This is Beirut 19/11 23:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine has received a new peace proposal from the United States, which requires Kyiv to cede land controlled by Russia and more than halve its army's size, a senior official briefed on the proposal told AFP on Wednesday. The plan appears to repeat Russia's maximalist terms, demands consistently rejected by Ukraine as tantamount to ...
This is Beirut 19/11 22:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Saudi Arabia USA Sudan MBS
US President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to end Sudan's grinding civil war at the request of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, condemning "tremendous atrocities". Trump said that the devastating civil war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was "not on my charts" before de facto Saudi ...
Moncef Ait-Kaci 19/11 21:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA China Pacific Japan Taiwan
The Statement That Sparked the Storm It began with a brief remark. On November 7, speaking to Japanese lawmakers, Sanae Takaichi warned that military action against Taiwan could threaten “Japan’s survival” and urged consideration of the “worst-case scenario.” Her comments quickly crossed the Taiwan Strait. Beijing responded almost ...
Paul Guillot 19/11 21:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump Saudi Arabia MBS USA Deals
The Saudi crown prince, welcomed to a lavish ceremony at the White House, revealed that the initial six hundred billion dollars in mega-deals would expand to nearly one trillion dollars, aiming to support Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and reinforce strategic ties with the United States. Donald Trump, emphasizing his business deal skills, hailed the ...
This is Beirut 19/11 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Iran Nuclear Program IAEA Rafael Grossi
The head of the UN nuclear agency on Wednesday renewed his call for Iran to allow inspections at key nuclear sites attacked by Israel and the United States in June. Tensions between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly flared in recent years and were further inflamed after a 12-day war in June that saw Israeli ...
This is Beirut 19/11 18:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Syria Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday told Israeli troops deployed in Syria in a buffer zone intended to separate the two countries' forces that their presence was hugely important for safeguarding Israel. When Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in December last year, Israel sent troops into the UN-patrolled ...
This is Beirut 19/11 16:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Steve Witkoff Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine Turkey United States
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff will not attend talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Zelensky will meet Erdogan in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Wednesday afternoon, where he said they would "discuss the best ways to ensure Ukraine achieves a just ...
This is Beirut 19/11 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Romania Drones Russia NATO
NATO member Romania, bordering Ukraine, scrambled fighter jets early on Wednesday after a fresh drone incursion, the defense ministry said, while neighboring Moldova also reported that its airspace was breached. Romania and Moldova have repeatedly seen violations of their airspaces, including drone fragments falling onto their soil, following ...
This is Beirut 19/11 15:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Kingdom Vladimir Putin Russia Ship
The UK government warned the Kremlin on Wednesday after saying a Russian military ship had entered British waters and directed lasers at UK pilots. Defense Secretary John Healey told reporters in London that the ship had "entered" UK waters for the second time this year, following an earlier incursion back in January. "The Yantar is on the edge ...
This is Beirut 19/11 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An EU court on Wednesday rejected an Amazon challenge against the bloc's digital content law, confirming that the tech giant must comply with its strict rules. Amazon was seeking to overturn its designation as a "very large online platform," which is subject to tougher rules than smaller players under the European Union's behemoth Digital ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 19/11 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Capsula Mundi Death Tree Italy
What if, after death, we could become a source of life for the planet? This idea is no longer a myth or a poetic dream. It is now taking shape through Capsula Mundi, literally “the capsule of the world” in Italian, a project by designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel that challenges our deepest assumptions about human finitude. Since 2003, ...
This is Beirut 19/11 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Roblox Technology Gaming Face recognition
Gaming giant Roblox Corp. says it will roll out compulsory facial recognition or ID checks from next month for players wanting to access its chat features. It aims to stop under-nines from chatting without parental consent and to curb conversations between adults and minors online by placing users into six age bands ranging from under-nines to ...