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27349 in English · 738 original-language storiesAn-Nahar: A comprehensive look at the Israeli political system and its impact on Palestinians inside Israel since 1948, with a focus on elections, citizenship rights and tensions…
The National: Sharjah's next growth phase puts connectivity and quality of life in…
IMLebanon: A British maritime agency announced that it had received a report of an incident 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab in the Sultanate of Oman. The British Maritime Trade Operations agency reported that an oil tanker had been involved in an incident after a small boat approached it and attached two explosive devices to its hull. The agency explained that an explosion…
Ya Libnan: Iran has harnessed a military-financial complex of 5,000 agencies to bring in components, explosives and heavy-duty trucks critical to its drone and missile programs. Even during the war, deliveries reached Iran by land, sea and air. By Gavin Finch, Maggie…
An-Nahar: U.S. Vice President Jay D. Vance emphasizes that Trump will not allow the confrontation with Iran to turn into a long war, while understanding Americans’ frustration with interventions…
An-Nahar: The Israeli election results showed Netanyahu’s coalition leading, while the Arab parties secured 19 seats, affecting the formation of the government…
IMLebanon: U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said in an interview with Fox News that President Donald Trump would not allow the confrontation with Iran to turn into a forever war. Vance said he understood Americans’ frustration with military adventures in the Middle East, noting that criticism of foreign interventions does not…
Al Manar: Bloomberg: Binance suspends its operations as part of an investigation into a security incident that led to the freezing of assets worth more than $2.5 billion…
Al Manar: The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported an incident northeast of the city of Khasab…
An-Nahar: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees calls for support for 9 million people in Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan to face winter cold and rising prices…
IMLebanon: In the early hours of Friday morning, the Israeli Central Elections Committee announced the official final results of the parliamentary (Knesset) elections, with no change to the map of political blocs previously revealed. According to the official results, Prime Minister Benjamin…
Al Manar: The Wall Street Journal, citing sources: The Ukraine truce began last week and is expected to continue after the midterm elections…
Al Manar: Yemeni Ministry of Health: Three citizens injured in a Saudi airstrike on the Al-Amoud Al-Sughra area, near the Al-Tuna building in the Mokha district of Taiz Governorate…
IMLebanon: The Wall Street Journal reported that Ukraine may suspend its strikes on energy facilities in Russia until the end of the congressional elections…
Al Manar: UK Maritime Trade Operations: We received a report of an incident northeast of Khasab, Oman, in the Strait of…
Al Manar: The U.S. ambassador to Turkey stated that Washington cannot solve all the region’s problems. Countries in the region must take greater responsibility to ensure their security. He added that what is happening now is that countries in the region are taking responsibility for their own affairs and forming new alliances. He said that changing the U.S. approach does not…
Nidaa Al Watan: Netanyahu between defeat in the polls and a ballot-box surprise Netanyahu corners Eisenkot through the Arab gateway The public sector… strikes without…
Nidaa Al Watan: The front of “Hezbollah” and the “Amal Movement” is cracking under the weight of escalating disagreements and fears of the coming war. Behind the reassuring statements and slogans of unity, apprehensions are mounting over a new military adventure that could expose the south to yet another catastrophe and once again force the Shiite community to pay the price for decisions it can no longer bear…
Nidaa Al Watan: The “Lebanese Forces” raised the stakes in the confrontation within the government, and their ministers boycotted a Cabinet session in protest at the failure to include referring the case of the explosives in Dahr al-Baidar to the Judicial Council on the agenda, in a move that appears unlikely to be the last, particularly if this item is not included in the next session.…
IMLebanon: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth moved to dismiss Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, one of the Pentagon’s senior military planners, over allegations of leaking classified information, according to U.S. officials. A senior Pentagon official, who asked not to be identified, said Sylvia failed three tests…
Nidaa Al Watan: Southern Lebanon is entering an extremely delicate phase as the end of UNIFIL’s mission approaches, amid security and political challenges regarded, without dispute, as the most difficult in decades, and growing fears of a UN vacuum that would leave the Lebanese state and its army facing unprecedented challenges. Under Resolution 2790, operations end…
Nidaa Al Watan: After the first founding with Sheikh Bashir Gemayel in 1976, the “Lebanese Forces” continued their journey after his assassination on September 14, 1982, before facing a second founding phase with Dr. Samir Geagea after the Mountain War, the March 12, 1985 uprising, and the January 15 uprising…
An-Nahar: The U.S. Department of Justice sentences a Syrian hacker to 42 months in prison for supporting the Assad regime through cyberattacks on Western institutions and accounts…
Nidaa Al Watan: There can be a gap between electoral forecasts and actual results that may upend political calculations. This is what the Israeli elections remind us of once again—not only about the accuracy of opinion polls, but also about how the media deals with their results. Indeed, before the results were finalized, Benjamin…
Nidaa 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…
