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Geagea Calls on Government to Lead Talks on Hezbollah’s Disarmament
This is Beirut 06/07 20:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon United States Tom Barrack Israel Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Samir Geagea
The leader of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, has called on the government to take the lead in responding to a US roadmap aimed at helping Lebanon gradually resolve its border issue with Israel—which maintains a military presence at five points—and to tackle the issue of illegal weapons within its territory. In a statement released ...
With Tariffs Looming, US Trade Partners Scramble for Last-Minute Deals
This is Beirut 02/07 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Tariffs
A week before US President Donald Trump reimposes steep tariffs on dozens of economies, including the EU and Japan, many are still scrambling to reach a deal that would protect them from the worst. The tariffs taking effect July 9 are part of a package Trump imposed in April, citing a lack of "reciprocity" in trading ties. He slapped a 10 ...
Massive Trump Budget Plan Moves Forward, Faces Divided Senate
This is Beirut 30/06 11:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Senate United States Donald Trump
US senators were inching Sunday towards a vote on Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill, a hugely divisive proposal that would deliver key parts of the US president's domestic agenda while making massive cuts to social welfare programs. Trump is hoping the "One Big Beautiful Bill" will help seal his legacy, extending his expiring ...
Israel Calls for Seizing the Opportunity to Free Hostages in Gaza
This is Beirut 02/07 12:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's top diplomat called on Wednesday not to miss any chance to free hostages held in Gaza, after US President Donald Trump urged Palestinian group Hamas to agree to a 60-day ceasefire that he said had Israel's backing. Nearly 21 months of war have created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people in the Gaza Strip, ...
Iran-Israel War: Latest Developments
This is Beirut 25/06 11:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Tehran USA
Classified US intelligence suggests that American strikes on Iran set back its nuclear program by just a few months, contradicting President Donald Trump's claim of total destruction. Here are the latest developments as a truce between Iran and Israel appeared to be holding early Wednesday: 'Significant hit' The Israeli ...
Eastern Christians: The Last Keepers of a Legacy
Marc Saikali 26/06 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Damascus Europe Israel Middle East Christians
A suicide bombing, this time inside a Damascus church during Sunday Mass. Twenty-five dead. The blast silenced prayer, shattered lives and shook a community already on the brink. Eastern Christianity is dying, not in the chaos of an open warfare, but through a long, silent agony, met with the world’s indifference. In a secularized Europe where ...
Trump to sign 'big, beautiful' bill on US Independence Day
This is Beirut 04/07 10:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Politics
US President Donald Trump will sign his flagship tax and spending bill Friday in a pomp-laden Independence Day ceremony featuring fireworks and a flypast by the type of stealth bomber that bombed Iran. Trump pushed Republican lawmakers to get his unpopular "One Big Beautiful Bill" through a reluctant Congress in time for him to sign it ...
Three More Turkish Opposition Mayors Arrested in Graft Probe Amid CHP Crackdown
This is Beirut 05/07 13:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan opposition
Turkey arrested three more opposition mayors early on Saturday as part of an investigation into alleged graft, officials from the main opposition CHP said, denouncing it as a "political operation." The early morning arrests were the latest move targeting elected officials of the Republican People's Party (CHP) as the government of ...
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanon: 1 Killed, 17 Injured, Hezbollah Facility Targeted
This is Beirut 27/06 11:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel carried out several strikes in south Lebanon on Friday it said targeted Hezbollah members and facilities. An Israeli airstrike on the apartment of a Hezbollah official in Nabatieh al-Fawqa claimed the life of his sister-in-law. The Ministry of Public Health reported that 13 people were wounded in the same attack. During the evening, ...
Echoes of Iran: The Forgotten Golden Age of Persian Pop Music
Bélinda Ibrahim 01/07 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
At the dawn of the 1960s and 1970s, Iran entered one of its most culturally vibrant eras. Amid rapid transformation, young Iranians eagerly embraced electric guitars and Western harmonies, seamlessly fusing them with the poetry and melodies of Persian tradition. Psychedelic rock bands thrived in Tehran’s underground clubs, drawing inspiration ...
Trump Hopeful for Gaza Ceasefire, Possibly ‘Next Week’
This is Beirut 28/06 05:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Gaza Palestine Israel Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump voiced optimism Friday about a new ceasefire in Gaza, as criticism grew over mounting civilian deaths at Israeli-backed food distribution centers in the territory. Asked by reporters how close a ceasefire was between Israel and Hamas, Trump said: "We think within the next week, we're going to get a ...
EDL Setback in Beirut Leaves Lebanese Relying on Generators
Liliane Mokbel 07/07 18:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
One month after Nawaf Salam’s government took office, Lebanese citizens are facing a surprising drop in public electricity supply. In Beirut and surrounding areas, daily power from Électricité du Liban (EDL) has fallen sharply—from nine hours to just six. This sudden decline has reignited frustration among a population already exhausted by ...
Canada Drops Digital Tax on US Tech Giants as Trade Talks with Trump Resume
This is Beirut 30/06 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Canada Ottawa Mark Carney Donald Trump
Canada will rescind taxes impacting US tech firms that had prompted President Donald Trump to retaliate by calling off trade talks, Ottawa said Sunday, adding that negotiations with Washington would resume. The digital services tax, enacted last year, would have seen US service providers such as Alphabet and Amazon on the hook for a ...
Trump Celebrates Landmark Decision Limiting Nationwide Judicial Blocks
This is Beirut 27/06 20:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Supreme Court United States
US President Donald Trump said Friday he can now push through a raft of controversial policies after the Supreme Court handed him a "giant win" by curbing the ability of lone judges to block his powers nationwide. In a 6-3 ruling stemming from Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, the court said nationwide injunctions issued by individual ...
Djokovic, Sinner on Wimbledon Collision Course
This is Beirut 07/07 16:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Novak Djokovic Sinner Tennis Wimbledon
Wimbledon title rivals Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner will move closer to a blockbuster semi-final showdown if they win their fourth-round ties on Monday as officals blamed human error for an embarrassing electronic line-calling blunder. Djokovic, the seven-time Wimbledon champion, and world number one Sinner are on course to meet in a ...
Morocco's Atlantic Gambit: Linking Restive Sahel to Ocean
This is Beirut 29/06 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Morocco Dakhla Atlantic Port Sahel
A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The "Atlantic Initiative" promises ocean access to Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger through a new $1.3-billion port in the former Spanish colony ...
Norris Bounces Back as McLaren Take 1-2 in Austrian Practice
This is Beirut 28/06 08:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Formula 1 Lando Norris Max Verstappen Ferrari F1
Lando Norris bounced back from his Canadian catastrophe with his customary smile on Friday after topping the times ahead of team-mate and championship leader Oscar Piastri as McLaren reeled off a solid 1-2 in practice at the Austrian Grand Prix. As the paddock digested news that Mercedes had held talks about possibly signing Max Verstappen from ...
At the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, an Immersive Work of Sound and Silence
Marie-Christine Tayah 06/07 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paris France Art Architecture Culture Exhibition
Clinamen is a dreamlike, immersive and multisensory experience by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, presented in the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. Originally built in the 18th century as a grain exchange, the building – now a contemporary art museum – becomes a living vessel for this ever-evolving installation. This ...
How Robots and Raw Earth Are Redefining Homebuilding
Bélinda Ibrahim 03/07 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Homebuilding Robots Cocoons TECLA Italy
They look like cocoons, settled on the ground as if they had naturally grown there. No straight lines, no concrete, just earth, carefully layered by two robotic arms moving with the grace of a choreographed dance. In 200 hours—barely eight days—an entire house takes shape. Printed on site using only natural materials. Its name? TECLA. Its ...
Algeria court upholds writer Sansal's five-year jail term
This is Beirut 01/07 16:43 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Literature Trial Boualem Sansal Algeria France Culture
An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year prison sentence against dual-national author Boualem Sansal, whose case has strained ties with France. Sansal, 80, was first sentenced to five years behind bars on March 27 on charges related to undermining Algeria's territorial integrity over comments made to a French media outlet. The appeals ...
Gaza Rescuers say Israeli Forces Kill 25, Including 12 in Shelter for Displaced
This is Beirut 03/07 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestine Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Israel
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli forces killed at least 25 people on Thursday, including 12 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month. Israel has recently expanded its military operations in the Gaza Strip, where the war since October 2023 has created dire humanitarian conditions and ...
IRCAD Lebanon: The Liver and Pancreas Go Robotic
Makram Haddad 03/07 22:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Middle East IRCAD Antoine Maalouf Robotic Pancreas
Under the luminous ceilings of the Clinique du Levant, IRCAD Lebanon officially launched yesterday its very first international course on robotic liver and pancreas surgery. A first in Lebanon, described by its president, Dr. Antoine Maalouf, as “a quantum leap in regional surgical practice.” “What we are launching here goes beyond the ...
Rio to Host BRICS Summit Wary of Trump
This is Beirut 04/07 20:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump BRICS Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin Rio
The BRICS nations will convene for a summit in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and Monday, with members hoping to weigh in on global crises while tiptoeing around US President Donald Trump's policies. The city, with beefed-up security, will play host to leaders and diplomats from 11 emerging economies, including China, India, Russia, South Africa, and ...
Has America Reversed Itself on Hezbollah?
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US Envoy to Syria and Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has reversed three decades of US policy by no longer labeling Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The shift de-internationalizes the issue of the Iranian proxy militia, whose disarmament is mandated by UN Security Council resolutions and the November ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and ...
Trump Says Vietnam to Face 20% Tariff under 'Great' Deal
This is Beirut 02/07 19:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Vietnam Tariffs
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had struck a trade deal with Vietnam under which the country would face a minimum 20 percent tariff and open its market to US products. The deal comes less than a week before Trump's self-imposed July 9 deadline for steeper tariffs on US trade partners to take effect if agreements are not ...
Iran Voices 'Serious Doubts' over Israel Commitment to Ceasefire
This is Beirut 29/06 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran on Sunday said it was not convinced Israel would abide by a ceasefire that ended their 12-day war this week. The most serious escalation to date between the arch-foes erupted on June 13, when Israel launched a bombing campaign in Iran that killed top military commanders and scientists linked to its disputed nuclear program. Israel said its ...
Migrant Workers: Legally Hired, Illegally Exploited
Carine Kassis 15:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The case known as the “Red Nights,” which links prostitution to human trafficking, has resurfaced in recent months. Several arrests have been made, but much of the network remains hidden. This is no longer a simple matter of runaway workers or administrative delays — it has become a full-fledged public security concern. Testimony: Nancy’s ...
Trump Wins Major Victory as Flagship Bill Passes Congress
This is Beirut 03/07 19:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump USA Republicans Tax bills
US President Donald Trump secured a major political victory on Thursday, when Congress narrowly passed his flagship tax and spending bill, cementing his radical second-term agenda and boosting funds for his anti-immigration drive. The bill underlined the president's dominance over the Republican Party, which had been wracked by misgivings ...
The Order of Malta Celebrates the Feast of Its Patron, Saint John the Baptist
This is Beirut 25/06 20:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Lebanese Association of the Knights of Malta, known as Order of Malta Lebanon, celebrated the feast of its patron, St. John the Baptist, at the invitation of its President Marwan Sehnaoui alongside the association’s members, and in the presence of Her Excellency Maria Emerica Cortese, the Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to ...
Flagg Expected To Be Taken First By Dallas in NBA Draft
This is Beirut 25/06 12:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Versatile US college teen star Cooper Flagg is expected to be selected first overall by the Dallas Mavericks in Wednesday's NBA Draft. The Mavericks nabbed the first pick after winning last month's NBA Draft Lottery and are expected to take Flagg, an 18-year-old American who played last season for Duke University before opting into the ...