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Palestinians search for survivors at the site of an Israeli strike on the Al-Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City on May 24, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Italy to resume funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Saturday announced Rome would restore funding for the UN agency for Palestinian
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Israel’s Iron Dome aerial defense system is activated to intercept a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, above the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on May 12, 2021. (AFP)

Rocket fire from Lebanon targets Israel after al-Aqsa clashes

Rocket fire from Lebanon targeted Israel Thursday after clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians inside Islam's third-holiest site drew warnings of retaliation from around the region.
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US President Joe Biden (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

US to pay Lebanon army, police salaries for six months

The United States announced Wednesday $72 million in aid to crisis-hit Lebanon to cover security personnel salaries for six months, in a joint programme with the United Nations. Lebanon’s economy has been
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Lebanon's outgoing President Michel Aoun leaves the presidential palace in Babda at the end of his mandate, east of the capital Beirut, on October 30, 2022. - Already reeling from three years of economic meltdown, Lebanon faces the prospect of its multi-faceted crisis deepening further when President Michel Aoun's mandate expires. (Photo by anwar amro / AFP)

Lebanon’s Aoun vacates presidential palace as power vacuum looms

Michel Aoun was vacating Lebanon's presidential palace on Sunday, amid acclaim from his supporters, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor, threatening a new power vacuum in the crisis-torn
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2022 Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (top-C) opens the first session to elect a new President in Beirut. - Lebanon's parliament failed on October 20, 2022 for a third time to elect a successor to President Michel Aoun, stoking fears of a political vacuum after his mandate expires at the end of the month. (Photo by Ibrahim Amro / AFP)

Lebanon fails for third time to elect president

Lebanon's parliament failed Thursday for a third time to elect a successor to President Michel Aoun, stoking fears of a political vacuum after his mandate expires at the end of the month.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 24, 2021, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, addresses supporters at the party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years. - Israel's president on April 6 nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to form a government following the latest inconclusive election, but voiced doubt that any candidate can forge a majority coalition. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Israel to reject Lebanon’s proposed changes to gas deal: official

Israel said Thursday that it will reject Lebanon’s amendments to a US-drafted proposal on resolving a long-running maritime border dispute over gas-rich waters off the countries’ Mediterranean coasts. A draft agreement floated
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Lebanese army soldiers clash with retired military personnel as they try to break into the parliament in Beirut on September 26, 2022, during a session to approve the 2022 budget. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon approves 2022 budget in step towards IMF loan

Lebanon's parliament on Monday approved the 2022 budget, one of the conditions set by the International Monetary Fund to action a bailout for the crisis-stricken country.
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A handout picture released by the Syrian Red Crescent on September 23, 2022, shows rescuers transporting the body of a drowning victim in the Syria's southern port City of Tartus, after a boat transporting migrants from Lebanon sank off the Syrian coast. At least 73 migrants drowned after a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Lebanon's transport minister said on September 23, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years. Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, has become a launchpad for illegal migration, with its own citizens joining Syrian and Palestinian refugees clamouring for an exit from the crisis-hit country. (Photo by Syrian Red Crescent / AFP)

Lebanon mourns victims of migrant shipwreck

Mustafa Misto embarked on a sea voyage from crisis-hit Lebanon seeking a better life for his family, but he drowned in a shipwreck alongside his children and dozens of others, relatives said
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Protesters chant slogans as they gather outside the Justice Palace in Lebanon's capital Beirut on September 19, 2022, demanding the release of two people involved in a bank heist the prior week. - Amid Lebanon's painful currency crisis, depositors have been locked out of their foreign currency savings by banking controls that have gradually tightened since 2019. Banks have in the past been targeted in street protests, often leaving their windows and ATMs smashed. Now, many frustrated depositors, unable to transfer or withdraw their dollar deposits, have resorted to desperate bank heists to free their money. Lebanon saw at least seven such hold-ups last week, five of them on a single day. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon currency hits new low, sparking protests

The Lebanese pound fell to a new low against the US dollar on the black market Monday as a severe economic downturn has sparked bank hold-ups by angry depositors and anti-government protests.
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Heavy dust rises as a part of the grain silos in the port of Beirut collapses, due to an ongoing fire since the beginning of last month, on August 4, 2022, on the day that crisis-hit Lebanon marks two years since a giant explosion ripped through the capital. - On August 4, 2020, the dockside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands and decimated vast areas of the capital. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Two years after Beirut mega-blast, Lebanon hits new lows

Crisis-hit Lebanon marked two years Thursday since a massive port explosion ripped through Beirut, with victims' relatives planning protest marches and the country bracing for silos to collapse at the blast site.
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The grain silos at the port of Beirut partially collapsed on July 31, 2022. Anwar Amro / AFP - Getty Images

Beirut’s blast-damaged grain silos partially collapse

Parts of Beirut's grain silos collapsed on Sunday, just days before the second anniversary of a catastrophic explosion at the Lebanese capital's port that ravaged the stores and parts of the city.
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