Source: Al Arabiya
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
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
Monday 5 June 2023 12:24:02
Statistic’s Agency: Egypt’s Population Hits Staggering 105 Million People
Egypt’s population hit a staggering 105 million people, growing by 1 million in just eight months, the country’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics revealed on Saturday.
The country is the most populous in the Middle East and the third most populous in Africa, according to the World Bank.
The latest update puts further strain on Egypt’s already-ailing economy, which has seen official annual inflation rates soar to over 30 percent since last year and living standards dwindle drastically.
Official data classified about 30 percent of the population as poor before the COVID-19 outbreak – a number that is suspected to have risen since then.
As many as 60 percent of Egyptians are estimated to be below or close to the poverty line, according to the country’s official data.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi blames the rapid population growth for the country’s economic crisis.
In February 2022, he launched the National Project for the Development of the Egyptian Family to curb overpopulation and tackle the health, education, social, cultural, and economic repercussions of population growth.
