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Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Thursday 7 April 2022 16:13:18
Aoun Receives Head of EU Elections Observation Mission
Gyorgy Holvenyi, the chief observer of the European Union’s Electoral Observation Mission said on Thursday after a meeting with President Michel Aoun in Baabda that his organization will draw up a report that includes recommendations for possible reforms after the upcoming legislative elections.
Here’s what we know:
• “This mission is proof of the EU’s commitment to peace and democracy in Lebanon. This organization was set up at the request of the Lebanese authorities. Part of this team arrived in Lebanon on March 27 and will remain there until June 6 … The mission will publish a report with recommendations later,” explained Holvenyi. “Our report will include a final assessment of the electoral process and will offer recommendations for possible reforms.”
• For his part, President Aoun said that “the absence of mega voting centers could result in a low turnover” at the polls. The establishment of these megacenters was demanded by Aoun’s camp, but Najiib Mikati’s cabinet did not approve the request, but rather postponed their adoption for the 2026 legislative elections. Megacenters would allow citizens to vote near their place of residence as opposed to in their village of origin as is the case now.
• Holvenyi later convened with Mikati at the Grand Serail to discuss “ongoing preparations for the elections,” Mikat’s office wrote on Twitter. The two officials also discussed “the arrival of observers and their deployment across Lebanese regions.”
• The European official is yet to meet with Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi at the ministry’s headquarters. Holvenyi will also meet with several senior state officials, political parties, religious leaders, electoral bodies and members of civil society. He will hold a press conference to officially launch the EOM on Monday April 11.
• Lebanon’s Elections Supervisory Commission said Thursday in a press release that it had created an email address open to the public that is “ready to receive complaints of all kinds, requests for review, clarification or information concerning the executive measures and practices related to the elections, in accordance with its prerogatives.” The email address is: [email protected]