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Iran: “Hostage Diplomacy,” an Intractable Dilemma for the West

This is Beirut 2025-11-05 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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For researchers, aid workers, and even tourists, Iran’s use of detention to extract concessions has become a serious dilemma for Western governments, which so far have failed to stop the practice. This so-called “hostage diplomacy,” consistently denied by Tehran, re-emerged just after the release on Tuesday of French nationals ...

Paola Rizk, a New Lebanese Face at FIFA: Setting Course for “Grassroots”

Makram Haddad 2025-11-06 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In Zurich, the news landed like an opening goal in the 5th minute: Paola Pharaon Rizk has been appointed a member of FIFA’s Grassroots and Amateur Football Committee. From Racing Beirut to international bodies, she has established herself as one of the faces of modern football governance in the Land of the Cedars. This promotion comes as part of ...

Gold: Sell or Buy More?

Liliane Mokbel 2025-11-06 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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For years, gold was seen as a safe haven, more a way to store wealth than a true investment. Holding physical gold has traditionally been considered a long-term hedge against inflation. But the surge in the price of the yellow metal in 2025 has shaken that belief. With a rise of more than sixty percent since the start of the year, gold can no ...

Israel Returns 45 Palestinian Bodies to Gaza

This is Beirut 2025-11-03 14:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza on Monday, bringing the total number handed over under the ceasefire deal to 270, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli ...

Israel Says Remains Handed Over by Hamas Belong to Captives

This is Beirut 2025-11-03 09:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel confirmed Monday that remains handed over by Hamas the day before belonged to three hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the October 7, 2023 attack. The remains were handed over as part of the ongoing Gaza ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump. "Following the completion of the identification process... ...

Iran Executes Two Men Convicted of Spying for Israel: Judiciary

This is Beirut 02/05 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran hanged two men on Saturday convicted of spying for Israel, the judiciary said, the latest in a string of executions in recent weeks. "Yaghoub Karimpour and Nasser Bekrzadeh were hanged for the crime of intelligence cooperation and espionage in favour of the Zionist regime," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said. It was not ...

Sudan's RSF says Arrests Fighters Accused of Abuses in El-Fasher

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 14:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they had arrested several of their fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the city of El-Fasher, including a man identified by AFP in multiple execution videos. The RSF, at war with the army since April 2023, seized El-Fasher -- the army's last stronghold in western Darfur -- on ...

Russia Batters Ukraine Energy Sites with Deadly Aerial Strikes

This is Beirut 2025-10-30 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Russia battered Ukrainian energy facilities with hundreds of drones and missiles, Kyiv said Thursday, killing at least four people, wounding children, and piling more pressure on Ukraine's fragile energy grid. The attack came as Russian forces said they had captured two more villages in eastern and southern Ukraine, where Kyiv's outnumbered ...

UN Security Council Condemns Sudanese Paramilitary 'Assault' on El-Fasher

This is Beirut 2025-10-30 20:06 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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The UN Security Council condemned on Thursday paramilitaries' reported "atrocities" in El-Fasher in western Sudan, where an aid group and activists have described a dire situation since the city's fall. The Rapid Support Forces' capture on Sunday of El-Fasher, the last army holdout in the vast region of Darfur, came after ...

King Charles Strips Andrew of Royal Titles, Windsor Home

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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King Charles III is stripping his younger brother Andrew of his royal titles and ousting him from his long-term residence on the Windsor estate, the palace said on Thursday, the latest fallout to hit the scandal-plagued royal over the Jeffrey Epstein affair. "Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor," Buckingham Palace said, ...

China Seeks Stable Ties with Canada and Japan as Global Trade Pressures Mount

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 11:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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President Xi Jinping on Friday invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, in the first formal talks between the nations' leaders since 2017, before also holding first discussions with Japan's new premier. Canada's relations with China are among the worst of any Western nation, but both are at the sharp end of Donald Trump's tariff ...

No-State Zones in Lebanon: The Bekaa and the Shadow of the Clans (2/3)

Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-31 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Along the road from Zahleh to Hermel, portraits of former clan leaders, imams, and martyrs adorn the buildings, set among auto repair shops and fields of cannabis. In this fertile valley, crossed by the Orontes River and framed by the Anti-Lebanon mountains, the state’s presence gradually fades as the road stretches north. In the Bekaa, clan ...

Israel Returns Remains of 30 More Palestinians to Gaza

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP on Friday. The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis told AFP that "the bodies of 30 Palestinian prisoners were received from the Israeli side as part of the exchange deal". Under the truce, ...

Lebanon's Industry: Resilient Yet Transforming

Christiane Tager 2025-10-31 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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In Lebanon, industry remains both a social buffer and a key provider of foreign currency. Yet its macroeconomic footprint has shrunk, reflecting an economy battered by currency collapse, weak domestic demand, and high energy costs. Caught between export momentum and fragile profit margins, the “made-in-Lebanon machine” moves forward ...

Key Dates in the Fall of Britain's Former Prince Andrew

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Key dates in the life of Andrew, King Charles III's younger brother, who has been stripped of his royal titles over allegations stemming from his friendship with US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: - February 19, 1960: Born Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward at Buckingham Palace in London, the third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince ...

Lagos Fashion Week Spotlight: Onalaja Puts Nigerian Heritage at the Heart of Fashion

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Models strutted down the runway, their beaded and sequined dresses evoking the traditional facial scarring still done in some parts of Nigeria. Others donned outfits paying homage to adire, a traditional Yoruba indigo fabric long prized for its craftsmanship. Kanyinsola Onalaja's show kicked off Lagos Fashion Week in style, in what has been a ...

Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Avoid the Price of Hollow Politics

Charles Chartouni 2025-11-03 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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While Washington’s latest diplomatic efforts sought to convey a sense of urgency to Lebanon and forestall Israel from launching a new war, the country’s leaders have shown themselves to be ineffective and unwilling to break from the past. Just listening to President Joseph Aoun’s hollow pronouncements is enough to lose hope that Lebanon will ...

Kim Kardashian: Queen of Visibility

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-31 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In the early 2000s, Kim Kardashian lingered on the edges of the celebrity world, known for her influential friends and low-key ventures. Everything changed in 2007 with the launch of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which transformed family intimacy into a public drama. It was no longer just about appearances; it had become a lifestyle staged as a ...

Trump Awakens Old Nuclear Testing Fears

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 19:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Despite deliberately vague statements about resuming nuclear weapons testing, U.S. President Donald Trump is raising the specter of renewed nuclear proliferation, with China potentially the main beneficiary, according to experts. This comes at a time when the international arms control framework is already fragile. “We are already in the ...

Hezbollah’s Resurgent Arsenal: Borders, Ports, and Clandestine Workshops

Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-11-01 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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Warnings mount over Hezbollah’s rearmament. After years of focus on Iranian financial backing, Washington and Tel Aviv are increasingly concerned about how quickly Lebanon’s Shia movement is rebuilding its arsenal. A Wall Street Journal investigation published Thursday found that Hezbollah, far from adhering to the November 2024 ceasefire ...

Imagery Shows Killings Persist in Sudan as German FM Decries 'Apocalyptic' Crisis

This is Beirut 2025-11-01 12:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Satellite imagery suggests mass killings are likely continuing in and around Sudan's El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, as Germany's top diplomat on Saturday described the situation there as "apocalyptic." At war with the regular army since April 2023, the Rapid Support Forces seized El-Fasher on Sunday, pushing the military out of its last ...

Israel Army Says Gaza Bodies Received Friday Not Hostages

This is Beirut 2025-11-01 13:40 - Reading : less than a minute

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Israel's military said Saturday that three bodies it received from Gaza via the Red Cross the previous night were not hostages held in the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military told AFP that a forensic analysis revealed the bodies were not those of any of the 11 deceased captives still to be handed over as part of a US-brokered ceasefire ...

Southern Lebanon’s Olive Trees: Peace Left to Fallow

Katia Kahil 2025-11-02 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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After a spiral of violence that devastated villages and farmland, the scars of war remain visible in Deir Mimas, Khiam, Houla, Blida, and Mays al-Jabal. More than 60,000 olive trees have been destroyed. “This year, we lost everything,” says Rose from Deir Mimas. “The trees are no longer pruned, the olives wither on the branches, and no one ...

Selena Gomez: When Intimacy Becomes Performance

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-02 11:46 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Not long ago, Selena Gomez was, for many, simply Disney’s newest rising star. Classic recipe: a soft voice, a radiant smile, hits perfectly calibrated for global youth. But behind the pop persona, another figure slowly emerged, one that ran counter to celebrity convention: a woman who reveals her fragilities, shares her storms, and speaks to her ...

Les Mains de Mamie Redefine Haute Couture

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-25 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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At first glance, Catherine’s flat in Saint-Étienne looks like any other French retiree’s home. Balls of yarn are scattered on the armchair, patterns are scribbled on scraps of paper, an old measuring tape lies nearby, and the television murmurs in the background. But for the past three years, her hands have been knitting for more than just ...

Can You Really Die of a Broken Heart?

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-06 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Losing a loved one, experiencing a breakup, or facing shocking news can make anyone feel, in moments of devastation, that their heart might literally burst. The saying “to die of a broken heart” once seemed little more than sentimental folklore. Yet modern medicine has shown otherwise. Emotional pain can, in rare cases, strike the heart with ...

LAF Denounces Leaks of Officer Reshuffle Details

This is Beirut 2025-08-12 12:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Lebanese Army (LAF) addressed circulating reports following Monday’s announcement of a major reshuffle affecting 107 military positions. In a statement released Tuesday, LAF indicated that some media outlets, news websites, and social media platforms shared a leaked memo detailing the transfers and dismissals of officers, accompanied by ...