Source: Agence France Presse

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A United Nations peacekeeping patrol was stopped Tuesday by residents in the southern Lebanese town of Siddiqin, Tyre district, after attempting to enter a local area without a Lebanese Army escort, according to local media.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Lebanese security forces have detained Mahmoud Ayoub, a Hezbollah member and financial director of the Ragheb Harb Hospital in the Nabatiyeh district, on charges of collaborating with Israeli intelligence, sources told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel on Monday.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
With the lifting of US sanctions, and considering Syria's potential to emerge as a regional economic model compared to Lebanon, several contrasts emerge. A first take is the announcement by the UAE of The Tartous Port development agreement which represents one of the most significant indicators of changing regional economic dynamics following sanctions relief. This agreement carries profound implications for regional trade flows. Historically, Lebanon's ports—particularly Beirut and Tripoli—served as primary gateways for regional commerce, including Syrian imports and exports. The development of Tartous as a modern deep-water port threatens to redirect significant trade volumes away from Lebanese facilities, potentially undermining one of Lebanon's few remaining economic advantages.
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A 2019 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimated that Lebanon was the third largest source for ‘cannabis resin’ worldwide, only behind Morocco and Afghanistan. The UNODC estimated that roughly 6% of all the cannabis resin on earth originates in Lebanon.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid meet in their second derby of the season with the Liga lead on the line and the focus on refereeing. Real Madrid has spent the days ahead of Saturday’s match complaining of mistakes against the club.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
The first Chinese driver in Formula 1, Zhou Guanyu, is heading back to Ferrari as one of its reserve drivers for the 2025 season.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Tuesday 25 July 2023 12:02:47
In the capital city of Athens the mercury is expected to soar to 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit), and reach up to 44C in central Greece, according to the national weather forecaster EMY.
The very hot weather comes after a weekend of intense heat and after thousands of locals and tourists fled forest fires in Rhodes and Corfu, with the prime minister warning the heat-battered nation is “at war” with the flames.
The mercury hit 46.4C in Gythio, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula on Sun-day, though failed to reach the hottest temperature nationally on record of 48C.
Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday, after tens of thousands of people had already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home on evacuation flights.
More than 260 firefighters were still battling flames for an eighth consecutive day on Rhodes, supported by two helicopters and two planes.
Fires were also raging on Greece’s second largest island of Evia, where Greek civil protection authorities issued an overnight evacuation order in one northern locality.
“We are at war and are exclusively geared towards the fire front,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament on Monday.
He warned that the country faced “another three difficult days ahead” before high temperatures are forecast to ease.
Vassilis Kikilias, Greece’s civil protection minister, said crews had battled over 500 fires around the country for 12 straight days.
Many regions of the country were on “red alert” Tuesday, meaning there is an ex-treme risk of forest fires, exacerbated by strong winds.
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