This is Beirut 24/09 14:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A drone strike on a market in Sudan's besieged city of El-Fasher killed 15 people, a medical worker at the local hospital told AFP on Wednesday. The Tuesday strike "killed 15 citizens and wounded 12, three of them critically," the medic said, requesting anonymity for his safety. The local resistance committees, activists who coordinate aid and ...
This is Beirut 24/09 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Chad Militia Peace Government Gold
Chad's government has struck a peace deal with an armed group in the north of the country, ending years of conflict over gold deposits in the region, a mediator said on social media. It sees "the definitive return of peace in (the town of) Miski and the entire province of Tibesti", Ibrahim Edji Mahamat, who acted as a facilitator for talks, told ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 24/09 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
AMD Vision Retinal Degeneration Researchers US Science
Losing sight to a degenerative retinal disease, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or retinitis pigmentosa (RP), has long been seen as irreversible. For patients, existing therapies can only slow the disease’s progress but never restore vision. Yet, a 2022 study published in Science Advances challenged this assumption: disulfiram ...
This is Beirut 24/09 12:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Pakistan Saudi Arabia Nuclear Israel United States Russia
Pakistan has extended its nuclear umbrella to Saudi Arabia in a surprise defense agreement that could reshape strategic alliances in both the Middle East and South Asia. Signed in Riyadh on September 17 between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the treaty commits both countries to mutual ...
This is Beirut 24/09 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Donald Trump United States Vladimir Putin Russia Kremlin
The Kremlin on Wednesday said it had no choice but to continue its military offensive on Ukraine, as Moscow rejected US President Donald Trump's claim that Russia was a "paper tiger". The comments come a day after Trump said Ukraine could win back all of its territory from Russia, which he characterized as a "paper tiger" with a failing economy ...
This is Beirut 24/09 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Taiwan Typhoon Death China Hong Kong
At least 14 people were killed when a decades-old lake barrier burst in Taiwan, a government official said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rain. The lake in eastern Hualien County—formed by a series of landslides that created a natural dam wall—burst Tuesday, washing away a bridge and sweeping into a ...
This is Beirut 24/09 09:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States USA Sanctions Iran Persian carpets
Once a symbol of cultural prestige, Iran's handmade rugs are no longer selling as fast as they once did, as sanctions weigh on an already troubled economy and buyers' tastes change. Commanding more than $2 billion in export revenues in its heyday of the early 1990s, the industry now struggles to scrape together around $40 million, marking a ...
This is Beirut 24/09 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States UN China Climate
China's emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering -- if predictable -- broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil fuels. Some 118 nations will outline plans to curb global warming, which is driving disasters ...
This is Beirut 23/09 23:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Russia Ukraine
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could win back all of its territory from Russia and even go further, in a major pivot after meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky. The astonishing turnaround came shortly after Trump also called for NATO countries to shoot down any Russian jets that violate their airspace. "I think Ukraine, with ...
This is Beirut 23/09 22:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Assassination Attempt
A man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year was convicted by a federal jury on all counts Tuesday. Ryan Routh, 59, of Hawaii, appeared to try to stab himself in the neck with a pen after the guilty verdict was read in court, and court marshals had to restrain him, Fox News and NBC ...
This is Beirut 23/09 22:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ali Khamenei Iran Uranium Enrichment Iran Nuclear Program Hezbollah Lebanon
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday said the Islamic republic would not give in to pressure to abandon its enrichment of uranium. Khamenei, in a televised address, also called any talks with the United States a "dead end" that would be of no benefit to his country. His statement came as European powers seeking ...
This is Beirut 23/09 22:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
France Libya Nicolas Sarkozy Ziad Takieddine
A Paris court will rule this week whether former French president Nicolas Sarkozy accepted illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, after his key accuser died on Tuesday in Beirut. Thursday's verdict represents another critical juncture for Sarkozy, who denies the charges. The 70-year-old, who was president from 2007 ...