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Ex-FPM MPs to form 'consultative gathering', al-Rahi supportive

The four MPs who have recently become outside the Free Patriotic Movement intend to form “a consultative parliamentary gathering, that would become a pressure group, not a bloc nor a party, and its current main mission would be to produce a solution for the presidential crises,” the four MPs’ sources told al-Jadeed TV.

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Le Drian meets Aloula in KSA, Beirut visit uncertain

French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian held a meeting overnight in Riyadh with Saudi Royal Court adviser Nizar al-Aloula, who is in charge of the Lebanese file, in the presence of Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari.

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Hezbollah-Israel border clashes: Latest developments

Hezbollah targeted Friday several Israeli posts while Israeli warplanes raided several times the southern border village of Aitaroun.

Hezbollah targeted the Ma'ayan Baruch post in northern Israel with a suicide drone, and later the Zebdine barracks and buildings and surveillance equipment in Metula and Menara. The group also targeted a post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

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Ex-FPM MPs meet al-Rahi, discuss ways to 'save the country'

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab and MPs Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia met Thursday in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Bou Saab and Aoun have been recently expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement while Abi Ramia and Kanaan have resigned from it.

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One person killed in Israeli strike on Kafra

One person was killed Thursday and another one was wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Kafra, nearly 11 months since hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah later announced the death of one of its fighters "on the road to Jerusalem."

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Gantz tells Netanyahu 'flashy presentations' won't return northerners home

Former Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the confrontation with Hezbollah.

“Another day when the residents of the north feel first hand the complete failure that this government has brought upon us,” Gantz said in a post on X, referring to dozens of rockets fired by Hezbollah at northern Israel earlier in the day.

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Salameh remanded in custody, Ghada Aoun asks to question him

State Prosecutor Judge Jamal al-Hajjar on Wednesday referred the file of detained former Central Bank governor Riad Salameh to Financial Prosecutor Judge Ali Ibrahim, who charged Salameh and referred him in custody to Beirut First Examining Magistrate Bilal Halawi.

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Four wounded in Hezbollah-Israel border clashes

Two people were wounded overnight in an Israeli strike on the southern border town of al-Khiam, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

Israeli warplanes also raided overnight into Wednesday the outskirts of Zebqine, Aita al-Shaab and Yater in south Lebanon.

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'Before the World Turned Silent': Roland el Khoury exhibition to begin Sep. 7 at Minus 1, Tabaris

Minus 1 (Tabaris) and Roland el Khoury have invited the public to the opening of the art exhibition "Solace - Before the World Turned Silent."

The exhibition features fourteen unique chapters, each inspired by songs that helped the artist navigate the pain of societal pressures and the fear of losing his hearing -- transforming these challenges into powerful works of art.

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Le Drian to visit Lebanon and Quint to meet within weeks, reports say

The ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon - the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar - will meet within two weeks to discuss the presidential impasse, diplomatic sources told local al-Liwaa newspaper.

The sources added, in remarks published Tuesday, that French special envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian will likely visit Lebanon at the end of the month or in early October and that mid-September will witness intense efforts to break the presidential deadlock.

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