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Disarmament and Elections on the Agenda in Bkerkeh

This is Beirut 2025-10-31 11:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Friday declared that a “decision has been made” to confiscate illegal weapons across the country, affirming that the Lebanese Army has already presented a plan for implementation. “There will be no reversal of the decision to confiscate weapons,” Salam said following a meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beshara ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rick Owens Turns Palais Galliera into a Temple of Dark Love

Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-10-27 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Rick Owens Culture Art Culture Palais Galliera

Known as both an avant-gardist and a mystic, Rick Owens reinvents fashion as a sacred ritual. With his exhibition Temple of Love, the Palais Galliera takes on the aura of a pagan cathedral, where darkness and light merge in an act of aesthetic and chaotic faith. Since last June, the Palais Galliera has been hosting Rick Owens: Temple of Love. ...

Asia Stocks Surge on US-China Trade Deal Breakthrough

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

USA Donald Trump Europe Stocks Markets Tariffs

Asian equities surged Monday as investors cheered a breakthrough in US-China trade talks that set the stage for leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to finalize a deal, averting an escalation in the world's biggest trade dispute. Markets rallied after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the threat of the US president imposing an additional ...

Asian Youth Games: Lebanon Begins Its Campaign, Lea Khachfe Reaches the Quarter-Finals

Makram Haddad 2025-10-22 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Lebanon Lea Khachfe Asian Youth Games

The 3rd edition of the Asian Youth Games opened for Lebanon in Manama with the rising sport of the moment: teqball. Competing in singles and doubles, Anthony Sabbagh, Rady Shebbo and Lea Khachfe delivered a focused first performance, highlighted by a quarter-final for Khachfe in singles and a notable victory in mixed doubles. Against already ...

Rubio says More Countries Ready to Recognise Israel

This is Beirut 2025-10-24 14:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that more countries are ready to normalize relations with Israel, but the decision would await a broader regional agreement. Rubio, who was touring a US-led multinational center in Israel aimed at coordinating a ceasefire in Gaza, said that a sustained end to the war would encourage more countries to ...

Drone Attacks Target Khartoum Airport for Second Day

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Paramilitary drone attacks targeted Khartoum International Airport for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, a Sudanese military source told AFP, as authorities attempted to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. The airport has been closed since April 2023, when fighting broke out between the Sudanese ...

Honoring a Historic Visit: Lebanon Commemorates Pope Leo XIV with a Stamp

Christiane Tager 2025-10-22 21:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon, scheduled for November 30 to December 2, 2025, the Ministry of Telecommunications has confirmed to This is Beirut that the country will issue a special stamp commemorating the pontifical visit. According to Ministry sources, this official release has been entrusted to LibanPost, which will oversee its ...

NATO Chief Brushes Off Concerns of Trump-Zelensky Rift

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 21:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday downplayed concerns about tensions between Donald Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, while reiterating his belief that "only" the US president could achieve peace between Moscow and Kyiv. Rutte, visiting Washington just days after Trump hosted Zelensky for tense talks, met with lawmakers on ...

Rubio Says Israel Annexation Moves in West Bank ‘Threatening’ Peace Deal

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 05:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday warned Israel against annexing the West Bank, saying steps taken by parliament and settler violence threatened a Gaza peace deal. Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance two bills on annexing the occupied West Bank, barely a week after President Donald Trump pushed through a deal aimed at ending ...

Shampoo Basin Syndrom: The Stroke from the Beauty Salon

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-23 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Stroke Shampoo Basin Syndrom Awareness Health

That day, Julien never imagined that a simple shampoo would turn his life upside down. Sitting comfortably at the basin with his head tilted back, he enjoyed a moment of calm, unaware that a hidden danger was looming. A few days later, he suffered a stroke. On Instagram, he shared: “When I had my stroke, one of the first questions the ...

Giant Kermit Sculpture Set to Lighten Mood at Art Basel Paris

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A huge inflatable Kermit the frog will be the star of the Art Basel Paris contemporary art fair this week in the French capital, unnerved by a daring heist at the Louvre. "Kermit the Frog, Even" is a 20-metre (66-foot) blow-up figure by Venezuelan-US artist Alex Da Corte, with its head deflated at the artist's request. The beloved Muppet Show ...

King Charles, Pope Leo Pray Together in Historic First

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 16:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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King Charles III, the head of the Church of England, became the first British monarch Thursday to pray publicly with a pope in a Vatican service led by Leo XIV. The ceremony in the Sistine Chapel, broadcast live by the Vatican's official news service, came during a state visit by the 76-year-old monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla. It was the ...

Vance Rejects any West Bank Annexation as Rubio Heads to Israel

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 16:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that Israel would not move to annex West Bank, after Washington warned that such a step could jeopardise a fragile US-brokered truce in Gaza. Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday advanced two bills paving the way for West Bank annexation, days after President Donald Trump secured a ceasefire deal aimed at ending ...

In Interview with Time, Trump Says Would Pull US Support if Israel Annexes West Bank

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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President Donald Trump said Israel would lose its crucial backing from the United States if it annexes the West Bank, in a Time magazine interview published Thursday. Trump's comments, which Time said were made by telephone on October 15, were published as both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned against any ...

Rebuilding Wrecked Syria Vital for Regional Stability

This is Beirut 2025-10-24 09:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

United Nations Syria Refugees Return Reconstruction

After 14 years of destruction, Syria must be swiftly rebuilt to bring stability to the country and the wider region, a top UN official in the war-ravaged nation told AFP. Reconstruction is one of the most significant challenges facing Syria's new Islamist authorities after the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December. "The ...

UN Day 2025: Lebanon Marks Ties with the United Nations

This is Beirut 2025-10-24 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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President Joseph Aoun marked United Nations Day 2025 by recalling the principles that have guided both Lebanon and the UN since the organization’s founding 80 years ago. “This day is a reminder of a pact made eight decades ago – a pact that feels like a charter for Lebanon’s mission and struggle,” he said on Friday. Emphasizing the ...

Over 330 Hezbollah Members Killed Since Ceasefire

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 09:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon since Thursday, has turned it into one of the deadliest escalations in weeks. The latest attacks on Sunday targeted two senior Hezbollah figures in Naqoura and the Beqaa Valley, as Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz toured the northern border alongside U.S Envoy to the Middle ...

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 ...

Clearfield's Mechanism: Remaking Peace, Once Again

Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-24 18:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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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 ...

Trump Embarks on High-Stakes Asia Tour

This is Beirut 2025-10-25 12:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump headed for Asia on Saturday for high-stakes trade talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, saying that he would also like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his trip. Trump is set to meet Xi in South Korea on the last day of his regional swing in a bid to seal a deal to end the bruising trade war between ...

Rubio Vows to Recover Bodies of Hostages Still Held in Gaza

This is Beirut 2025-10-25 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed Saturday to secure the return of all deceased hostages still held in Gaza, as he met with the families of two captives during his visit to Israel. "We will not forget the lives of the hostages who died in the captivity of Hamas," Rubio said on X. "Today I met with the families of American citizens Itay ...

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 ...

Magic Returns: Sleepovers Revive 'Night at the Museum' Tradition

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It's nearly 10:00 p.m. on Friday night, and a group of children shine their flashlights on the imposing skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Though the scene seems like something out of a movie, it is in fact a whimsical sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Once a month, and for a not insignificant fee, parents and kids can ...

North Korea’s Top Diplomat Heads to Russia and Belarus for Talks

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui will visit Russia for a three-day trip from Sunday, the Russian foreign ministry said. Choe would be in Russia "on a working visit" from Sunday to Tuesday, it said in a statement. Russian ambassador Aleksandr Matsegora accompanied the minister to the airport, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said in a ...

Netanyahu Asserts Israeli Control Over Gaza Security as Egypt Joins Hostage Recovery Effort

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived. The Egyptian convoy, captured on camera by AFP reporters in Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip, included heavy ...

Joint Visit by Katz and Ortagus to the Lebanese Border

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 18:30 - Reading : less than a minute

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz conducted a visit along the Lebanese border on Sunday, accompanied by U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced. According to Israeli media reports, Katz stated during the tour that Israel would continue to defend its northern regions against any threat. Morgan Ortagus is reportedly ...