This is Beirut, 21/05 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for sufficient humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-ravaged Gaza, where humanitarian agencies say a total blockade has sparked critical food and medicine shortages. "The situation in the Gaza Strip is worrying and painful," the pope said during his first weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. "I renew my ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Director Or Sinai didn't have to go far to find the subject of her acclaimed debut film about the secret lives of the millions of women who support their families back home by being domestic workers abroad. She was chatting to the "wonderful Ukrainian woman" who looks at her mother, who has Parkinson's Disease, when the housekeeper started ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 10:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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An Israeli drone strike in the southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun on Wednesday targeted a motorcycle, killing one person, in what marks the third fatality from Israeli attacks in the region that day. The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported that the victim was a member of Hezbollah. Shortly afterwards, the Public Health ministry announced ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 10:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Crude prices surged Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears. While safe haven gold pushed almost two percent higher, the news from CNN appeared to be having little detrimental ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran said Wednesday it executed a man convicted of a deadly January 2023 attack on the Azerbaijani embassy, which sparked a sharp downturn in relations between the neighbouring countries. "The law of retribution was implemented this morning against the attacker of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran," the judiciary said. An Azerbaijani diplomat ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 09:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement with Israel to allow the delivery of "urgent humanitarian aid" to Gaza, according to a statement released Wednesday on Emirati state media. Israel has come under massive international pressure to allow aid into Gaza, where humanitarian agencies say a total blockade imposed on March 2 has sparked ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 22:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel said Tuesday that it was recalling its senior Gaza hostage negotiators from Doha "for consultation", days after launching an intensified campaign in the Palestinian territory. The indirect talks in Qatar, which has played a mediating role throughout the war, began over the weekend, just as Israel's new offensive was getting ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 20:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The European Union on Tuesday agreed to review its cooperation deal with Israel over alleged human rights abuses in Gaza, the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said. Kallas said Brussels was acting after "a strong majority" of its 27 member states backed the move in a meeting of EU foreign ministers in a bid to pressure ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 19:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli authorities said Tuesday that they had arrested two citizens suspected of carrying out "intelligence-gathering missions" at Iran's behest near the defense minister's home. The arrests are the latest in a spate of cases in which Israel has charged its own citizens with spying for the country's arch-foe since the start of the war in Gaza in ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 20/05 16:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A joke has it that Syria’s self-proclaimed president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, offered to build a Trump Tower in Damascus to make up for the two New York towers that Al-Qaeda, al-Sharaa former organization, destroyed on 9/11, killing 2,753 Americans. Times are changing. Since October 7, Iran has been begging America for a nuclear deal that ...
Johnny Kortbawi, 20/05 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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While Saudi Arabia was signing investment deals with the United States worth over $600 billion, and President Donald Trump was pursuing economic ventures exceeding $4 trillion to boost the global economy and forge new alliances, Lebanon was engaging in international politics on the scale of a mukhtar, a village chief. As developments began to ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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On the road linking the localities of Mansouri and Majdel Zoun, in the caza of Tyre, a motorcycle was targeted by a drone strike on Tuesday morning. The strike killed one person believed to be a member of Hezbollah, according to the Israeli Army. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health states that nine people were wounded, according to a ...