VideosSyrian Jews Pray Once Again in Damascus Synagogue
This is Beirut 21/02 18:20 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra led a prayer in Damascus, marking a rare gathering for Syria's Jewish community.
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When Sora Takes the Camera
Moncef Ait-Kaci 21/02 18:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Technology takes another leap forward as artificial intelligence reinvents the rules of creation. Sora is ushering in a new era—that of fully AI-driven video generation. The developers chose this name in reference to the Japanese word "sora," which means "sky," to evoke boundless creative potential. Previously reserved for a select group of ...
Op-edWhat Should America Do About Syria?
David Hale 21/02 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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While Lebanese are focused intently on developments in Syria, the topic is absent in Washington. Yet what is happening there is one of the landmark geo-strategic developments of the Middle East of our times, the demise of a long-standing problematic regime for America and its friends and part and parcel of the reversal of fortunes of a major ...
VideosIraqi Brick Workers Risk Health, Life to Keep Families Afloat
This is Beirut 21/02 16:05 - Reading : less than a minute
Behind every brick, Iraqis struggle for survival in a country where poverty imposes daily challenges.
UN Says Syria Economic Recovery could take Half a Century
This is Beirut 21/02 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria would need more than 50 years to get back to its economic level before its devastating civil war at current growth rates, the United Nations said Thursday. "Fourteen years of conflict in Syria have undone nearly four decades of economic, social, and human capital progress," the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said. "At current growth ...
Israel Says Hostage Body Returned by Hamas not Bibas Mother
This is Beirut 21/02 12:17 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Israel said Friday that one of the bodies returned from Gaza is not that of Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, and accused Palestinian "terrorists" of killing her two boys who have become symbols of the hostages' ordeal. Thousands of mourning Israelis had observed a moment of silence Thursday in honour of four dead hostages returned ...
Moon or Mars? NASA's Future at a Crossroads under Trump
This is Beirut 21/02 11:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars? Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket. Late Wednesday, NASA abruptly ...
Netanyahu Orders 'Intensive' West Bank Operations after Israel Bus Blasts
This is Beirut 21/02 09:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered an "intensive operation against centers of terrorism" in the occupied West Bank, his office said, after three buses exploded in central Israel without causing any reported injuries. Three devices detonated on buses in the city of Bat Yam on Thursday evening and two others were being ...
Musk With a Chainsaw on Stage Before American Conservatives
This is Beirut 21/02 04:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Elon Musk, who has bragged of putting US federal agencies "into the woodchipper" as he slashes government spending, paraded a chainsaw on stage before American conservatives celebrating President Donald Trump's return to power Thursday. Argentina's President Javier Milei -- who has used a chainsaw as a symbol of his own push to ...
Elon Musk Slams "Despised" Volodymyr Zelensky
This is Beirut 21/02 04:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Elon Musk attacked Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday, saying Ukrainians "despised" their president and that US leader Donald Trump was right to leave him out of talks with Russia aimed at ending the Ukraine war. The comments by the tech tycoon, who is leading Trump's huge US government overhaul, came as the White House told Zelensky to ...
Israel: Explosions Hit Several Buses in Tel Aviv, Police Suspect Terrorist Attack
This is Beirut 20/02 22:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli police said that explosions rocked several buses in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam on Thursday evening in what they described as a “suspected terror attack,” without giving any immediate reports of injuries. “Preliminary reports suspected a terror attack. Multiple reports have been received of explosions involving ...
Macron to Tell Trump: "You Can't Be Weak with Putin" Ahead of US Visit
This is Beirut 20/02 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France was entering a "new era" and that he planned to tell US President Donald Trump he could not "be weak" with Vladimir Putin. Macron spoke to the French ahead of a planned visit to the White House to meet Trump next week, as Europe scrambles to respond to his Ukraine war ...