This is Beirut 21/02 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria would need more than 50 years to get back to its economic level before its devastating civil war at current growth rates, the United Nations said Thursday. "Fourteen years of conflict in Syria have undone nearly four decades of economic, social, and human capital progress," the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said. "At current growth ...
This is Beirut 21/02 12:17 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Israel said Friday that one of the bodies returned from Gaza is not that of Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, and accused Palestinian "terrorists" of killing her two boys who have become symbols of the hostages' ordeal. Thousands of mourning Israelis had observed a moment of silence Thursday in honour of four dead hostages returned ...
This is Beirut 21/02 11:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars? Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket. Late Wednesday, NASA abruptly ...
This is Beirut 21/02 09:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered an "intensive operation against centers of terrorism" in the occupied West Bank, his office said, after three buses exploded in central Israel without causing any reported injuries. Three devices detonated on buses in the city of Bat Yam on Thursday evening and two others were being ...
This is Beirut 21/02 04:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Elon Musk United States Politics
Elon Musk, who has bragged of putting US federal agencies "into the woodchipper" as he slashes government spending, paraded a chainsaw on stage before American conservatives celebrating President Donald Trump's return to power Thursday. Argentina's President Javier Milei -- who has used a chainsaw as a symbol of his own push to ...
This is Beirut 21/02 04:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Elon Musk attacked Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday, saying Ukrainians "despised" their president and that US leader Donald Trump was right to leave him out of talks with Russia aimed at ending the Ukraine war. The comments by the tech tycoon, who is leading Trump's huge US government overhaul, came as the White House told Zelensky to ...
This is Beirut 20/02 22:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli police said that explosions rocked several buses in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam on Thursday evening in what they described as a “suspected terror attack,” without giving any immediate reports of injuries. “Preliminary reports suspected a terror attack. Multiple reports have been received of explosions involving ...
This is Beirut 20/02 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron USA Volodymyr Zelensky Europe
President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France was entering a "new era" and that he planned to tell US President Donald Trump he could not "be weak" with Vladimir Putin. Macron spoke to the French ahead of a planned visit to the White House to meet Trump next week, as Europe scrambles to respond to his Ukraine war ...
Tylia El Helou 20/02 21:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon Hezbollah USA Israel Lebanese Army
In an exclusive interview, Dr. Matthew Levitt, the Director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, explained how the Lebanese Army exceeded Washington’s expectations in its deployment in South Lebanon. He also explained that Lebanon and Israel should start discussing peace ...
This is Beirut 20/02 21:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Israel Palestine
Hamas on Thursday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "procrastinating" on negotiations for the second phase of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, after Palestinian militants returned the bodies of four deceased hostages to Israel. "The second phase negotiations have not practically begun, and we are ready to engage in them as ...
This is Beirut 20/02 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel's national forensic centre said Thursday that it was still working to identify the bodies of three hostages returned earlier in the day by Hamas, after verifying the identity of a fourth. "We have been working since this morning to provide definitive answers to the families. The staff of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine ...
This is Beirut 20/02 13:00 - Reading : less than a minute
On Thursday, Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages – including Shiri Bibas and her two young children – to the Red Cross. This marks the first transfer of remains since the October 7 attack that triggered the conflict. Armed and masked Hamas fighters displayed the four black coffins on a stage set up in Khan Yunis, each ...