This is Beirut 13/01 09:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and the nerves to flash point." The windstorms occur when cold air gathers in the neighboring states of Nevada and Utah. As it moves west and then rushes down California's mountains, it heats up -- and ...
This is Beirut 12/01 21:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Twelve people were killed and over 100 injured in an explosion at a natural gas refilling facility in the Yemeni rebel-held Al-Bayda province, two officials told AFP on Sunday. "Twelve people from Al-Bayda died and there are more than 100 injured" in an explosion on Saturday at the storage facility of a refilling station in the Al-Zaher area, the ...
This is Beirut 12/01 21:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Donald Trump Hamas Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with outgoing US President Joe Biden on Sunday, updating him on progress in negotiations to reach a hostage release deal in Gaza. A readout from Biden's office confirmed the call and said that the president "stressed the immediate need for a ceasefire in Gaza and return of the hostages with a surge ...
This is Beirut 12/01 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Days after an inferno razed Pacific Palisades, Maya Lieberman is desperate to find somewhere to live. But unscrupulous landlords who are jacking up prices are making it hard. "The price gouging is going haywire, it's obscene," the 50-year-old stylist told AFP. "I can't find anywhere for us to go." Huge fires that have torn through Los Angeles ...
This is Beirut 12/01 16:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Damascus European Union
Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for the lifting of sanctions on Syria after meetings with top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe that focused on the war-ravaged country's future. The Gulf kingdom, the region's biggest economy, is seeking to increase its influence in Syria after Islamist-led rebels toppled longtime ruler Bashar ...
This is Beirut 12/01 16:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Direct flights between Rome and Tripoli resumed on Sunday after a 10-year hiatus, with Italy's foreign ministry citing a "concerted effort" to strengthen ties with its former colony Libya. Italy's flag carrier ITA Airways on Sunday announced it had launched its first commercial flight between Tripoli's Mitiga airport and ...
This is Beirut 12/01 15:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia on Sunday claimed the capture of two villages in eastern Ukraine where its forces have been steadily advancing for months. The defense ministry said the southern group of forces had captured the village of Yantarne in the eastern Donetsk region, around 10 kilometres (six miles) southwest of Kurakhove, a key logistics hub that Moscow ...
This is Beirut 12/01 13:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The multiple fires that have been raging in Los Angeles for the past five days have claimed at least 16 lives, and spread to previously unscathed areas on Saturday. Besieged by flames since Tuesday, the American megalopolis continues to count its dead: the death toll, which had hitherto stood at 11, rose on Saturday evening Despite huge ...
This is Beirut 12/01 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States US Congress USA
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said Saturday in a court filing. "The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the ...
This is Beirut 12/01 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran has expanded military drills to cover two additional nuclear facilities in the west and centre of the country, state media reported on Sunday. The drills -- dubbed Eqtedar, or "might" in Farsi -- began last week and are set to continue until mid-March. They involve the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ideological ...
This is Beirut 11/01 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Palestine Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu United Nations Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a delegation of senior officials to Qatar for negotiations on a hostage release and Gaza ceasefire deal, which remains plagued by deadly clashes. Netanyahu held a meeting in Jerusalem with US president-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, a representative of current US President ...
This is Beirut 11/01 16:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Sudanese military and allied armed groups launched an offensive Saturday on key Al-Jazira state capital Wad Madani, entering the city after more than a year of paramilitary control, the army said. The armed forces "congratulated" the Sudanese people in a statement on "our forces entering the city of Wad Madani this ...