Middle East
US Vice President Vance in Israel to Shore up Gaza Deal
This is Beirut 21/10 14:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US Vice President JD Vance landed in Israel on Tuesday to shore up a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, after President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breached the truce. Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were already in Tel Aviv, where they met Israeli hostages released by Hamas ...
VideosSyria: 12 Million Captagon Pills Seized
This is Beirut 21/10 13:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Nearly 12 million Captagon pills were seized in Al-Dumayr, near Damascus. The smuggling ring leader was arrested and the drugs will be destroyed. Despite ongoing crackdowns, Captagon – Syria’s main export during the civil war – continues to flood the region.
France's Former President Sarkozy Jailed, Proclaiming his Innocence
This is Beirut 21/10 12:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. France's right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012 was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Moammar Kadhafi's Libya for the campaign that saw him elected. AFP ...
Russia Downplays Swift Meeting to Prepare for Trump-Putin Summit
This is Beirut 21/10 11:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Moscow on Tuesday doused hopes of a swift meeting of the Russian and US foreign ministers to prepare for a speedy summit between their leaders over the Ukraine war. Following a phone call last week, the Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump announced they would meet in Budapest for talks on resolving the war in Ukraine, which ...
Drone Attack Hits Khartoum Airport Area Ahead of Reopening
This is Beirut 21/10 11:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A drone attack struck the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport early Tuesday, witnesses said, one day before the army-backed government was due to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. The airport has been shut since fighting erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid ...
Israel says Remains of Another Hostage Returned from Gaza Identified
This is Beirut 21/10 09:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel said Tuesday that remains of a hostage held in Gaza, returned by Hamas a day earlier, had been identified as those of Tal Chaimi, a non-commissioned officer killed on October 7, 2023. "Following the completion of the identification process... representatives of (the army) informed the family of the hostage, Sergeant Major Tal Chaimi, ...
Internet Services Cut for Hours by Amazon Cloud Outage
This is Beirut 21/10 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Popular internet services ranging from streaming platforms to messaging services to banking were offline for hours Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network, illustrating the extent to which internet life depends on the tech titan. The disruption affected streaming platforms, including Amazon's Prime Video service and Disney+, as ...
China Hawk Takaichi Named Japan's First Woman PM
This is Beirut 21/10 09:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Japan got its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an 11th-hour coalition deal. Japan's fifth premier in as many years will lead a minority government and has a bulging in-tray, not least a scheduled visit by US President Donald Trump next week. The lower house of parliament ...
Trump Warns Hamas not to Breach Gaza Deal as Vance Heads to Israel
This is Beirut 21/10 09:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump threatened to "eradicate" Hamas if it breached its ceasefire deal with Israel, as Vice President JD Vance travelled to the region Tuesday to bolster the fragile Gaza truce. The Trump administration has redoubled its efforts to cement the fragile Gaza peace agreement it helped to broker, after Israel accused ...
Israel Says Forces Received Hostage Body from Red Cross in Gaza
This is Beirut 20/10 21:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel said it had received on Monday the remains of another Gaza hostage handed over as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal. "Israel has received, through the Red Cross, the coffin of a missing hostage who was handed over to the [Israeli military] and Shin Bet forces inside the Gaza Strip," a statement from the prime minister's ...
Bolivia's President-Elect Says Will Resume Ties with US after Nearly Two Decades
This is Beirut 20/10 21:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Bolivia's new center-right president-elect said Monday he would seek to reinstate diplomatic ties with the United States that were broken off nearly two decades ago under leftist ex-leader Evo Morales. "In the specific case of the United States... that relationship will be resumed," economist-turned-senator Rodrigo Paz, 58, told reporters after ...