This is Beirut 09/09 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Surrounded by thousands of objects bearing the likeness of Nintendo's mustachioed plumber, 40-year-old Kikai reflects that his "life would be totally different without Mario" who also marks four decades this week. The colorful "Super Mario Bros.", released for Nintendo's home consoles in Japan on September 13, 1985, was a landmark of early video ...
This is Beirut 09/09 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet on Tuesday with United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in Egypt, the first such meeting since Tehran suspended cooperation with the agency two months ago. "During a trip to Cairo, a meeting will be held with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency to conclude ...
This is Beirut 09/09 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
This is Beirut 09/09 09:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gold climbed to a fresh all-time high in Asian trading on Tuesday, reaching $3,654 an ounce around 02:30 GMT. The yellow metal is reaffirming its role as a safe-haven asset, buoyed by expectations of U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts, inflation concerns, and political uncertainty in France and Japan. “Gold provides the clearest expression of ...
This is Beirut 09/09 09:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus USA Syria
Israeli air strikes hit areas of the central and western Syrian cities of Homs and Latakia late Monday, state news agency SANA reported. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that "the Israeli strike near Homs targeted a military unit south of the city." Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 09/09 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah United States
The Lebanese cabinet heard, on Friday, a presentation from Army Chief Rodolphe Haykal on a confidential plan to monopolize arms, as tasked by the government on August 5. The cabinet then issued a statement, and Information Minister Paul Morcos held a press conference. The vague responses left observers divided, with each side interpreting the ...
This is Beirut 08/09 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France François Bayrou French National Assembly Confidence Vote
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
This is Beirut 08/09 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Venezuela Nicolas Maduro United States Donald Trump
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he had deployed 25,000 troops along the Caribbean coast and the border with Colombia amid soaring tensions with US President Donald Trump. In a message Sunday night on social media, Maduro said he had deployed "25,000 men and women from our glorious National Bolivarian Armed Forces" to the frontier with ...
This is Beirut 08/09 20:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told residents of Gaza City to evacuate, saying troops were being assembled to enter the Palestinian territory's main urban center. "In two days we brought down 50 terror towers, and this is only the opening stage of the intensified ground maneuver in Gaza City. I say to the residents: you have ...
Mario Chartouni 08/09 19:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
UN Security Council Europe Iran nuclear snapback
At the end of August, the United Kingdom, France and Germany (the E3) officially triggered the snapback mechanism outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which governs the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). This unprecedented procedure in the multilateral system stipulates that all previous UN ...
This is Beirut 08/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
BRICS United States Tariffs Donald Trump
Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and "tariff blackmail" during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump. The group of emerging economies met via videoconference at the initiative of Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose office ...
This is Beirut 08/09 18:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States E. Jean Carroll US Court of Appeals
A US appeals court upheld Monday a jury's $83.3 million penalty against President Donald Trump for defaming author E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found to have sexually assaulted. The January 2024 order consisted of $65 million in punitive damages after the jury found Trump acted maliciously in his many public comments about Carroll, $7.3 ...