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Trees, Targets and Trillions: What's on the Agenda at COP30?
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda? The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them all, but unlike recent editions, this "COP" has ...
US to Cancel Flights as Longest Govt Shutdown Drags On
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 10:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US officials said the scheduled capacity for flights was being cut by 10 percent in 40 busy air traffic areas nationwide on Friday, as the longest government shutdown drags on. Federal agencies have been grinding to a halt since Congress failed to approve funding past September 30, with some 1.4 million federal workers, from air traffic ...
Louvre Heist a 'Deafening Wake-up Call' for Museum Security
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Last month's spectacular Louvre heist, in which robbers made off with some of France's crown jewels, was a "deafening wake-up call" for museum security, the head of France's highest audit institution said Thursday. Upgrades to security at the world-renowned museum have been moving at a "woefully inadequate pace", Pierre Moscovici told a press ...
Pope Leo Receives Palestinian President Abbas at Vatican
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Thursday, where the Vatican said they discussed the "urgent need" to help the civilian population in Gaza. The visit comes almost a month into a fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, following two years of war triggered by the Palestinian group's October 7, 2023, ...
UN Human Rights Council to Hold Emergency Session on Sudan’s El-Fasher Crisis
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 19:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN Human Rights Council announced Thursday that it would hold an urgent session next week on the situation in Sudan's violence-ravaged western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries. The United Nations' top rights body said in a statement that it would "hold a special session on the human rights situation in and around El ...
Leaders Turn up the Heat on Fossil Fuels at Amazon Climate Summit
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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World leaders will meet for a second day of climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon on Friday after fiery speeches and renewed criticism of Big Oil marked the opening session. Dozens of ministers and several heads of state and government, including those of Spain, Germany and Namibia, will meet in Belem just before the United Nations' (UN) annual ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Official to Visit Lebanon Soon
This is Beirut 2025-10-31 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced that John Herlihy, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, will begin a tour of the Middle East and Europe starting this Friday, as the administration of President Donald Trump seeks to increase pressure on Iran. According to the statement, Herlihy, the Treasury’s top sanctions official, ...
North Korea Fires Unidentified Ballistic Missile
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 10:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile Friday, Seoul's military said, around a week after US President Donald Trump approved South Korea's plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine. Analysts have said Seoul's plan to construct one of the atomic-driven vessels would likely draw an aggressive response from Pyongyang. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of ...
Explosions Heard Near Sudan Capital
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Explosions were heard near the army-controlled Sudanese capital Khartoum on Friday, witnesses told AFP, a day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they agreed to a humanitarian truce. Following the RSF's capture of El-Fasher, the army's last major stronghold in western Darfur, less than two weeks ago, the paramilitaries appear to be ...
US Facing Travel Chaos as Flights Cut Due to Government Shutdown
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 10:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Travelers across the United States were left scrambling to rebook flights as the government shutdown heaps pressure on the country's air traffic control system, prompting hundreds of Friday flight cancellations at major American airports. Airlines starting Friday will begin implementing up to a 10 percent reduction in flights for 40 high-traffic ...
Hungary's Orban to Meet Trump in Face of Russia Oil Sanctions
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 11:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is due to meet Donald Trump in Washington on Friday for the first time since his ally was re-elected US president, as he seeks a waiver on American sanctions on Russian oil. The United States hit Russia's two biggest oil producers with sanctions last month, the first such measures ...
Blasts Injure at Least 20 on Indonesia School Campus
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two blasts on a school campus in Indonesia's capital injured at least 20 people on Friday, said authorities, who reported the cause was under investigation. The explosions occurred at around 12:15 pm (0515 GMT) around a mosque on a high school campus in North Jakarta, said deputy coordinating minister of politics and security Lodewijk ...
Spanish Star Rosalía Unveils 'Lux', a Spiritual and Multilingual New Album
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Spanish singer Rosalía released her anticipated fourth album, Lux, on Friday, a sweeping, spiritual work that marks a departure from her previous work. After the acclaim for her breakthrough album, El Mal Querer, which fused flamenco with R&B rhythms, and her genre-defying follow-up, Motomami, Rosalía offers an orchestral meditation on faith ...
UN Warns 'Intensified Hostilities' Ahead in Sudan Despite RSF Backing Truce Plan
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 18:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The United Nations warned on Friday of "intensified hostilities" ahead in Sudan, despite paramilitary forces endorsing a truce proposal from mediators after more than two years of war with the regular army. "There is no sign of de-escalation," UN human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement. "Developments on the ground indicate clear ...
US Accuses Iran in Plot to Kill Israeli Ambassador in Mexico
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 18:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States and Israel on Friday accused Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, in what would be the latest attempt to take the two countries' conflict to another region. Israel said that Mexican authorities intervened to stop the attempt to kill the ambassador, Einat Kranz-Neiger. "We thank the security and law ...
Blasts at Indonesia School Mosque Injure More than 50
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two blasts at a school mosque in the Indonesian capital Jakarta injured at least 50 people on Friday, authorities said, with a student accused of being responsible for the incident. The explosions took place at a North Jakarta high school around 12:15 pm (0515 GMT), sparking panic among the students. "It immediately turned chaotic at the school, ...
Kendrick Lamar Dominates 2026 Grammy Nominations with Nine Nods
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards, music's highest honors, with nine, the Recording Academy announced Friday, fresh off winning five golden gramophones at the last gala. Lady Gaga ranked second among performers with seven nods for her Mayhem album, followed by a trio of artists tied at six, Bad Bunny, pop ...
United States Lifts Sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 21:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United States on Friday lifted sanctions imposed on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a day after the United Nations Security Council made a similar decision, ahead of his scheduled meeting next week with U.S. President Donald Trump. According to a notice published on the U.S. Treasury Department’s website, Washington removed the ...
America’s Longest Shutdown: A Nation in Uncertainty
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-11-07 21:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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As the United States enters its sixth week without an approved budget, the paralysis of the federal government has spread far beyond Washington’s corridors of power. Flights are canceled, public services remain closed, and federal employees go unpaid. The crisis is testing the resilience of the world’s largest economy and raising urgent ...
Israel Army Says Red Cross has Received Body of Gaza Hostage
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 22:05 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli army announced on Friday that the Red Cross had received the remains of a hostage in the Gaza Strip as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. "According to information provided by the Red Cross, a coffin of a deceased hostage has been transferred into its custody and is on the way to IDF ...
Rachida Dati’s Plan to Protect France’s Cultural Crown Jewel
This is Beirut 2025-11-01 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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France's culture minister said Friday anti-ramming devices would be set up around The Louvre by year's end, after a high-profile heist at the famed museum reignited debate over its security. The announcement comes after four thieves parked a truck with a moving lift under one of its windows during opening hours on October 19, then used cutting ...
Turkey to Hold Gaza Peace Plan Meeting for Muslim States
This is Beirut 2025-10-31 18:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey will on Monday host a meeting of foreign ministers from Muslim countries to discuss a US peace plan for Gaza, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said. Fidan told reporters on Friday that the Istanbul meeting would "evaluate our progress and discuss what we can achieve together in the next stage". A ministry spokesman said ministers from Egypt, ...
Glen Powell Reinvents Action Stardom In 'The Running Man'
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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It is often said Hollywood doesn't produce movie stars anymore. So when someone with a square jaw and loads of charisma like Glen Powell is cast in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role for a reboot of The Running Man, people get excited. But Powell, an unfailingly courteous Texan who quit the Los Angeles life and moved home to Austin as his fame grew, is ...
Japan’s Takaichi Makes Strengthening US Alliance Her Top Priority
This is Beirut 2025-10-25 18:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she told US President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Saturday that strengthening the alliance between their countries was her "top priority." The call came days before Trump's planned visit to Tokyo on a regional tour and was the first between the two leaders since Takaichi took ...
Trump says all Canada Trade Talks 'Terminated' Over 'Fake' Ad
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 15:23 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump on Friday doubled down on his decision to end trade talks with Canada over an anti-tariff advertising campaign, a sudden about-face soon after a cordial White House meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. On his Truth Social network Thursday, Trump vented fury at what he called a "fake" ad ...
Drones, Glide Bombs and Patriots: Weapons in Ukraine War
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 15:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Ukraine's allies are gathering in London on Friday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushing for more long-range missiles to be delivered to Kyiv. They are just one part of a rapidly developing arsenal being deployed on both sides of the front line, as the three-and-a-half year war has reshaped the ...
Israeli Raid on Toul Kills Two, Including Hezbollah Member
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 15:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Two people were killed on Friday in an Israeli air raid on the Toul region in the Nabatieh caza, southern Lebanon. The victims were identified as Hussein al-Abd Hamdan, a Hezbollah member who had survived last year’s Pager explosion, and Abbas Hassan Karaki, who was driving a Honda CR-V at the time of the strike. Karaki’s brother, Radwan ...
Hungary Looking at Ways Around US Sanctions on Russian Oil: Orban
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday that his government was working on "ways to circumvent" US sanctions against Russian energy companies. The United States on Wednesday hit Russia's two biggest oil producers -- Rosneft and Lukoil -- with sanctions, the first against Russia since US President Donald Trump returned to ...
US Names Career Diplomat for Gaza Ceasefire Monitor
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 17:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United States named a veteran diplomat on Friday as the civilian lead in a body monitoring the Gaza ceasefire, seeking to push forward a durable end to the war. The State Department said that Steve Fagin, a career diplomat, will work alongside US Army Lieutenant General Patrick Frank, the military head already appointed to the hub set up ...
Seven Yemeni UN workers detained in Sanaa: Houthi security source
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 21:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Several Yemenis working for the United Nations in the rebel-held capital Sanaa have been detained on accusations of spying for Israel, a Houthi security official told AFP Friday, in the latest arrests targeting the world body's staff. Earlier this week, 20 UN staff, including 15 foreigners, were released after being held in their compound since a ...