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47 in English · 2 original-language storiesBintjbeil: The Bint Jbeil website was established in 2003. It covers Lebanese, diaspora and world affairs, and its topics span all fields, most notably social and regional issues and the affairs of expatriates in Michigan and around the world, in addition to entertainment. Its news also includes many stories carried over from newspapers, as well as…
Bintjbeil: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Senate Assistant Majority Leader Darren Camilleri, along with a number of state political leaders, took part in an election rally held on Sunday, October 25…
Bintjbeil: The General Directorate of Internal Security Forces – Public Relations Division issued the following statement: At midnight on 28-10-2026, the body of a woman identified as L. M. (born in 2000, Syrian national) was brought to one of the hospitals in the Sarafand area. This was after…
National News Agency: National - The coordinator of the Contract Teachers’ Movement, Hamza Mansour, announced a general and comprehensive strike on Thursday, October 29, 2026, in coordination with the Secondary Education League, in all public secondary schools in Lebanon, in condemnation and rejection of the Ministry of Education’s policy of eroding the rights of contract teachers and tenured teachers,…
Bintjbeil: Contact has been lost with the young man Adam Jihad Zalzali, from the town of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, after he crossed the earthen berm from the Wadi al-Hujair–Tulin side, amid his family’s concern for his fate. Anyone with information about him is asked to contact the number: 70098844…
LBCI: The ministers representing the “Lebanese Forces” announced that they would not take part in the Cabinet session scheduled for Thursday, which is devoted exclusively to discussing the waste file, in protest at the failure to include on the agenda an item referring the Dhahr al-Baydar explosives case to the Judicial Council. While the ministers stress the importance of the file…
Lebanon 24: The head of the Arab Unification Party, Wiam Wahhab, wrote on his account on the “X” platform: “Shame on you. The Arabs inside Israel are the freest Arabs and the most able to express themselves. Israel is holding a democratic festival and the Arabs are dancing. The only winner yesterday was the State of Israel and its institutions. Of course, my words will not please…”
Bintjbeil: At the invitation of the Cultural Movement in Lebanon, poet Dr. Jihad Adnan Al-Zughayr signed his book “Islamic Epics by Christian Pens,” published by the Green Koura Poet Abdullah Shehadeh Cultural Forum, under the patronage of MP Dr. Ashraf Baydoun, at a ceremony held at the Islamic University in Tyre, on Friday…
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Bintjbeil: Mujtaba al-Husseini wrote in Al-Akhbar: Talk of “protecting” Lebanese areas from “a segment of the Lebanese” buying property there is no longer whispered. For months, a political and media campaign has been unfolding, presenting buying and selling in specific areas as a “demographic threat,” until a headline such as “Buying property…”
Bintjbeil: The Army Command – Directorate of Guidance issued the following statement: An army unit raided the homes of wanted individuals in the Dar al-Wasi'a area – Baalbek, seized approximately 22 kg of hashish and approximately 22 thousand Captagon pills, and destroyed 14 tents planted with marijuana. It also arrested the Syrians (م.ح.) and (ا.ب.) for their cooperation with…
Bintjbeil: Rida Sawaya wrote in Al-Akhbar: The war did not only deprive southerners of their homes and towns, but also robbed many of them of their livelihoods and businesses they had spent years building. With displacement dragging on and a return in the near term proving impossible, securing work has become one of the foremost challenges facing families…
Bintjbeil: The Army Command – Directorate of Guidance issued the following statement: Army units continue to carry out missions to monitor and secure the Lebanese-Syrian border in order to prevent smuggling and attempts at illegal infiltration. In this context, an army unit seized around 200 kg of materials in the Al-Qasr–Hermel area…
Bintjbeil: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said in an interview with An-Nahar newspaper that his relationship with President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is “good,” and that “communication with the two presidents is ongoing,” stressing that “we have no choice but to use the weapon of national unity to resolve all the problems and crises that…”
Bintjbeil: Lebanese Forces Party leader Samir Geagea said that “the incident at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint, at the junction between Bekaa and Beirut, where two Hezbollah members were stopped with hundreds of kilograms of explosives in their car, is the most serious in years.” In an interview with L’Orient-Le Jour, Geagea noted…
Bintjbeil: The director general of “Statistics Lebanon,” Rabih al-Hober, told Spot Shot: “We are now at war, but there is an undeclared truce, and a truce precedes a flood; the flood is coming.” He revealed that “yesterday, clear and strong information came in that, if any escalation occurs, the Israeli military operation will reach areas it has not reached…”
Bintjbeil: Hassan Faqih wrote in Al-Modon: The absence for several days of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri from his usual political activities of receiving political figures and others in Ain al-Tineh, in addition to his absence from the daily “walk” that journalists use to try to pick up signals and information from him, and that he uses…
Bintjbeil: U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday the formation of a command and the definition of the missions of the “Superintelligence Force,” which he said would work to “ensure America continues to lead the world” in the field of artificial intelligence. Trump said in an announcement posted on his “Truth Social” platform that the “Superintelligence Force” team would work to…
Bintjbeil: Prime Minister Nawaf Salam laid the cornerstone for the Civil Defense center in Nabatieh, and said: “The Civil Defense center in Nabatieh has given martyrs in the cause of saving and serving people. From here, today we remember the martyrs who fell while carrying out their humanitarian duty, and salute all their colleagues who continued, and still…”
Bintjbeil: Some social media platforms and news websites circulated a report claiming that Canada was warning its citizens against traveling to Lebanon and urging Canadians in Lebanon to leave. The Fact Check Lebanon team at the Ministry of Information looked into the matter and contacted the Canadian Embassy, which confirmed that…
Bintjbeil: Experts said that U.S. President Donald Trump will not win the Nobel Peace Prize this year because of the war he is waging on Iran, but the committee that selects the prize winner will still feel his influence on its decision. The awarding of last year’s prize to Venezuelan María Corina Machado was unique in the history…
Bintjbeil: The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh advised its citizens against traveling to areas on the border with Yemen because of the “terrorism threat,” and also advised them to reconsider travel to the Kingdom because Iran might target its interests…
Bintjbeil: Fouad Bazi – Al-Akhbar newspaper: 8 out of every 10 homes in Bint Jbeil were destroyed by the Israeli occupation. More than 80% of the city was completely destroyed, while more than two thousand buildings were razed to the ground, equivalent to at least five thousand housing units. As for what remains of the built-up area, the municipality estimates that it was subjected to…
Bintjbeil: Journalist Fadia Jomaa wrote: An insult to years of dedication… Can it be that the contract teachers of Bint Jbeil are rewarded after years of teaching and dedication by being removed from a WhatsApp group and having their contracts canceled just one day before the start of the school year? Around 30 contract teachers at Bint Jbeil Public Secondary School…
Bintjbeil: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian affirmed that Gaza and Lebanon are still facing the consequences of crimes and genocide, calling on the “BRICS” group to play a more effective role in defending national sovereignty, territorial integrity and the prohibition on the use of force. Pezeshkian stressed, according to what the “IRNA” news agency reported…
Bintjbeil: A correspondent for the National News Agency reported that, in a notable move to strengthen stability and reassurance, General Security personnel were deployed in the city of Nabatieh at midday today, setting up temporary observation points and conducting patrols in the city’s neighborhoods. State Security patrols were also observed inside the city,…
Bintjbeil: The newspaper Al-Akhbar reported: It was learned that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, unilaterally, committed to the new Syrian leadership, represented by its president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to removing any obstacles to Syrians entering Lebanon, and asked the Ministry of Interior to take the necessary measures to facilitate Syrians’ entry. And after…
Bintjbeil: Poet Abd al-Nabi Bazi * Bint al-Jbeil is an inviolable creed, purity, sanctity, radiance, piety, humanity, chivalry, will, and steadfast resolve; Bint al-Jbeil is heroism and giving; Bint al-Jbeil is authenticity, pride, love, guidance, and pure affection…
Bintjbeil: The Ministry of Finance’s media office announced in a statement that “with the renewed Israeli attacks on the city of Nabatieh, the ministry building in the city was damaged at dawn today as a result of the shelling that targeted it. Immediately, Finance Minister Yassine Jaber instructed the Directorate General of Finance, which took…
Bintjbeil: For fifteen years, Syrians lived in forced estrangement within their own country’s borders, as the dangers of the roads and threats of arrest and kidnapping severed geographical ties, depriving citizens of the most basic right to travel between their cities. But the scene has changed today; what was impossible yesterday has become a reality that heals wounds, and it has become…
Bintjbeil: Recently, a wave of videos has spread widely across social media platforms showing athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs in the anti-aging field putting dark blue drops into glasses of water before drinking them, promoting them as a miraculous breakthrough for boosting workout energy, stimulating memory and stopping the train of aging…
Bintjbeil: The correspondent of the “National News Agency” reported that the Lebanese army received the four Lebanese prisoners from the International Red Cross in the Mansouri area. They are currently at Benoit Barracks in Tyre. The convoy of the International Red Cross carrying the prisoners had passed the al-Amariyah checkpoint heading toward Benoit Barracks…
Bintjbeil: A video is circulating that allegedly shows security forces personnel expelling MPs from the “Loyalty” bloc from Parliament, but the truth is that it was generated by AI. Verification showed that the original video of the personnel dates back to about a month ago and documents the moment they moved journalists away during the altercation…
Bintjbeil: Army intelligence detained the two young men who appeared in a video inside the occupied town of Kfar Tebnit, to question them about the circumstances of the incident, according to information from Al Jadeed. The two young men had “lost their way” and found themselves in an extremely dangerous area, before their lost journey ended near occupation vehicles…
Bintjbeil: Part of Jabal al-Qantara collapsed as a result of a series of powerful and successive Israeli explosions that shook the town.…
