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Syrian Who Killed Americans Was Part of Security Forces
This is Beirut 2025-12-14 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Syria's interior ministry said Sunday the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region the previous day was a member of the security forces who was to have been fired for extremism. Two U.S. troops and a civilian interpreter died in what the Syrian government described as a "terrorist attack" on Saturday, while Washington said ...
Khamenei Adviser Affirms Iran Will 'Resolutely Support' Hezbollah
This is Beirut 2025-12-14 18:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that the country would "resolutely support" Hezbollah in the group's efforts to confront Tehran's regional foe, Israel. The remarks by Ali Akbar Velayati came as Lebanon faces pressure from the United States and Israel to disarm Hezbollah, which engaged in more than a ...
Israel Accuses Hezbollah of 1,900 Ceasefire Violations
This is Beirut 2025-12-15 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Israeli army on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of violating the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire more than 1,900 times since it took effect late last year. The Israeli military said it conducted targeted operations in around 30 locations across southern Lebanon since early October, resulting in the killing of approximately 40 fighters. The Northern ...
Louvre Museum Closed as Workers Strike
This is Beirut 2025-12-15 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Louvre Museum closed its doors to thousands of disappointed visitors on Monday as staff launched a strike to protest working conditions at the Paris landmark, two months after a shocking robbery. Workers are demanding extra staff and measures to tackle overcrowding, adding to the woes of the world's most visited museum just as France is ...
Taekwondo: Lebanon Consolidates Its Place in the International Family
Makram Haddad 2025-12-16 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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There are visits that look like a simple handshake, and others that sound like an official stamp. That of Na Young Ji, director of the International Department of Kukkiwon (South Korea), at the headquarters of the Lebanese Taekwondo Federation in Horch Tabet, clearly belongs to the second category. Accompanied by the organization’s ...
Seeing Is Believing: Army Unveils Realities South of the Litani
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-12-16 17:23 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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On Monday in southern Litani, the Lebanese army went beyond a routine field visit, staging a carefully orchestrated tour for its ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, and military attachés to showcase its operations. From the sector command in the southern city of Tyre, the army’s commander-in-chief, General Rodolph Haykal, outlined to foreign ...
Decisive Paris Meeting: Can the Lebanese Army Deliver?
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-12-17 13:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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On Thursday in Paris, one of the most sensitive moments in Lebanon’s current diplomatic timeline will unfold. A closed-door meeting on the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) needs will bring together the army’s commander-in-chief, General Rodolph Haykal; US Special Envoy Morgan Ortagus; Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan; France’s special envoy ...
Louvre Under Strike Pressure Partially Reopens to Frustrated Tourists
This is Beirut 2025-12-17 14:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Staff at the Louvre Museum voted on Wednesday to extend a strike to demand better working conditions and visitor experience at the Paris landmark, forcing management to only partially open to frustrated tourists. Hundreds had queued in the brisk weather hoping to enter the world's most visited museum as the vote delayed opening, with ...
Hezbollah’s Ammar Al-Moussawi Makes Secret Visit to Saudi Arabia
This is Beirut 2025-12-18 17:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hezbollah official Ammar Al-Moussawi has been on a secret three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, coordinated through Turkish mediation following his trip to Istanbul for the “Al-Ahd for Jerusalem Conference,” according to Nidaa Al-Watan. Sources cited by the newspaper said the meetings focused on providing “reassurances” regarding the recent ...
Egyptian PM Pledges Full Support to Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-12-19 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday, reaffirming Egypt’s steadfast support for Lebanon and stressing the need for stability, sovereignty, and full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. In his remarks, Madbouly said the visit aimed to “convey Egypt’s full support to ...
Netanyahu Set to Present Iran Strike Options to Trump
This is Beirut 2025-12-20 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to present plans for a potential strike on Iran to U.S. President Donald Trump during his forthcoming visit to the United States, NBC News reports, citing several unnamed officials. According to the report, Israel is increasingly alarmed that Iran is rebuilding, and possibly expanding, its ballistic ...
US Senator Accuses Hamas and Hezbollah of Rearming
This is Beirut 2025-12-21 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Senator Lindsey Graham accused Hamas and Hezbollah of rearming during a visit to Israel on Sunday and charged that the Palestinian Islamist group was also consolidating power in Gaza. After two years of war between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian territory, a fragile ceasefire has held since October, despite both sides trading accusations ...
Israel and Hamas Agree to First Phase of Gaza Peace Deal
This is Beirut 2025-10-09 08:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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In a pivotal development, Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire and peace deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. The agreement, announced late Wednesday, includes the release of hostages and prisoners, a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces, and a large-scale humanitarian aid effort. Trump, speaking on Fox News ...
Israeli Far-Right Minister Visits Al-Aqsa Compound in Jerusalem
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 14:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, visited the Al-Aqsa compound on Wednesday, his spokesperson told AFP, as indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas were being held in Egypt on ending the Gaza war. The visit is Ben Gvir's eleventh as minister to the disputed area, located in occupied East Jerusalem, which ...
Iranian Media Report Death of Khamenei's Daughter, Son-in-Law and Granddaughter
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Iranian media reported on Sunday that the daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in US and Israeli strikes. "After establishing contact with informed sources in the Supreme Leader's household, the news of the martyrdom of the daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter of the Revolutionary ...
Australia To Spend US$8 Billion on Nuclear Sub Shipyard Facility
This is Beirut 2025-09-14 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Australia will spend an initial Aus$12 billion (US$8 billion) to upgrade shipyard facilities for a future fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, the government said Sunday. The "very significant" investment is to be spent over a decade to transform a shipbuilding and maintenance precinct in Perth, Western Australia, Defence Minister ...
Vienna State Opera Celebrates Season with Free Gala Concert
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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No dress code, no stiff atmosphere, and no entry fees: Thousands flocked to a Viennese park Sunday as the Vienna State Opera opened its 2025-26 season with a star-studded open-air gala concert for the first time. The free, open-air concert was the state opera's latest effort to «open the house to all – especially new listeners», it said in a ...
Will Lebanon Disarm Hezbollah, or Not?
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-09-09 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The Lebanese cabinet heard, on Friday, a presentation from Army Chief Rodolphe Haykal on a confidential plan to monopolize arms, as tasked by the government on August 5. The cabinet then issued a statement, and Information Minister Paul Morcos held a press conference. The vague responses left observers divided, with each side interpreting the ...
Ethiopia Inaugurates Africa's Biggest Dam
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 12:51 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calling it a "great achievement for all black people" despite years of diplomatic rancour over the dam with downstream neighbour Egypt. For Ethiopia, the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD), straddling a tributary of the River ...
The Creator of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Returns With Ambitious New Thriller
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Best-selling American author Dan Brown, creator of the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, released his latest thriller Tuesday in 16 languages simultaneously. The Secret of Secrets, which runs to nearly 700 pages in English, marks Brown's return eight years after his last novel, Origin. Brown called it "by far the most intricately plotted ...
Houthi Media Says Israel Struck Yemeni Capital
This is Beirut 2025-09-10 20:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Yemen's Houthis on Tuesday said Israeli air strikes hit Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, with an AFP journalist reporting the sound of explosions. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Israeli strikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa and Jawf province on Wednesday, the insurgents said in a statement. "The death toll has ...
Poland Calls Emergency UN Meeting Over Drone Raid Blamed on Russia
This is Beirut 2025-09-11 15:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Poland said Thursday it had called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss violations of its airspace, a day after it accused Russia of carrying out a drone raid on its territory. Poland said the incident was not accidental and branded it an "unprecedented" attack on Poland, NATO and the European Union, but Moscow denied ...
Ed Sheeran’s 'Play' Album Arrives Friday as Tour Launches in Paris
This is Beirut 2025-09-12 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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British popstar Ed Sheeran, who recently revealed an upcoming United States tour, will release his latest album Play on Friday. Play is the 34-year-old singer-songwriter's eighth studio album and follows more than a decade of stunning global success and smash hits like Shape of You and Perfect. He released his last album, Autumn Variations, in ...
Israel Says Lebanese Operatives Eliminated Were Tied to Iran’s Unit 840
This is Beirut 2025-09-12 13:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Two Lebanese nationals, Qassem Salah al-Husseini and Mohammed Shuaib, were identified by the Israeli army Friday as key operators of several cells tied to Unit 840, the special operations branch of Iran’s Quds Force. On Friday, the Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, wrote on X that the two men, killed last month in Lebanon, ...
Kremlin Says Ukraine Peace Talks on Pause as Zelensky Warns of Putin’s Aims
This is Beirut 2025-09-12 19:21 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Moscow said Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on "pause" as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin still had plans to try to capture the whole of Ukraine. US President Donald Trump warned meanwhile that he was fast running out of patience with Putin, who has shown no intention of ...
Trump to Deploy National Guard Troops to Memphis in Latest Crime Crackdown
This is Beirut 2025-09-12 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would deploy National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee, in the latest stage of his crime crackdown that critics say is authoritarian. The Republican president has sent military forces into Los Angeles and Washington and pledged to expand orders to other cities, including Chicago and New York. Some ...
110,000 Turn Out for Far-Right Rally in London
This is Beirut 2025-09-13 18:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
More than 100,000 people massed Saturday in central London for a march and rally organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, as anti-racism campaigners held a smaller counter-protest. Huge crowds, many draped in English and British flags, gathered through the morning just south of Westminster for what Robinson, a veteran of UK far-right ...
Palestinians Flee Gaza City Under Israeli Bombardment
This is Beirut 2025-09-14 14:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestinian families streamed out of Gaza City on Sunday, some crammed into pickup trucks, others on foot, as Israeli forces pressed their assault on the territory's main urban center. Parents carried their children while the elderly hobbled along, an AFP journalist reported. A man in a wheelchair and another on crutches were among the long line ...
Yemeni Authorities Arrest Lebanese and Syrians Over Houthi-Linked Captagon Factory
This is Beirut 2025-09-06 14:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Yemen’s Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that it had arrested a group of Lebanese and Syrian nationals in Aden who were preparing to move into Houthi-controlled areas to oversee the establishment of a new factory for producing narcotic pills. In a statement, the ministry said security forces in the temporary capital, Aden, apprehended ...
Ukrainian Source Claims Attacks on Russian Railways
This is Beirut 2025-09-14 17:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A source in Ukraine's military intelligence agency on Sunday claimed responsibility for two attacks on Russia's railway system over the weekend that derailed a train and killed three Russian officers. The source told AFP that Ukraine's GUR military agency had targeted "important logistical links in supplying the occupying forces ...