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Macron Heads to Argentina to Sway Milei on Global Climate Stance

This is Beirut 2024-11-16 10:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in Argentina on Saturday to meet with libertarian President Javier Milei, an admirer of Donald Trump, in hopes of “reintegrating him” into the “international consensus” ahead of the G20 summit in Brazil. The French President is scheduled to arrive in Buenos Aires in the evening, where he will ...

Trump Picks Karoline Leavitt as New White House Press Secretary

This is Beirut 2024-11-16 10:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump's 27-year-old pick for White House press secretary, has had a meteoric rise since getting her break as a student assistant for Fox News during Trump’s 2016 campaign for the White House. After serving as an assistant press secretary during Trump's first stint as president, she is set to return as ...

Moon, Mars, and Musk: How Trump's Second Term Could Reshape NASA’s Space Ambitions

This is Beirut 2024-11-16 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Should NASA return to the Moon or go straight to Mars? Maintain its focus on climate science, or pivot away? President-elect Donald Trump's second term, alongside SpaceX CEO and new consigliere Elon Musk, could mark a Big Bang for the US space program. The brash billionaire duo share a knack for disruption and a hunger for making history — ...

Trump Names His Criminal Defense Lawyers to Top Justice Jobs

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 21:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his administration's legal team with veteran lawyers who defended him in his multiple criminal cases, following his stunning pick of former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be attorney general. Trump, the first former US president ever to be convicted of a crime, named Todd Blanche, his lawyer in his ...

Scholz Urges Ukraine Talks in First Call with Putin Since 2022

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 20:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks with Ukraine, in the first call between the two leaders in almost two years. In the call, Scholz "condemned Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and called on President Putin to end it and withdraw troops", the chancellor's spokesman ...

NGOs Report: Israel's Targeting of Gaza Police Facilitates Aid Looting

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Looting of aid reaching Gaza has been made easier by Israel's army targeting the local police which would otherwise be able to prevent it, a group of non-governmental organizations said Friday. A report by the 29 NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam and Care, said that humanitarian aid entering the Palestinian territory had fallen to an ...

Second Israeli Strike in Two Days Hits Damascus

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Friday, the second such attack in as many days to hit the neighborhood home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices. Attacks blamed on or claimed by Israel have intensified in Syria, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly ...

The JCPOA: The Iranian Nuclear Deal Dismissed Too Soon

Malo Pinatel 2024-11-15 17:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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On Wednesday evening, IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Tehran for talks on Iran’s nuclear activities. His visit, spanning several days, is no coincidence. With Trump’s expected return to the White House in early 2025, any hope of reviving negotiations seems increasingly unrealistic. Moreover, the simultaneous appointment of Marco Rubio as ...

French Court Orders Release of Lebanese Militant Held Since 1984

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 17:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said. The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves France, French ...

ExplainerDiabetes, a disease with a bitter taste

Alain E. Andrea 2024-11-15 16:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally elevated blood glucose levels. Often asymptomatic in its early stages, it primarily affects the vascular system. Inadequately managed chronic hyperglycemia leads to progressive damage to blood vessel walls, resulting in microangiopathy (pathological changes in small blood ...

IAEA Chief Tours Sensitive Iran Nuclear Plants

This is Beirut 2024-11-15 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The UN nuclear chief toured two Iranian uranium enrichment plants that have been the focus of Western concern on Friday after Tehran said it was ready to address "doubts" about its ambitions. The visit to Iran by International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi comes after he warned "the margins for manoeuvre are beginning to ...

AnalysisWhy Fear the New When We Know the Old?

Johnny Kortbawi 2024-11-15 15:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The idea of a "new Middle East" often takes on more weight than it deserves, as it is always associated with assumptions, fears, and troubling considerations as if this new Middle East is inherently an enemy of everything we know today. If we look back at World War I, when the concept of a "new Middle East" was first discussed before the ...