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22/09/2025

The United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, and Australia officially recognised the State of Palestine on Sunday, Sept. 21.

France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Andorra, and San Marino are set to recognise the Palestinian State on Monday, Sept. 22, during a meeting co-chaired with Saudi Arabia.

On Sunday, the U.K., Australia, and Canada formally recognized a Palestinian state, just ahead of the U.N. General Assem...
22/09/2025

On Sunday, the U.K., Australia, and Canada formally recognized a Palestinian state, just ahead of the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week.
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By recognizing a Palestinian state, these countries are directly challenging Israel’s efforts — and by extension, the U.S.— to erase the very idea of Palestinian statehood and reduce the conflict to a humanitarian issue.

So, which countries said yes, which said no, and what does it actually change for Israel and for Palestine?

🔗 Tap on the link below for Sahar Ghoussoub's detailed explanation
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The grapes are almost ripe, but this year Razan and her parents will not be harvesting them. They are no longer able to ...
22/09/2025

The grapes are almost ripe, but this year Razan and her parents will not be harvesting them. They are no longer able to access the land where their vines are planted, less than a kilometer from their village near Hebron.

Since an illegal Israeli settlement was erected on the edge of the property, Razan says she has suffered relentless harassment from settlers, whose aggression has only worsened since Oct. 7. "They first put up a gate, telling us that Palestinians were not allowed in," the young woman says. "Then last April, they called in soldiers who threatened to kills us. We haven’t gone back since."

🔗 Read Léone LAALI's article through the link below
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📸 AFP

American envoy Morgan Ortagus' visit to Lebanon on Sunday was low-profile; she attended a meeting of the Cease-fire Moni...
22/09/2025

American envoy Morgan Ortagus' visit to Lebanon on Sunday was low-profile; she attended a meeting of the Cease-fire Monitoring Committee in Southern Lebanon. Based on our information, she was firm on the need to speed up the weapons withdrawal process, leaving no room for delays.

For the U.S. envoy, the Lebanese Army must proceed quickly and vigorously to finish the mission of entirely withdrawing weapons from south of the Litani River.

🔗 Tap on the link for more
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20/09/2025

As Gaza endures nearly two years of Israeli war, Nadeen Ayoub (.m.ayoub), 27, is preparing to carry more than the Miss Palestine sash on stage at Miss Universe, set for Nov. 21 in Pak Kret, Thailand.

Crowned in 2022, Ayoub, who grew up between the occupied West Bank, the United States and Canada, says she wants to be a spokesperson for a people who are “more than just the headlines that we see in the news.”

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"I was 14 when “1989” came out. I was hanging out with my cousins at my grandma’s house when one of them, a previous har...
19/09/2025

"I was 14 when “1989” came out. I was hanging out with my cousins at my grandma’s house when one of them, a previous hardcore One Direction fan, called the American singer “Taylor zeft.” I remember thinking that was intense, but the nickname stuck either way.

Taylor’s music wasn’t a big part of my teenage years. I didn’t blast “Love Story” in 2009 (I was 9 years old), and I didn’t cry my heart out to “All Too Well” when “Red” came out.

I became interested in her catalogue around 2020 — when Taylor Swift decided to remake all of her music after her master recordings were sold without her consent.."

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Whether you love or hate Taylor Swift, take a deep breath before you read this. You don’t know which side is on… yet.

🔗 Find this week's hot take through the link below
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In Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah's administrative buildings are located and much of its urban popular base ...
19/09/2025

In Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah's administrative buildings are located and much of its urban popular base resides, most people who spoke to L’Orient-Le Jour said they saw the government as having backed down on Sept. 5.

But this move was seen as a “convincing” retreat that many felt even spared Lebanon from a dangerous slide at a time when Hezbollah officials keep brandishing the specter of civil war whenever the party’s arsenal is put on the table.

🔗 Read Nagham Rabih's article through the link below
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📸 Matthieu Karam/ L'Orient Today

18/09/2025

A charity concert called "Together for Palestine" was held on Wednesday in London.

The goal of the initiative: to denounce the massacres in Gaza and raise funds for Palestinians.

This weekend, turn your gaze inward — and outward — at the art that mirrors us: in the land beneath our feet, in the fac...
18/09/2025

This weekend, turn your gaze inward — and outward — at the art that mirrors us: in the land beneath our feet, in the faces we pass, in the stories we carry.

From Beirut’s Between Dust and Dawn, charcoal-meets-earth explorations of belonging, to Amman’s dizzying parade of identically vivid faces in Faces of Becoming, Cairo’s Sarah Zaki asks: what if our identity is never fixed? And in Dubai, Monif Ajaj’s “Shams” blurs sunflowers and serpents — darkness & light in tension.

Take a cultural stroll through expression, land, myth, identity — all unfolding right now in the Middle East.

🔗 Explore the full lineup to plan your weekend
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On Sept. 14, France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation into former Lebanese Pri...
18/09/2025

On Sept. 14, France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation into former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

Mikati, who has served multiple times as prime minister, is worth an estimated $3.2 billion, according to Forbes. He comes from Tripoli, Lebanon’s poorest city, where residents still lack basic infrastructure.

So what is this case really about? Who filed the complaint? And what does it mean for justice at home?

🔗 Tap on the link for .ghoussoub's detailed explanation
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Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Wednesday that ongoing negotiations with Israel to reach a security pact could yie...
18/09/2025

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Wednesday that ongoing negotiations with Israel to reach a security pact could yield results "in the coming days," telling reporters in Damascus that such a pact was a "necessity" and should respect Syria's airspace and territorial unity while being supervised by the United Nations, according to Reuters.

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Israeli intelligence learned of Hezbollah's order of several thousand of these outdated but untraceable devices, which t...
18/09/2025

Israeli intelligence learned of Hezbollah's order of several thousand of these outdated but untraceable devices, which the party uses in its communication to evade enemy surveillance.

Using front companies to intercept the order, Mossad filled the AR-924 pager batteries with small PETN explosive. In total, 5,000 pagers were booby-trapped.

The operation overwhelmed an already battered health sector — weakened by 11 months of war and years of economic crisis — with 2,931 patients in a single day, most suffering injuries to the eyes, hands, and thighs.

🔗 One year after the Israeli pagers attack, our journalists gather testimonies from first responders and victims of the Israeli attack
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📸 Mohammed Yassin/ L'Orient Today

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