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Series of Israeli Raids in Southern Lebanon After Warnings Issued by Adraee
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A series of Israeli raids targeted several villages in southern Lebanon on Thursday, following evacuation warnings issued to residents by the Israeli army. The towns of Mays al-Jabal, Kfar tebnit and Debbin were targeted late afternoon after the Israeli army issued an urgent warning to residents of several villages in southern Lebanon, cautioning ...
End-of-Service Benefits: The Only Social Safety Net at Risk Since the Crisis
Liliane Mokbel 2025-09-18 16:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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There is no doubt that employees remain the most vulnerable group in the struggle to ensure a dignified retirement. Their end-of-service benefits, intended to preserve part of their purchasing power, have been almost completely eroded by the multidimensional crisis that hit the country at the end of 2019. Employers Plead Powerlessness Employers ...
Research Links Thousands of Deaths in Europe This Summer to Climate Change
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 21:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 15,000 deaths this summer in major European cities could be attributed to climate change, according to researchers in a preliminary study that has already been welcomed by other scientists. “Focusing on 854 European cities, this study concludes that climate change is behind 68% of the 24,400 deaths estimated to be linked to heat this ...
Politicians Oppose Plan to Project Images of Hezbollah Leaders on Raouche Rock
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 19:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hezbollah has stirred controversy among Lebanese politicians after announcing on Tuesday that the images of former Secretary Generals Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine would be projected on the Rock of Raouche on the anniversary of their deaths. During a press conference, Hezbollah’s head of activities, Ali Daher, said that the Raouche ...
Syrians Leaving Lebanon: How Many Still Remain?
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-09-17 18:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Since January 2025, more than 238,000 Syrians have left Lebanon for their home country, according to updated figures from the General Security Directorate as of September 11. On that day alone, an estimated 280 to 300 refugees crossed into Syria through the Masnaa border crossing, traveling in a convoy of ten buses and ten trucks loaded with their ...
Israel Warns EU Any Sanctions Will Get 'Appropriate Response'
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 16:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Wednesday warned the EU against taking action against Israel, after the bloc's executive proposed curbing trade ties and sanctioning ministers over the Gaza war. "The recommendations of the college of Commissioners led by President (Ursula) von der Leyen are morally and politically distorted," ...
Inside the Hunt for the Suspect in Charlie Kirk's Killing
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 10:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Authorities have shared their most detailed account yet of the investigation set off by the killing of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which concluded with a suspect surrendering to police. Here are key details Utah County prosecutor Jeffrey Gray released about the case centering on 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson: 'Sniper ...
Syria Working with US on 'Security Understandings' with Israel
This is Beirut 2025-09-16 21:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Syria said on Tuesday that it was working with the United States to reach mutual "security understandings" with Israel, which has demanded the demilitarization of the country's south. The announcement was part of a US- and Jordan-backed roadmap for restoring stability in the south following sectarian violence that drew Israeli intervention, and a ...
UN Slams Israel's Qatar Attack as Assault on 'Regional Peace and Stability'
This is Beirut 2025-09-16 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United Nations rights chief warned on Tuesday that Israel's airstrike targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar last week threatened regional peace and stability and urged "accountability for unlawful killings". "Israel's strike on negotiators in Doha on September 9 was a shocking breach of international law," Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights ...
Syria Announces Arrest of Hezbollah Cell in Damascus Countryside
This is Beirut 2025-09-11 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Syrian authorities announced Thursday the arrest of members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Hezbollah. According to Brigadier General Ahmad al-Dalati, commander of internal security in Rif Dimashq (the outskirts of Damascus), this cell was operating in the towns of Saasaa and Kanaker, in southern Syria. According to the authorities, the ...
The Surge of Pages and Rumors
Johnny Kortbawi 2025-09-16 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In recent months, pages linked to the Axis of Resistance have grown on social media like fungi. There is no longer any way to keep track of them: every day or two, a new page appears under a different name but with the same content promoting the axis’s narrative in all its domestic and regional dimensions. These are not mere social media ...
Palestinian Circumlocutions
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-15 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The unending Palestinian saga seems to thrive on power politics entanglements, unwinding political patronages and the externalization of blame without any critical retrospection to figure out the rationale behind the unending cycles of political entrapment and outright instrumentation. We are faced with a behavioral pattern that never belied ...
Trump Cautions Israel After Qatar Attack
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 05:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Days after Israel attacked Qatar in an airstrike targeting Hamas leaders, US President Donald Trump made careful remarks Sunday as Washington's two powerful Middle Eastern allies face a worsening rift. "Qatar has been a very great ally. Israel and everyone else, we have to be careful. When we attack people we have to be careful," ...
Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian Jazz Legend, Dies at Age 89
This is Beirut 2025-09-14 10:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Celebrated Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, who gained international fame for his collaborations with fellow jazz legend Miles Davis, has died aged 89, his family said Saturday. With his distinctive white beard and hair, Pascoal was known as "The Sorcerer" for his ability to create music with a variety of instruments and objects. "With ...
110,000 Turn Out for Far-Right Rally in London
This is Beirut 2025-09-13 18:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
More than 100,000 people massed Saturday in central London for a march and rally organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, as anti-racism campaigners held a smaller counter-protest. Huge crowds, many draped in English and British flags, gathered through the morning just south of Westminster for what Robinson, a veteran of UK far-right ...
US, Saudi, UAE, Egypt Call for Sudan Truce, Transition to Civilian Rule
This is Beirut 2025-09-13 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt called on Friday for a three-month humanitarian truce in Sudan, to be followed by a permanent ceasefire and a nine-month transition towards civilian rule. In a joint statement issued by the US State Department, the four countries said the transition should "meet the ...
'Gloomy Sunday,' the So-Called 'Suicide Song'
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-12 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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It is rare for a song to inspire as much fascination, dread and myth as “Gloomy Sunday.” Written in the depths of the Great Depression by Hungarian musician Rezső Seress, this melancholy waltz has carried with it for nearly a century a trail of persistent rumors: branded the “suicide song,” it was allegedly banned from airwaves and ...
BDL, Lebanon’s Anchor of Trust on the Path to Recovery
Liliane Mokbel 2025-09-12 15:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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In a country where figures are often subject to interpretation and fiscal data remains scarce or unreliable, Lebanon’s Central Bank (BDL) seeks to reaffirm its role as a reference point for institutional investors and international markets. It also aims to provide citizens with clear benchmarks to better understand the rationale and direction ...
Trump Urges Peaceful Response to Charlie Kirk Killing
This is Beirut 2025-09-12 05:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump urged supporters Thursday to respond peacefully to the killing of right-wing campaigner Charlie Kirk, as the murderer continued to evade a manhunt more than 24 hours after a shooting that put an already divided United States on edge. Trump, who soon after the killing angrily pledged a wide-ranging response against the ...
Budget 2026: Quick Taxes or Deep Reform?
Liliane Mokbel 2025-08-31 20:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon economy Budget 2026 Taxes Reforms
For 2026, the Finance Minister has promised a deficit-free budget, with revenues and expenditures in balance. An attractive prospect, but at what cost to Lebanese households? Tax hikes and new levies could quickly turn that balance into a burden for taxpayers. The draft budget has been submitted to the General Secretariat of the Council of ...
Gaza: Israeli Strike Targets Hamas' Abou Obeida, according to the Israeli media
This is Beirut 2025-08-30 20:35 - Reading : less than a minute
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The Israeli military has targeted a building in Gaza where Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas' Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was reportedly located, Israeli media announced on Saturday evening. The military confirmed the attack but did not disclose its target and did not clarify whether its was killed or survived. According to media reports, Abu ...
Lebanon’s Moment of Truth: Disarm or Disintegrate
Salam El Zaatari 2025-08-07 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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There’s a phrase I’ve heard a lot in Beirut lately. It's whispered between sips of Turkish coffee, murmured across newsrooms and tossed around military circles like a live grenade: “Either we get our country back, or we become a geography with a flag.” And this week, for the first time in nearly two decades, the Lebanese government ...
Aoun: Lebanon’s Main Problem Is Corruption, Not Bankruptcy
This is Beirut 2025-08-14 14:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun on Thursday emphasized that Lebanon’s primary challenge is corruption, “because there has been no accountability.” Speaking at a meeting with a delegation from the Lebanese Business Council in Abu Dhabi, Aoun noted that “today, there is a judiciary, cases are being opened, and there are no prohibitions or red lines ...
Falsehoods Swirl Around Trump-Putin Summit
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 21:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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From false claims of a Ukrainian assassin shot dead in Alaska to baseless reports of Russia declaring the sale of the territory to the United States illegal, misinformation has swirled around the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The online falsehoods spreading across tech platforms were muddying the waters around Friday's closely ...
PSP Calls for International Probe into Sweida's Violence
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) called on Friday for an international investigation into the recent violence in Sweida, the Druze heartland of southern Syria, where hundreds were killed. Rejecting what it described as “rumors and claims” about its stance, the PSP reiterated its demands for justice, urgent relief for the embattled city ...
Five Arrested in Lebanon’s Vehicle Registration Scandal
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 14:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Ministry of Interior and Municipalities announced on Friday the arrest of two employees and three transaction brokers on charges of bribery and forgery at the Vehicle and Motor Registration Department. The case began after the department’s administration received information that an employee, identified by his initials (A.M.), was allegedly ...
Qassem’s Speech Sparks Political Firestorm in Beirut
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 14:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah’s chief, Sheikh Naim Qassem, made unacceptable and controversial remarks, in which he threatened civil strife and linked the survival of Lebanon to the presence of their weapons. These remarks have triggered a wave of condemnations from political and institutional figures committed to defending Lebanese sovereignty. Minister ...
YouTube Turns to AI to Guess Users' Age and Protect Minors
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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YouTube has started testing an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to identify the age of its users in the United States, in an effort to better protect minors from content and online habits considered inappropriate for them. "This technology will allow us to infer a user’s age and use that signal independently of the date of birth listed on the ...
Five Things to Know About Nigeria's Oil Sector
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Africa's biggest oil refinery will on Friday start direct and free shipping of fuel to retailers in Nigeria, a move expected to disrupt the oil sector in the continent's largest crude producer. Nigeria's Dangote Refinery says that the plan will boost efficiency by cutting down on intermediaries while providing more competitive options for ...
Private Generators in Lebanon: The Toll of a Profitable, Highly Polluting Industry
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-08-14 20:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Wednesday, the Lebanese government announced a crackdown on one of the most visible symbols of the country’s failed public electricity sector: private generators. During a ministerial meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, operators were given a maximum of 45 days to comply with legal and environmental standards. After that ...