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Lebanese citizens with Australian partners being denied visitor visas amid concerns over unofficial ‘blacklists’

Published: April 28, 2026 15:00

Rejection letters for those applying to enter Australia while they wait for their partner visas read like ‘cut-and-paste’ refusals, migration agents sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEvery night Maram cries for her father.…

‘If your wife asks you to change diapers, change your wife’: Lebanon’s hit show parodying the patriarchy

Published: April 28, 2026 08:00

The female-created YouTube sketch series Smatouha Minni (You Heard It From Me) uses satire to confront misogynistic attitudes In Beirut’s Gemmayzeh neighbourhood a rented flat has been transformed into a film set: bright studio lights in a cosy living…

Middle East crisis live: Iran says it needs guarantees against attacks before Gulf can be stable

Published: April 28, 2026 07:40

Tehran’s UN envoy says ‘full respect’ of Iran’s rights also key for lasting regional stabilityUS is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich MerzThe US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has said Iran’s oil industry is starting to shut…

Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023

Published: April 28, 2026 06:00

Claim by environment minister opens new report into profound ecological damage allegedly done by IDF forces Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the…

Middle East crisis live: Iran ‘offers to end chokehold on strait of Hormuz’

Published: April 27, 2026 10:00

Sources say country wants US to end its blockade as part of proposal but has not addressed its nuclear programmeIran is offering to end its chokehold on the strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program, two regional officials with knowledge of…

The Gaza model: is this what war looks like now? | Mohamad Bazzi

Published: April 24, 2026 11:00

Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel’s strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itselfShortly after 2pm on 8 April, it seemed that Beirut was hit by an earthquake. Within 10 minutes, multiple…

Middle East crisis live: Trump orders US to ‘shoot and kill’ boats laying mines in Hormuz strait; Israel-Lebanon truce extended

Published: April 24, 2026 04:52

US president claims ‘total control’ of strait of Hormuz despite Iranian seizure of two ships and report warning it could take months to clear waterway of minesTrump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container…

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts

Published: April 23, 2026 16:31

Exclusive: Officials warn department will lose access to database of 26,000 verified cases by cutting fundingThe Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of…

‘We’re attached to this land like a tree is rooted in soil’: unexpectedly timely exhibition speaks up for the people of south Lebanon

Published: April 23, 2026 06:42

While the population of southern Lebanon have sometimes felt abandoned by their own state, a show in London told their stories and celebrated their resistanceIn one room of London’s Palestine House, a large screen plays looped news footage from southern…

Middle East crisis live: US and Iran in blockade stalemate as Washington’s navy secretary leaves office ‘immediately’

Published: April 23, 2026 04:04

White House says Tehran in ‘very weak position’; Iran says two seized ships transferred to its coast; US navy secretary exiting post ‘effective immediately’, says Pentagon‘Impossible’ to reopen strait of Hormuz amid ‘flagrant’ ceasefire breaches, Iran…

Lebanon accuses Israel of blocking attempt to rescue journalist after bomb strike

Published: April 22, 2026 19:53

Journalists Amal Khalil and Zeinab Faraj were both caught in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon, with the former trapped under rubble for hoursIsraeli strikes in southern Lebanon wounded one journalist and left another trapped under rubble on Wednesday…

What is Hezbollah? How the group embedded itself into the fabric of Lebanese life – video

Published: April 22, 2026 06:02

When Lebanon gets mentioned in the news, it’s often alongside Hezbollah. The group, designated by major western powers as a terrorist group, is varyingly characterised as a democratic political party in Lebanon’s parliament, as an organisation that…