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Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the US-Iran peace deal as a “hugely important step forward in ending the war” as he stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain “fully and permanently open”.

A notorious Syrian-Lebanese trafficker widely known as the “Captagon King,” has been released from a Lebanese prison after completing a seven-year sentence for drug manufacturing and trafficking. Judicial sources confirmed the release of Hassan Daqqou to Daraj, OCCRP’s Lebanese partner.

The ceasefire agreed in Lebanon last month has provided little relief for civilians, who are being forced out of a steadily increasing area of the country due to a continuous Israeli campaign of evacuations and air strikes.

The fragile ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hezbollah last month is holding.

The strike was the first to hit Beirut’s suburbs since the April 16 ceasefire, although hostilities in the south of Lebanon have not halted.

Israel’s military has launched strikes in Beirut, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

On Wednesday, journalist Amal Khalil and photographer Zeinab Faraj were reporting from southern Lebanon when an Israeli airstrike reportedly hit a car in front of them.

The investigation in France marks a significant step toward holding financial institutions accountable for the illicit transfer of wealth that worsened Lebanon’s historic economic collapse.

For the people of Lebanon, 2020 proved to be a year of near-total catastrophe.

Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s research.

Donald Trump has said the Strait of Hormuz will reopen with or without Iran’s cooperation as US and regime delegates arrive in Pakistan for negotiations.

Donald Trump’s two-week pause in the bombing campaign, contingent on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz for shipping, appears to be under threat.

Iran was quick to dismiss Donald Trump’s declaration that the Strait of Hormuz is now officially open.

Residents of southern Lebanon are fleeing their homes in large numbers, with many forced to sleep in tents or cars due to the lack of bomb shelters and safe refuge from ongoing shelling.

The MV Rhosus was allowed to sail into Beirut’s port carrying 2,750 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate, even after an inspection by the Lebanese navy, documents show.

Former Leeds and Wales midfielder Terry Yorath, father of "Sports Agents" host Gabby Logan, has passed away at the age of 75.

The Israeli military conducted a series of airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.

Israel utilized widely banned cluster munitions during its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, as shown in photos of munition remnants in southern Lebanon.

A Bulgarian court has postponed a hearing on Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, the Russian-Cypriot ship operator linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, pending assurances that he will not face the death penalty if extradited.

France’s financial crimes office is probing ex-Lebanese premier Najib Mikati and his brother for alleged fraud.

As Lebanon’s Parliament resumes debate on a new media law, rights groups are urging lawmakers to ensure the legislation protects, rather than curbs, freedom of expression.

Israeli drones dropped four grenades close to UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel as they were working to clear roadblocks, the force said on Wednesday.

Iraqi and Lebanese authorities say they have shut down what they described as the Middle East’s largest Captagon factory, a major blow against the region’s booming trade in the amphetamine-like drug.

The Lebanese army killed three of the country’s “most dangerous” drug traffickers in an armed clash Wednesday in the eastern city of Baalbek, according to a military statement.

Strikes come as freed hostages and family members of people still held in Gaza urge Netanyahu to stop the fighting