This is Beirut 25/06 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
James Webb Space Telescope Exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in the Earth's galactic backyard. The telescope, which can see farther into the universe than anything before it, has turbocharged the search for planets beyond the Solar System since coming ...
Rayan Chami 25/06 18:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Mozambique Smart Glasses Visually Impaired
Once dependent on others, a visually impaired man in Mozambique regains independence thanks to a local student’s innovative smart glasses.
Bélinda Ibrahim 25/06 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Blood Types France Ghadeloupe Ethnicity Gwada Negative
This global first concerns a 54-year-old French woman living in Paris. Her unique immunohematological profile, named “Gwada negative” in tribute to her Caribbean roots, has just been officially recognized as the 48th human blood group system by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) under the scientific designation PIGZ. It all ...
This is Beirut 25/06 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria's interior ministry said Wednesday a former air force officer who is under British and EU sanctions had been detained, the latest such arrest announcement since longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad's ouster. Authorities in the Harasta area outside Damascus "arrested the criminal pilot Major General Meezar Sawan," the ministry said in a ...
This is Beirut 25/06 17:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would hold talks with Iran next week, with a possible agreement on the table about Tehran's nuclear program. "We're going to talk to them next week with Iran; we may sign an agreement, I don't know," said Trump. In a press conference delivered from the NATO ...
This is Beirut 25/06 17:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's defence minister on Wednesday designated Iran's central bank a "terror organization," saying the move was aimed at halting financing for Iran-backed militant groups the day after a ceasefire between the two foes took hold. Minister Israel Katz "signed a special order designating Iran's central bank, two ...
This is Beirut 25/06 16:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday lamented a “very difficult day” following the deaths of seven Israeli soldiers in one of the deadliest incidents for Israel in over 20 months of war in Gaza. “This is a very difficult day for the people of Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on X. “Our heroic fighters fell ...
David Hale 25/06 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran United States USA Donald Trump
While most international media are focused on what will happen today or this week between America and Iran, the real story is much bigger—the complete turning of the tables on Iran. While the headlines focus on whether Trump's ceasefire will hold, too many commentators are losing sight of the fact that Iran is trying to surrender (without ...
This is Beirut 25/06 14:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Trump nuclear sites
The United States took military action against Iran's nuclear program, on Saturday, June 21, and carried out strikes that caused “extremely severe damage” to three of Iran's nuclear facilities. Here’s what we know about how the “Midnight Hammer” operation unfolded. The #UnitedStates took military action against #Iran's ...
This is Beirut 25/06 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nikol Pashinyan Armenia Azerbaijan
Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday said security forces had foiled a coup plot involving a senior cleric, amid his escalating standoff with the leadership of the powerful Apostolic Church. Pashinyan has been at loggerheads with senior clerics since 2020, when Catholicos Garegin II began calling for his resignation following ...
This is Beirut 25/06 13:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Turkey Donald Trump Middle East Iran
As the fragile Iran-Israel truce took hold, there was no letup in Turkey's diplomatic efforts Wednesday to prevent any return to a conflict fraught with risk for Ankara's domestic and regional policies. Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met him for talks on the sidelines of a ...
This is Beirut 25/06 12:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump USA Iran Nuclear
President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that US strikes led to the “total obliteration” of Iran's nuclear capabilities and set the country's atomic program back “decades”, while Israel said it was still early to fully assess the damage. Over a 12-day conflict, Israel pounded Iranian nuclear and military sites ...