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Canonization of Ignatius Maloyan at the Vatican in the Presence of President Aoun
This is Beirut 2025-10-19 14:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun and First Lady Naamat Aoun attended the solemn Mass during which Blessed Bishop Ignatius Maloyan, of the Armenian Catholic Church, was proclaimed a saint on the altars of the Catholic Church. The ceremony, celebrated on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, was presided over by Pope Leo XIV in the ...
Trump to Meet Zelensky after Announcing Putin Summit
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Donald Trump at the White House Friday, seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president reaches out to Russia's Vladimir Putin for a fresh summit. Zelensky will be making his third trip to Washington since Trump returned to office, following a disastrous televised shouting match in ...
US Vice President JD Vance to Visit Israel as Trump Administration Pushes Gaza Ceasefire Implementation
This is Beirut 2025-10-18 20:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Palestine Ceasefire White House
US Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Israel on Monday as part of efforts by the Trump administration to accelerate the implementation of the agreement ending the recent Gaza war, Axios reported Friday, citing US and Israeli sources. While US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was initially expected to lead the delegation, the White House ...
Araujo Strikes Late as Barca Snatch Win Over Girona
This is Beirut 2025-10-18 19:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ronald Araujo struck at the death to snatch Barcelona a 2-1 win over Girona on Saturday and lift the champions top of La Liga. The defender, sent on as an emergency forward, netted in the 93rd minute to give Barca a one-point lead on Real Madrid, who visit Getafe on Sunday. Following two consecutive defeats Barca were only just able to edge ...
US Envoy Witkoff Felt 'Betrayed' by Israeli Attack on Hamas in Qatar
This is Beirut 2025-10-18 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's chief negotiator on the Middle East, has said that he felt "betrayed" when Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month. In a CBS interview alongside Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who worked with Witkoff on the brokering of a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and ...
Pakistan to Hold Talks with Afghanistan in Qatar after Latest Strikes
This is Beirut 2025-10-18 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pakistani and Afghan officials were due to meet in Qatar on Saturday, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes that killed at least 10 people in Afghanistan and broke a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border. The strikes targeted what Pakistani security sources said was a militant group linked to the Pakistani Taliban in the ...
Trump Suggests Too soon for Tomahawks in Talks with Zelensky
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 22:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump suggested Friday it would be premature to give Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, saying as he hosted Volodymyr Zelensky that he hoped to secure peace with Russia first. "Hopefully they won't need it. Hopefully we'll be able to get the war over with without thinking about Tomahawks," Trump told journalists including an AFP ...
Kabul Accuses Pakistan of Resuming Strikes on Afghan Soil
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 21:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pakistan launched strikes on Afghan soil late Friday, breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border, a senior Taliban official told AFP, warning that Kabul would "retaliate." The 48-hour truce had paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes that killed dozens of troops and civilians on both sides. "Pakistan has broken ...
Lebanon 2019: Behind a Programmed Revolution (1/2)
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-17 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Six years have passed since the October 2019 uprising, an upheaval whose effects continue to heavily weigh on Lebanon. In just a few days, the country appeared to unite against a political class widely seen as corrupt and incapable of averting the looming economic collapse. This surge of public anger culminated in the resignation of Saad ...
BDL Governor Holds Key Talks with IMF Officials in Washington
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 18:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank (BDL), Karim Souhaid, held a series of high-level meetings in Washington with officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to a statement issued by his press office on Thursday. Souhaid was accompanied by Deputy Governors Salim Shahine and Gaby Shnouzian, along with the Chairman of the ...
Tested by Russia, NATO Looks to Strengthen its Defenses
This is Beirut 2025-10-15 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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NATO defense ministers will look Wednesday at shoring up the alliance's ability to counter Russian air incursions, as fears grow that Moscow is testing the West in a grey zone between war and peace. Focus will also be on bolstering support for Ukraine as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joins his 31 NATO counterparts with his boss, President ...
Trump and Putin Hold Phone Call Ahead of Zelensky's Visit to Washington
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 18:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin began a «long» phone conversation Thursday, according to the U.S. president. «I am currently in conversation with President Putin. The conversation is ongoing, it is long, and I will report on it, just like President Putin, at the end,» Trump wrote on his Truth Social network. The call ...
Don’t Let the Party Stop: Berlin’s Fight Against ‘Club Death'
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 14:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Berlin, long hailed as one of the world's great party cities, is fighting to keep its famed techno clubs alive in the face of soaring prices, shifting tastes and a tightening property market. For now, the mood is exuberant at Renate, a labyrinthine club with multiple DJs housed in a dimly-lit complex near the Spree river, a Berlin institution ...
New UK-Supported Border Checkpoint Opens in Eastern Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A new border checkpoint has been inaugurated along Lebanon’s eastern frontier, as part of a project funded by the UK’s Integrated Security Fund. This facility is part of a broader program aimed at strengthening the operational capacity of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to combat smuggling and cross-border illegal activities. The site visit ...
South Lebanon: Security, Diplomacy, and Reconstruction
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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While touring southern Lebanon on Thursday, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced that an international conference in support of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and security services – in preparation for several months – is expected to be held "soon." The event aims to address the urgent needs of the army, particularly in ...
UN Humanitarian Chief Says Israel Should Immediately Open Gaza Crossings to Aid
This is Beirut 2025-10-15 21:01 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher urged Israel on Wednesday to immediately open all crossings into Gaza for humanitarian aid, as called for in a US-backed ceasefire plan. "It should happen now. We want it to happen immediately as part of this agreement," Fletcher told AFP in an interview in Cairo, ahead of a planned trip to the Gaza ...
Sioufi Park Reopens!
This is Beirut 2025-10-15 15:10 - Reading : less than a minute
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Sioufi Park is officially open again! Visitors are welcome for peaceful walks, playtime and a breath of fresh air in the city. Have you visited yet?
Extradition Treaties and the Assad Case
Mario Chartouni 2025-10-15 14:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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This Wednesday, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa is visiting Moscow to meet Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. According to Reuters, he may request the extradition of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been taking refuge in Russia since fleeing Damascus in December 2024. Behind this politically charged episode lies a longstanding and ...
Clearfield's Mechanism: Remaking Peace, Once Again
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-24 18:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Mechanism Joseph Clearfield ceasefire
Same story, same players. After every lull along the southern border, the same words return, the same statements roll out, the same diplomats spring into action, each convinced that this time, “it’s different.” We hear about a “gradual de-escalation plan,” a “monitoring mechanism,” a “return to the core resolutions.” Earnest ...
Canadians Pull Tariff Ad After Furious Trump Scraps Trade Talks
This is Beirut 2025-10-25 05:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The Canadian province of Ontario said on Friday it would pull an anti-tariff ad featuring former US president Ronald Reagan that prompted current leader Donald Trump to scrap trade talks. Trump announced on his Truth Social network on Thursday that he had "terminated" all negotiations with Canada over what he called the "fake" ...
Cutting Off Hezbollah’s Iranian Lifeline
Liliane Mokbel 2025-11-10 16:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The time has come to deprive Hezbollah of its footing and halt its systematic effort to dismantle what remains of the Lebanese state. John Hurley, the Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, stated last week that there is now a favorable opening in Lebanon to disrupt Iranian funding to Hezbollah and exert ...
A Peacemaker Visits a Land of Perpetual War
Alberto M. Fernandez 2025-11-04 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Pope Leo XIV’s expected visit to Lebanon later this month comes at a moment of peril for the country. Lebanon’s most recent war, launched by Hezbollah on October 8, 2023, has barely ended, with Israel threatening to renew the conflict at any moment should Hezbollah not disarm. The Lebanese government has pledged to assert state power and ...
Trump to Host his First Summit with Central Asian Leaders
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump will host all five Central Asian leaders in Washington on Thursday for the first time, a few months after they held separate summits with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping. The West has upped its interest in the resource-rich region, where Moscow's traditional influence has been questioned since the ...
Juan Carlos Breaks His Silence in Reconciliation, the Memoirs of a Fallen King
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 19:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Mixing historic anecdotes and regret over his own scandals, Spain's exiled king Juan Carlos I seeks to reconcile himself with his family and nation in newly published memoirs that offer dramatic reminiscences from one of the last surviving players of 20th-century history. From holding Franco's hand on the dictator's deathbed to helping defuse a ...
King Tut’s Collection Displayed for First Time at Egypt’s Grand Museum
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures, over 4,500 artifacts, was displayed together for the first time since the young pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922. Curated and conserved over nearly two decades, the collection was unveiled to the ...
French Pair Released after 3-year Iran Jail Ordeal
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 21:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iran has released from prison a French pair held for more than three years and sentenced to lengthy jail sentences on espionage charges their families always rejected, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, both retired teachers, were both on a tourist visit to Iran when they were arrested ...
Aoun’s Push for Talks with Israel Must Overcome Hezbollah’s Ploys
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-11-04 18:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
President Joseph Aoun said Lebanon has no choice but to enter into talks with Israel to break the cycle of war, a step that media reports suggest he had agreed on with Hezbollah’s ally, Speaker Nabih Berri. Aoun’s position is commendable, but Hezbollah will use such talks as cover to rearm and prepare for another round of fighting, rather than ...
PKK Leader Ocalan Urges Progress in Turkish Peace Process
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called in a message published on Tuesday for all parties to the peace process in Turkey to make genuine efforts to ensure it succeeds. Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), is spearheading efforts to move from a four-decade armed Kurdish rebellion against the Turkish state ...
Microsoft Unveils $15.2 Billion AI Investments in UAE
This is Beirut 2025-11-03 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced $15.2 billion in investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft's vice chairman and president Brad Smith said Microsoft had invested $7.3 billion in the Gulf country since 2023 and would spend $7.9 billion more by the end of 2029. The deal sent US ...
The Atelier des Lumières Lands on the Moon: An Immersive Odyssey by Tom Hanks
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-11-06 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paris Atelier des Lumières Tom Hanks Culture Exhibition Art
In the heart of Paris, the Atelier des Lumières once again welcomes visitors in search of an extraordinary immersive art experience. This time, it’s not a single artist or a specific work on display — it’s a voyage into the cosmos: Destination Moon. At the Atelier des Lumières, an exploration of lunar conquest co-written by Tom Hanks ...