Syrian and Lebanese line up at passport control as they cross the Syrian-Lebanese border into Syria, fleeing Lebanon due to Israeli airstrikes, in Jdeidet Yabous, Syria, 3 March 2026. (Keystone/AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

🇱🇧230,000 flee Lebanon for Syria as Israeli aggression persists. The exodus includes nearly 200,000 Syrian nationals returning to their homeland and roughly 32,000 Lebanese citizens seeking safety across the border, a UNHCR spokesperson told Geneva reporters on Tuesday.

⛴Over 180 dead or missing in Mediterranean since 28 March. The International Organization for Migration said that around 765 people had died in the central Mediterranean so far this year – over 460 more than during the same period in 2025.

💬Opinion: A World Trade Organization is irrelevant when no one follows its rules. A stalemate between major powers over key issues, and flagrant disregard of the global trade rules by others further demonstrate the organisation’s vulnerability.

💬Opinion: UN80 is the wrong answer to the right question. Former UN assistant secretary general Jordan Ryan argues that what the organisation needs is not incremental reform but a fundamental redesign of how it is financed, how political authority is exercised and how it operates within an increasingly networked system of global governance.

💬Who should deliver justice on Assad regime crimes? After almost 14 years of civil war that claimed nearly half a million lives, a transitional justice process has begun, throwing open difficult questions – among them, who should be tried for the serious crimes committed?