Ali A. Hamade, 2024-11-13 11:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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A new chapter in United States politics is unfolding as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House in January 2025. His victory signals the beginning of a second conservative revolution in America, reminiscent of the one Ronald Reagan launched in 1981, centered on economic reforms. This time, however, Trump aims for a broader conservative ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-11 18:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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France's foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, said on Monday that the European Union could soon launch a new round of sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of fuelling violence in Palestinian territories. France had already imposed sanctions against "28 violent settlers" and been instrumental in deciding sanctions at the European Union level, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-08 15:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Reforming Europe's economy is all the more urgent following Donald Trump's US election win, warned the author of a blockbuster report, Mario Draghi, ahead of talks Friday with EU leaders in Budapest on tackling the challenge. Although Europe's public reaction to the Republican's return has been cautious, officials are on full ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-04 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a series of diplomatic meetings on Monday “to support the Lebanese position to put an end to the Israeli aggression.” Mikati reiterated calls for putting pressure on Israel “to stop its aggression, opening the way for discussion on how to implement, to the letter, the provisions of resolution 1701 ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-01 14:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Japan and the European Union announced a sweeping new security and defense partnership in Tokyo on Friday, which EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell hailed as a historic and "very timely" step. Borrell and his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya unveiled the pact to develop cooperation on joint military drills, the exchange of ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-31 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Spain braced for a heavier human toll on Wednesday after 95 people died in flash floods that launched muddy waters through towns, tossed cars and wreaked transport havoc. Rescuers were expected to find more bodies in the European country's deadliest flood in more than 50 years and three days of official mourning were due to start on ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-29 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday slammed his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock and EU chief Josep Borrell over their critism of Iran's execution of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd. On Monday, Iran executed 69-year-old German-Iranian Sharmahd, who was sentenced to death in February 2023 for the capital offence of "corruption on ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-29 14:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Germany and the European Union on Tuesday strongly condemned Iran's execution of a 69-year-old German-Iranian dissident after years behind bars and warned they were considering retaliatory measures. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Jamshid Sharmahd's execution on Monday a "scandal" and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-27 18:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The Georgian opposition on Sunday called for protests, and the European Union demanded an investigation into "irregularities" after a disputed legislative vote that showed a win for the ruling party accused of moving towards Russia's orbit. Pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili accused Moscow of being behind the election fraud, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-25 12:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, stated on Friday that the international community must accelerate efforts to find a political solution to end the fighting in Lebanon and prevent a potential "conflagration." In a statement released following a conference on aid for Lebanon in France, Borrell emphasized that the first necessary step is ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-24 11:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell stated on Wednesday that “the military confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel is the cause of an unacceptable number of civilian casualties and unbearable level of destruction across the country, making the situation of Lebanon – a country already ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-21 10:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Six Russian soldiers who fled the fighting in Ukraine have found refuge in France and hope to receive asylum, in a landmark case of Russian deserters being welcomed in an EU country as a group. The deserters, all of whom had reached France via Kazakhstan, told AFP in a series of interviews they hoped their actions would encourage other Russian ...