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Journalist Ridwan Mortada: What is concrete in the preliminary investigation is that Meshik was the first to fall before there was any shooting. He was hit by a single bullet in the face (below his eye), but there was no gunfire, which the investigators considered a sniper attack
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Beautiful Sanaa, Yemen celebrating the eve of the anniversary of the birth of Prophet Muhammad.

Yemen is the only nation that celebrates the event at this scale.
The Lebanese army defused an IED placed under the car of a local in the town of At-Tufail - Beqaa. It was an anti-personnel mine, intended for remote detonation.

The town is facing problems between locals and captagon manufacturers.
The price of most commodities in Lebanon rose by 13 times.

Purchasing power and the minimum wage collapsed disastrously, reaching the equivalent of $32, while in 2019 it was $450 and the average salary $800.
One of the shooters in Thursday's sniper attack, Antonios Tawk, was part of the Lebanese Forces party scouts.

Which confirms an old suspicion that the new scout force is a curtain to the Lebanese Forces' training of new militiamen similar to the civil war era approach.

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Lebanese army intelligence arrested the Lebanese Forces activist Salim Al-Helou from his home, in Ain Al-Rummaneh Sannine neighborhood.

The same building in which George Touma, arrested days earlier, lives in.
An earthquake happened minutes ago, felt in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt.

It originated in the Mediterranean.
More than 70% of Lebanese citizens who have another nationality left the country after the Beirut port explosion last year.

In 2018, about 33,000 Lebanese immigrated, while in 2019 the number rose to 66,000.
From the beginning of 2021 until the month of May, 100,201 people left Lebanon, including 47 thousand people in the last few months only.
The top three hashtags in Lebanon today:

1 - We are at the leadership's [Hezbullah] orders (118k)
2- Disband the Forces [Lebanese Forces] (4.9k)
3- Good morning (60k)
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Tension continue in Akkar followed by burning of houses in the town of Wadi Al-Jamous after the death of a local during the clashes two days earlier.
⋯ The number of dead in the clashes rises to 4 and injured to 6. The injured include:

- Zakariya Tartousi
- Jaafar Tartousi
- Zaher Tartousi
- Ahmad Tartousi
- Ali Al-Sobhi
USA-funded MP Michel Moawad is handing out hundreds of purchase coupons in Tripoli, North Lebanon.

These coupons (at the face value of $12.06) are to gather voter support in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary elections, for a list representing the civil society in the second northern district (Tripoli, Minieh, Denniyeh).
Lebanese Forces party MP Pierre Abou Assi arrived at a recent parliamentary session with a handgun, which prompted several MPs to issue a statement denouncing this.