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Countdown to Nobel Literature Prize 2025: Experts Favor Western Contenders
This is Beirut 2025-10-09 12:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The Nobel literature prize could go to a Western author this Thursday, experts predict, though bookies have several authors from Asia as top picks even after South Korea's Han Kang last year became the first Asian woman to win. Awarding the prize to another woman this year would make history: it has never gone to a woman two years in a row, and ...
Trio Wins Chemistry Nobel for New Form of Molecular Architecture
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 14:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Three scientists on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that can be used to capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from desert air, among other things. Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson, and American-Jordanian Omar Yaghi were honored for their groundbreaking discoveries ...
Erdogan Says Trump Asked Turkey to 'Persuade Hamas' on Gaza Peace
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 11:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump asked Turkey to "persuade" Hamas to accept his plan for ending the Gaza war, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a transcript shared by his office Wednesday. His remarks came as negotiators from Israel and Hamas were due to hold a third day of indirect negotiations in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh aimed ...
Syria Announces 'Comprehensive Ceasefire' with Kurds After Clashes
This is Beirut 2025-10-07 22:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syria announced a comprehensive ceasefire with Kurdish forces after a meeting on Tuesday between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi that followed deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. Syria's authorities, who took power last year after overthrowing Bashar al-Assad, have rejected Kurdish demands for a ...
Nobel Literature Buzz Tips Swiss Postmodernist, Australians for Prize
This is Beirut 2025-10-07 15:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Swiss postmodernist novelist Christian Kracht and Australia's Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright are among the favorites for the Nobel literature prize, experts told AFP ahead of the Swedish Academy's much-anticipated announcement on Thursday. The academy made history last year by choosing South Korea's Han Kang, making her the first Asian woman to ...
Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling
This is Beirut 2025-10-07 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said. The trio was honoured "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit," the jury said. Quantum mechanics ...
Algorithms, Lavender, and the Art of War
Paul Guillot 2025-10-07 11:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In 2023, the conflict between Israel and certain armed groups in Gaza saw the large-scale use of artificial intelligence in military operations. One program, called Lavender, became a central tool for target selection. It relies on machine learning algorithms that cross-reference multiple sources – images, intercepted communications, and ...
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Paul Guillot 2025-10-07 11:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
It has no face. No body. And yet, it is everywhere. Artificial intelligence (AI) has slipped into our phones, our cars, our medical diagnoses, our administrative decisions, our screens. It simulates and executes. So why do we still hesitate to look it straight in the eye? Because it is abstract? Because we still think it’s meant only for ...
Israel Launches Air Strikes on Gaza, Says Troops Attacked
This is Beirut 2025-10-28 23:31 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Gaza's civil defense agency said Israel carried out air strikes Tuesday despite an ongoing ceasefire after accusing Hamas of attacking its troops and violating the US-brokered truce. At least 11 people were killed when one strike hit a house in Gaza City, the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas, said. Prime Minister Benjamin ...
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 ...
Egypt's Foreign Minister Presents De-Escalation Proposal to Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-11-26 14:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed Cairo’s “full support” for Lebanon’s efforts to assert exclusive state control over weapons during an official visit to Beirut on Wednesday. After talks with President Joseph Aoun, Abdelatty underscored Egypt’s backing for the president’s latest Independence ...
Boualem Sansal: Germany Appeals to Algeria for Franco-Algerian Novelist’s Pardon
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 16:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Steinmeier's office said he had asked Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to pardon Sansal as "a humanitarian gesture." "Given Sansal's advanced age and fragile health condition," Steinmeier also "offered Sansal's relocation to Germany and subsequent medical care in our country." A pardon for Sansal ...
AI Nostalgia Videos Revive a Dreamy Vision of 1980s Life
This is Beirut 2025-11-25 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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“The 1980s are calling,” a teenager with a throwback hairstyle tells viewers as “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” the Tears for Fears rock anthem from that decade, plays in the background. The fake montage — entirely generated using artificial intelligence — has racked up more than 600,000 “likes” on Instagram and is part of an ...
Law 174 On Standby, Lungs In Distress: Lebanon On The Brink Of Apnea
Makram Haddad 2025-11-25 09:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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The conference room of the Ministry of Public Health filled up early in the morning. Blue and white banners, printed slogans, serious faces. Under the slogan “With Every Breath… You Lose a Breath” – “With each breath, you lose a breath” – the ministry, in partnership with the National Committee for the ...
'Wicked' Sequel Dominates Box Office With Record-Breaking Debut
This is Beirut 2025-11-24 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Universal's musical sequel Wicked: For Good stole the box office spotlight in its North America debut this weekend, with a record-setting haul to the tune of $150 million, industry estimates showed Sunday. Variety said the film's debut was the highest ever for a Broadway musical adaptation, while analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment ...
Public Administration Begins Major Downsizing
Liliane Mokbel 2025-11-22 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Civil Service Council has proposed an unprecedented plan: cutting 5,600 positions from the 28,000 currently in the public administration. This 20 percent reduction is described as essential to modernize a state apparatus that has become heavy, costly, and ill-suited to current needs. Most of the positions targeted are already vacant or ...
Memory Chip Crunch Set to Drive up Smartphone Prices
This is Beirut 2025-11-20 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Shoppers could face higher prices for phones, laptops, and other gadgets next year, manufacturers and analysts warn, as AI data centers hoover up memory chips used in consumer electronics. The world's biggest tech companies are plowing head-spinningly huge sums into building the hardware that powers artificial intelligence tools like ...
Romania Scrambles Jets Over Fresh Drone Incursion
This is Beirut 2025-11-19 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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NATO member Romania, bordering Ukraine, scrambled fighter jets early on Wednesday after a fresh drone incursion, the defense ministry said, while neighboring Moldova also reported that its airspace was breached. Romania and Moldova have repeatedly seen violations of their airspaces, including drone fragments falling onto their soil, following ...
Tom Cruise Receives an Honorary Oscar for His Body of Work
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Often nominated but never awarded, American actor Tom Cruise received an Honorary Oscar on Sunday night—the first golden statuette of his long and decorated career—before a hall full of Hollywood’s biggest names at the Governors Awards. To the sound of the iconic Mission Impossible score, a defining element of the 63-year-old actor’s ...
Box Office Weekend Surprises Audiences with 'Now You See Me'
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't — the third installment in the crime-heist franchise about a group of magicians — debuted atop the North American box office, besting the Glen Powell-fronted remake of The Running Man, industry estimates showed Sunday. Lionsgate's Now You See Me — which reunites Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and ...
“Accident”: When Chance Collides With the Road
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-11-16 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Around 1.19 million people die in road traffic accidents every year worldwide. Each November 16, as part of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims – established by the UN in 2005 – the world pauses to acknowledge that a seemingly ordinary word hides devastating human realities. The term “accident”, often used as a synonym ...
US Museums Reopen as Tourists Celebrate Washington’s Cultural Revival
This is Beirut 2025-11-15 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Nick Adams couldn't help but smile as he showed his son the planes hanging in Washington's Air and Space Museum, which reopened Friday after a month closed due to the US government shutdown. "We had been planning this trip for a little while and were nervous with everything shut down, but were excited to see everything open up again," said the ...
YouTube Star MrBeast Brings 'Beast Land' to Riyadh Season Festival
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 17:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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MrBeast, the world's most followed YouTuber with over 450 million subscribers, opened a temporary amusement park in Riyadh on Thursday, the latest celebrity drawn to Saudi Arabia as it aspires to become a major entertainment hub. Eager for a chance to meet the social media star, families and teenagers gathered at "Beast Land," a venue featuring ...
Taekwondo: Habib Zarifeh Sets the Course, Kyo Suk Gyun Reaffirms Support
Makram Haddad 2025-11-11 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Taekwondo Habib Zarifeh Ambassador’s Cup
At the microphone, Habib Zarifeh set the tone: the Ambassador’s Cup is not a mere calendar date; it symbolizes a technical and human bond between the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Lebanese Taekwondo Federation. “Support, transmission, nationwide development”: the roadmap is clear, the ambition unapologetic. A Message to the ...
Saudi Women Keep Ancient Dance Alive Behind Closed Doors
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practice belly dancing, an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret. Despite their enthusiasm, none of them would give their real name or show their faces on camera, underlining the stigma and cultural prejudices surrounding the ancient dance. In Arab ...
Asia Markets Mostly up on Heels of Apple, Amazon Earnings
This is Beirut 2025-10-31 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Asian stock markets mostly rose Friday morning, with a surge in Japanese shares coming after better-than-expected earnings reports from US tech behemoths Apple and Amazon. Investor confidence in artificial intelligence has fuelled a rally in global stock markets this week that saw California-based chip designer Nvidia become the first-ever $5 ...
Amazon Poised to Host Toughest Climate Talks in Years
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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An odor of oil hung over last year's UN climate conference in Baku, the capital of fossil fuel-rich Azerbaijan. Starting Monday, the 50,000 participants of COP30 will instead feel the heavy, humid air of the Amazon rainforest in Belem, Brazil, where they face the daunting task of keeping global climate cooperation from collapsing. Unfazed, ...
Jazz Correia: The Gilded Cage
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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In JLC Family, Jazz’s home becomes the set of a real-life series. Her children take part in the performance, and her relationship unfolds in front of the camera, episode by episode. What viewers see is carefully edited and designed for Snapchat, Instagram, or YouTube. Gradually, the line between reality and fiction fades. Emotions become raw ...
Kendrick Lamar Dominates 2026 Grammy Nominations with Nine Nods
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards, music's highest honors, with nine, the Recording Academy announced Friday, fresh off winning five golden gramophones at the last gala. Lady Gaga ranked second among performers with seven nods for her Mayhem album, followed by a trio of artists tied at six, Bad Bunny, pop ...
Kazakhstan Joins the Abraham Accords: A Symbolic Move with Strategic Implications
Mario Chartouni 2025-11-07 14:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords, a diplomatic framework launched in 2020 to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab and Muslim states. The announcement came after a phone call between Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart ...