This is Beirut 2025-09-09 09:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus USA Syria
Israeli air strikes hit areas of the central and western Syrian cities of Homs and Latakia late Monday, state news agency SANA reported. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that "the Israeli strike near Homs targeted a military unit south of the city." Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-09-09 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah United States
The Lebanese cabinet heard, on Friday, a presentation from Army Chief Rodolphe Haykal on a confidential plan to monopolize arms, as tasked by the government on August 5. The cabinet then issued a statement, and Information Minister Paul Morcos held a press conference. The vague responses left observers divided, with each side interpreting the ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France François Bayrou French National Assembly Confidence Vote
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Venezuela Nicolas Maduro United States Donald Trump
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he had deployed 25,000 troops along the Caribbean coast and the border with Colombia amid soaring tensions with US President Donald Trump. In a message Sunday night on social media, Maduro said he had deployed "25,000 men and women from our glorious National Bolivarian Armed Forces" to the frontier with ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 20:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told residents of Gaza City to evacuate, saying troops were being assembled to enter the Palestinian territory's main urban center. "In two days we brought down 50 terror towers, and this is only the opening stage of the intensified ground maneuver in Gaza City. I say to the residents: you have ...
Mario Chartouni 2025-09-08 19:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
UN Security Council Europe Iran nuclear snapback
At the end of August, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (the E3) officially triggered the snapback mechanism outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which governs the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). This unprecedented procedure in the multilateral system stipulates that all previous UN ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
BRICS United States Tariffs Donald Trump
Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and "tariff blackmail" during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump. The group of emerging economies met via videoconference at the initiative of Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose office ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 18:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States E. Jean Carroll US Court of Appeals
A US appeals court upheld Monday a jury's $83.3 million penalty against President Donald Trump for defaming author E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found to have sexually assaulted. The January 2024 order consisted of $65 million in punitive damages after the jury found Trump acted maliciously in his many public comments about Carroll, $7.3 ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 17:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Jerusalem Shooting
Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding several others. Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said there were six victims dead in the shooting attack, updating an earlier toll of four. Police said the two gunmen were also killed. MDA said seven other ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Spain Pedro Sanchez
Spain on Monday recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv after Israel's top diplomat accused premier Pedro Sanchez of antisemitism and barred two government ministers from entry, foreign ministry sources said. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares took the decision "in the face of the slanderous accusations against Spain and the unacceptable ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Washington Donald Trump
In Washington, Donald Trump said Israel had accepted his terms for an agreement. The US president promised a truce very soon, along with the release of hostages. He issued a final warning to Hamas to accept a ceasefire linked to this exchange. What comes next for Gaza? Details of the Proposed Agreement According to diplomatic sources in ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 11:30 - Reading : less than a minute
September 7 Lunar Eclipse: The Moon turned blood red – safe to watch with the naked eye! No special equipment needed, unlike solar eclipses. The next major celestial event is a solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.