Pierre Daccache 28/02 13:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Residents of Sanaa make their final pre-Ramadan purchases in a market in the old city, while the number of shoppers is lower than last year.
This is Beirut 28/02 09:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump United States Washington
China on Friday vowed to take "all necessary countermeasures" after US President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports. Trump's latest move is due to enter effect on Tuesday alongside sweeping 25 percent levies on Canadian and Mexican imports, intensifying a brewing trade war between ...
This is Beirut 28/02 05:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Mexico Donald Trump War on drugs
Mexico on Thursday extradited some of its most notorious imprisoned drug lords to the United States in a bid to avert sweeping tariffs, including a cartel kingpin wanted for decades over the murder of a US undercover agent. Rafael Caro Quintero, who allegedly ordered the kidnap, torture and killing of DEA special agent Enrique "Kiki" ...
This is Beirut 27/02 23:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel Car ramming Terror attack
Israeli police said a Palestinian man rammed a car into a bus stop in the north of the country on Thursday, wounding 13 civilians in an incident they were treating as a "terror" attack. "At 16:17 today, Israel Police's emergency dispatch received reports of a ramming attack at Karkur Junction, where a vehicle struck multiple civilians waiting at ...
This is Beirut 27/02 23:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
SDF Mazloum Abdi PKK Abdullah Ocalan
The leader of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday welcomed a call by jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan for the Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and disband. "We see this initiative in a positive light because it is about peace here," Mazloum Abdi said. The SDF is dominated by the Kurdish People's ...
This is Beirut 27/02 22:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel Hamas Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu
An internal Israeli army investigation into Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack released on Thursday acknowledged the military's "complete failure" to prevent the deadly assault, saying that for years it had underestimated the group's capabilities. The attack, which left hundreds of Israelis dead, sparked a devastating war in Gaza, which killed tens ...
This is Beirut 27/02 21:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Keir Starmer United States United Kingdom Ukraine Russia
Donald Trump said he trusted Russia's Vladimir Putin to stick to any Ukraine ceasefire Thursday, as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer tried to win security guarantees for Kyiv - with the help of a royal invitation to visit Britain. Trump struck a friendly tone as he and Starmer met in Washington and even walked back a comment about Ukrainian ...
This is Beirut 27/02 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Tariffs China Canada Mexico
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would impose an added 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports while moving ahead with levies on Canada and Mexico next week, citing "unacceptable" fentanyl smuggling. Trump had announced – then halted – sweeping 25 percent levies on Canadian and Mexican imports this month over illegal immigration ...
This is Beirut 27/02 16:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
PKK Abdullah Ocalan Turkey Kurds
Jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday called for his Kurdish militant group to lay down its weapons and dissolve itself in a landmark declaration read out in Istanbul. "All groups must lay down their arms and PKK must dissolve itself," he said in a declaration drawn up in his cell on Imrali prison island where he has been held in ...
This Is Beirut 27/02 16:20 - Reading : less than a minute
India Beers Female Beer Brewers
In an India where female drinkers are often stigmatized, Lynette Pires proudly asserts her place in this largely male-dominated sector.
This Is Beirut 27/02 14:40 - Reading : less than a minute
Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Israeli forces were "staying indefinitely" in a buffer zone on the border with Lebanon, adding that their deployment there was "situation-dependent." "There is a buffer zone (on the border with Lebanon); it wasn't easy, but I stood my ground, and we received a green light from the United States. ...
This is Beirut 27/02 12:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Intuitive Machines, the first private company to successfully complete a lunar landing, has launched its second probe to the Moon. Liftoff took place in Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, on the 26th of February.