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Motorcycle protests test the state's authority in Beirut's southern suburbs

Critics ask why the response to Hezbollah supporters has been so muted.

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Lebanon

Deputy PM Mitri: Washington has not pressed Israel enough to meet its commitments

Video: Al Jazeera Arabic

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Lebanon

Tarek Mitri: an Israeli withdrawal was agreed but not carried out

Video: Al Jazeera Arabic

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Lebanon

Arms monopoly: is the state–Hezbollah confrontation entering a new phase?

Video: Sky News Arabia

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Lebanon

Resolution 1701, France's gateway to the south

Video: MTV Lebanon News

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Lebanon

How far does Sunni objection to the amnesty go?

Video: MTV Lebanon News

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Lebanon

From Lebanon to Syria: an official visit with social files

Video: MTV Lebanon News

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Politics

Salam asks Paris for an international presence in the south after UNIFIL

French Foreign Minister Barrot meets Lebanon's leaders on arrangements once the UN force leaves.

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Security & Justice

Salam pledges to widen the probe into the seized explosives truck

Two men were detained at Dahr al-Baidar; the prime minister wants every person involved identified.

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Politics

Hezbollah pledges up to $14,000 per destroyed home; US says the money 'does not exist'

The pledge sidesteps a framework that aims to keep reconstruction funds away from armed groups.

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Economy

EDL approves restarting idle Zouk and Jiyeh power plants, unit by unit

The $300 million plants have sat idle amid a legal dispute with their operator.

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Church & Faith

Spared at a wall in 1990, a Lebanese Baptist learned to serve those she feared

Rosette Mansour tells Baptist Press how serving Syrian refugees healed an old wound.

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Politics

Iranian deputy minister tells Beirut to 'arm everyone' instead of disarming Hezbollah

Saeed Khatibzadeh's remarks in Beirut were seen by Lebanese sources as interference in the country's affairs.

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Politics

Lebanese army delegation heads to Tampa talks to press for an end to Israeli attacks

The US-hosted military meeting on 20 October comes as Israel reinforces its forces on the border.

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Corruption & Governance

Officials weigh a $2 billion loan plan funded from central bank reserves

A working paper seen by Asharq Al-Awsat would lend to households and industry while depositors still wait.

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Security & Justice

Lebanon's first general amnesty since 1991 takes effect, but not for theft of public money

The Constitutional Council threw out a challenge, and courts have begun applying the law.

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Diaspora

Lebanese in France mark 13 October with a Mass in Marseille

The Rassemblement pour le Liban remembered the soldiers and civilians killed on 13 October 1990.

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Church & Faith

Pope Leo XIV greets crowds from his window for the first time since cancer surgery

Thousands in St Peter's Square chanted "Viva il papa" as he led the Angelus.

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Church & Faith

Aishiyeh remembers its martyrs: 'loyalty to the martyrs and attachment to Lebanon's unity'

A Mass in the southern Christian village honoured the victims of the October 1976 massacre.

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Community

South Lebanon's olive harvest held hostage behind Israel's 'Yellow Line'

Farmers need permits to reach groves inside the zone; officials say about half of the south's farmland has been out of reach at times.

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