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39513 in English · 1059 original-language storiesTayyar: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was reelected on Sunday to an unprecedented fourth term after narrowly defeating his conservative rival Flávio Bolsonaro, who refused to acknowledge the result and announced his intention to demand the annulment of the election. Lula, 80, received 51.8…
Tayyar: It may begin with a simple headache that prompts a person to search online for its causes, only to find themselves faced with the possibility of having serious illnesses. With repeated body checks and seeking reassurance from others, temporary anxiety may turn into a persistent obsession that affects daily life. According to the Health Services Authority…
Tayyar: Milan secured a valuable away win over Udinese by two goals to nil on Sunday evening, in the eighth round of the Italian football league. American Christian Pulisic opened the scoring for Milan early, in the sixth minute, taking advantage of a pass from Croatian Luka Modrić. Omari…
Tayyar: Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad are preparing to return to Israel to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for Tuesday, in a move led by civic initiatives amid fierce competition between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition parties, which could make expatriates’ votes influential in the distribution…
Tayyar: Jordan’s Public Security Directorate announced on Monday the arrest of 3 people whom it said carried out an attack targeting citizens inside a church in the village of Hamoud in Karak Governorate, in the south of the country. The directorate said in a statement that specialized investigation and raid teams, in cooperation with the security agencies, managed at dawn on Monday…
Tayyar: Some of what appeared in Al-Binaa’s headline: Hezbollah today faces a delicate equation in which its calculations intersect with the Lebanese reality and the cost of any new Israeli war. In this context, political indications suggest that the decision to become involved in a possible confrontation against the backdrop of an American-Israeli war on Iran is not…
Tayyar: Ali Nour al-Din — In the final week of last September, Eurobond trading reflected a major wave of optimism following the visit by the IMF mission to Beirut, and the positive signals during it regarding the final version of the law to reform the status of banks. At that stage, it reached…
Tayyar: Munir Al-Rabi‘ - Benjamin Netanyahu was quite candid when he said that the opportunity available to Israel would not be available later to strike Iran and eliminate its nuclear program. He considered the two years remaining in Donald Trump’s presidential term to be that opportunity. They are the two years he wants…
El Shark: The head of the Lebanese Gulf Nazih Group: Lebanon does not need one side to prevail over another, but a state in which justice prevails, the dignity of the citizen is safeguarded, and loyalty to the homeland comes above every affiliation. Not every majority is right, and not every voting result is fair. True democracy cannot be reduced to rule…
El Shark: The possibility of Syrian fighters taking part in confronting the Houthis was one of the issues discussed during Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s meeting with U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack in Damascus, amid regional moves linked to the escalation in Yemen and the reshaping of military alliances. The meeting also addressed the future…
El Shark: The fallout from the “Dahr al-Baidar explosives truck” session has not entirely ended, as it sets the stage for an additional phase of internal wrangling between the camp pressing the presidency and the government to take operational measures against the party that would turn government decisions into tangible actions, and the presidential troika of Aoun, Berri and Salam, which…
El Shark: The timing of the Trump administration’s escalation of its pressure on Ukraine and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Iran suggests the existence of an undisclosed deal between Washington and Moscow, under which the former would pressure Kyiv to end or freeze the war, in return for Russian pressure…
El Shark: يتقاطع شبه إجماع دولي على أن ما يُدار حالياً على الساحة الفلسطينية من تطورات هو مؤشر واضح على أن عملية طوفان الأقصى في السابع من تشربن الأول 2023 وأن ما تلاها ولا يزال، حتى الساعة، من فظائع وارتكابات إسرائيلية، يسير نحو إنهاء «حل الدولتين»، وأن مبادرة قمة…
Tayyar: Some of what appeared in Al-Diyar’s Lebanese headline: After the country witnessed a state of tension last week amid developments related to the file on the explosives shipment in Dahr al-Baidar, and the possibility of referring it to the Judicial Council, an atmosphere of calm prevailed toward the end of the week, following the government’s decision to hold off on…
Tayyar: An-Nahar: Freezing domestic and foreign files on the eve of the two entitlements... Lebanon between Israeli measures and American warnings. Al-Akhbar: Aoun is hostage to Christian one-upmanship, and Nassar insists on referring the case to the Judicial Council. The Dahr al-Baidar truck returns to the Cabinet? Israeli elections: Change…
Tayyar: Al-Binaa: Secrets and Behind-the-Scenes SecretsExperts in American and Israeli affairs expect the possibility of an electoral loss for the camp of U.S. President Donald Trump and his ally, occupation government Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to raise a question that goes beyond the transfer of power to the extent to which their camps are prepared to recognize the legitimacy of…
Tayyar: Some of what appeared in Al-Liwaa’s headline: Lebanon is living through days of difficult anticipation over what will happen in the region before or after the American and Israeli elections, amid the continued mobilization of military forces and fleets and military preparations in America, Israel and Iran, and warnings from U.S. embassies to their nationals in the East…
Tayyar: Some of what appeared in Al-Liwaa’s headline: Informed political sources told Al-Liwaa newspaper that Lebanese officials are closely monitoring current developments on the fronts of tension and following the public statements issued on this matter, noting that assurances that Lebanon will not be dragged into a war are not certain…
Tayyar: Al-Akhbar: The Dahr al-Baidar truck case was not closed when the proposal to refer it to the Judicial Council was withdrawn from discussion at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting; rather, it entered a more ambiguous phase. The fact that the referral was not raised did not mean it had been definitively dropped, just as the understanding between President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam…
Lebanon 24: Egyptian artist Ahmed Saad revealed that he had suffered a health setback that significantly affected his voice, attributing it to exhaustion caused by singing with great intensity while performing at weddings, just days before the scheduled release of his new album. Advertisement Saad explained, in a video clip he posted on his official Facebook account, …
Lebanon 24: The Israeli website "Natziv" published a report discussing the organizational and military changes the Israeli army is undergoing to confront the growing threat posed by drones, in light of lessons learned from the war in Ukraine and military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. Advertisement The report, which…
El Shark: President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun affirmed that “his visit to Tripoli is to affirm the state’s presence alongside it and its people,” expressing “his commitment to working for a better future for it and for all of Lebanon.” He stressed that “development is not a favor from the state, but a right of citizens, and that the state we want is…”
El Shark: 26 full years of failure and human and financial losses. More importantly, instead of liberating the Lebanese territories occupied by the Israeli enemy, we have been afflicted with a new occupation by the Israeli enemy (60 villages covering an area of 700 square kilometers that Israel has occupied to this day, and we do not know whether things will continue as they are…
El Shark: Although local industry meets a large share of the local market’s consumption (particularly in the food and disinfectant sectors), the continued drain of fuel and the absence of security stability threaten the ability of the remaining factories to endure under duress. The rise in fuel and energy prices has placed the industrial sector…
El Shark: Amid anticipation of what the situation between Washington and Tel Aviv on the one hand and Tehran on the other will lead to, in light of US positions pointing to a resumption of the war as mediation efforts falter, the Lebanese scene remained in a state of anticipation and waiting, as long as the political authority is unable to keep Lebanon out of its repercussions and the continued influence of Hezbollah…
El Shark: The Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, presided over a festive Mass at the Cathedral of Saint George in the town of Aqoura, in the Byblos district, at the invitation of the diocese’s bishop, Michel Aoun, and Aqoura’s pastor, Archpriest Rizkallah Abi Nasr, on the occasion of the centenary of the beatification of the holy martyrs…
El Shark: The secretary-general of the “Orthodox Gathering,” former MP Marwan Abu Fadel, and the members followed developments in the terrorist attack that targeted a funeral ceremony inside the grounds of St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Hamoud in Karak Governorate in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and led to the martyrdom of seven…
CH23: He considered the decree establishing an investment committee for the National Social Security Fund one of the most important decrees to follow the establishment of the Social Security Board of Directors, for Law No. 319/2023, which amends certain provisions of the Social Security Law to establish a retirement and social protection system, to enter into force. In this context,…
Ad-Diyar: Nearly three decades after Lebanon last approved curricula, the Center for Educational Research and Development put into the hands of the educational community a 553-page document entitled “Scope and Sequence Matrix of Competencies and Learning Outcomes in the New Lebanese National Curriculum.” This is the document that Decree No. … on curricula made
Ad-Diyar: Legislative Decree No. 150, dated 16 September 1983, known as the Judicial Judiciary Law, sets out the conditions for entering the judicial corps and the qualities, qualifications, and obligations it imposes on a judge. A judge, as I have said in several previous interviews and articles, is the one who rules and decides on files and cases. His powers…
Ad-Diyar: Pursuing those who carry weapons to resist the occupation raises a question that goes beyond regulating arms to the role of the state and the very meaning of sovereignty. The state derives its legitimacy from protecting its society, safeguarding its land and independence, and its authority over the means of force gains its meaning from its ability to fulfill this task. Therefore, criminalizing…
Ad-Diyar: The political messages that preceded Thursday’s Cabinet session succeeded in closing the door on any political explosion, following demands by some parties to refer the file on the Dhahr al-Baidar shipment to the Judicial Council. The messages began to take effect, starting with a visit by Brigadier General André Rahal, adviser to the President of the Republic, to…
Ad-Diyar: Sources in contact with Maarab read a host of political messages in the latest remarks by the head of the Lebanese Forces Party. The most important was that Maarab supports the path leading to the establishment of a functioning state, but without granting the authorities an open-ended mandate or a blank check, particularly if the gap between the announced decisions… continues
Ad-Diyar: What is this mythical state that poses the existential obsession of the greatest empire in history—unless it is the empire of “every man for himself,” if we follow the contradictory positions among its leaders. Astonishing statements by Donald Trump: “Iran poses a threat to global security,” “a danger to strategic security…”
Ad-Diyar: Washington expressed its desire at the recent Tampa talks in Florida to end the mediation role between Lebanon and “Israel” and move to direct negotiations between them. For this reason, it is also rejecting, so far, any international presence in southern Lebanon to replace “UNIFIL” after its mandate ends on December 31 next year, since it…
Ad-Diyar: The organization “Hostage Liberation Worldwide,” headed by Lebanese American Nizar Zakka, issued an urgent humanitarian appeal calling for progress on the issue of those missing in Syria, who have been absent for many years without their fate receiving the attention needed to determine whether they have died…
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