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Nasrallah: Gaza support fronts will be strongly present during Ramadan

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday said that the fronts that support Gaza in the region “will be strongly present during this holy month” of Ramadan.

“The resistance has so far deterred the enemy from going to a war in Lebanon,” Nasrallah added, in a speech marking Ramadan.

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Bou Habib orders UN complaint over Baalbek strikes

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Wednesday ordered the Ministry’s competent department to file a complaint with the U.N. Security Council over the latest Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon’s eastern Baalbek region.

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Berri says he masterminded National Moderation bloc's presidential initiative

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is the mastermind behind the National Moderation bloc's presidential initiative.

"I was behind this initiative," Berri told ad-Diyar newspaper. "How was I accused of obstructing it?"

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Lebanese, French officials float plan to rebuild Beirut port

Three and a half years after hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate ignited at the Beirut port, setting off one of the world's biggest non-nuclear explosions, Lebanese and French officials put forward a plan for reconstruction and reorganization of the port Wednesday.

The Aug. 4, 2020, explosion at Beirut's port killed more than 200 people, injured and displaced thousands and devastated entire neighborhoods of the city.

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Report: Berri, Bassil 'intersect' on Khoury's nomination

Speaker Nabih Berri has inched closer to “intersecting” with Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil over the presidential nomination of retired army brigadier general Georges Khoury, a media report said.

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Berri reveals points of agreement and disagreement over Hochstein proposal

The Lebanese and the American mediators agree on many common points regarding the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said.

Berri told ad-Diyar, in remarks published Wednesday, that there are 13 or 14 articles suggested by the U.S. that Lebanon agrees on. Yet, there are points of disagreements.

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Lebanese official says negotiations over south still ongoing

The negotiations over a solution in Gaza and south Lebanon are still ongoing and it is not true that they have collapsed, a prominent Lebanese political source has said.

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Hamas official killed in Israeli drone strike near Tyre

An Israeli drone strike targeted Wednesday a car in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre, killing a member of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and a civilian.

Hamas said the strike killed Hadi Mustafa, a member of its armed wing in Lebanon from the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh.

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Israel army says about 4,500 Hezbollah targets hit in five months

The Israeli army said Tuesday it hit about 4,500 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Syria over the past five months, killing 300 of the group's fighters and wounding more than 750.

The targets were hit from the air and from the ground, the army said in a statement, and included "weapons storage facilities, military structures intended for Hezbollah's offensive activity and operational command and control centres".

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Cyprus FM calls for 'diplomatic dialogue' to resolve conflict with Israel

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib met Tuesday with Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos in Beirut and discussed the bilateral relations between their countries, the refugee crisis and the border clashes.

In a news conference after their meeting, Kombos encouraged "all parties to engage in a diplomatic dialogue" to "peacefully settle" the Israeli-Lebanese conflict.

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