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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
Saturday 17 June 2023 16:29:54
Macron, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Call for End to Lebanon’s ‘Political Vacuum’
French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called for a “rapid end to the institutional political vacuum in Lebanon,” the Elysee said on Friday.
Macron had been expected to seek support from the Crown Prince to find a solution in the search for a new president in Lebanon, a stalemate causing increasing exasperation for France.
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Lebanese lawmakers on Wednesday failed for a 12th time to elect a new president, as bitter divisions between Hezbollah and its opponens risk miring the country in a protracted power vacuum.
The prolonged absence of a president “remains the major obstacle to resolving the country’s severe socio-economic crisis”, the French presidency said after the meeting between the two men in Paris.
Macron and the Crown Prince “also reiterated their shared commitment to security and stability in the Near and Middle East and expressed their desire to pursue their joint efforts to bring about a lasting easing of tensions.”
The two intend to “develop and deepen the partnership between the two countries.”
France is prepared “to support Saudi Arabia in strengthening its defense capabilities” and Macron stressed “the willingness of French companies to continue to support Saudi Arabia in implementing its ambitious Vision 2030”, the Kingdom’s economic and social reform agenda.
The Crown Prince’s stay in France appears set to be a long one, with him due to attend a Paris summit on a New Global Financing Pact hosted by Macron on June 22-23.