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Lebanon Charges 13 Over Hezbollah’s 780 Kilograms of Explosives as State Confronts Armed Group

Lebanon Charges 13 Over Hezbollah’s 780 Kilograms of Explosives as State Confronts Armed Group

Lebanon’s military judiciary has charged 13 individuals over a truck carrying 780 kilograms of explosives belonging to Hezbollah. Two suspects remain detained, while 11 others face charges in absentia, including alleged offenses against state security.

Uncovered: 5,000 Secret Iranian Military Agencies Used to Evade Western Sanctions

Uncovered: 5,000 Secret Iranian Military Agencies Used to Evade Western Sanctions

Lebanon Approves New Waste-Management Strategy as Landfills Reach Breaking Point

Lebanon Approves New Waste-Management Strategy as Landfills Reach Breaking Point

Israel's Vote Count Is Complete: Netanyahu Wins 53 Seats but Falls Short of a Majority

Israel's Vote Count Is Complete: Netanyahu Wins 53 Seats but Falls Short of a Majority

Why Do Lebanese People Refer to Buildings by Their Former Owners?

Why Do Lebanese People Refer to Buildings by Their Former Owners?

Google Loses Nearly $400 Billion in Market Value as Wall Street Questions the Cost of AI

Google Loses Nearly $400 Billion in Market Value as Wall Street Questions the Cost of AI

Whose Interests Is Hezbollah Defending? Qassem Rejects Disarmament While Praising Iran

Whose Interests Is Hezbollah Defending? Qassem Rejects Disarmament While Praising Iran

Politics

Lebanon Charges 13 Over Hezbollah’s 780 Kilograms of Explosives as State Confronts Armed Group

Lebanon Charges 13 Over Hezbollah’s 780 Kilograms of Explosives as State Confronts Armed Group

Lebanon’s military judiciary has charged 13 individuals over a truck carrying 780 kilograms of explosives belonging to Hezbollah. Two suspects remain detained, while 11 others face charges in absentia, including alleged offenses against state security.

Uncovered: 5,000 Secret Iranian Military Agencies Used to Evade Western Sanctions

Uncovered: 5,000 Secret Iranian Military Agencies Used to Evade Western Sanctions

Israel's Vote Count Is Complete: Netanyahu Wins 53 Seats but Falls Short of a Majority

Israel's Vote Count Is Complete: Netanyahu Wins 53 Seats but Falls Short of a Majority

Whose Interests Is Hezbollah Defending? Qassem Rejects Disarmament While Praising Iran

Whose Interests Is Hezbollah Defending? Qassem Rejects Disarmament While Praising Iran

Israel's Election Heads Toward Deadlock as Trump Reportedly Pushes Netanyahu to Abandon Far-Right Allies

Israel's Election Heads Toward Deadlock as Trump Reportedly Pushes Netanyahu to Abandon Far-Right Allies

The Region’s Democratic Divide: Israelis Vote While Much of the Region Is Ruled by Dictators

The Region’s Democratic Divide: Israelis Vote While Much of the Region Is Ruled by Dictators

Jordan Bombs Daraa Following Church Massacre: Is Syria Becoming a Jihadist Stronghold?

Jordan Bombs Daraa Following Church Massacre: Is Syria Becoming a Jihadist Stronghold?

Economy

Lebanon’s Banking Reform Faces Another Obstacle After Constitutional Council Ruling

Lebanon’s Banking Reform Faces Another Obstacle After Constitutional Council Ruling

Lebanon's Constitutional Council has annulled a key provision of the banking restructuring law following an appeal by President Joseph Aoun, reopening a dispute over the powers of Banque du Liban and the Higher Banking Commission.

IMF Warns AI Could Make Rich Countries Richer and Leave the Rest of the World Behind

IMF Warns AI Could Make Rich Countries Richer and Leave the Rest of the World Behind

Aoun Reviews Electricity Reforms as Lebanon Faces Another Test of Its Ability to Deliver

Aoun Reviews Electricity Reforms as Lebanon Faces Another Test of Its Ability to Deliver

Qatar Unveils Detailed Plan to End Lebanon’s Electricity Crisis Within Three Years

Qatar Unveils Detailed Plan to End Lebanon’s Electricity Crisis Within Three Years

Anthropic Forecasts Extraordinary AI-Driven Growth

Anthropic Forecasts Extraordinary AI-Driven Growth

IMF Warns of Growing Global Economic Risks

IMF Warns of Growing Global Economic Risks

Qatar Announces Major Electricity Investment in Lebanon

Qatar Announces Major Electricity Investment in Lebanon

Culture

Why Do Lebanese People Refer to Buildings by Their Former Owners?

Why Do Lebanese People Refer to Buildings by Their Former Owners?

In Lebanon, directions often refer to buildings by the names of former owners, long-closed businesses or landmarks that disappeared decades ago. These informal addresses reveal how neighborhoods preserve memories through everyday language, even as their physical surroundings change.

The Beirut Coastline That Disappeared Behind Roads and Development

The Beirut Coastline That Disappeared Behind Roads and Development

How Did Lebanese Villages Get Their Names?

How Did Lebanese Villages Get Their Names?

When Beirut Had a Jewish Quarter: The Forgotten History of Wadi Abu Jamil

When Beirut Had a Jewish Quarter: The Forgotten History of Wadi Abu Jamil

Lebanon Launches National Digital Heritage Archive to Preserve Its Forgotten History

Lebanon Launches National Digital Heritage Archive to Preserve Its Forgotten History

The Traditional Lebanese Houses Being Replaced One Building at a Time

The Traditional Lebanese Houses Being Replaced One Building at a Time

Why Do Lebanese Ask “Where Are You From?” When They Mean Your Village?

Why Do Lebanese Ask “Where Are You From?” When They Mean Your Village?

Business

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Google Loses Nearly $400 Billion in Market Value as Wall Street Questions the Cost of AI

Anthropic Files for IPO: Potential $1.5 Trillion Valuation

SpaceX and Tesla Explore $3.5 Trillion Merger That Could Reshape Elon Musk’s Empire

Nvidia Expands Into the CPU Market, Challenging Intel and AMD’s Longtime Dominance

Saudi Arabia Postpones Its Flagship Investment Conference as Houthi Attacks Threaten Vision 2030

Technology

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Can Cryptocurrency Defeat Economic Sanctions? What Israel, Russia, and Iran Reveal About Its Real Power

OpenAI’s Own AI Agents Disabled Safety Monitoring, One Then Denied Doing It

Flying Cars Are Finally Here: Elon Musk Just Made One Fly

Trump Shares AI Accord Signed With Leading Tech Executives

OpenAI Launches “Always-On” AI Agents as the Industry Moves Beyond Chatbots

Society

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Lebanon Approves New Waste-Management Strategy as Landfills Reach Breaking Point