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Rai Criticizes Lebanon’s Position on Hezbollah’s Weapons

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai criticized on Sunday the Lebanese authorities’ position on Hezbollah’s weapons, stressing that officials “have no right to justify the plurality of arms.” In response, Grand Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan emphasized that the Shiite sect’s “choice begins and ends with the resistance,” meaning Hezbollah. Beirut's response…

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Kuwait FM Says Studying Lebanese Response to Gulf Initiative

Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah announced on Sunday that his country had received the Lebanese response to the Gulf initiative aimed at mending Beirut's ties with the Gulf. The minister had traveled to Beirut a week earlier to deliver the 12-point proposal that covers confidence-building measures to…

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Lebanon's president sees no reason to delay polls after Hariri exit

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday he saw no reason for a delay to parliamentary elections in May after three-times former prime minister Saad al-Hariri announced he was boycotting the vote and stepping away from politics.

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Lebanon will not ‘hand over’ Hezbollah weapons: Foreign minister

Abdallah Bou assures his country will not be used as a ‘launch pad’ to violate Arab countries’ interests.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon will not 'hand over' Hezbollah arms at Gulf meeting, minister says

Lebanon's foreign minister said he was not going "to hand over" Hezbollah's weapons during a meeting this weekend with Gulf Arab counterparts that want Beirut to rein in the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi'ite group in exchange for improved ties.

Reuters

Lebanon's Elie Saab Brings Vibrant Looks to Paris Catwalk on Return

Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab returned to the Paris catwalk after nearly two years, turning the page on a troubled period marked by the Beirut port blast and COVID-19, with a collection of vibrant, red carpet-ready looks. Saab sensed a need for release, he told Reuters in an interview ahead…

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Lebanon, Jordan agree to bring electricity through Syria

Lebanon signed a U.S.-backed deal with Jordan on Wednesday that aims to ease crippling power shortages by transmitting electricity across neighbouring Syria, after Washington assured Beirut it should not fear its sanctions on Damascus.

Reuters

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Top Human Rights Watch investigator allegedly hacked with Pegasus spyware

Allegation marks latest example of how NSO clients have used powerful surveillance tool to target campaigners and journalists

The Guardian - US

Inside viral Tiktok estate branded a 's**thole' and like living in 'Beirut'

Residents of Primrose Court estate in Huyton, Liverpool, claim authorities are "too scared" to come and fix the estate which is plagued by fly-tippers, vandalism and troublesome "outsiders" taking advantage

Daily Mirror

World Bank blames Lebanon's rulers for economic meltdown

The World Bank says Lebanon’s political class is to blame for the country's economic collapse, warning that the meltdown threatens Beirut's long-term stability

The Independent UK

Lebanon Must Not Be Platform for Hostility, Kuwaiti FM Says

Kuwait's foreign minister said on Sunday Lebanon must not be a platform for hostile acts or words toward Gulf Arab states. Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah spoke after meeting President Michel Aoun in Beirut, during the first visit to Beirut by a senior Gulf Arab official since…

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Dubai to Host First Edition of the Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants

Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022 announced that it will hold its first Middle East and North Africa edition in Dubai next month. Lebanon's Kamal Mouzawak, who founded Souk El Tayeb - the first farmers’ market to open in his country's capital Beirut -, was given with…

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Kuwait minister says he presented suggestions to Lebanon on rebuilding trust

Kuwait made suggestions to Lebanese President Michel Aoun on how he might rebuild confidence with the Gulf states, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah said on Sunday in a televised press conference in Beirut.

Reuters

Penny Pinching and Power Cuts; Lebanon’s Middle Class Squeezed by Crisis

Lebanese school teacher Sara Wissam and her husband were comfortably off before a run on the local currency decimated the value of their salaries and dragged them towards poverty. The plight of the Beirut couple is common across Lebanon's middle class, which has been forced to make once unthinkable choices…

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Penny pinching and power cuts; Lebanon's middle class squeezed by crisis

Lebanese school teacher Sara Wissam and her husband were comfortably off before a run on the local currency decimated the value of their salaries and dragged them towards poverty.

The Independent UK

Kuwaiti minister in Lebanon over diplomatic row with gulf

Kuwait’s foreign minister says he has handed Lebanese officials a list of suggestions for confidence-building measures with oil-rich Gulf states after relations between the two sides deteriorated dramatically over the past months

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kuwait FM from Beirut: Lebanon Shouldn't Be Platform to Attack Arab, Gulf Countries

Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah urged on Saturday Lebanon against meddling in the affairs of any Arab country. The FM had arrived in Beirut on Friday on a one-day visit as part of efforts to rebuild trust with Lebanon and show solidarity with its people. The move had…

Reuters

Lebanon's PM to meet Kuwaiti foreign minister in Beirut

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati will meet Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah on Saturday in Beirut, Mikati's office said in a statement.

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Al Jazeera

‘I wanted to die’: Abused migrant women in Lebanon face detention

Embassy ‘sit-ins’ by migrant workers have become increasingly frequent during Lebanon’s devastating economic crisis.

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Lebanese Museum Returns Artifacts from Syria's Palmyra

Five Roman artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018. The limestone statues and carved funerary stones dating from the Roman second and third centuries…

Reuters

Lebanese museum returns artefacts from Syria's ancient city of Palmyra

Five Roman artefacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, a site damaged during Syria's decade-long conflict, were returned to Damascus on Thursday by a private Lebanese museum where they had been on display since 2018.

Reuters

Lebanon's healthcare on brink of collapse amid crisis, says minister

Lebanon's healthcare system is crumbling amid an economic crisis that has led to an exodus of thousands of doctors and nurses, forced private hospitals to close some departments and put further strains on the already stretched state sector.

Al Jazeera

UNRWA in ‘race against time’ for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Cash-strapped agency launches emergency funding appeal, says Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are struggling to survive.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Biography of Arabic Theater Choirs in 19th Century,’ New Book by Taysir Khalaf

Italy-based Al-Mutawassit publishing released the “Biography of Arabic Theater Choirs in 19th Century---Memoirs of Actors Omar Wasfi, Mariam al-Sammat,” a new book by novelist and researcher Taysir Khalaf. Egyptian actor Omar Wasfi, his real name is Omar Mohammad Mikati, was born in 1874 to a conservative family from Cairo. His…

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Faltering Beirut Port Blast Probe Faces Risk of New Obstruction

An investigation into the devastating 2020 explosion at Beirut port, which has struggled to make progress amid resistance from top politicians, may face a further obstruction to its work that could leave the probe in limbo by preventing any indictments. Judge Tarek Bitar's investigation into the massive blast, which killed…

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