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56 in English · 2 original-language storiesMegaphone: Wednesday, October 28, 2026: Netanyahu leads Eisenkot, and Arab lists win 19 seats so far; the Iraqi prime minister visits Syria for the first time since the fall…
Megaphone: A joke about Mao Zedong landed French Real Madrid player Kylian Mbappé in a crisis with China and prompted Spanish sports institutions to apologize. What are the details of this…
Megaphone: Instead of protecting a domestic worker who reported violations that may amount to human trafficking, the public prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in Baabda ordered her detention because she did not possess a residence card. The Kafa organization recounts the details…
Megaphone: Journalist Sarah Abu al-Rub unpacks the Israeli campaign of incitement against the participation of Palestinians of 48 in the Knesset elections, and the impact of their results on the lives of Palestinians in the occupied interior and the West Bank…
Megaphone: The Arab lists have increased their representation in the Israeli Knesset and could determine the shape of the next government. What do we know about these Arab lists, and what is their ability to…
Megaphone: In the Israeli press: A proposal calls for Donald Trump to intervene and pressure the three Israeli leaders to form a government bringing them together, so that Israel is not left facing a path…
Megaphone: More than 77.7% of Israeli voters, or at least 5.69 million people, voted, the highest turnout in legislative elections since 1999. Turnout among Arab communities in the Israeli interior also reached 80%. Since polling stations closed last night, Tuesday, votes have been counted…
Megaphone: Tuesday, October 27, 2026: Israel votes; journalist Lina Attalah is released after being detained, and Mada’s website is shut down…
Megaphone: Seven Syrians were killed last night, Monday, in a Jordanian bombardment of Daraa and Suwayda, on the pretext of “revenge” for the victims of the attack on the Hamoud Church. How did Jordan change its account to justify bombing civilians in…
Megaphone: Harry Kane entered the Ballon d'Or’s golden record yesterday, and Alexia Putellas established herself as “the queen,” but who is the competition’s first loser this…
Megaphone: تُقفل صناديق الاقتراع عند العاشرة مساءً، وداخلها مصير نتنياهو ما بين التجديد له أو التخلّص منه، أو ما بين بين. أربعة سيناريوهات مُرجَّحة لليوم التالي…
Megaphone: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime intensified its crackdown on independent journalism, with a ruling ordering the closure of Mada Masr and fining its editor-in-chief, Lina Attallah, three million pounds, before forces detained her…
Megaphone: Israel’s Knesset elections have begun amid a struggle between two main blocs: Netanyahu and Eisenkot; what will become of the bloc…
Megaphone: In the Israeli press today: The first beneficiary of the tie in votes is Benjamin…
Megaphone: The Egyptian judiciary issued a ruling today, Tuesday, shutting down the Mada Masr website and confiscating its equipment, and fining its editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, three million pounds (approximately 54 thousand dollars), the maximum penalty. Attalah was accused of running a website without a license, before security forces detained her…
Megaphone: Monday, 26 October: Lula da Silva wins the election…
Megaphone: The Syrian Ministry of Education is trying to deny the changes made to the curricula, which came after the gender discrimination imposed by the Ministry of Higher Education at Syrian universities. So what…
Megaphone: The Lebanese Journalists’ Syndicate organized a vigil in Martyrs’ Square on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of the three colleagues, Wissam Qassem, Ghassan Najjar and Mohammed Reda, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the journalists’ headquarters in…
Megaphone: Two elections yesterday—in Brazil and Serbia—held back a wave of rising far-right politics and fascism around the world. Attention turns tomorrow to the Israeli government elections and the fate of Benjamin Netanyahu, with these electoral events set to conclude in the United States, with a referendum on…
Megaphone: “Prophet of destruction,” the Israeli press calls Netanyahu after he warned Israelis of their death if they did not elect him…
Megaphone: How the student movement in Serbia ousted the party that has been in power since 2012 and won a majority of seats…
Megaphone: Sunday, October 25, 2026: Fateful elections in Brazil…
Megaphone: In a single official funeral, the village of Hamoud in Jordan bade farewell to the victims of the attack that targeted St. George’s Church on Friday evening, killing nine people who were there to attend a funeral, some of whom died of their wounds. The nine bodies were transferred from Karak Hospital to the church where it happened…
Megaphone: Umm Wael and her family live in their home, which is at risk of collapse in Gaza because of the Israeli bombardment, but after being displaced and facing the difficulty of living in tents, they have no alternative…
Megaphone: 1. Lebanese artist Fadel Chaker held his first concert in 14 years on Thursday, titled “The Return of the Absent,” as part of Riyadh Season. The military court had released him on bail in July over cases related to terrorism. 2. The Lebanese government postponed deciding whether to refer the file on a truck…
Megaphone: Saturday, October 24, 2026: The occupation is carving out new military roads in the south, and «La France Insoumise» succeeds in testing today’s demonstration despite militarization…
Megaphone: Israeli occupation forces raided at least 15 towns in the West Bank today, Saturday, following yesterday’s operation at a military checkpoint north of the city of Hebron. The army closed several checkpoints, preventing residents from entering or leaving Hebron. More than 200 families were displaced overnight,…
Megaphone: The result of Brazil’s election tomorrow, Sunday, will have repercussions to some extent across the entire planet. For what reasons? And can Lula save the country from the grip of…
Megaphone: The day after the attack on Karak church in Jordan, one of the injured women died of her wounds, bringing the death toll to 8 people, in addition to 27 injured. Security forces are still pursuing the perpetrators, and surveillance cameras captured a number of gunmen opening fire on…
Megaphone: Friday, 23 October 2026: Progress in the investigation into the explosives truck in Dahr al-Baidar, and Hezbollah commends the government for postponing the referral of the case to the council…
Megaphone: On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the founding of « اتجاهات », artists, directors, and musicians gathered in Beirut yesterday, Thursday, to reflect on collaborative work and the future of interconnected artistic practice in Lebanon…
Megaphone: Why did AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobby in the United States, announce that it would stop publicly and directly supporting candidates in U.S. elections, and what are the implications…
Megaphone: Syrians demonstrated today, Friday, in Damascus, Homs, Masyaf, Daraa and Raqqa, protesting Israeli attacks and incursions by the occupation army into the countryside of Daraa, Quneitra and Damascus. The demonstrators demanded the release of prisoners in occupation prisons and an official response to Israeli violations. The occupation army had…
Megaphone: The two resistance fighters, Hamouda and Firas Jaba, were killed while carrying out an operation against Israeli occupation soldiers at the “Farsh al-Hawa” checkpoint, at the western entrance to the city of Hebron. The operation left 6 occupation soldiers wounded, two of them critically. The Israeli army launched a large-scale operation in the city,…
Megaphone: The Israeli occupation army is besieging the olive harvest in Rashaya al-Fukhar by restricting the movement of residents and farmers with conditions and permits to reach their lands and harvest…
Megaphone: Thursday, October 22, 2026: Lebanese Forces ministers withdraw from the Cabinet session in protest at postponing a decision on referring the Dahr al-Baidar explosives file to the Council…
