defense of weapons…

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Netanyahu... Defying the End | Nidaa Al Watan

Nidaa Al Watan: Every time I wrote a political ending for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s “fox” added a new line to his eventful biography. He entered the election burdened by the failure of the October 7 attack, open wars, legal proceedings, and rivalries that had accumulated inside and outside Israel. He emerged from the initial count with his party having secured the largest party bloc,…

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A new possible dwarf planet beyond Pluto!

IMLebanon: Using a telescope located in Chile, scientists discovered an icy object orbiting farther away than Pluto, which may join the list of dwarf planets in our solar system. The researchers said that the discovered object, named “2026 ED138,” is approximately between 600 and 1500 kilometers in diameter and orbits the Sun at…

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Woman dies after following ChatGPT’s advice... What happened?

Lebanon 24: The death of a 31-year-old American woman has sparked debate about the risks of relying on artificial intelligence for medical decisions, after her family accused the chatbot “شات جي بي تي ” of encouraging her to reduce her medication doses and eventually stop taking it, without consulting a doctor. Advertisement According to a report published…

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Cuba’s representative to the United Nations: Washington’s policies show that its real aim is to inflict suffering and deprivation on Cubans to stir social discontent and change the political system chosen by the Cuban people

Al Manar: Cuba’s representative to the United Nations: Washington’s policies show that its real aim is to inflict suffering and deprivation on Cubans to stir social discontent and change the political system chosen by the people…

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Between the October 17, 2019 Revolution in Lebanon and the October 7, 2023 Crossing in Gaza

Al Liwaa: In the history of peoples, there are moments that seem sudden but reveal fractures that have accumulated for a long time beneath the surface of political and economic reality. These moments may turn into opportunities for change, entry points for reproducing existing regimes, or conflicts whose consequences go beyond the will of those who launched them. And between October 17, 2019 in Lebanon…

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From the enemy’s media: Arab voices’ participation is a democratic opportunity that may not come again to rid themselves of Netanyahu’s predicaments

Al Liwaa: • Let’s start with the good news: Benjamin Netanyahu failed to prevent the elections from being held on schedule, to close the airspace to Israelis who came from abroad to vote, or to disrupt the voting process in Arab society. • Israel’s citizens showed unprecedented loyalty to the system yesterday…

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And like this... and like this... and like this!

Al Liwaa: - And like this... former Economy Minister (2005) Sami Haddad on depositors’ money: The state doesn’t have the means to pay them back, and depositors are an affluent class because low-income people don’t have a penny in the bank... Is the state going to give money to the affluent? - And like this... the commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hajj Hossein Yekta, appeared as he…

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Lebanon Between an Opportunity for De-escalation and the Risks of a Bargain

Al Liwaa: The four-way security meeting in Tehran came as a cautious regional attempt to rein in tensions before they reach a breaking point for everyone. But the most urgent and consequential question for us in Beirut is: Where does Lebanon feature on the agenda of the negotiating capitals? Are we facing an opportunity to restore the state, or merely a bargaining chip…

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Netanyahu remains on the scene with Trump’s support

Al Liwaa: The significance of the Israeli elections is not limited to determining the identity of the next prime minister, as their results extend beyond the bounds of domestic competition to affect the future of Israeli policy toward the entire region, from Iran and Lebanon to Syria and Gaza, and their repercussions for regional balances. Amid a parliamentary scene…

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