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The basketball league kicks off today with 11 teams

Nidaa Al Watan: The Lebanese First Division Basketball Championship for the 2026-2027 season kicks off today, Saturday, with 11 teams instead of 12 after Tadamon Hrajel withdrew shortly before the start of the competition. The season opens with a matchup between Central and NSA at 9:45 p.m. in Jounieh, with the first-round games set to continue until…

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Nidaa Al Watan: انتقد الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب نجم كرة السلة ليبرون جيمس معتبراً أن تصرفاته خلال عزف النشيد الوطني قبل مباراة فيلادلفيا سفنتي سيكسرز تنطوي على عدم احترام للولايات المتحدة. وطالب ترامب اللاعب بالاعتذار بعدما نشر مقطع فيديو يظهره وهو يحرّك ذراعيه ويؤدي…

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Al-Ansar qualify despite defeat, while Al-Najma bow out despite victory

Nidaa Al Watan: Al-Ansar secured a place in the next round of the AFC Challenge Cup after finishing top of Group One, despite losing 1-2 to Turkmenistan’s Ahal. Meanwhile, Al-Najma bowed out of the tournament despite beating Kuwait’s Al-Arabi 3-1, after losing the contest for the best runners-up spot to Ittihad…

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Zahi Bustani: The statesman and man of loyalty

Nidaa Al Watan: On the twentieth anniversary of Zahi Bustani’s passing, we recall the career of an exceptional man who chose his path out of conviction and devoted his intelligence and energies to serving the state and defending Lebanon’s sovereignty and dignity. A man who combined broad culture and keen insight with integrity, humility, and steadfastness in his principles. He was discreet,…

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The Potato King - Imad Moussa | Nidaa Al Watan

Nidaa Al Watan: Among the statements of one of the most handsome MPs of the “Party,” Hassan De Caprio: “It is natural for the resistance to transport weapons and for them to reach the front. But how it transports them and by what route—that has its own procedures. Otherwise, how would the resistance prepare itself and equip its capabilities? And how would it fight this enemy? Would it fight it with bags of potatoes?” Legitimate questions…

Europe’s Protests… Is the Continent Growing Old?

Nidaa Al Watan: When France prepares to deploy around seventy thousand security personnel and Paris closes the Louvre Museum and other cultural institutions for fear of renewed unrest, the protests of autumn 2026 do not look like merely a street crisis. They are a broader political test for a continent that built its standing on prosperity, stability and the ability to reconcile the market economy…

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Attack on Christians Rallies Jordan... and the King: We Will Strike with an Iron Fist

Nidaa Al Watan: The terrorist attack that claimed the lives of seven Christians and injured 34 others as they took part in a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hamoud in Jordan’s Karak Governorate yesterday constituted an assault on the meaning of the Christian presence in the Levant, on the right of people to practice their faith without fear, and even on their right to…

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How do you prepare your beauty bag for winter skin care?

Lebanon 24: With the arrival of winter, your skin needs different care to help it withstand the cold and dryness and maintain its softness and radiance throughout the day. Therefore, it is important to reorganize your beauty bag and choose products that provide the skin with the necessary moisture, protect your lips and hands from dryness, and help you…

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Trump hints at a new military round against Iran and says: “We’ll take care of Cuba!”

Lebanon 24: U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States may carry out another limited military round against Iran as part of Operation “Epic Fury,” unless Tehran reaches an agreement with Washington, noting that his country has defeated Iran militarily and financially and is working to ensure it does not possess a nuclear weapon…

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Bolivia | Hundreds of teachers protest in Bolivia, demanding wage increases and rejecting public education reform

Al Manar: Hundreds of teachers demonstrated in the city of Cochabamba in central Bolivia, demanding wage increases amid the economic crisis the country is experiencing and rejecting the government’s proposed public education reform bill, amid fears that the proposed changes could pave the way for privatization of the education sector. They raised…

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Argentina | Record floods in northeastern Argentina trap residents and force hundreds of families to evacuate

Al Manar: Floodwaters inundated residential neighborhoods in the town of Paso de la Patria in Corrientes Province, northeastern Argentina, following heavy rains and the opening of the gates of the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River, causing water levels to rise to record levels and trapping residents, amid warnings that they may continue to rise…

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Zuckerberg faces Meta’s board of directors… What’s the story?

Lebanon 24: The Washington Post revealed that sharp disagreements had erupted between Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company’s board members over his efforts to retain control of the company’s decisions, at the same time as plans to raise additional funding for artificial intelligence projects. Advertisement According to…

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A Hezbollah delegation visited Dr. Ahmad Qassem in the Sidon neighborhood to congratulate him on the signing of his book

Saida Online: A Hezbollah delegation, headed by the official in charge of the Sidon sector, Sheikh Zaid Daher, and including the head of the Sidon neighborhood branch, Haj Hussein Saleh, the mukhtar of the town of Sidon neighborhood, Haj Hussein Saleh, and a member of the relations committee in the Sidon sector, Haj Ahmad Jbeili, visited the home of Kfervila Deputy Mayor Dr. Ahmad Qassem in the town of Sidon neighborhood,…

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"مصابنا واحد ووحدتنا خط أحمر"....وقفة تضامنية رفضا لهجوم الكرك (فيديو وصور)

Lebanon 24: حالياً الأردنيون على وجع واحد وقفة تضامنية أمام مجمع الكنائس في الصويفية تأكيداً على وحدة الصف الأردني والإدانة لجريمة الكرك https://t.co/WU1hQoQSpx وقفة تضامنية مع ضحايا الكرك في الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية بالصويفية https://t.co/CkoEB6WQtt وقفة تضامنية أمام كنيسة…

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After a legal dispute with her father, a Ukrainian mother stabs her three-year-old daughter to death

Lebanon 24: Italian authorities detained a Ukrainian woman, about 30 years old, on suspicion of stabbing her three-year-old daughter to death with a knife inside social housing in the city of Tortona, in an incident believed to be linked to a legal dispute with the child’s father over resuming contact with her. According to the newspaper "Corriere della Sera"…

Trump’s disloyalty to Saudi Arabia undermines America’s word

Ya Libnan: Photo illustration – “Loyalty is tested in a crisis. When an ally’s outstretched hand goes unanswered, the bridge of trust begins to crumble.”The second line in the Houthi flag reads ” Death to America” Washington cannot celebrate a strategic partnership with…

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Jordanian Health Minister announces death toll from the Karak attack

Lebanon 24: Jordanian Health Minister Ibrahim Al-Badour announced that the death toll from the Karak attack had reached 7, while government and military hospitals treated 40 injured people. Advertisement Al-Badour noted that surgical teams were dispatched as soon as news of the incident came in, explaining that the teams were from the Royal Medical Services…

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LeBron James mocks Trump's criticism: What a slow news day!

Lebanon 24: American basketball star LeBron James responded sarcastically to criticism from President Donald Trump, who accused him of disrespecting the United States because of his actions during the playing of the national anthem before an NBA game. Advertisement According to Agence France-Presse, James simply…

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From Paris, Haneen Sayed presents a comprehensive plan to revive Tripoli

Lebanon 24: Minister of Social Affairs Haneen Sayed took part in the launch of the “Alliance for Culture, Dialogue and Development,” a joint French-Qatari initiative at the Élysée Palace in Paris, attended by officials, international figures and representatives of cultural and development institutions. The meeting concluded with a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron…

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Nasreddine Discusses Strengthening Health Cooperation with the Indonesian Ambassador

Lebanon 24: Public Health Minister Rakan Nasreddine received Indonesia’s ambassador to Lebanon, Dicky Komar, and discussed with him ways to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in the health sector. Advertisement During the meeting, the Indonesian ambassador presented his country’s health minister’s candidacy for the post of director-general of the World Health Organization, on the condition that…

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After the Karak attack... Jordan declares 3 days of mourning

Lebanon 24: Jordan declared nationwide mourning across the Kingdom and ordered flags lowered for three days in mourning for the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted the Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hammoud in Karak Governorate, killing seven people and injuring 40 others, including two wounded people in critical condition, according to the latest toll…

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Pezeshkian to visit Moscow next week to meet Putin

Lebanon 24: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced Friday that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will visit Russia next week, where he is scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Advertisement The visit comes as part of efforts by Tehran and Moscow to strengthen bilateral cooperation, particularly in…

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The Qatari initiative and electricity in Lebanon... an opportunity that goes beyond support

Al Liwaa: The electricity crisis in Lebanon is no longer a service issue that can be addressed with temporary measures or seasonal solutions; rather, it has become a reflection of a deeper flaw in the management of public utilities and the state’s ability to plan, implement, and ensure accountability. Years of outages and high costs have burdened citizens and institutions,…

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The Failure of the Post-Taif System... Is Lebanon a Country That Can Be Reformed? (2)

Al Liwaa: The cost of stalled reform in Lebanon is not limited to financial losses and weak institutions; it extends to household incomes, job opportunities and basic services. These imbalances interacted with the burdens of Syrian displacement, shortcomings in international funding and successive shocks, increasing pressure on the Lebanese and communities…

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The Party’s Demand to Recover the Explosives Is a Failed Maneuver

Al Liwaa: Since when has Hezbollah made all this fuss to recover a shipment of explosives, when it has amassed a huge arsenal of tools of war, killing and destruction? And why does their seizure become a battle to retrieve them and release those detained, as if declaring ownership grants their owners automatic immunity? The issue is not the Party’s need for these…

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The Masks of Flattery and Compromise

Al Liwaa: How beautiful those faces, those robes, those gloves, those natural gestures, those contrived gestures; how beautiful those masked faces... How beautiful those hidden souls behind them, and people set aside a day for them, when they appear in public, while others lived behind them for a long time, on the pulpits, in the notebooks, on…

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