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UK Removes Syria's HTS from 'Terrorist' Organizations List

This is Beirut 2025-10-21 22:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The UK on Tuesday removed Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of banned "terrorist" organizations after the group ousted Bashar al-Assad last December and took control of the government. The move comes after the United States announced in July it would revoke HTS's "terrorist" designation. HTS was proscribed by the UK in 2017 over ...

JD Vance Voices ‘Great Optimism' for Gaza Truce on Israel Visit

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US Vice President JD Vance expressed "great optimism" that the Gaza truce would hold, ahead of a meeting Wednesday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Vance is in Israel to shore up support for the US-brokered ceasefire and post-war reconstruction plans. Despite concerns in Israel that Hamas has seized on the pause to ...

Paramilitary Drones Target Khartoum Airport

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 10:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Paramilitary drones targeted Khartoum International Airport on Wednesday for a second consecutive day, a Sudanese military source told AFP. The source, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to brief the media, said, "Drones targeted Khartoum airport once again at dawn" on Wednesday. He added that army air defenses intercepted the ...

Zelensky in Oslo For Talks With Norwegian PM

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Oslo on Wednesday for talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Norway's government said. The two leaders met in the military part of Oslo's international airport, television images showed. Zelensky is scheduled to visit Sweden later Wednesday, where Kyiv and Stockholm are to make a ...

UK King to Be First to Pray With Pope in Five Centuries

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 12:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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King Charles III leaves for a state visit to the Vatican Wednesday, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and make history as the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with the pontiff since the schism between the churches 500 years ago. The visit comes at a delicate time for the British king following new revelations about his brother, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia Holds Scheduled Nuclear Drills, Week After NATO

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 16:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Russia held planned strategic nuclear drills on Wednesday, a week after NATO began similar annual exercises, as tensions in Europe over the Ukraine war run high. "Today we are conducting planned, I would like to emphasise, planned, nuclear forces training," Russian President Vladimir Putin told generals in a televised meeting. NATO began similar ...

Trump at the Knesset Ahead of the Peace Summit

This is Beirut 2025-10-13 17:55 - Reading : less than a minute

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US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 13, 2025, as part of the recently concluded peace plan between Israel and Hamas. This visit marks a major step in the regional stabilization process, which Washington presents as the foundation for a “new Middle East.”  

Paris Fashion Week: Where Style Pays Off

This is Beirut 2025-10-10 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Every year, the French capital doesn’t just host the world’s top fashion shows; it drives the industry’s economy. According to the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, Paris Fashion Week generates around €1.2 billion in economic impact for the city. Over several weeks, more than 110 haute couture and ready-to-wear shows unfold, ...

Donald Trump Plans International Summit on Gaza During Egypt Visit

This is Beirut 2025-10-10 20:15 - Reading : less than a minute

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According to the US outlet Axios, President Donald Trump is planning to host a summit bringing together several world leaders to discuss the situation in Gaza during his official visit to Egypt next week. The meeting aims to rally broader international support for the Trump administration’s peace plan for Gaza, as key issues, including ...

Art World’s ‘Troublemakers’ Join Forces in ‘Joyful’ London Show

This is Beirut 2025-10-11 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Art Exhibition ‘Triple Tour’ London Culture

They come from a world of underground, even subversive, art, but now US activist Shepard Fairey has joined forces with Britain's Damien Hirst and French street artist Invader with a "joyful" exhibition to show even in dark times there is always hope. "We all see ourselves as troublemakers because we have been," Fairey told AFP, ahead of Friday's ...

Monet’s Venetian Masterpieces Shine Bright at Brooklyn Museum

This is Beirut 2025-10-11 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Claude Monet did not want to travel to Venice in 1908—at the time, he was 68 and working on his famed Water Lilies paintings, and only reluctantly agreed to accompany his wife Alice Hoschede. But his time spent there became one of his most prolific, resulting in 37 paintings, many of which are being put on display at an exhibit opening Saturday ...

Top US Military Commander Visits Gaza, Reaffirms No US Troops to be Deployed There

This is Beirut 2025-10-11 16:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Saturday he visited Gaza to discuss post-conflict stabilization and insisted no US troops will be deployed to the Palestinian territory. Admiral Brad Cooper wrote on X that he just returned from a trip to Gaza to discuss the creation of a CENTCOM-led "civil-military coordination center" ...

Hamas Says Israeli Hostages To Be Freed From Gaza Before Trump Peace Summit

This is Beirut 2025-10-12 05:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Hamas will begin releasing Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Monday morning, a top official from the Palestinian militant group told AFP, before US President Donald Trump chairs an international summit in Egypt on his peace plan for the region. As part of the deal's first phase, Hamas, whose deadly attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023 sparked ...

'Northern Shield:' Deep Beneath the Border, a Hunt for the Tunnels of Death

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

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A siren pierces the cold southern Lebanese night. Peacekeepers cross the Blue Line, weapons and detectors in hand. Beneath their feet, invisible and silent, tunnels snake for hundreds of meters, potential routes for stealth incursions or kidnappings. It’s December 2018. Israel is about to launch Operation “Northern Shield,” a systematic hunt ...

Donald Trump Arrives in Israel as First Group of Hostages Released in Historic Gaza Ceasefire

This is Beirut 2025-10-13 08:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Israel early Monday morning to bolster support for a landmark peace deal, as the first group of Israeli hostages was released from Gaza under a ceasefire agreement brokered with his direct involvement. The Israeli Army  spokesperson has confirmed that seven Israeli hostages — named Matan Angrest, ...

The Diplomatic Feat and Its Imponderables

Charles Chartouni 2025-10-13 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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President Trump has proven to be a tough dealmaker and a skillful negotiator who knows how to leverage whatever resources are at hand to promote and sustain peace processes against all odds. His diplomatic approach is based on the common sense of a businessman turned politician at the helm of an “imperial republic.” His hard-nosed realism ...

Hamas Hands Over Surviving Israeli Hostages

This is Beirut 2025-10-13 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Hamas handed over the 20 surviving Israeli hostages on Monday under a ceasefire agreement, as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders geared up for a summit on Gaza. In Tel Aviv, a huge crowd which gathered to support hostage families erupted in joy, tears and song as news broke of the first releases, though the pain for the loss of ...

Trump in Israel: 'The Historic Dawn of a New Middle East'

This is Beirut 2025-10-13 17:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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“The historic dawn of a new Middle East and the end of the era of terrorism.” These words could summarize the speech delivered on Monday afternoon by US President Donald Trump at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. Described by observers as “historic,” this address provided an opportunity for the US president to call on Israel and 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 ...

Lebanon on the Sidelines: Restoring State Authority Is Critical

Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-10-14 08:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Events are unfolding across the region, while Lebanon remains on the sidelines, lacking a meaningful political presence in the reshaped Middle East. Lebanese officials have been following, via the media, US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, the developments in Gaza, his Knesset address and the Sharm al-Sheikh summit. Official sources ...

Lebanon Still Charms, but Tourism Numbers Fall

Christiane Tager 2025-10-14 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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In the 2010s, Lebanon ranked among the world’s top tourist destinations, celebrated for its festivals, crowded beaches, boutique hotels and award-winning cuisine. Tourism then accounted for nearly a fifth of GDP and was at the very heart of the economy. Today, that postcard-perfect image has faded. Two years after a brief recovery, the sector ...

Global Leaders Welcome Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Agreement

Kaline Antoun 2025-10-14 20:05 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

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Leaders around the world have welcomed the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, formalized at a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on October 13, 2025. The initiative was driven by US President Donald Trump and signed jointly by mediators from Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. The agreement calls for a halt to hostilities, the release of ...

Trump Says 'We Will Disarm' Hamas, Urges Return of Gaza Bodies

This is Beirut 2025-10-14 22:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that "we will disarm" Hamas if the Palestinian militants refuse to do it themselves, as he called for the group to release the bodies of hostages in Gaza. Trump's comments came the day after he swung through the Middle East to celebrate the Gaza ceasefire deal, with questions swirling about the ...

Hamas Launches Gaza Crackdown as Trump Vows to Disarm Group

This is Beirut 2025-10-15 09:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Hamas tightened its grip on Gaza's ruined cities Tuesday, launching a crackdown and executing alleged collaborators, even as US President Donald Trump vowed to disarm the group. The Israeli military said the remains of four more hostages held in Gaza had been brought into Israel, a day after Hamas handed over the bodies of four other captives and ...

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 ...

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 ...