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France Wildfire Shuts Down Marseille Airport and Halts Trains
This is Beirut 2025-07-08 22:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A wildfire in southern France on Tuesday forced Marseille airport to close and interrupted train traffic as the blaze spread rapidly to the edges of the city. Several forest fires have raged in recent days in southern France, fanning out at speed due to wind and parched vegetation after a heatwave. Scientists say human-induced climate change is ...
Joao Pedro Brace Sends Chelsea Into Club World Cup Final
This is Beirut 2025-07-09 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
New signing Joao Pedro scored twice on his first start as Chelsea eased to a 2-0 win over Fluminense on Tuesday to seal a spot in the final of the Club World Cup. The Brazilian striker opened the scoring in lethal fashion in the 18th minute of the last-four clash at the MetLife Stadium and struck again shortly before the hour mark as Chelsea set ...
Demna bows out at Balenciaga with star-studded Paris catwalk show
This is Beirut 2025-07-09 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Fashion Week Luxury Paris Celebrity Culture
Maverick Georgian fashion designer Demna bowed out after 10 years at Balenciaga on Wednesday with a star-studded Paris show featuring Kim Kardashian and veteran supermodel Naomi Campbell on the catwalk. The final collection from the 44-year-old - who is switching to fellow Kering-owned brand Gucci - was watched by celebrities from Nicole Kidman ...
How Lebanon Missed Its Future While Syria Negotiates Its Own
Salam El Zaatari 2025-07-10 08:00 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria United States Tom Barrack Iran Hezbollah
I have always believed that geography makes history. But in the Middle East, history tends to repeat itself with a sectarian accent and a militia soundtrack. And this is tragically evident in Lebanon, a country that once had everything, and today, has nothing but memory and myth. While the world watches US envoy Tom Barrack shuttle between ...
From Nasser to Khamenei: The End of Resistance Politics in the Middle East
Pierre Nahas 2025-07-10 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Iran Palestine Hezbollah United States
For decades, the Palestinian cause served as both a rallying banner and a political tool, used by leaders from Cairo to Tehran not always to uplift Palestinians, but to build empires. Radicalism on the Palestinian issue was once a measure of legitimacy for Middle Eastern leaders. Now, something is shifting. With Arab states striking deals with ...
Jane Birkin’s First Hermès Birkin Bag Breaks Auction Record
This is Beirut 2025-07-10 18:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fashion Hermès Jane Birkin Luxury Heritage Culture
The first-ever Hermès Birkin bag, custom-made for Jane Birkin in 1984, was sold at auction in Paris on Thursday for €8.582 million, including fees, according to Sotheby’s. This oversized black leather tote was the original prototype of what would become one of the most iconic and expensive handbags in the world. Until now, the most ...
Joaquin Phoenix Battles Pandemic Chaos in “Eddington” Western
This is Beirut 2025-07-11 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Joaquin Phoenix Film LA Eddington Culture
Joaquin Phoenix struggles to bring order to a crumbling America in Eddington, a star-powered neo-western that acts as a scathing reflection of today’s United States. Premiering Wednesday in France and Friday in the U.S., the film is the latest from indie favorite Ari Aster—known for genre hits like Hereditary and Midsommar. After Beau Is ...
Paris Couture in Review: The Week’s Most Striking Moments
This is Beirut 2025-07-11 15:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fashion Luxury Celebrity Paris France Culture
Paris Haute Couture Week has wrapped up after four days of shows that featured the end of an era at Balenciaga, the start of a new one at Maison Margiela, and some surprise appearances and absences. AFP looks back on the key moments of the Autumn-Winter 2025-2026 season: New Eras Demna bowed out at Balenciaga after a decade in charge with a ...
Fake Beauty, Real Risks: Investigating Cosmetic Counterfeits (1/3)
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-11 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Beauty Care Black Market Health Sunscreens Cosmetic Counterfeits
Same logo, same packaging, same “high protection” claim… but sometimes, the contents are just water and thickeners. In a recent investigation led by journalist Hugo Clément and pharmacist Laurence Coiffard (for “Sur le Front,” France 5, June 2025), several counterfeit sunscreens were lab tested. Findings were alarming: some products ...
Isabelle Huppert Embodies Timeless Despair in Castellucci’s ‘Bérénice’ Revival
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-07-07 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Bérénice Isabelle Huppert Theater Romeo Castellucci Paris Théâtre de la Ville
The Italian director, known for his expertise in visual and sensory theater and inspired by his knowledge of painting, scenography and stage design, took Racine’s tragedy and transformed it into a fully contemporary interpretation. The production centers on the heroine’s intense pain, creating an immersive experience far removed from the ...
US Sanctions Cuban President Four Years After Historic Protests
This is Beirut 2025-07-12 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Cuba Sanctions Diplomacy
The United States announced its first sanctions on Friday against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel for his role "in the Cuban regime's brutality toward the Cuban people." It is the latest in a series of measures by US President Donald Trump's administration to increase pressure on the Cuban government. The United States was ...
New 'Superman' Film Soars, Aims to Save DC Universe
This is Beirut 2025-07-12 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Cinema Film Superman DC Culture
Superman is often called upon to save the world from evildoers, but in his latest big-screen incarnation, he's also being asked to swoop in and save a franchise. James Gunn's Superman, which opened in theaters worldwide this week, is a reboot aimed at relaunching the so-called DC Universe of comic book-based superhero movies, which also features ...
Liverpool to Retire Diogo Jota’s Number 20 Shirt
This is Beirut 2025-07-12 15:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Football Premier League Liverpool
Liverpool are to retire Diogo Jota's number 20 shirt in honour of the Portugal forward who was killed with his brother Andre Silva in a car crash this month. "After consultation with his wife, Rute, and family, the club can announce the squad number will be retired in honour and memory of Diogo across all levels, including LFC Women and Academy," ...
Rewriting 'Ben-Hur:' 'Aletheia' by Luigi A. Kohli on Faith, Empire and Fiction
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-07-13 12:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Writing UK Beirut Author Culture Art
Luigi A. Kohli, author of Aletheia, a Ben-Hur saga, followed a dream that never left him. After years in the corporate world, he found the courage to step away and embrace the calling he had carried since youth: to write. What began as a long-held fascination with epic films and ancient history transformed into a powerful, imaginative ...
Zoo Owner Defies Legal System by Hiding Two Lion Cubs
This is Beirut 2025-07-13 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The case started when pictures started appearing on social media of people holding months old lions cubs. It was determined to be at Zazoo, located in Hazmieh, and a sign on the cage door asked for $5 for photos and $10 for ten minutes with the cubs. A judge of urgent matters ordered an investigation of the zoo to be conducted by the court clerk, ...
Nvidia says it Will Resume Sales of 'H20' AI Chips to China
This is Beirut 2025-07-15 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Washington Nvidia AI H20 Chips
US tech giant Nvidia said on Tuesday it will resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, after Washington pledged to remove licensing curbs that had put a stop to exports. The California-based firm produces some of the world's most advanced semiconductors but is not allowed to ship its most cutting-edge chips to China owing ...
Hezbollah Is a State within the State, Not Only “Heavy and Medium” Weapons
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-07-15 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Syria Iraq United States
In policy, simplicity is valuable; naiveté is catastrophic. Lebanon has by now diluted UNSCR 1701 from dismantling Hezbollah’s militia, arms production, and illicit funding to merely surrendering “heavy and medium” weapons, or as U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack frames it: Hezbollah must hand over weapons that threaten Israel. Such oversimplification ...
Beyoncé’s Unreleased Music Stolen From Car in Atlanta
This is Beirut 2025-07-15 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Music Beyoncé Culture Art Beyoncé Singer
Computer drives containing unreleased music by US superstar Beyoncé and plans related to her concerts were stolen last week in Atlanta, police said Monday, with a suspect still at large. The items were stolen from a rental car used by Beyoncé's choreographer and a dancer on July 8, two days before the pop icon kicked off the Atlanta leg of her ...
Trump Says Any ‘Credible’ Epstein Files Should Be Released
This is Beirut 2025-07-16 05:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday the US Justice Department should release all "credible" information from its probe into notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein as he sought to douse a firestorm of criticism from his supporters over his handling of the case. Trump is facing the most serious split of his political career from his famously loyal ...
The US-China Chip War in Dates
This is Beirut 2025-07-16 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump United States China War
The United States has in recent years sought to curb exports of cutting-edge semiconductors to China, with Nvidia and other US chip companies lobbying against its tough restrictions. As Nvidia says it will resume sales of a less powerful AI semiconductor model to China, here is a run-down of the microchip conflict: August 2022: Biden's Chips ...
'Severance' Leads Emmy Nominations Ahead of The White Lotus
This is Beirut 2025-07-16 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hollywood L.A. Emmy Awards Emmys Culture Art
Here is a list of the nominees in key categories for the 77th Emmy Awards, which will be handed out in Los Angeles on September 14. Apple TV’s Severance topped the nominations list with 27, followed by The Penguin with 24, and The Studio and The White Lotus tied at 23. Outstanding Drama Series Andor The Diplomat The Last of Us Paradise The ...
When the Body Speaks: The Truth Behind Self-Harm
David Sahyoun 2025-07-16 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Self-Harm Psychoanalysis Body Scars Sufferings
Once treated as a fringe concern in psychiatry, self-harm has become far more visible in recent decades. Clinical and epidemiological studies agree that it primarily affects adolescents and young adults, with a marked prevalence among girls and young women. It appears in hospitals, schools and prisons, but also across digital spaces. On platforms ...
Sweida Caught Between Damascus and Israel
Mario Chartouni 2025-07-16 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus Syria Sweida Druzes
The majority-Druze city of Sweida in southern Syria has been thrust into an unprecedented spiral of violence since Sunday, as fierce clashes between the Syrian army, backed by Bedouin militias, and local Druze armed groups have escalated dramatically. The fighting has been marked by intense combat, summary executions, a deepening humanitarian ...
Paris Fashion Week Opens With Demna’s Farewell at Balenciaga
This is Beirut 2025-07-07 14:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fashion Luxury Haute-Couture Week Paris Culture
After 10 years at Balenciaga, provocative Georgian showman Demna is to take a final bow during Paris Haute Couture Week, which began on Monday with a star-studded show by Schiaparelli. Demna, known for his daring work as well as controversies during his decade-long stint at Kering-owned Balenciaga, will unveil his final collection on Wednesday in ...
Trump Slams Musk’s Political Party as ‘Ridiculous’
This is Beirut 2025-07-07 03:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Elon Musk Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed former ally Elon Musk's launching of a new political party as "ridiculous," deepening the Republican's feud with the man who was once his biggest backer. Trump also branded the SpaceX and Tesla tycoon a "TRAIN WRECK" who had gone "off the rails" after Musk said he ...
Breathe if You Can: The Toxic Underside of Our Generators
Makram Haddad 2025-06-18 12:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Generators Carla Irani Carole Youakim Marwan Ghosn
They appeared in the 1990s, just after the end of the civil war. Four decades later, they are still here and are more powerful, more numerous, louder. These diesel giants have colonized the streets, balconies, rooftops and backyards. Lebanon lights up through explosions of decibels and toxic clouds. As if that Weren’t Enough... To this ...
Anna Wintour’s Bold Exit as Editor of US Vogue: Fashion Icon Forever
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-06-27 11:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Vogue Anna Wintour Fashion Culture Art
Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue US after 37 years, but she will continue in her global leadership roles as chief content officer for Vogue and Condé Nast. At 75, she’ll now focus on shaping the group’s worldwide strategy. A legendary figure in fashion and the real-life inspiration behind Meryl Streep’s role as ...
Caught Between Missiles and Militias: Iraq Struggles Under Regional Strain
Mario Chartouni 2025-06-18 16:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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As Israeli airstrikes and Iranian missile launches intensify across the Middle East, Iraq finds itself trapped in a precarious position amid a mounting diplomatic and military storm. Still fragile after decades of conflict, the country’s geographic and strategic location leaves it exposed to the escalating rivalry between two powerful regional ...
Netanyahu: The Opportunist Who Rode America’s Wars to Redraw the Middle East
Salam El Zaatari 2025-06-19 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Middle East Iran Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahou
For over three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has stood at the intersection of Israeli ambition and American power, a figure as enduring as the conflicts that define the Middle East. Since the early 1990s, Netanyahu has not merely responded to the region’s shifting sands—he has, in the eyes of critics and admirers alike, helped shape them. From ...
How the Seine River Secretly Cools the Louvre and Paris
This is Beirut 2025-06-19 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Louvre Seine Paris France Museum
As Paris braces for a heatwave this weekend, a little-known network of underground pipes will be cooling the Louvre Museum and other storied landmarks using water from the River Seine. Since 1991, the river water has been cooling more than 800 buildings via a humble but hard-working system that is still relatively underutilized worldwide. Paris ...