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Israel strikes 2 homes in border towns after drones kill 3 Lebanese

Israeli drones fired two missiles at dawn Sunday at two homes in the southern border towns of Aita al-Shaab and Ramyeh, causing material damage, the state-run National News Agency reported.

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Trump: We're with Lebanon all the way

U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his support for Lebanon.

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Syria says seized 3 million captagon pills coming from Lebanon

Syria said Friday that authorities had seized some three million pills of the illicit stimulant captagon after clashes with a drug trafficking network near the Lebanese border.

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Four wounded in Israeli drone strike in Shaqra

Four people were wounded in an overnight Israeli drone strike on a house in the southern town of Shaqra.

The strike came after a woman was killed and 25 other people wounded in Israeli strikes earlier in the day in the country's south, as the Israeli army blamed Hezbollah munitions for the death.

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Hezbollah missile or Israeli strike?

Israel said Friday it didn't bomb any residential building in Nabatieh after a woman was killed and 20 other people were wounded as Israel’s air force carried out intense airstrikes on mountains overlooking the city of Nabatieh.

Shortly afterward, the apartment building was hit in the nearby city of Nabatieh, resulting in the death of a woman. Twenty other people were wounded.

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Berri still insisting on Hamadeh and Mansouri

Cabinet will convene Friday at the Grand Serail to discuss an agenda of 17 articles, while the judicial and financial appointments are still hinging on the conditions of Speaker Nabih Berri, media reports said.

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Report: UNIFIL mandate may be renewed for one last time

The Foreign Ministry has sent to the U.N. Security Council a letter demanding the renewal of the mandate of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres receiving the letter that is based on the previous request without any adjustments, Al-Jadeed TV reported.

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Report: Hezbollah studying US paper, int'l community bets on Berri role

The ideas proposed by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack during his latest visit to Lebanon are now being discussed by President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam to reach “a unified approach that would be adopted by Cabinet,” a media report said.

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Barrack talks Lebanon with Saudi official, seeks 'step-by-step' Lebanon-Israel solution

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has said that Hezbollah has vanished militarily and that Lebanon might join the Abraham peace accords, Al-Jadeed television reported.

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Musk tells Aoun he's interested in doing business in Lebanon

Billionaire businessman and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) Elon Musk has called President Joseph Aoun to express his interest in having his companies available in Lebanon.

Musk "expressed his interest in Lebanon and its telecommunications and internet sectors" in a call with Aoun, the Lebanese Presidency said in a statement.

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