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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 ...
This is Beirut 12:10 - 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 ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 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 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 ...
This is Beirut 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Israel Middle East Mohammed bin Salman Donald Trump
The United States and Saudi Arabia announced a series of significant agreements spanning civil nuclear cooperation, advanced weapons sales, and strategic defense coordination during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s high-profile visit to the White House. The meetings marked the Saudi leader’s first official White House visit in more than ...
This is Beirut 18/11 21:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Steve Witkoff
President Volodymyr Zelensky will head to Turkey on Wednesday seeking to revive the United States' involvement in diplomatic efforts to end the Russian invasion, a Ukrainian official told AFP. Zelensky said he wanted to reinvigorate frozen peace talks, which have faltered after several rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul this year ...
Tylia El Helou 18/11 20:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Lebanon Hezbollah United States U.S. Treasury Sanctions
Lebanon is facing mounting diplomatic backlash after the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) extended state and donor-funded disability benefits to the thousands of Hezbollah fighters wounded in Israel’s September 2024 operation targeting Hezbollah’s communication devices. What the ministry described as a humanitarian exemption is now being ...
This is Beirut 18/11 18:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Services from Cloudflare, a software company that supports thousands of websites, including X, Spotify, and OpenAI, on Tuesday reported a crash in one of its software systems, according to a report in the New York Times. Cloudflare, which provides tools to secure and manage internet traffic for websites, reported earlier in the day that it was ...
This is Beirut 18/11 18:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Gulf Israel Middle East Palestine
Donald Trump received Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Tuesday with full protocol honors, marking his first visit to Washington since 2018. The U.S. president and the de facto leader of the Saudi kingdom made multiple announcements during a joint press conference, covering massive investments, the sale of advanced weaponry, and ...
This is Beirut 18/11 17:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Trial Syria alawite Bashar al-Assad massacre
The trial of fourteen people opened this Wednesday in Aleppo for their alleged role in the March 2025 massacres against the Alawite community. These attacks left more than 1,400 people dead, mostly civilians. Among the defendants: seven supporters of Bashar al-Assad and seven members of the new Islamist authorities.
This is Beirut 18/11 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Enigma M4 Science Alan Turing cipher machine Christie's World War II
The auction of an Enigma M4 cipher machine at Christie's today is more than a landmark for collectors of rare artifacts. It represents a unique intersection of military history, cryptanalysis, and the birth of modern computing. This device is both a weapon of war and a witness to the extraordinary intellectual achievement that unlocked state ...
This is Beirut 18/11 15:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel West Bank Hamas Palestine
One person was killed and three were wounded in a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli emergency services said. Paramedics and an army medical force "established the death of a man aged 30 with a stab wound and referred three injured people" to two Jerusalem hospitals, Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's equivalent of the ...