This is Beirut, 15/04 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Stock markets rose Tuesday as investors digested strong bank earnings and shares in several auto giants surged over hopes of tariffs relief from US President Donald Trump. Some stability has returned to markets after last week's roller-coaster ride over Trump's stop-start tariff announcements, but uncertainty remains over speculation of new ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 19:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that China has gone back on a major Boeing deal, after a news report that Beijing ordered airlines not to take further deliveries of the US aviation giant's jets. Trump's comments on social media followed a Bloomberg news report about the halt. The report also said that Beijing requested Chinese carriers to ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Tuesday the country's military capabilities were off limits, ahead of a second round of talks with the United States on its nuclear program. "National security and defense and military power are among the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which cannot be discussed or negotiated under any ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Europe's meteorological agency says cuts by US President Donald Trump's administration to a key American science agency had hindered the sharing of crucial observations used around the globe to monitor the climate and forecast weather. Trump's administration has fired hundreds of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Pop star Katy Perry became the biggest name in an all-woman group to safely blast off into space Monday, roaring into the cosmos on one of billionaire Jeff Bezos's rockets. The Firework and California Girls singer was lofted more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth's surface in a vessel from Blue Origin, the space company owned by ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Countries hope more than three years of negotiations on battling future pandemics will finally end Tuesday, after reaching a preliminary agreement last week. It has been more than five years since the Covid-19 pandemic began, killing millions of people and devastating economies. Experts say an accord has become even more crucial with new health ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump's special envoy said Monday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was open to a "permanent peace" deal with Ukraine, following talks seeking to end the more than three-year war. Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repeated ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Hamas said Monday that Israel has offered a 45-day ceasefire if it releases half of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, which the United Nations said is now in the grip of its worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the war. A Hamas official told AFP that Israel had also demanded that the Palestinian militants disarm to secure an end to the ...
This is Beirut, 15/04 08:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Iran's foreign minister is to visit ally Russia this week to discuss nuclear negotiations with the United States, ahead of a new round of talks planned between the foes. On Saturday, Abbas Araghchi held talks with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman -- the highest-level discussions since the 2015 nuclear accord ...
Philippe Abi-Akl, 15/04 08:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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For the past 34 years, Hezbollah’s weapons have remained a central point of contention both domestically and internationally. On September 30, 1989, Lebanon’s political factions convened in Taif, Saudi Arabia, and signed the National Accord, known as the Taif agreement, to end the devastating 15-year civil war. One of the key provisions ...
This is Beirut, 14/04 15:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian attacks Monday on the Kharkiv region of east Ukraine killed four elderly residents, local officials said, a day after more than two dozen were killed in neighbouring Sumy. Moscow's forces have gained ground in the Kharkiv region, home to Ukraine's second largest city, which was also targeted in overnight Russian drone ...
Baker Halawi, 14/04 14:15 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
It took the United States less than one hundred days to begin redrawing the global strategic map—on its own terms. In just over three months, President Donald Trump’s returning administration—resurrected not through elections, but through political maneuvering and ideological momentum—reignited an assertive and ...