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After misleading the government... Tripoli Municipality makes Beddawi pay for its failure

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
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Al-Hikma presents the championship trophy to President Joseph Aoun

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…

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Whispers of the Stadiums

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
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What’s in Asrar Al-Youm today, Friday 30-10-2026?

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…

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“Roman Photo” novels... Those were the days, my photographic love... and a disaster-proof hairstyle

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
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The Cairo Agreement: Was It a Necessary Evil? (Part Two)

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
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How did the Formula 1 World Championship begin on the circuits of yesteryear?

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
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Netanyahu corners Eisenkot through the Arab gate

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.…

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The Mastermind of the Crowds

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
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Explosives Are More Important Than Waste

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…

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The Christian villages of the South... We are proud of your resilience

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…

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Workers at more than 100 ports go on strike to protest wars

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…

Al Manar
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Houthis: We targeted a Saudi oil refinery

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.…

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From Europe to Asia… Widespread labor strike tomorrow in support of Gaza and in rejection of weapons shipments

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…

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One killed and others injured in armed ambush in Tartus

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…

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Lebanon: A State of Law, Not a State of Arms: Restoring National Sovereignty and Resolving the Battle for Security and Authority

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
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After the congressional elections: Is the region preparing for a war that will redraw the map of the Middle East?

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…

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The Golden Chair!

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…

Al Liwaa
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Beirut... When the Army Is Present

Al Liwaa: There are scenes in the life of nations that go beyond their immediate security significance, touching people’s feelings, memories and fears. One such scene is that of citizens seeing their country’s army present in the streets, keeping watch over the city’s security and protecting people’s lives and their right to live in peace, away from anxiety and apprehension. Hence, comes…

Al Liwaa
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How long will the memory of war be used to justify the state’s incapacity?

Al Liwaa: The problem in Lebanon is no longer simply that the state is weak, but that its weakness has, over decades, become a reality with which political forces coexist, while citizens bear the consequences of settlements whose authors they have no ability to hold accountable. And while generations have grown accustomed to seeing the avoidance of war as a political achievement in itself,…

Al Liwaa
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Arabs are looking for another path besides the American one—what option does Lebanon have?

Al Liwaa: Lebanon’s wait for the elections to the Knesset of the Israeli entity is not over, as it awaits the official results at the beginning of next month and the true size of the parliamentary blocs, one of which will form the new government. This is a formation that takes a long time, given the nature of the political and electoral makeup…

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Suleiman meets Khallaf: Lebanon looks forward to continued Egyptian support for its constitutional institutions

Al Liwaa: President General Michel Suleiman received the new Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Tameem Khallaf, at his residence in Yarzeh. During the meeting, they reviewed the latest political and security developments in Lebanon and the region, as well as Arab and international developments and their repercussions for the security of the region…

Al Liwaa
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Radovan toured, carrying German support for stability and reform steps

Al Liwaa: Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Ms. Reem Alabali Radovan, affirmed her commitment to strengthening cooperation with the government, and that her visit was a show of solidarity with Lebanon and support for reform steps despite the challenges. The German minister toured at the head of a delegation that included German Ambassador Thomas…

Al Liwaa
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Meeting in Baabda for the military delegation returning from the Tampa meetings

Al Liwaa: President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun chaired a meeting attended by Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal, the head of Lebanon’s delegation to the Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations, former Ambassador Simon Karam, and the head of the military delegation to the negotiations, Brigadier General George Rizk, and members of the delegation: Brigadier General…

Al Liwaa
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The Cabinet limited its session to the issue of addressing solid waste, prompting the Lebanese Forces ministers to boycott it

Al Liwaa: The Cabinet devoted its session to the waste issue and ways to address it, and heard a presentation from the environment minister and the heads of the Council for Development and the National Authority. It asked them to return within two weeks with concrete proposals, while the issues of the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives and electricity were absent from its agenda, prompting the Lebanese Forces ministers to…

Al Liwaa
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