The Central Bank Wants Lebanon’s Banks to Pay Back… in Billions
Our position is clear. We are very serious about these investigations, Badih Moukarzel, Banque du Liban's lead counsel in the cases, told Daraj in an interview last week.
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Latest coverage from DarajFrom the Pager Attack to Iran’s Nuclear Archive: Inside Yossi Cohen’s Revelations
The most striking claim made about the pager operation by former Mossad director Yossi Cohen was his denial that civilians had been harmed. He described the attack as “highly precise,” insisting that it targeted only Hezbollah members. When the host replied, “I remember a child being injured,” Cohen simply answered, “I don’t remember that.”
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Between Companies and Partnerships: Untangling the Web Linking Bahaa Hariri, Sanioura, and Makhzoumi
This investigation is part of OpenLux, a cross-border investigative journalism project coordinated by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the French newspaper Le Monde. The project is based on data obtained from Luxembourg's commercial registry.
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Daily article output trendThe Fate of Recovered Corruption Funds in Iraq
Financial adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mazhar Mohammed Salih, believes that recovering stolen assets delivers two parallel gains for the state. The first is strengthening public finances through new cash inflows recorded under other revenues in the state budget. The second is halting the drain of corruption that has depleted public funds for years, thereby directly reducing waste and lowering government spending.
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Lebanon’s Abandonment of Legal Action Against Israel: The Product of Decades of Undermining Justice
Confronting any future aggression, therefore, begins with abandoning the approach that has governed Lebanon for decades, one rooted in impunity and hostility toward justice. It begins with pursuing accountability at every level, both domestically and internationally. Refusing to compromise on accountability, even in the most basic domestic cases, is essential not only to building a state founded on the principle that there can be no impunity, but also to breaking the cycle of futile wars and moving toward lasting peace.
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A Fish Out of Water
Sometimes, patience in love matters more than love itself. As Mahmoud Darwish once wrote, The road home is more beautiful than home itself. Love remains fragile unless it is sustained by patience and endurance. Like any great structure, it will collapse if it is built on nothing but imagination. Yet I still cannot explain the kind of love that binds people to a place so deeply that they cannot bring themselves to leave it
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2026 World Cup: Europe’s Hidden Dominance
Is Kylian Mbappé, born to a Cameroonian father and an Algerian mother, African or French? Is Lamine Yamal, whose mother is from Equatorial Guinea and whose father is Moroccan, African, or Spanish, more specifically Catalan, where he was raised?
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The Airport Road and the Long Journey to Sovereignty
Another May 17 agreement will not lead to better results, and even if Hezbollah is decimated, as was the PLO was in 1983, the state's weakness and the absence of a capable military will lead to the emergence of another one. Another April 1996 agreement to co-exist with Lebanon's right to resistance outside of a relation with a sovereign state will lead to another round of violence down the line. The best chance that Israel has today is a return to the armistice agreement of 1949, and that could be a good choice for Lebanon as well.
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Syria’s Missing Children Under Assad: They Could Walk Past You, and You’d Never Know
In this investigative report by the Tiny Hand Foundation, journalists Hadeel Arja and Khalil Ashawi trace how children with known identities were assigned new identities and family lineages after their parents were detained or they were separated from their families. The investigation reveals a network of security and social institutions that enabled this system under the Assad regime.
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Mamdouh Azzam: The Story of a Library in Flames
ٍSyrian writer Mamdouh Azzam's attempts to answer questions regarding his burnt library in his latest book, From North to South: Stories of Home, People, Books, and Soldiers, recently published by Sard Publishing and Mamdouh Adwan Publishing and Distribution.
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