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Fearing IDF Strikes, Palestinian Terror Groups Raise Alert Level

Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon have stepped up their security levels in recent days over impending strikes fears

Zenger

Lebanon’s FIBA World Cup journey is about much more than basketball

Basketball fans in crisis-hit Lebanon find much-needed joy and hope through the national team’s World Cup journey.

Al Jazeera

Two dead in Lebanon military helicopter crash

Air force helicopter came down in a mountainous area east of Beirut, but the cause of the crash has not been given.

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Business tycoon Carlos Ghosn's rise, fall and dramatic escape is subject of new Apple TV+ series

Carlos Ghosn, the former rock star businessman who fell from grace and fled authorities smuggled in a music instrument box, is getting what his dramatic story deserves — a multi-part Apple TV+ documentary series

The Independent UK

Where is Carlos Ghosn now? Whereabouts of the fugitive explained

Where is Carlos Ghosn now? We reveal the whereabouts of the fugitive, as a new Apple+ TV documentary about his escape airs.

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Four years into crisis, Lebanon's leaders hope tourism boom will help bypass reforms in IMF bailout

Lebanon's political elites are pushing a recovery plan for the country's financial collapse that would allow them to sidestep tough reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund

The Independent UK

Unapologetic Shiite cleric blasts corruption in Iraq and Lebanon, and attempts to silence him

A Lebanese Shiite cleric who has angered politicians and religious leaders in Lebanon and Iraq says that groups including Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah are trying to silence voices of dissent within the sect — including his own

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UN suspends services at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon after clashes

UN refugee agency has called on armed actors within the refugee camp to immediately vacate its facilities.

Al Jazeera

UN suspends services in Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon over gunmen inside its facilities

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says it has decided to suspend all of its services in Lebanon’s largest refugee camp for a day in protest against the presence of gunmen in its facilities

The Independent UK

UN says militants are occupying a school complex in Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp after clashes

Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are still occupying a United Nations-run school complex, U.N. officials have said

The Independent UK

Captagon: $3 narcotic pill sold in the Gulf worries European officials

Europe is bracing for the possible influx of a drug that’s hooked the Middle East as political shifts and crackdowns in the Gulf spur producers in Syria and Lebanon to tap new markets.

The Times of India

Offshore drilling rig arrives in Lebanese waters ahead of work near Israel border

Lebanese Cabinet ministers say an offshore drilling rig has arrived at its location in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon’s coast and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas

The Independent UK

Drilling rig arrives in Lebanon’s Block 9 to begin exploration

The drilling became possible after a US-mediated deal settled a maritime border dispute in Lebanese and Israeli waters.

Al Jazeera

Lebanon-Israel tensions rise, but life continues in disputed Ghajar

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel exchange threats to send each other back to the ‘stone age’, Ghajar is in the middle.

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Nasrallah: Israel Will Cease To Exist In A Multi-front War

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that Israel will cease to exist if conflict erupts with the Iran-backed terror groups

The Independent UK

Lebanon's interim central bank governor freezes assets of former chief and close associates

Lebanon’s interim central bank governor has frozen the accounts of the banks embattled former chief and close relatives and associates

The Independent UK

Libya asks Lebanon to release Gadhafi's detained son due to deteriorating health, officials say

Libya’s judicial authorities have formally asked Lebanon’s prosecutor general to release one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, held without charges in Lebanon since 2015 because of his deteriorating health

Zenger

Hezbollah Terrorist Hurls Molotov Cocktail Into Israel

IDF soldiers fired warning shots at a Hezbollah terrorist who had thrown a Molotov cocktail from southern Lebanon

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'Barbie' might be banned in Lebanon for ‘promoting homosexuality’

The Ministry of Culture in Lebanon may decide to ban "Barbie" after it accused the film of "promoting homosexuality" on Wednesday. Lebanon, normally perceived as relatively open and free in the Middle East, has seen its ruling elites unite around hardcore conservative values.

The Independent UK

Forensic audit into Lebanon's central bank reveals misconduct and 'illegitimate' commissions

A forensic audit into Lebanon’s central bank by a New York-based company has revealed yearslong misconduct by the bank’s former governor and $111 million in “illegitimate commissions.”

The Independent UK

Cyprus is sending Syrian migrants back to Lebanon. The UN is concerned but Cypriots say it’s lawful

The United Nations refugee agency says it’s “extremely concerned” over the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without screening to determine whether they need legal protection and who may be deported back to their war-wracked homeland

Al Jazeera

US, UK and Canada sanction Lebanon’s former central bank governor

Internationally wanted Riad Salameh resigned from post he held for 30 years after graft charges were filed against him.

The Independent UK

US, UK, and Canada sanction Lebanon's former central bank governor over corruption allegations

The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have slapped sanctions on Lebanon’s embattled ex-central bank governor and a handful of close relatives and associates over allegations of corruption

Al Jazeera

Lebanon’s army seizes ammunition after Hezbollah fight in Christian town

Hezbollah truck at the centre of clashes in Kahaleh was carrying ammunition, Lebanese army says.

The Independent UK

UK sanctions Lebanon’s former central bank governor

Britain, the US and Canada have announced coordinated designations against Riad Salameh and three associates.

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