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G7 Confronts Israel-Iran Crisis as Trump Dominates Summit

This is Beirut, 2025-06-16 09:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Group of Seven leaders including US President Donald Trump prepared to hold talks Monday in the Canadian Rockies, tackling issues including whether they can find common ground on an escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. The three-day gathering in the mountain town of Kananaskis marks the return to the international diplomatic calendar for ...

Macron Urges Tehran to Return to the Negotiating Table

This is Beirut, 2025-06-14 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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France's President Emmanuel Macron urged his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian to "quickly" resume negotiations over his country's nuclear programme, in talks Saturday as a conflict between Tehran and Israel escalated. Fresh US-Iranian talks on Tehran's nuclear programme that had been scheduled for Sunday were cancelled after Israel launched ...

Can Ahmad al-Sharaa Deliver on His Anti-ISIS Policy?

Alexandre Baz, 2025-06-14 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Ahmad al-Sharaa, once a senior figure in the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has emerged as a central player in post-Assad Syria. Since taking power in December 2024 in a country ravaged by 13 years of war, Sharaa has positioned himself as a pragmatic and reform-minded leader, both to foreign governments and Syria’s deeply ...

France Music Week Showcases Strengths and Struggles of Music Industry

This is Beirut, 2025-06-14 11:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The first France Music Week, an international event kicking off Monday in Paris, aims to promote a French music sector praised for its local networks and export successes—but increasingly showing signs of strain. Spearheaded by President Emmanuel Macron, the initiative targets industry professionals with the goal of “putting France on the map ...

Macron Says Israel Has 'Right to Defend Itself', Speaks to Netanyahu

This is Beirut, 2025-06-13 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, who on Friday defended Israel's right to protect itself, spoke by phone to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a spike in diplomatic tensions, the Elysee said. The French presidency said the phone conversation took place but did not specify the content of the exchange with the Israeli ...

Don't Let Deep sea Become 'Wild West', Guterres tells World Leaders

This is Beirut, 2025-06-09 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans "become the wild west", at the start in France of a global summit on the seas. World leaders are attending the UN Ocean Conference in Nice as nations tussle over contentious rules on mining the seabed for critical minerals and the terms of ...

What They Said After PSG Beat Inter in the Champions League Final

This is Beirut, 2025-06-01 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Key quotes after Paris Saint-Germain's record 5-0 win over Inter Milan in the Champions League final in Munich on Saturday: "This means everything. It's my dream, it's our dream. It's incredible. The result is not by magic. I'm happy we did it like this, now going to celebrate." - PSG's Portuguese midfielder Vitinha summing up what the ...

Macron Urges Asia, Europe to Unite to Resist 'Spheres of Coercion'

This is Beirut, 2025-05-30 17:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged Europe and Asia to build a new alliance to hold off big powers seeking to build "spheres of coercion", in a swipe at China and Russia. Macron was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia's major annual defense and security conference, as Russia defies diplomatic pressure for a ...

Brigitte, Macron and the Republican Fantasy: Analyzing a Viral Moment

David Sahyoun, 2025-05-28 14:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Certain gestures exceed their expected boundaries and unsettle the scene in which they occur. Brigitte Macron’s gesture, filmed as she stepped off a plane in Hanoi on May 25, is a striking example. This fleeting moment—interpreted alternately as a slap or a simple sign of complicity—ignited a torrent of interpretations. Beyond ...

Indonesia's Prabowo Says Ready to Recognise Israel if Palestinians Get State

This is Beirut, 2025-05-28 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday said he would be willing to establish diplomatic relations with Israel if it recognized a Palestinian state, as he held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Jakarta. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, has no formal ties with Israel and has consistently ...

Netanyahu Accuses Macron of Siding with 'Terrorist Organisation' after Israel Criticism

This is Beirut, 2025-05-14 15:40 - Reading : less than a minute

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accused French President Emmanuel Macron of siding with a "murderous Islamist terrorist organisation" after Macron criticised Israel's blocking of aid to Gaza. "Macron has once again chosen to stand with a murderous Islamist terrorist organisation and echo its despicable propaganda, accusing ...

France 'Ready' to Deploy French Nuclear-Armed Jets in European Countries

This is Beirut, 2025-05-13 23:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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France is "ready to open" a discussion on deploying French aircraft armed with nuclear bombs in other European countries, similar to the U.S. nuclear sharing arrangement, President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday on TF1. "I will define the framework officially in the coming weeks and months," Macron said, outlining three ...

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