⋯ "I consider the Resistance to have been backstabbed in the July War (2006), and I suffered certain consequences to protect a vital Lebanese component, and to prevent its isolation in a foreign plot", he later added.

The Minister of Justice discussed with the Maronite Patriarch the need to tackle the situation of "Lebanese refugees" in Israel and bring them home.

The Lebanese national basketball team qualified for the Asian Cup final to face Australia after defeating its Jordanian counterpart by one point, 86-85.

The explosion heard in Dahyeh was caused by the explosion of a gas canister inside an apartment in Chiyah.

Two UN employees in Syria attempted to smuggle non-subsidized Nestle products in UN vehicles into Syria from Lebanon.

Israeli PM Yair Lapid: "The closure of the offices of the Jewish Agency for Migration in Moscow by the Russian authorities is a grave mistake that will affect relations between the two countries."

"The United States has transported oil stolen from Syria to northern Iraq three times in a month," the Chinese Foreign Ministry representative recalled.

"At this time, 90% of Syrians live below the poverty line, two-thirds rely on humanitarian aid, and more than half suffer from food shortages."

"The actions of the United States border on banditry."

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While some religious authorities have handled the issue of spies for Israel in a secterian manner, Hezbullah have called since before the liberation of south Lebanon on all Lebanese not to discriminate between spies and execute the Shia Muslim ones before, to set an example.

Australia defeats Lebanon 75-73 in the finals of the Asian Basketball Cup.

Reportedly, a Saudi national was kidnapped in Baalbek after being lured over a deal to purchase some property.