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Editor-in-chief, theWhatIf. Previously: @lorienttoday; @labnehandfacts; @columbiajourn grad. Tweets mainly abt journalism & Lebanon.
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LUFTHANSA GROUP AIRLINES WILL SUSPEND FLIGHTS TO RIYADH UP TO AND INCLUDING OCT 16 - SPOKESPERSON
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Three killed, 36 injured in Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, Riyadh says - Moroccan, Algerian women killed in Abha, Sudanese national killed in Riyadh. aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7…
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A succession of loud booms was heard in Riyadh on Thursday morning.
There was no immediate official comment and no public early warning alerts
-Some diplomats said they had received warnings of a missile threat
-Some schools in Riyadh warned parents of shelter in place orders.
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Antoun Sehnaoui's Banque Richelieu Monaco caught up in Salamé affair
"Many of the funds embezzled by former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salamé were deposited at Banque Richelieu Monaco, owned by Lebanese national Antoun Sehnaoui. Even after his accounts at that bank were frozen, he continued to invest through it." via @Intel_Online
intelligenceonline.com/middl…
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Extraordinary account from Bloomberg of what it now takes to move oil through Hormuz.
One tanker captain describes sailing at night with no navigational lights, phones or AIS, hugging the Omani coast under U.S. military protection, and maneuvering around a vessel that had just been attacked. His own ship was later targeted.
The risks are so high that crews are being paid multiples of their normal salaries, with one shipowner reportedly offering six months of extra pay for Hormuz shuttle duty.
More oil may be getting through, but at very high risk and cost.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Oct 7 (Reuters) -One person was killed and eight injured in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, and two were killed and 28 injured in an attack on facilities at Abha airport, Saudi civil aviation authorities said in a statement on Wednesday
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⚡️La Banque du Liban (BDL) a annoncé mardi avoir nommé Nassib Ghobril économiste en chef de l’institution.
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"Oil producers are shelling out between $30m and $40m for a round trip in and out of Hormuz.
The shuttle-run bonanza is trickling down to individual sailors. Those willing to perform war-zone trips are lured with payouts worth two or three times their typical monthly salary." wsj.com/business/logistics/s…
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DUBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Jazan and Najran International Airport were targeted in two attacks on Monday evening, causing three minor injuries and limited material damage, authorities said
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NEW: “They decide who enters."
To leave thee besieged villages in Israel-occupied south Lebanon – some of the only villages still populated – residents need Israel's approval, and they can only leave or enter in civilian convoys escorted by UNIFIL.
But UNIFIL’s mandate ends in three months. No replacement is on the horizon. And residents are grappling with what that will mean for them.
We joined them on one of the civilian convoys to Debel. It took 35 vehicles four hours and three checkpoints to get there. This was what our journey looked like.
[Full story linked below - with @MaucourantNada]
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⭕️ Funérailles à Gaza-ville pour 105 Palestiniens tués en octobre 2023 par un bombardement israélien.
lorientlejour.com/article/15…
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🚨 SCOOP: The Syrian government and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have held face-to-face talks in Turkey to try to calm tensions between them, according to six sources briefed on the first known meeting between the longtime foes.
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So Trump is openly planning to deploy killer robots -- fully autonomous lethal weapons -- after the world has been working for years to preclude them? nitter.cf/DOWResponse/status/210…
.@SECWAR “Today, at my direction—we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom:
A new 4-star combatant command—with service-like authorities—built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the Joint Force in the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history."
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Despite its flaws, Lebanon’s Media Law is a win decades in the making skeyesmedia.org/en/News/News…
@AymanMhanna @TobyMendel
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Explosions are ongoing in Mansouri, which became de facto part of Israel’s occupied area in southern Lebanon in August, just a few weeks after the so-called ceasefire was announced.
Since then, Israel has almost completely erased Mansouri through controlled demolitions and airstrikes, with up to dozens carried out each day, residents say.
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Gift link to scoop from @vmsalama: Egypt's intelligence chief secretly visited Israel just weeks before Hamas attack to warn the Netanyahu government that Gaza was about to blow. Full story here:
theatlantic.com/national-sec…
Wait so Egypt and the UAE warned about a potential attack , and Netanyahu did not even brief his security officials?
Report: Egypt's intel chief came to Israel, warned of Hamas attack before Oct. 7 haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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Breaking news: The Pentagon’s public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from the Defense Department.
That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database. wapo.st/4hqpweB
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The @nytimes confirms the @haaretzcom report that the UAE secretly warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack on Israel shortly before Oct. 7; Bibi did not relay the warning to security officials. nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…
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Major scoop from @vmsalama, via @theatlantic: Egypt's intelligence chief warned Israel that Gaza was about to blow, just weeks before the October 7th Hamas invasion:
theatlantic.com/national-sec…
