This is Beirut 18/05 15:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV set the tone for his papacy Sunday with a call to stop exploiting nature and marginalizing the poor, before an audience including JD Vance and tens of thousands of pilgrims. Ten days after Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost became the first US head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, he celebrated his inaugural mass in St. Peter's ...
This is Beirut 18/05 14:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran and Azerbaijan have launched a joint special forces exercise, state media in the Islamic republic said Sunday, weeks after Iran's president visited the neighboring country. The "Aras-2025" exercise, running through May 21, involves Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Azerbaijani troops, the IRNA news agency ...
This is Beirut 18/05 05:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Climate Tornadoes
Severe storms that swept through the US states of Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia left more than 25 people dead, laying waste to local communities and cutting off electricity to nearly 200,000, authorities said Saturday. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on X at least 18 people had died in the storms Friday night, while local officials in ...
This is Beirut 17/05 19:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Morocco said Saturday it will reopen its embassy in Damascus, closed since 2012, signaling renewed support for Syria after the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The decision was announced in a letter from King Mohammed VI to Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, read by the Moroccan foreign minister at an Arab League summit in ...
This is Beirut 17/05 19:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelensky
US President Donald Trump said Saturday he would speak by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the "bloodbath" in Ukraine, a day after the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in more than three years. Trump, who has been pressing Russia to agree a 30-day unconditional ceasefire, said he would speak with ...
By Moncef Ait-Kaci 17/05 18:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
AI Artificial Intelligence Absolute Zero Reasoner China
What if an artificial intelligence no longer needed us to learn? No more relying on our data, our corrections, our examples? That’s the bold challenge taken on by a group of Chinese researchers with the development of Absolute Zero Reasoner (AZR). This system does not rely on any human database. It learns in complete autonomy, generating its ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 17/05 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Festival Cinema France Cannes 2025
Yet, there are the gowns. The flashbulbs. The practiced smiles and impeccable poses. But that’s only the surface. Beneath the glamour lies a quiet choreography, a visual language made of gestures and body language, whispered like a secret to those who know how to watch. Each appearance on the Croisette is a delicate balance between instinct and ...
This is Beirut 17/05 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Turkey Black Sea Recep Tayyip Erdogan Gas
Turkey has discovered a new natural gas reserve in the Black Sea that will meet its residential energy needs for more than three years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. "We have discovered 75 billion cubic meters (2,650 cubic feet) of new natural gas. With this amount, we will meet the needs of our homes alone for about 3.5 ...
This is Beirut 17/05 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Arab League Baghdad Declaration Iraq Gaza
Arab leaders urged the international community Saturday to fund their plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip after U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated a proposal to take over the Palestinian territory. An Arab League summit in Baghdad said in its final statement that it urges "countries and international and regional financial institutions to provide ...
This is Beirut 17/05 16:20 - Reading : less than a minute
A senior Hamas official said a new round of indirect negotiations with Israel aimed at ending the war in Gaza started in Doha "without any preconditions" on Saturday. "This round of negotiations began without any preconditions from either side, and the negotiations are open to discussing all issues," Taher al-Nunu said. "Hamas will present its ...
This is Beirut 17/05 15:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Spain Pedro Sanchez Arab League
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on Saturday for pressure to stop Israel's "massacre in Gaza" and said Madrid plans a UN resolution requesting a world court ruling on aid access to the Palestinian territory. Sanchez told an Arab League summit in Baghdad that the war triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel has led to ...
This is Beirut 17/05 15:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey United States Donald Trump Sanctions CAATSA
Turkey has seen an easing of US sanctions on its defense sector since Donald Trump became president, with steps towards ending the measure advancing quickly, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. "We can easily say that there is a softening in CAATSA," he told reporters while returning from a European summit, referring to US ...