Tehran has promised revenge. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said: “We are certain that this feeling from the heart will lead to the destruction of the Zionist regime.” by Editorial Staff About thirty embassies closed their doors without incident during Quds Day, the international day for Jerusalem proclaimed by Iran. Israel has taken precautions by closing 28 locations [...]
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by Editorial Staff France has presented a written proposal to Beirut with the aim of resolving hostilities with Tel Aviv and addressing the existing dispute on the Lebanon-Israel border. The document, obtained by Reuters, outlines measures for de-escalation, including the withdrawal of fighters, in particular Hezbollah's elite unit, to a distance of 10 [...]
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Since the first attack last Saturday by Hamas on Israel, international gas prices have increased dramatically to reach 43,60 Euro/MWh yesterday with a +15,00% in just a few hours. The situation of the two reference crude oils is no different: WTI at $88,80/barrel and BRENT at $89,50/barrel on the main [...]
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During a solemn ceremony at the Quirinal Palace, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella conferred on Brigadier General Diodato Abagnara the honor of Knight of the Military Order of Italy with the following motivation: "Commander of the Joint Task Force Lebanon - Sector West led the complex and articulated multinational contingent with value, expertise and determination, [...]
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Intelligence agencies had warned the Lebanese prime minister a month before the explosion at the port. So in an investigation The Times reveals the background. President Aoun is under pressure because some documents show that the Lebanese Prime Minister and the whole government had been warned, at least two weeks before, of the dangers at the port [...]
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected requests for an international investigation into the explosion that tore apart Beirut, killing more than 150 people with over 5000 injured. The public protest against a government deemed incompetent is growing by the hour. Yesterday's demonstration caused deaths and injuries, the population praises the revolution, while the [...]
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Lebanese health minister Hamad Hasan sounds the alarm: "Better to leave the city, the air quality is not the best, it could cause permanent damage and even death over time". Two explosions at the port of Beirut that caused more than 100 deaths and 4.000 injuries yesterday caused the end of the world. A figure that must be [...]
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Yesterday was inaugurated at the reception and rehabilitation center for the disabled "Mosan Center" in the city of Tire (South Lebanon), a play and physiotherapy area, created thanks to the voluntary aid that the staff of the Southern Operational Forces Command of Naples under the orders of the General of the Army Corps Rosario Castellano, he sent there in the [...]
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In the letter the greeting to the Peacekeepers of the Garibaldi Brigade Pope Francis sent a letter, in his signature, to the Military Chaplain Don Claudio Mancusi to extend his personal thanks to the Blue Helmets from Campania who served the cause of Peace in the period October 2018-May 2019 Lebanon, as part of the UNIFIL Mission: "I thank all the Operators [...]
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The ITALAIR Task Force (TF), an Italian helicopter component deployed within the UNIFIL mission, has completed 40 years of continuous presence in Lebanon. Originally called "ITALAIR Helicopter Squadron", the unit was deployed near the town of Naqoura, south of the land of cedars, from 3 July 1979, to fulfill the requirements of resolutions 425/1978 [...]
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In the Solemn Mass celebrated this morning in the Church "Maria Decor Carmeli and San Giovanni XXIII Papa" in the UNP 2-3 Base of Shama in Lebanon, headquarters of the command of the Joint Task Force Lebanon Sector West, it was delivered to the Commander, the Brigadier General Diodato Abagnara, and the Military Chaplain Don Claudio Mancusi, the medal [...]
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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced at a press conference the formation of a new government after an eight-month deadlock following the elections on May 6, 2018, the Italian news agency Nova reports. At the end of a meeting with the head of state Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace of Baabda, the [...]
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The Iranian government is allegedly smuggling ballistic missile parts into Lebanon, where they are secretly stored in clandestine factories run by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, according to a former Israeli intelligence official. For several months, the international news agency Reuters has claimed that Tehran would transport short-range ballistic missiles to secret bases controlled by the militias [...]
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The Israeli Air Force bombed a military research center in Masyaf, in the province of Hama. The military installation had already been hit in September last year and is suspected by Mossad and Western intelligence to be one of the chemical weapons production centers of the al Assad regime. The planes passed over Lebanon, [...]
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun said again today that Syrian refugees return immediately to their country of origin. The capabilities of Lebanon do not allow them to stay, due to repercussions of all kinds that are occurring in Lebanon. Aoun reported this to the UN coordinator in the country, Pernille [...]
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The Lebanese started voting today in their first general election in nine years. The streets of Beirut were quiet in the early hours of this morning, but small crowds had gathered around the schools used as polling stations where the walls are lined with party flags and photos of leading candidates. Abu [...]
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The training activity conducted by Italian instructors in favor of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) continues as part of the Unifil mission. About twenty graduates and non-commissioned officers of the local forces, under the guidance of the instructors of the 183 "Nembo" Parachute Regiment, faced theoretical and practical aspects relating to the characteristics of use of individual weapons such as the rifle [...]
read moreEni has signed two exploration and production contracts with the Republic of Lebanon for blocks 4 and 9, located in the deep waters of the Lebanon offshore. The blocks were awarded as part of the first international competitive tender launched by the Lebanese authorities for blocks in the country's offshore. The signing of these new contracts opens the [...]
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US Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the Middle East to reaffirm Washington's position on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, while the leader of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Abu Mazen, flew to Brussels to ask for the support of 'EU against the new policy of US president Donald Trump in the region. Speaking to the Knesset, the [...]
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A malicious virus has been found to have turned smartphones running Android into spy devices that for years allowed “someone” to steal data from millions of users of all types, including military, activists and government officials. His name is Pallas and the hacker group that [...]
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There are two Lebanese indicted in Beirut on charges of having tried to organize on the orders of the Israeli secret services the killing of the deputy Bahia Hariri, aunt of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, to cause chaos in Lebanon during the crisis following the resignation of the same premier last November. The Lebanese newspaper Daily Star reports [...]
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Last Tuesday, a few hours after Donald Trump's announcement on the move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, establishing the latter as the new capital of Israel, the Army of the Jewish State conducted a massive military exercise in the north of the country, not far from the border with Lebanon. It seems to have been the most impressive exercise conducted [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, in the Palestinian camps of Ain el Hilwe and Mie-Mie, in southern Lebanon, several demonstrations and strikes were held to protest against the decision of the US president, Donald Trump, concerning the recognition of Jerusalem as capital of the Jewish state. This is what was reported by the Lebanese National Press Agency (NNA). [...]
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As reported by the Nova Agency, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, "welcomes" the decision of the Lebanese premier, Saad Hariri, to withdraw his resignation. This was reported by a note from the Farnesina. "I welcome the decision of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri to withdraw his resignation and the ministerial declaration [...]
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Supporters of Saad Hariri are euphoric, the leader has returned to his homeland. Everyone knows that there cannot be a prime minister except Saad Hariri ”,“ Saad Hariri is not only the head of the Lebanese government, he is a leader ”. Thus the followers of the outgoing Lebanese premier on a local TV, as reported by the Egyptian press, [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Paris in early December to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. This was announced by the office of the head of the Israeli government, referring to a long telephone conversation between the two leaders which took place today. The head of the Elysée informed Netanyahu of his initiative to resolve the crisis [...]
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Lebanese Christian-Maronite President Michel Aoun received a phone call today from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in view of the arrival of the outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Elysée. Both presidents, reports a dispatch from the official Lebanese news agency "Nna", "discussed the latest developments" of the crisis resulting from the resignation announced by Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Saudi Arabia [...]
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Lebanon's outgoing premier, Saad Hariri, who is about to leave Riyadh, where, according to Beirut, he was held against his will, accepted President Emmanuel Macron's invitation to go and stay in France, "for a few days", with the family, at least the time necessary to get out of the impasse generated by his surprise resignation, announced [...]
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Saad Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's premier last November, accepted the invitation from Paris. The date of arrival, however, was not communicated. Meanwhile, Lebanese President Michel Aoun would have announced his arrival in the French capital on Saturday, in view of a short stay a few days before [...]
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According to reports by the Lebanese news agency NNA, a Saudi citizen was kidnapped in the Kesrouan area, north of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Ali al-Bishrawi, 32, was allegedly taken last night from his home located in the Kesrouan district, in the Adma area. His wife, a Syrian citizen, confirmed [...]
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French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Saudi Arabia at the end of his trip to the United Arab Emirates for an unscheduled visit to the kingdom to discuss with the heir to the Saudi throne, Mohammed bin Salman, the situation in Lebanon following the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the crisis in Yemen. According to the statement [...]
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Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens residing in Lebanon to "leave the country immediately". The travel notice issued by Riyadh also invites its citizens not to go to Lebanon. Previously, the Kingdom of Bahrain had also issued the same sighting to its citizens residing in the Arab country. The measure implemented by the two [...]
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The Israeli foreign minister allegedly instructed all Israeli embassies around the world to ask host governments for support for Saudi Arabia against Iranian interference in Lebanon and for Riyadh's war against pro-Iranian Shiite rebels in Yemen. This was revealed by Israeli TV Channel 10, citing a report [...]
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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, killed in an attack on the Beirut waterfront on February 14, 2005 along with 22 other people, resigned. The unexpected announcement came with a statement released on the al-Arabiya satellite channel and broadcast directly from Saudi Arabia, where Hariri arrived yesterday in [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the number two of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, Naim Kassem, declared today that "the new American sanctions will not change anything regarding the party's positions in terms of resistance and the fight against jihadist terrorism and Israeli". During an interview released by the broadcaster "France 24", Kassem [...]
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A conference on Syria was held yesterday at the council chamber of the Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, defined at the beginning by the Consultant of the Syrian Ministry of Information, Ouday Ramadan, particularly "courageous" in a context like the current one in which the dominant media circle, it provides "its truth" by passing it off as independent and disinterested information. What […]
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The assessment and certification of the environmental impact of the United Nations compound ended this week at the “Millevoi” base of the Italian contingent in Lebanon. This was reported by a press release, according to which a team of experts from the United Nations Environmental Management Unit spent several days in the UNP 2-3 base, headquarters of the Joint Task Force Command - Lebanon and under the [...]
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