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France FM Says Hamas Must Accept 'Surrender' Under Trump Gaza Plan
This is Beirut 02/10 20:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hamas Palestine France Gaza US peace plan
France's top diplomat said Thursday that Hamas had lost its fight in Gaza and must accept "surrender" under a plan put forward by US President Donald Trump. The Palestinian militant group is currently weighing its response to the Trump plan, which has been publicly endorsed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Hamas bears a very heavy ...
Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s Gold Bracelet Melted, Sold Cheaply
This is Beirut 19/09 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Egypt Museum Art Culture Heritage Gold
Egyptian police said on Thursday they arrested a museum employee and three alleged accomplices after a priceless ancient gold bracelet was stolen from Cairo's Egyptian Museum, sold for about $4,000, and then melted down. The 3,000-year-old bracelet, a gold band adorned with lapis lazuli beads, dated back to the reign of Amenemope, a pharaoh of ...
Trump Renews Tariff Threat on Movies Made Abroad
This is Beirut 29/09 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Films Tariff Donald Trump US Culture
US President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his threat of imposing steep tariffs on films made outside the United States, claiming his country's industry has been "stolen" by others. Trump's remarks come shortly after he threatened a slew of new tariffs to be imposed this week on branded pharmaceutical products, furniture, as well as heavy trucks ...
Denmark PM Urges 'Very Strong Answer' to Russia's 'Hybrid War'
This is Beirut 01/10 14:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Denmark said Wednesday that Europe needs to step up its response to a "hybrid war" being waged by Russia, after mysterious drone flights and a spate of airspace violations rattled European Union members. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned the continent is facing the "most difficult and dangerous situation" since the ...
Meeting at the Serail to Address Raoucheh Rock Illumination Defiance
This is Beirut 26/09 18:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Raoucheh Rock Illumination Cabinet Meeting Lebanon
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam convened a ministerial meeting at the Grand Serail on Thursday afternoon to address the repercussions of Hezbollah’s illumination of Raoucheh Rock in defiance of a government decision. According to sources, Minister of Health Rakan Nassereddine, Minister of Environment Tamara el-Zein and Minister of Administrative ...
One Million Syrian Refugees Returned from abroad Since Assad Fall
This is Beirut 24/09 21:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria United Nations Syrian Refugees
One million Syrian refugees have returned from abroad since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December, the United Nations said Wednesday, urging more support to allow others to follow. "In just nine months, one million Syrians have returned to their country following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government on 8 December 2024," ...
Gaza Civil Defence Says 13 Killed in Israeli Strikes
This is Beirut 02/10 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes killed at least 13 people across Gaza on Thursday, the territory's civil defence agency said, including an employee of the French charity Doctors Without Borders. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal, whose rescue agency operates under Hamas authority, said 10 people were killed in several air raids in central Gaza, while two ...
Wanted Fugitive Killed in Clashes with Lebanese Army in Baalbeck
This is Beirut 04/10 14:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A Lebanese Army outpost in the Charawneh neighborhood of Baalbeck was targeted by an RPG rocket on Saturday, while other Army positions came under heavy gunfire from armed men, the Lebanese Army said in a statement. According to available information, the fugitive A.A., who was wanted on several arrest warrants, was killed during the ...
Lebanon Steps Up Against Captagon Trafficking Network
Bassam Abou Zeid 24/09 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In 2025, Lebanon achieved a significant breakthrough in the fight against the manufacturing and trafficking of Captagon pills– inflicting losses of hundreds of millions of dollars on those behind these illicit operations. Lebanese security forces demonstrated their ability to confront this criminal cartel – a challenge of major local, regional ...
Turkish Airlines Orders Up to 225 Boeing Jets After Erdogan’s White House Visit
This is Beirut 26/09 10:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey United States Recep Tayyip Erdogan Donald Trump
Turkish Airlines announced on Friday a deal to buy up to 225 Boeing jets, one day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first White House visit since 2019. The order includes 150 confirmed aircraft to be delivered between 2029 and 2034, with an option for 75 more, the company said in a statement, without giving a figure of the ...
Famed 'Sponge Cities' Chinese Architect Kongjian Yu Dead in Brazil Plane Crash
This is Beirut 25/09 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Obituary Architect Kongjian Yu Accident China Brazil Culture
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, known for his so-called nature-mimicking "sponge cities," has died in a small plane crash in Brazil with two filmmakers documenting his work, police said Wednesday. The 62-year-old was considered a leading figure in sustainable urban planning; his "sponge cities" replace concrete surfaces with natural ...
Pop Art Brings Royal Tradition to Life in Luxembourg
This is Beirut 26/09 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Luxembourg Exhibition Culture Pop Art Tradition Art
As Luxembourg awaits the coronation of a new Grand Duke, local artist Jacques Schneider is planning to jazz up the occasion with a splash of pop art. A set of new "monarchical" paintings are among the works on show at a retrospective on Schneider's 20 years in the art industry that opened on Thursday in Berchem, a small town in the south of the ...
Iran Claims to Hold Documents Related to Israeli Nuclear Program
This is Beirut 24/09 22:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Israel Israeli Nuclear Program
State television in Iran aired documents and images Wednesday evening that it claims are linked to Israel’s nuclear program, which has never been officially confirmed or denied by its longtime adversary. In a documentary, the Iranian broadcaster revealed, with passport copies as evidence, the identities of individuals presented as Israeli ...
Israel Army Says Intercepts Projectile from Gaza City
This is Beirut 22/09 17:33 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu United Nations Hamas Gaza
The Israeli military said it intercepted a projectile fired on Monday from Gaza City, where troops are currently pressing a major ground offensive to capture the territory's largest urban center. It had earlier said the projectile was launched toward the area of Nahal Oz, a community near the Gaza border. "A projectile that crossed from ...
Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Appears in US Court
This is Beirut 30/09 10:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The man accused of killing right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk appeared in a US court Monday, where his lawyers asked for more time to deal with the mountains of evidence in the case. Kirk was shot dead on a Utah college campus this month, sparking a wave of grief among conservatives, and threats of a clampdown on the "radical ...
French Navy Seizes Nearly 10 Tonnes of Cocaine Worth $600 Million off West Africa
This is Beirut 25/09 10:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth more than $600 million from a fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, French authorities said on Thursday. The seizure by two navy ships on Monday followed a tip-off by anti-drug and maritime intelligence authorities and British police, authorities in France's northwestern Atlantic ...
Ben Gvir and Smotrich Urge West Bank Annexation as Western Countries Recognize Palestinian State
This is Beirut 21/09 17:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel West Bank Bezalel Smotrich Itamar Ben Gvir
Two Israeli far-right ministers on Sunday called for the annexation of the Israeli-occupied West Bank following the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia's recognition of a Palestinian state. "The recognition by Britain, Canada, and Australia of a Palestinian state... requires immediate countermeasures: the swift application of sovereignty in ...
France Confirms Loan of Bayeux Tapestry to British Museum Amid Conservation Concerns
This is Beirut 22/09 17:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Museum Bayeux Tapestry Heritage France Britain Culture
French President Emmanuel Macron's office stressed Monday that the planned loan of the nearly 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry to Britain next year was a surmountable challenge following expert outcry over the diplomatic gesture. Several heritage advisors have argued that the extremely fragile 11th-century masterpiece depicting the Norman conquest ...
Yemen Drone Attack Wounds 22 in Israeli Resort Town
This is Beirut 24/09 20:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's military said a drone launched from Yemen struck the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, with rescuers reporting nearly two dozen wounded. A military statement said the drone "fell in the area of Eilat" on the Red Sea coast after air defenses had failed to intercept it, in the second such incident within ...
Taliban Impose Communications Blackout Across Afghanistan
This is Beirut 30/09 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Afghanistan faced a second day without internet and mobile phone service on Tuesday, after Taliban authorities cut the fiber optic network. Taliban authorities began shutting down high speed internet connections to some provinces earlier in the month to prevent "vice". On Monday night, mobile phone signal and internet service gradually ...
Israel Detains Palestinians in Nablus, Reopens West Bank-Jordan Crossing
This is Beirut 26/09 19:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Israeli military detained several Palestinians in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, an AFP journalist at the scene said on Friday. When contacted by AFP, an Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raid and said that "forces operated in the Nablus area to apprehend several suspects involved in terrorist ...
Motswedi: Botswana’s 2,488-Carat Gem Draws Global Cultural Interest
This is Beirut 23/09 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Mining Luxury Museum Belgium Botswana Canada Culture
The world's second-largest diamond could soon find a new home in a museum or a sheikh's collection, but first needs to be properly evaluated, the Belgian firm holding it told AFP Monday. Unearthed last year in Botswana, the 2,488-carat stone known as Motswedi is currently being analyzed by gem dealer HB Antwerp in the namesake port city ...
Peace with Syria and Lebanon Is on the Way...
This is Beirut 21/09 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Lebanon Syria Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah has created the opportunity of peace with Lebanon and Syria. “Our victories in Lebanon against Hezbollah have opened a window of opportunities that was unimaginable before our recent operations; there is a possibility of peace with our ...
New Israeli Strikes on Ali Taher Hills Target Hezbollah Site
This is Beirut 03/10 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Residents of southern Lebanon were shaken in the early hours of Friday by a series of Israeli airstrikes on the wooded hills of Ali Taher, near Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa. The Israeli army claimed responsibility for the attack and announced through its Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, that it had struck a Hezbollah site. In a statement ...
Trump Meets Congressional Leaders Ahead of Potential Federal Shutdown
This is Beirut 29/09 18:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Congress shutdown
Donald Trump is meeting Monday at the White House with top Republican and Democratic congressional leaders as negotiations remain deadlocked ahead of a potential federal government shutdown Tuesday night. If no budget, even temporary, is passed by midnight Tuesday, the U.S. will face a shutdown, halting most federal services. Hundreds of ...
Moscow to Build Four Nuclear Power Plants in Iran
This is Beirut 26/09 14:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic republic, Iranian state media reported Friday, just hours ahead of the likely return of sweeping UN sanctions on Iran. "A deal for the construction of four nuclear power plants with a value of $25 billion in Sirik, Hormozgan, was signed between the Iran ...
The Secret Soundtrack of the Runways
Bélinda Ibrahim 30/09 19:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Music Culture Fashion Podiums Runways
Today, it is impossible to imagine a runway show without music. It is an integral part of the catwalk experience, shaping how the clothes are perceived and remembered. Whereas tracks once flowed without much cohesion, major fashion houses now rely on true soundtrack creators such as Michel Gaubert and Frédéric Sanchez, renowned for their ability ...
Government Reacts Following Nationwide Protests by Retired Personnel
This is Beirut 22/09 13:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Monday approved measures to support retired military personnel, including the disbursement of two additional allowances this month. School allowances will be aligned with those of civil servants, at a full rate of 100% and previous grants and bonuses will be incorporated into their core salaries. The announcement ...
Irish Singer CMAT Postpones UK Tour Due to Health Issues
This is Beirut 03/10 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Music Touring Cancellation CMAT Britain Culture
Breakout Irish singer CMAT cancelled her upcoming UK tour dates to treat an infected wisdom tooth, days after British pop singer Lola Young halted gigs having collapsed on stage. "I am devastated to say that due to an infected wisdom tooth I need to reschedule all of my upcoming dates of the October UK tour," CMAT, whose real name is Ciara ...
Peace Day: UNIFIL Hails Its Strategic Cooperation with the Lebanese Army
This is Beirut 22/09 16:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanese Army UNIFIL Lebanon South Lebanon Peace Day
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) marked the International Day of Peace this Sunday with an official ceremony held at its headquarters in Naqoura. It was the first celebration in two years, as the security situation in 2024 had forced the cancellation of previous commemorations. Speaking at the ceremony, UNIFIL Head of Mission ...