This is Beirut 18/04 12:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukraine's prime minister will visit Washington next week for talks with top US officials aimed at clinching a long-fraught minerals and resources deal by April 26, according to a memorandum released on Friday. Kyiv and Washington had planned to sign a deal on extracting Ukraine's strategic minerals weeks ago, but a clash between presidents Donald ...
This is Beirut 18/04 11:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said Washington needed to decide soon if an Ukraine truce was feasible, as he left Paris following meetings with European officials. He also said that European countries needed to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran as Tehran was not complying with a nuclear deal. "We need to figure out here ...
This is Beirut 18/04 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US Vice President JD Vance was in Rome Friday for talks with far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, before celebrating Easter at the Vatican and a meeting with the pope's right-hand man. Meloni shares conservative views with Vance and President Donald Trump, whom she met in Washington just a day before on a charm offensive aiming for a ...
This is Beirut 18/04 10:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Beijing on Friday denied giving any party in the Ukraine war lethal weapons, after President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed he had "information" that China was supplying arms to Russia. "The Chinese side has never provided lethal weapons to any party in the conflict, and strictly controls dual-use items," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian ...
This is Beirut 18/04 09:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni hit an optimistic note about a possible US-EU tariffs deal Thursday as the far-right Italian prime minister mounted a charm offensive at the White House. Casting herself as the only European who can de-escalate Trump's trade war, Meloni highlighted their conservative common ground and said she wanted to "make the ...
This is Beirut 18/04 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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France said talks Thursday between top US and European officials on the war in Ukraine had launched a "positive process", as Europe seeks to be included in efforts to end the three-year-old conflict. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio again pressed a US peace plan during the discussions in Paris. The meetings included French President Emmanuel ...
This is Beirut 18/04 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A US judge on Thursday ruled that Google illegally wielded monopoly power in the online ad technology market, in a legal blow that could rattle the tech giant's revenue engine. The federal government and more than a dozen US states filed the antitrust suit against Alphabet-owned Google, accusing it of acting illegally to dominate three sectors of ...
This is Beirut 18/04 09:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian strikes killed two people and wounded at least 27 others overnight in Kharkiv and Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, authorities said Friday. Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram that one person was killed and 26 injured in the city. "According to preliminary information, the strikes on Kharkiv were carried out by ballistic missiles ...
This is Beirut 18/04 05:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 58 people, Huthi rebels said Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks of Washington's renewed campaign against the Iran-backed group. The strikes also injured more than 100 people, according to a Huthi-run television station that broadcast footage of large blazes lighting up the night sky. The US ...
This is Beirut 18/04 05:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Republicans in the US Congress announced an investigation into Harvard University on Thursday, accusing it of flouting civil rights law in an escalation of President Donald Trump's attacks on elite institutions. The lawmakers wrote to the world-renowned education and research establishment demanding documents on its hiring practices, ...
This is Beirut 18/04 01:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hamas on Thursday signalled its rejection of Israel's latest truce proposal and called for a "comprehensive" deal to end the 18-month-long war. The Palestinian militants' chief negotiator spoke out after civil defence rescuers in Gaza said new Israeli air strikes killed at least 40 people, most of them in camps for displaced ...
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he doesn't hold Volodymyr Zelensky "responsible" for Russia's invasion of his country but continued to criticize the pro-Western Ukrainian leader. Trump has repeatedly made the false claim that Ukraine started the war and this week accused Zelensky of responsibility for "millions" of deaths. "I don't ...