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Lebanon
Aoun stresses state role, floats initiative for negotiations with Israel
President Joseph Aoun on Friday said that Lebanon "has grown tired of the state's absence" and "the Lebanese have grown exhausted of the projec...
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Lebanon
Haykal calls on Lebanese to trust army despite 'slanderous campaigns'
Army chief Rodolphe Haykal called Friday on the Lebanese to trust and support the army as they have always done, amid American and domestic pressur...
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Following a week-long suspension of services in Ain el-Helweh due to armed clashes, UNRWA has now resumed its operations within the camp.
Health Centre II has been reopened and resumed provision of medical care to Palestine Refugee patients. Many children including newborns were brought to the centre for treatment and vaccination.
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Visiting the tense occupied Shebaa Farms region on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah against “making a mistake.”
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The Lebanese Army on Tuesday organized a Blue Line tour for the representatives of the U.N. Security Council members.
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"The likelihood of another Israel-Lebanon war is as high as ever," Israel Hayom claimed.
The Israeli daily said Monday that officials estimate 6,000 missiles launched into Israel in the first days of war and between 1,500-2,000 onward which will lead to the death of approximately 500 civilians and the injury of thousands.
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea blamed Tuesday the "demonic alliance" between the Axis of Defiance and the Free Patriotic Movement for the tragic situation in Lebanon, as he criticized the government for borrowing from the Central Bank.
"Borrowing from the Central Bank is illegal," Geagea said, dubbing the successive finance ministries a "disaster".
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Acting Central Bank Governor Wassim Mansouri has emphasized that “the decision of halting the funding of the state’s needs is final and irreversible, no matter how much pressures escalates on him from now until the end of the month,” sources close to him said.
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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri considers the September dialogue -- proposed by French envoy Jean Yves Le Drian -- an opportunity "not to be missed."
Berri told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Tuesday, that an agreement could be reached through September's dialogue.
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A consultative ministerial meeting in Diman called Tuesday for expediting the election of a president and for cooperation with Syria and world powers to resolve the refugee crisis.
"We call on all Lebanese to protect the Lebanese formula by consolidating our belonging to our inclusive national identity," the ministers said in a statement after the meeting.
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Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari on Monday confirmed that the kingdom’s warning to its citizens to leave Lebanon was linked to the latest deadly clashes in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh.
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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, who met Sunday in Ain el-Tineh, were both confused about statements by Gulf nations warning their citizens not to travel to Lebanon.
Bahrain had called on its citizens to leave Lebanon "for their own safety" hours after Saudi Arabia did the same without giving a reason.
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