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Lebanon has issued arrest warrants in absentia for Paul Meouchi, who is in Sweden, Peter Naffah and a third person who is outside Lebanon over their involvement in the TikTok child molestation ring, a judicial source told Al-Arabiya television.
The judiciary also sent Red Notices to the Interpol for the suspects who are on the run due to the presence of many of them in several countries, the source added.
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The French President's Special Envoy to Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, held separate meetings Wednesday Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah's top lawmaker Mohammad Raad, on the second day of his visit to Lebanon.
“Berri reiterated his adherence to his presidential election initiative, repeating his call for consultations without preconditions before moving to parliament to elect a president in successive rounds from a list comprising a number of candidates,” al-Jadeed television said.
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Hezbollah targeted Wednesday a group of soldiers in Shtula and surveillance equipment in the al-Raheb post in northern Israel.
Israeli soldiers meanwhile fired machine guns at a Lebanese army position in the southern border town of Alma al-Shaab, while artillery shelled Wadi Hassan and the outskirts of al-Jebbayn and Shihine.
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Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said that “the massacres that are happening in Rafah reflect the (Israeli) enemy’s brutality and treachery.”
“You are the beasts … The scene in Gaza is appalling and horrifying -- burned bodies and beheaded children,” Nasrallah added via video link during a memorial service commemorating his late mother who passed away on Saturday.
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A five-year-old child from Gaza has landed safely in Beirut days ago to receive medical treatment at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC).
The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund (GASCF), in collaboration with the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), transported the child who suffers from an injury in his upper limb to Lebanon to receive medical care.
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Hezbollah targeted Tuesday several Israeli military posts with guided missiles and artillery shells.
The group said it targeted the Ramia post from a short distance and another post in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills.
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The French President's Special Envoy to Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, arrived Tuesday in Beirut for talks with top officials.
Le Drian will meet with Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said, adding that Berri will respond to a Quintet's statement after meeting Le Drian.
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Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has warned the annual international conference on Syrian refugees in Brussels that Lebanon has “reached the point of no return” in its Syrian refugee crisis.
“We have reached the point of no return due to the increase of incidents, disturbances, skirmishes, thefts, crimes and organized crime gangs, the tools of which are largely displaced Syrians, which has united the Lebanese over rejecting the ‘business as usual or more of the same’ policy,” Bou Habib told the conferees.
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U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein is visiting many countries in a bid to pacify the Lebanon-Israel border clashes, Asharq al-Awsat said Monday.
Sources told the daily that Hochstein is holding his meetings away from the spotlight and has managed to set the main headlines for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.
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Supporters of Lebanese parties, Lebanese expats and a number of Lebanese MPs staged a protest Monday in Brussels ahead of an annual international conference on Syrian refugees.
The Lebanese protesters voiced rejection of perceived attempts to “keep the Syrians in Lebanon.”
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