Lebanon

NNA - Prime Minister, Dr. Nawaf Salam, arrived in Ain al-Tineh to meet with House Speaker Nabih Berri. nbsp; ==================== L.Y

NNA - Pope Leo XIV arrived in Turkey Thursday on the first overseas trip of his papacy, which will also take him to Lebanon, said an AFP journalist on board his plane. The American pope landed in Ankara at 12:23 pm (0923 GMT), where he was to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and give an address to officials, civil society and the diplomatic […]

NNA - A court in Bangladesh sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday to 21 years in prison for corruption, a week after she was given the death penalty for crimes against humanity. Hasina, 78, is currently residing in India and has defied court orders that she return to Bangladesh. She was sentenced in absentia on November 17 to be hanged […]

NNAnbsp; A train hit railway workers in southwest China on Thursday, killing 11, local railway authorities said after the crash in Yunnan province. The train quot;used for seismic equipment testingquot; collided with construction workers at Kunming#39;s Luoyang Town station in the early morning, killing 11 and injuring two, the Kunming Railway Bureau said […]

NNA -nbsp;Australia has listed Iranrsquo;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday, following an intelligence assessment that it had orcestrated attacks against Australiarsquo;s Jewish Community.nbsp;nbsp; Australia in August accused Iran of directing two antisemitic arson […]

NNA - Hermel - Israeli enemy warplanes were reportednbsp;flying atnbsp;medium altitudenbsp;overnbsp;Hermel. ===================nbsp; nbsp;

NNA -nbsp;A magnitude 6.6-earthquake hit an island off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with no immediate reports of damages or tsunami warning. The quake, which struck Simeuluenbsp;Island at 11:56 am (0456 GMT) at a depth of 25 kilometres, prompted locals on the island to […]

NNA - One person has been reported dead and 13 injured in 9 road accidents within the last 24 hours, the Traffic Management Center said on Thursday.nbsp; nbsp; ===================== L.Y

Vatican says ‘demanding’ six-day mission will be packed with meetings with political and religious leadersPope Leo will make his debut overseas trip as leader of the Catholic church on Thursday, travelling on a six-day mission of peace and unity to Turkey and Lebanon in what the Vatican said was expected to be a “demanding” schedule packed with […]

The Israeli enemy continued its violation of Lebanese sovereignty and non-compliance with the ceasefire with Lebanon and UN Security Council Resolution 1701. In this context, Al-Manar correspondent reported on Wednesday evening that “an Israeli enemy vehicle advanced from the Al-Asi military site towards the wall area on the eastern outskirts of the town […]

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, on Wednesday affirmed Cairo’s “full support” for President Joseph Aoun and the initiatives he announced in his Independence Day address, including the government’s decision to restrict all weapons to state institutions. Speaking after meeting President Aoun in Baabda, Abdelatty stressed that Egypt “will […]

NNA - President Joseph Aoun visited former President Amine Gemayel on Wednesday afternoon at Hocirc;tel-Dieu Hospital in Achrafieh, where Gemayel is recovering after undergoing surgery. President Aoun checked on the former presidentrsquo;s health and wished him a speedy recovery. nbsp; nbsp; =========R.H. nbsp;

NNA - Prime Minister,nbsp;Nawaf Salam, on Wednesday received a delegation from thenbsp;Editorsrsquo; Syndicate, led by its president Joseph Al-Qassifi, for a broad discussion on current political developments and the governmentrsquo;s ongoing work. Later, PM Salam met with visiting Swedish officials:nbsp;Benjamin Dosa, Minister for International […]

NNA - Finance Minister, Yassine Jaber, on Wednesday met with an official German delegation visiting Beirut for negotiations on Lebanesendash;German development cooperation.nbsp; Talks, held at the Ministerrsquo;s office with ministry experts, focused on addressing administrative and regulatory challenges related to establishing offices for German […]

NNA - An Israeli reconnaissance drone on Wednesday dropped a sound bomb in the Dabakeh neighborhood near Karakzan, adjacent to the main road northeast of the town of Meiss el-Jabal. No injuries were reported. nbsp; nbsp; =======R.H.

NNA - Caretaker Interior Minister, Ahmad Hajjar, on Wednesday met with UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Khaled Khiari, for a broad discussion on the situation in Lebanon and the region.nbsp; Hajjar underscored the importance of continued international support, particularly from the UN, for Lebanese state […]

Lebanon and Cyprus signed a maritime demarcation deal on Wednesday, paving the way for potential exploration of offshore gas fields and energy cooperation in the Mediterranean. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides signed the agreement at Lebanon’s presidential palace and told reporters it would signal deeper […]

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem addressed the reservist fighters of the resistance on the annual Mobilization Day, affirming the importance of building both the spiritual and material life in order to achieve victory. “You build your material life through knowledge, livelihood, marriage, and upbringing within the framework of a good […]

Recalling the 2024 war log, Hezbollah’s Military Media on Wednesday unveiled new details from the sixty-fifth day of the Israeli offensive against Lebanon. During this phase, Resistance fighters intensified their ground and cross-border operations, marking significant advances amid the ongoing Israeli assault. These revelations form part of the […]

NNA - Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, on Wednesday affirmed Cairorsquo;s ldquo;full supportrdquo; for President Joseph Aoun and the initiatives he announced in his Independence Day address, including the governmentrsquo;s decision to restrict all weapons to state institutions. Speaking after meeting President Aoun in Baabda, Abdelatty stressed […]

NNA - Minister of Information, Dr. Paul Morcos, on Wednesday delivered Lebanon#39;snbsp;address at the 55th Ordinary Session of the Council of Arab Information Ministers, held at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. Morcos emphasized the heightened importance of the meeting amid regional turmoil, noting that Arab media leaders are called to be ldquo;the […]

NNA - Minister of Information, Dr. Paul Morcos, on Wednesday met with Syrian Information Minister, Dr. Hamza al-Mustafa, on the sidelines of the 55th regular session of the Arab Ministers of Information Council at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. During the meeting, Morcos raised the case of journalist Samir Kassab, who has been forcibly disappeared […]

Member of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah affirmed on Tuesday that the resistance group won’t allow Lebanon’s surrender. In remarks during a memorial service for martyrs who fell in Israeli aggression, MP Fadlallah said “no political proposal has yet been presented to Lebanon that would effectively stop the […]

NNA - Lebanon and Cyprus formalized their maritime border demarcation at the Presidential Palace in Beirut on Wednesday. Presidents Joseph Aoun and Nikos Christodoulides later held a joint press conference to announce the agreement. nbsp; ================R.H.

NNA ndash; President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, and Cypriot President, Nikos Christodoulides, on Wednesday held a joint press conference at Baabda Palace, marking what Aoun described as a ldquo;day of historic significancerdquo; for bilateral relations. Aoun welcomed Christodoulides on his second visit to Lebanon, recalling that the Cypriot […]

nbsp; NNA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a generous, first-ever in-kind contribution of rice from the Government of the Republic of Korea to support vulnerable families and schoolchildren across Lebanon. The donation, totalling 864 metric tons of Korean rice, will be used to strengthen two of WFP Lebanon#39;s key activities: […]

NNA - The U.S. Embassy in Beirut announced on its X account that it will be closed on Thursday, 27 November, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. nbsp; ===============

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem is scheduled to address a memorial service held to commemorate the martyrdom of the great jihadi commander Haytham Al-Tabtabai and his companions on Friday at 6 p.m. (Beirut Time).  The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack on Sunday afternoon, targeting a residential apartment located in Haret Hreik town in […]

A year after the Israeli war on Lebanon ended, northern Zionist settlers say they are living with the consequences of a conflict that has left their communities fractured and their region struggling to recover. Guy Varon, a Zionist writer for Channel 12’s website, reports that the longest war in “Israel’s” history has created wounds that ...

Israel’s latest strike in Beirut on Sunday, which killed at least five people and wounded 28, has dramatically escalated existing tensions in the region and left many in Lebanon anxious about what may follow.Beirut-based journalist William Christou speaks to Nour Haydar about the Lebanese government and Hezbollah’s responses to the strike and Israel’s […]