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AI May Boost Global Trade Value by Nearly 40%: WTO
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 15:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Artificial intelligence could boost the value of global trade by almost 40 percent by 2040 thanks to cost reductions and productivity gains, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday. In its latest annual World Trade Report, the WTO identified AI as one of the few bright spots as the global trading system has been upended by the United States ...
US Faces Pressure in UN Security Council Vote on Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United Nations Security Council is slated to vote Thursday on the latest call for a ceasefire and increased humanitarian access to Gaza, a move supported by a majority seeking to act despite repeated US vetoes. The 10 non-permanent members initiated discussions on the current draft resolution in late August, in response to the UN's ...
Macron: Recognition of Palestinian State Key to Isolating Hamas
This is Beirut 2025-09-19 00:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron insisted Thursday that recognizing a Palestinian state would isolate the militant group Hamas and reiterated his condemnation of Israel's devastating offensive in Gaza. "Recognising a Palestinian state is just deciding to say: 'The legitimate perspective of Palestinian people and what they suffer today has nothing ...
Netflix Bets on Spain to Repeat Money Heist Magic
This is Beirut 2025-09-19 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In a cavernous studio outside Madrid teeming with TV industry stars, Netflix is blending old knowledge with modern technology to try to concoct a successor to its global hit Money Heist. The dystopia Billionaires' Bunker, to be released on Friday and set in a gigantic underground fortress offering gyms, a garden and a fancy restaurant, is the US ...
Trump, Xi Report "Progress" on TikTok and Plan Meeting
This is Beirut 2025-09-19 20:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump hailed Friday what he called progress with Chinese President Xi Jinping, including on selling blockbuster app TikTok, and said he would visit the Asian power, which offered a more cautious assessment of their talks. The leaders of the world's two largest economies spoke by telephone for the second time since the return ...
NATO Intercepts Russian MiGs in Estonian Airspace as Tallinn Calls for Article 4 Talks
This is Beirut 2025-09-19 21:24 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Three Russian MiG-31 fighters violated Estonian airspace over the Gulf of Finland on Friday, Estonia said, triggering complaints of a dangerous new provocation from the EU and NATO. Italian F-35 fighters attached to NATO's air defense support mission in the Baltic states were scrambled to intercept the Russian jets and warn them off, Estonian ...
Trump's $100,000 Fee for H-1B visas, a Tech Industry Favorite, Concerns India
This is Beirut 2025-09-20 15:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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India's leading trade body said on Saturday it was concerned by a new annual $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump ordered for H-1B skilled worker visas, an addition that could have major repercussions for the tech industry, where such permits are widespread. The new measure, which will likely face legal challenges, was announced in ...
Zelensky Plans New Trump Meeting as Russia Intensifies Attacks
This is Beirut 2025-09-20 18:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he would meet his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly next week as Russia intensified deadly strikes across his country. Russia carried out one of its largest aerial attacks, firing 40 missiles and some 580 drones at Ukraine in a nighttime barrage that ...
Ethiopia Inaugurates Africa's Biggest Dam
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 12:51 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calling it a "great achievement for all black people" despite years of diplomatic rancour over the dam with downstream neighbour Egypt. For Ethiopia, the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD), straddling a tributary of the River ...
Vienna State Opera Celebrates Season with Free Gala Concert
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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No dress code, no stiff atmosphere, and no entry fees: Thousands flocked to a Viennese park Sunday as the Vienna State Opera opened its 2025-26 season with a star-studded open-air gala concert for the first time. The free, open-air concert was the state opera's latest effort to «open the house to all – especially new listeners», it said in a ...
Five Dead in Israeli Drone Attack on Southern Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-09-21 18:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Five people were killed and two others wounded on Sunday in an Israeli drone strike on Bint Jbeil, the latest in a string of attacks in south Lebanon in recent days. The strike which targeted a motorcycle, also hit a car that was passing by killing and wounding its passengers, a family of six. Three children are among the dead. According to Saudi ...
Trump Vows to End Crime in 'Most Dangerous City' Chicago
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 15:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to quickly resolve what he called "the crime problem" in Chicago, hinting at sending troops into what he branded the "most dangerous city in the world." "I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, referring to his deployment of National Guard ...
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Military Sites Near Damascus
This is Beirut 2025-08-27 23:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syrian media reported Wednesday that Israeli warplanes conducted multiple airstrikes in the Damascus countryside, targeting military facilities and headquarters. The strikes reportedly hit a Syrian forces headquarters in the Al-Kiswah area, as well as a military facility in Tal Mani', according to state outlets. Syrian Television, citing ...
UN Security Council to Vote Thursday on UNIFIL’s Future
This is Beirut 2025-08-28 09:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The UN Security Council is set to vote Thursday on the future of the blue helmet peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon, which has faced U.S. and Israeli opposition. The Panamanian presidency of the Council announced that the session, repeatedly postponed, will be held on Thursday. Some 10,800 peacekeepers have been acting as a buffer between ...
North Korea's Kim to Attend Military Parade in China Next Week
This is Beirut 2025-08-28 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will attend a huge military parade in China next week to mark 80 years since the end of World War II, both countries announced on Thursday. Some 26 leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, will also attend the parade that will showcase China's latest equipment and ...
Werner Herzog Honored with Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Film Festival
This is Beirut 2025-08-28 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Globetrotting filmmaker Werner Herzog, an eclectic risk-taker whose monumental works often explore humankind's conflict with nature, was honored with a special award on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival. The 82-year-old arthouse giant, who helped launch New German Cinema in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement ahead of ...
Trump Moves to Limit US Stays of Students, Journalists
This is Beirut 2025-08-28 11:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump's administration moved Thursday to impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country. Under a proposed change, foreigners would not be allowed to stay for more than four years on student visas in the United ...
Hope and Hate: How Migrant Influx has Changed Germany
This is Beirut 2025-08-29 13:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came during the huge migrant influx of 2015, when a million people arrived in a matter of months -- mostly from ...
Park Chan-Wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ Unveiled at Venice: A Dark Look at Capitalism”
This is Beirut 2025-08-29 20:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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It took 20 years for South Korean director Park Chan-wook to return to the Venice Film Festival and the same length of time for the veteran cineaste to make his latest film. The director of Old Boy, which thrust him into the international spotlight in 2004 after winning the Grand Prix at Cannes, will premiere his latest feature, No Other Choice ...
Guillermo del Toro Unleashes Epic Frankenstein at Venice
This is Beirut 2025-08-31 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gave birth to another monster Saturday, his big-budget Frankenstein movie, joking that the effort had left him worn out as his creation got its world premiere in Venice. The last creature he delivered here, the aquatic being in The Shape of Water, swam off with the festival's top prize in 2017 before going on ...
Solomonic Judgment
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-01 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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International issues are pending, and nothing seems to move toward negotiated solutions across Ukraine and the wide arc of conflicts extending through the Middle East. None of the actors is interested in peacemaking; on the contrary, these zones of active conflict tend to work in the best interests of countries vying for imperial conquests and ...
Argentine Cinema Shines at Venice Amidst Budget Cuts and Uncertainty
This is Beirut 2025-09-01 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Although Argentina has been underrepresented at recent international festivals due to government cuts to the sector, five Argentine films are on show at the Venice Film Festival, including Lucrecia Martel's documentary Nuestra Tierra (Our Land). Since President Javier Milei came to power in December 2023, his austerity measures have had a major ...
Star Power and Legacy Shine at Venice: "The Rock" and Kim Novak Share Spotlight
This is Beirut 2025-09-01 14:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was set to thunder into the Venice Film Festival on Monday, with the wrestler-actor appearing in a tailor-made role in Benny Safdie's latest movie The Smashing Machine. The 53-year-old will be the star attraction at one of Europe's most prestigious film festivals, which promotes independent arthouse movies alongside a ...
Cooling La Niña May Return in Coming Months
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The cooling La Niña weather phenomenon may return between September and November, but even if it does, temperatures are nonetheless expected to be above average, the United Nations said Tuesday. La Niña is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that cools surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. It brings ...
'Fortress' on Wheels: Kim Jong Un's Bulletproof Train
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 11:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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An olive-green North Korean train, emblazoned with a gold stripe, carried leader Kim Jong Un into China on Tuesday for a grand military parade that President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin will also attend. Since taking power in 2011, Kim has now made nine international trips and crossed the border into South Korea twice, using his ...
The Rock Stuns Venice With Heartfelt Turn In 'The Smashing Machine'
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said Monday he had turned his heavily muscled back on action movie roles to be able to express himself as an actor in his latest film The Smashing Machine, which premiered in Venice. The 53-year-old was the day's star attraction at the Venice Film Festival — his first appearance at a European festival — where he mixed ...
Kathryn Bigelow Ignites Venice with Explosive White House Thriller
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Kathryn Bigelow, is back at the Venice Film Festival Tuesday with a new White House thriller that Netflix hopes will find Oscar glory. The highly anticipated A House of Dynamite from the American director is one of 21 films competing for the top Golden Lion prize for best film on Saturday ...
UK Police Arrest Hundreds in Latest Palestine Action Demo
This is Beirut 2025-09-07 04:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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More than 400 people were arrested in London on Saturday during a tense protest in support of the Palestine Action group, which has been banned under terror laws, police said. Several hundred people demonstrated in front of the UK parliament, with some holding placards that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." The ...
Traces of Uranium Detected at Syrian Site Hit by Israel in 2007
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog detected uranium particles at a remote site in Syria that was bombed by Israel in 2007, reviving questions about whether the destroyed facility once housed a secret nuclear reactor. According to a confidential report shared with member states, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found a ...
Russia, China Move Closer to Building New Gas Pipeline
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Russia said Tuesday it had signed a legally binding agreement with China to build a new cross-border gas pipeline, the latest in a series of moves by the allies to bolster ties. The memorandum of understanding, aimed to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, was signed during a visit to China by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although the ...