This is Beirut, 10/06 19:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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American World Cup host city officials assured Monday that overseas fans would be welcome at next year's tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico despite "uncertainty" amid ongoing concerns over visas, border controls, and social unrest. In a briefing in New York that came just over a year from the opening game of the tournament on June ...
This is Beirut, 10/06 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Chinese tech giant Huawei's chips still "lag behind the United States by one generation", state media quoted its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying in a rare interview on Tuesday. Washington last month unveiled fresh guidelines warning firms that using Chinese-made high-tech AI semiconductors, specifically Huawei's Ascend chips, would put ...
This is Beirut, 10/06 09:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's foreign ministry has said a new round of nuclear talks with the United States is being planned for Sunday, after President Donald Trump said it was expected on Thursday. "The next round of Iran-US indirect talks is being planned for next Sunday in Muscat," foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a statement Tuesday, adding ...
This is Beirut, 10/06 08:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump ordered active-duty US Marines and 2,000 more National Guard troops into Los Angeles on Monday, vowing those protesting immigration arrests would be "hit harder" than ever. Trump's extraordinary mobilization of 700 full-time professional military personnel -- and thousands of National Guard troops -- came on the fourth day ...
This is Beirut, 09/06 10:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday was due to urge a "400-percent increase" in the transatlantic alliance's air and missile defence capacities in response to the threat from Russia. "We see in Ukraine how Russia delivers terror from above, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our skies," Rutte was due to say in a speech to the ...
This is Beirut, 09/06 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump's sweeping new travel ban came into effect early Monday immediately after midnight, barring citizens from a dozen nations from entering the United States and reviving a divisive measure from his first term. The move is expected to disrupt refugee pathways and further restrict immigration as the Trump administration expands ...
This is Beirut, 09/06 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Chinese exports grew slower than expected in May, according to official data Monday, as shipments to the United States tumbled amid global trade turmoil triggered by Donald Trump's tariff blitz. The figures also showed imports suffered a forecast-beating drop, with weak domestic consumption in the world's number two economy highlighted by data ...
This is Beirut, 09/06 09:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An explosion injured four men at a Japanese facility for storing unexploded bombs at a US air base in Okinawa on Monday, a fire official said, with their condition reportedly not critical. Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) members at the facility at Kadena Air Base were trying to wipe rust off items at the facility to re-assess if they were bombs, ...
This is Beirut, 09/06 08:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Demonstrators torched cars and scuffled with security forces in Los Angeles on Sunday as police kept protesters away from the National Guard troops President Donald Trump sent to the streets of America's second-biggest city. Unrest broke out for a third day, with protesters angry at action by immigration officials that has resulted in dozens of ...
This is Beirut, 08/06 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A prominent Colombian right-wing presidential candidate who was shot during a campaign event in Bogota has successfully undergone initial surgery, the city's mayor said Sunday. Thirty-nine-year-old Senator Miguel Uribe was speaking to supporters in the capital when a gunman shot him twice in the head and once in the knee before being ...
This is Beirut, 08/06 10:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Hundreds of National Guard troops took up positions in Los Angeles Sunday on the orders of US President Donald Trump, a rare deployment over the head of the state governor, afer unruly protests against immigration raids. The US military said 300 soldiers from the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team had been sent to three separate locations in ...
This is Beirut, 08/06 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world's deadliest snakes bite him. Four days later, he woke up from a coma. "I know what it feels like to die from snakebite," Friede told AFP via video call from his home in the small US town of Two Rivers, ...