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Article
July 25, 2023
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Amelia Smith
Egypt has warned the population not to use lifts for 20 minutes, each hour, whilst it implements power cuts so that it can conserve energy as a gruelling heat...
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The Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has said that the occupation state is on the verge of collapse. Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah made his comment yesterday on the latest internal...
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Reviews
July 24, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
It is often stated that within the world of Shia Muslim seminaries, the cities of Najaf in Iraq and Qom in Iran represent two contrasting camps in Shia scholarly...
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If Israel's Mossad intelligence agency is behind the burning of the Quran, then there needs to be "strong popular and official positions" to stand against it, the Secretary-General of...
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This month, the Syrian pound recorded a historic collapse against the US dollar as its exchange rate hit the lowest ever, 12,0000 Syrian pounds to the dollar.
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Iraq renewed its agreement to provide Lebanon with up to 2 million tons of crude oil for a year, Lebanese Energy Ministry said in a statement on Friday, Reuters...
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French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen on Wednesday that it is important for Israel to end "all unilateral measures likely to fuel tensions" with...
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No injuries were reported but a large number of tents were destroyed in the fire
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Israel asked France yesterday to use its influence in Lebanon to prevent the outbreak of a military confrontation with Hezbollah, Anadolu has reported. The Israeli Foreign Ministry made the...
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Former Prime Minister of Jordan Ali Abu Al-Ragheb has called for an end to the Hashemite Kingdom's "soft diplomacy" approach towards Israel in order to suppress what he called...
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Palestinian rights activist Hassan al Saida has warned of disastrous consequences of high the unemployment rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Quds Press reported yesterday. Al Saida said that...
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Article
Security tension continues to increase along the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the level of provocations increasing with every passing day, in light of Israeli expectations that Hezbollah wants to preserve...
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Article
July 18, 2023
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Talal Okal
Israel has an extreme far-right government which makes no secret of its racism and neofascist tendencies. Even US President Joe Biden has described it as the most right-wing government...
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The five-nation group on Lebanon, which comprises the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, said on Monday they had discussed several measures against politicians and groups who were...
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said last week that Israel has to leave certain points along the border with Lebanon, Anadolu has reported. He referred specifically to Ghajar village. In...
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Tensions have escalated, in recent months, between Israel and the Hezbollah movement on Lebanon's southern border over Tel Aviv's full occupation and annexation of the northern part of the...
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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) spokesperson, Kandice Ardiel, yesterday warned that the situation across the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel is "extremely sensitive", Anadolu reported. Three members...
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Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has informed the UN that his country "demands a full demarcation of its southern border with Israel." Mikati told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Lebanese...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Joe Biden's special envoy for energy, Amos Hochstein, on Tuesday, his office revealed in a brief statement. The two discussed "regional...
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Article
Early this week, Israeli media reported that an anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanon at an Israeli military target. It also reported Israeli officials claiming that senior Hamas leader...
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Lebanon's caretaker Premier, Najib Mikati, will not extend the term of sitting Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, when it ends later this month, the Prime Minister's office said on...
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A Lebanese depositor stormed a bank in the capital, Beirut, on Monday and retrieved his trapped savings, Anadolu Agency reports. The depositor held the manager of the Banque Misr...
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Deputy Premier, Saade Chami, said on Friday deputy governors of Lebanon's Central Bank should run it if no governor is appointed by the end of the month, calling their...
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The deputy governors of Lebanon's Central Bank, on Thursday, urged authorities to appoint a new head of the institution to take over when current Governor, Riad Salameh's term ends...
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The Israeli army, on Thursday, confirmed its artillery attack inside Lebanon in response to a rocket firing incident, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the Israeli army said it...
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Lebanese authorities have arrested over 2,000 Syrian refugees and deported 1,800 since April this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported. In the newly-released report by HRW, it stated...
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Israel informed Hezbollah during the Eid Al-Adha holiday that it does not want war and does not intend to forcibly remove a military outpost set up by the group...
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The French judiciary has transferred the seized assets of Lebanon's Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, and his associates, to the Lebanese state, the media office of Lebanon's caretaker Justice...
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Turkiye's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) has exposed a vast "ghost" network of dozens of operatives working for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, in the latest Turkish operation to bust...
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A senior official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the city of Homs, central Syria, at dawn yesterday, Iranian media...
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Israeli media reported that the Israeli army is concerned about what it describes as "a significant change in the concept of air defence by Hezbollah in Lebanon, following the...
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Lebanon's financial crisis has been compounded by the lack of policy action and vested interests that prompted resistance to reforms, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday in...