Lebanon
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Macron, Saudi Crown Prince Sign Strategic Partnership, Call For Lebanon Elections
President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a strategic partnership on Monday aimed at deepening bilateral ties and de-escalating conflict in the Middle East, including Lebanon,…
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Hezbollah Fires 2 Missiles At Israel In Cease Fire Violation: IDF
Israeli army flares fall over the northern Har Dov area on Mount Hermon on November 13, 2023, amid increasing cross-border tensions between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel as fighting continues with…
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Biden Hails Lebanon Ceasefire Deal As ‘Good News’
President Joe Biden on Tuesday welcomed as “good news” a US and French-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying he hoped it could be a springboard to peace in Gaza…
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Netanyahu Seeks Ceasefire After Two Months Of War In Lebanon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that his government was ready for a ceasefire with Hezbollah, saying an end to the war in Lebanon would allow Israel to focus its…
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Israel Strikes Kill 22 In Lebanon As Hezbollah Targets South Israel
Successive Israeli strikes pummelled Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold on Thursday as authorities said raids in eastern Lebanon killed 22 people, and Hezbollah claimed its deepest attack on Israel in more…
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US Envoy Presses Israel-Hezbollah Truce Bid In Lebanon Visit
US envoy Amos Hochstein was in Lebanon Wednesday, seeking to hammer out a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, as the militant group battled Israeli troops in the…
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US Envoy In Lebanon For Talks On Halting Israel-Hezbollah War
US special envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday for talks with officials on a truce plan, which Lebanon has largely endorsed, to halt the Israel-Hezbollah war.…
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Israel Pummels South Beirut As Lebanon Mulls Truce Plan
Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah bastions in Beirut and south Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Lebanese government officials said they were studying a US truce…
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Lebanon Rescuer Picks Up ‘Pieces’ Of Father After Israel Strike
Suzanne Karkaba and her father Ali were both civil defence rescuers whose job was to save the injured and recover the dead in Lebanon’s war. When an Israeli strike killed…
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Lebanon Economic Losses Top $5 Billion In Year Of Clashes: World Bank
More than a year of clashes that recently escalated into war have cost Lebanon more than $5 billion in economic losses, with actual structural damage amounting to billions more, the…
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Lebanon Army Redeployment In South Crucial To War Solution: UN Peacekeeping Chief
The UN peacekeeping chief whose force monitors Lebanon’s south said redeploying Lebanese troops there is crucial for any solution to more than a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes that escalated into…
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Lebanon Says 7 Children Among 23 Dead In Israeli Strike North Of Beirut
Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 23 people, including seven children, in the village of Almat north of the capital Beirut. AFPTV footage showed rescuers rummaging…
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Deadly Strikes On Gaza, Lebanon As Israel Faces Aid Deadline
Israel launched deadly strikes on Gaza and Lebanon Sunday, rescuers and authorities said, ahead of a US deadline for improved aid delivery to the Palestinian territory. Rescuers in Gaza on…
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Israel Strikes Lebanon After Discussing ‘Iranian Threat’ With Trump
Israel launched fresh strikes on south Beirut early Thursday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US president-elect Donald Trump spoke about the “Iranian threat”. The Israeli premier was one…
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Lebanon Files UN Complaint Against Israel Over Pager Attacks
Lebanon said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labour agency over deadly attacks on communication devices across the country in September, which it blames on…
