This is Beirut 10/11 20:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A US official, during a visit to Lebanon on Monday, called on the authorities to “end Iran’s malign influence through Hezbollah,” stressing that Washington is determined to halt Tehran’s funding of the group hostile to Israel. “We believe that the key for the Lebanese people to take back their country is to end ...
This is Beirut 10/11 19:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka’s visit to Lebanon over the past two days has added an unexpected but timely dimension to the country’s search for economic and political stability. His meetings with local officials and policy advisors reportedly centered on policies to cut off ...
Élie-Joe Kamel 10/11 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Lebanon is facing an unusually dry year, with autumn bringing far less rainfall than normal. According to the Minister of Energy and Water, precipitation is down about 51 percent compared with the average. The winter of 2024-2025 had already been exceptionally dry, with Beirut recording just 382 mm, compared with 1,051 mm the previous year. The ...
This is Beirut 10/11 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A Bulgarian court on Monday adjourned an extradition hearing for a shipowner wanted over a devastating blast at Beirut port in 2020, asking Lebanon to confirm he would not face the death penalty. Lebanon wants Bulgaria to extradite Igor Grechushkin, a 48-year-old Russian-Cypriot, over the disaster, one of the world's largest non-nuclear ...
This is Beirut 10/11 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli air raids escalated sharply on Monday, striking multiple regions across Lebanon from the eastern border near Baalbek to the southern border. Warplanes launched two raids on the outskirts of Nabi Sheet (Bekaa) and the Shaara area near Janta (Baalbeck-Hermel), while additional strikes targeted the Rihan hills (Jezzin), Qatrani, and ...
This is Beirut 10/11 14:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The economic collapse is systemic and cannot be resolved without the state assuming its share of responsibility, the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) warned in its latest monthly report for October 2025. The statement directly challenges the government’s draft “financial gap” law, which omits any reference to a systemic crisis, a move ...
This is Beirut 10/11 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun met on Monday with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev at the Presidential Palace in Sofia, where the two leaders held bilateral talks followed by expanded discussions between their respective delegations. The talks focused on strengthening cooperation between Lebanon and Bulgaria across political, economic, and security ...
Michel Touma 10/11 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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It is a world turned completely upside down. That seems to be the guiding principle of the radical wing of Tehran’s clerical regime, which persistently seeks to project onto Lebanon its own highly idiosyncratic—and at times surreal—vision of political action. Following the directives of its regional mentor, the local pro-Iranian group shows ...
This is Beirut 09/11 20:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Panamanian authorities announced Sunday the arrest in Venezuela of the suspected mastermind behind a 1994 plane bombing that killed 21 people, mostly Jewish, in an attack attributed to Hezbollah. The aircraft, Alas Chiricanas Flight 901, exploded shortly after takeoff from an airport in Panama’s Colón province on the night of July ...
This is Beirut 09/11 20:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun met on Sunday evening with a delegation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury at the Baabda Palace. The delegation was led by Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council (NSC), and included John Hurley, Under Secretary for Terrorism and ...
This is Beirut 09/11 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The US Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, John Hurley, said the United States wants to seize a “favorable moment” in Lebanon to cut Iranian funding to Hezbollah and push the group to disarm. “There is a moment now in Lebanon. If we can get Hezbollah to disarm, the Lebanese people could get their country back,” ...
This is Beirut 09/11 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel has accused the Lebanese army of “failing to take sufficient action to prevent Hezbollah from rearming”, warning that it will “continue its intensified airstrikes unless the situation changes”, according to a report published Saturday by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan. According to the report, Jerusalem conveyed a message ...