This Is Beirut 27/02 16:20 - Reading : less than a minute
India Beers Female Beer Brewers
In an India where female drinkers are often stigmatized, Lynette Pires proudly asserts her place in this largely male-dominated sector.
This Is Beirut 27/02 14:40 - Reading : less than a minute
Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Israeli forces were "staying indefinitely" in a buffer zone on the border with Lebanon, adding that their deployment there was "situation-dependent." "There is a buffer zone (on the border with Lebanon); it wasn't easy, but I stood my ground, and we received a green light from the United States. ...
This is Beirut 27/02 12:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Intuitive Machines, the first private company to successfully complete a lunar landing, has launched its second probe to the Moon. Liftoff took place in Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, on the 26th of February.
This is Beirut 27/02 12:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian and US officials met in Istanbul on Thursday for talks on resolving embassy issues as the two countries aimed to restore ties, Russian news agencies reported. The talks are being held at the US consul general's residence and come after this month's first high-level meeting between the two nuclear powers since the start of Russia's Ukraine ...
This is Beirut 27/02 11:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pope Francis, battling pneumonia in both lungs, slept well and is resting, the Vatican said Thursday, after revealing the 88-year-old's condition was slightly improving. The pontiff, who had part of one of his lungs removed as a young man, has suffered increasing health problems in recent years. He was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on ...
This is Beirut 27/02 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet Donald Trump on Thursday to plead for a US backstop to any Ukraine ceasefire, insisting it would be the only way to stop Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading again. Starmer arrived in Washington late Wednesday to build on a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, amid growing concerns in Europe ...
This is Beirut 27/02 09:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, authorities said Wednesday, marking the first US fatality from the highly contagious disease in nearly a decade as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed a growing outbreak. The death comes as immunization rates decline nationwide, with the latest cases concentrated in a Mennonite ...
This is Beirut 27/02 09:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States has dramatically cut the budgets of overseas development and aid programs, with multi-year contracts pared down by 92 percent, or $54 billion, the State Department said Wednesday. On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding a freeze on all US foreign aid for 90 days. The pause aimed ...
This is Beirut 27/02 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey's leading pro-Kurd party said it was expecting a "historic declaration" Thursday from the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, amid efforts to end a decades-long conflict with Ankara. The pro-Kurdish DEM party will send a delegation Thursday to meet Ocalan at his prison on an island off Istanbul, it said in ...
This is Beirut 27/02 09:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Thursday, shortly after saying Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over coffins believed to contain the bodies of four hostages. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israel had received the coffins of "four fallen hostages", and a process to formally identify them had ...
Salam El Zaatari 27/02 09:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
There’s an old rule in business: if you keep doing favors for people, they’ll come to expect it, and stop doing the work themselves. That, in a nutshell, is what America’s foreign policy shift under President Donald Trump looks like. For decades, US allies in Europe and the Middle East have operated under a comfortable assumption: when ...
Marc Saikali 27/02 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, everything has accelerated. Geopolitical time has sped up. The Middle East, Ukraine... all fronts are moving rapidly. As if by magic, Donald Trump managed to make the Slavic enemies utter the words “ceasefire” to halt the senseless slaughter after three years of unprecedented violence, reminiscent of the ...