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Waste Crisis: Heading Back to the 2015 Chaos?
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-09 15:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The shadow of Lebanon’s 2015 waste crisis loomed briefly over the country once again. On Tuesday morning, Ramco trucks halted waste collection across Mount Lebanon, Keserwan and Beirut after the Jdeideh landfill abruptly closed in the early hours. Intervention from the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR), which ordered the temporary ...
After Gaza’s Deal, A Momentum in the Region for More Peace Stability in Syria, Lebanon?
Seth J. Frantzman 2025-10-13 20:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Gaza Hezbollah Iran Donald Trump United States
U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal to end the Gaza war has proven to be initially successful. He was able to bring together delegations from Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, and Hamas in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh in mid-October. In the wake of the deal, Trump flew to Israel and Egypt and chaired a peace summit ...
Paracetamol, Pregnancy, Autism: The Debate Reignited
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-09 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Paracetamol Pregnancy Autism Science Risk
Who hasn’t slipped a pack of paracetamol into their bag or medicine cabinet? As the pain reliever and fever reducer most of us rely on, paracetamol is a daily fixture, especially for pregnant women, who are often advised to avoid many other medications. Yet this familiar gesture conceals an important question: is paracetamol use during pregnancy ...
Semaan Douaihy Joins the World Futsal Board
Makram Haddad 2025-10-09 11:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Semaan Douaihy Futsal Sports
A global whistle for a local builder. FIFA has officially appointed Semaan Douaihy to its Futsal Committee for the 2025-2029 term. A backseat position? No. Rather, it is a technical box from which the direction, formats, regulations, development, and roadmap of a rapidly growing discipline are decided. For Lebanon, it is a flag planted in the ...
Outgoing French PM Sees New Premier Named in Next 48 Hours
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 23:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sebastien Lecornu France Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister within the next 48 hours, his office said on Wednesday, after the resignation of outgoing premier Sebastien Lecornu tipped the country deeper into political crisis. Lecornu told French TV in an interview earlier that he expected a new premier to be named, rather than early ...
NBA Back In China After Six-Year Absence Sparked By Democracy Tweet
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 12:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The NBA returns to the lucrative China market this week with two pre-season games following a six-year absence after a team official tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The Brooklyn Nets and the Phoenix Suns will play sell-out games on Friday and Sunday in Macau, a special administrative region of China close to Hong ...
France's Macron Under Pressure to Produce Working Government
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Sébastien Lecornu France Prime Minister
The clock ticked down Wednesday for France's President Emmanuel Macron to find an exit from his worst domestic crisis, after his first prime minister and one-time ally urged him to resign. Macron, who has been in power since 2017, has failed to lift the country out of political deadlock after snap elections last year ended in a hung parliament ...
Hezbollah’s Support Front, One Year On: Between Denial and Confrontation
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-10-07 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah Hamas support front
On October 8, 2023, Hezbollah entered the support war against Israel alongside Hamas, which had launched the Al-Aqsa Flood operation the day before. At the time, Hezbollah was at the peak of its military strength, accumulated over decades, and many expected it to advance into Israel’s Galilee region. Hezbollah’s support front ended on ...
Gaza: Returning to Zero
This is Beirut 2025-10-13 16:35 - Reading : less than a minute
In Gaza, displaced families return to find their homes destroyed after two years of bombardment. With no shelter, water or electricity, they have to start over from nothing.
Joseph Aoun: Dialogue with Israel Is Possible
Marc Saikali 2025-10-14 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Joseph Aoun Donald Trump Hamas Hezbollah
President Joseph Aoun delivered two sentences that may well mark a turning point for Lebanon. First, he stated that “our country cannot remain on the sidelines of efforts undertaken to resolve the crises unfolding in the region.” Then he added that “a dialogue with Israel is possible.” These two brief remarks echoed those of Donald Trump ...
Tinder AI Connection: When the Algorithm Plays Cupid
Paul Guillot 2025-10-07 11:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
With digital apps shaping more and more of our love lives, Tinder – the world’s leading dating platform with over 55 billion matches recorded – is taking a new step forward. The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is not just transforming our search for love; it’s reshaping the very nature of human interaction, raising ...
Turkish Experts to Help Find Bodies in Gaza, as Trump Warns Hamas
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 09:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel Palestinians Conflict Turkey
Turkey has deployed dozens of disaster relief specialists to help search for bodies under the mountains of rubble in Gaza, as US President Donald Trump fired a warning at Hamas Thursday over a spate of recent killings in the territory. Trump characterised the killings as a breach of the ceasefire deal he spearheaded, under which the ...
One Year After Nasrallah’s Death, Hezbollah Struggles to Rebuild
This is Beirut 2025-10-20 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Hamas Hashem Safieddine Iran
A year after the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on Beirut on September 27, 2024, Hezbollah is quietly attempting to rebuild its shattered leadership and reassert its influence. According to a detailed report by Le Figaro correspondent Georges Malbrunot, the Shia militia now operates in a state of ...
The Jeopardized Peace
Charles Chartouni 2025-10-20 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Gaza Hamas Donald Trump Hezbollah
The significant progress toward peace achieved by the Trump administration presents a valuable opportunity if key obstacles can be overcome. None of the earlier, ill-conceived attempts to end the cycle of violence compare with the outstanding diplomatic achievement of the American administration. The humbug of the French president has faded away, ...
Man Utd Stretch Liverpool Losing Streak To Four Games
This is Beirut 2025-10-19 21:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Harry Maguire Manchester United Liverpool
Liverpool slumped to a fourth consecutive defeat for the first time in 11 years as Manchester United won 2-1 on Sunday to end their near decade-long wait for victory at Anfield. Harry Maguire's 84th minute header secured back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time in Ruben Amorim's tenure as United boss. Twelve minutes from time, Cody ...
What Your Handbag Really Reveals About Your Personality
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-19 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Handbags Fashion Personality Culture Women
A handbag is almost an extension of oneself. You choose it in the morning, carry it everywhere and rarely forget it. Yet few women consider how they actually wear it, though that simple gesture can say a lot. Between practicality, a need for security, a touch of vanity or a desire for freedom, our bags reveal not only our little habits but also ...
On the Sidewalk of Forgetfulness: Lebanon’s Street Children Forced to Survive
Maria Chami 2025-10-18 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
At an age when they should be playing and learning, these children are weighed down by harsh realities. One hand offers chewing gum, flowers or tissues for sale; the other carries the burden of a childhood stolen too soon. School is a distant dream. Safety is out of reach. Innocence is lost. A UNICEF and Save the Children report reveals that ...
Hamas Says Committed to Gaza Truce and Returning Hostage Remains
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 22:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Hamas insisted it was committed to returning all the hostage remains still unaccounted for under Gaza's ruins, as a Turkish official said specialists dispatched to help find bodies were on Friday awaiting Israeli permission to enter. Responding to a call from Hamas for help locating the bodies of the 19 hostages, buried under the rubble alongside ...
LAF Soldiers “Led Into a Trap” in Zebqine Blast, Sources Say
This is Beirut 2025-10-17 07:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Six Lebanese soldiers were killed on August 9 in a powerful explosion in the Zebqine valley near Majdel Zoun, in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district. While initial reports pointed to an accidental explosion, a U.S. intelligence source said that contacts within the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) confirmed the unit “was led into a ...
Samy Merheg, the Lebanese-Colombian Prodigy Who Caught Jorge Mendes’ Eye
Pierre Daccache 2025-10-14 11:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Football Samy Merheg Jorge Mendes Colombia
It’s a story that’s starting to make noise well beyond Lebanon. At just 18 years old, Samy Jr. Merheg has been taken under the wing of Jorge Mendes, one of the most powerful agents in world football, known for managing the careers of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lamine Yamal, and Bernardo Silva, as reported by the Spanish outlet AS. This partnership ...
Israel's Netanyahu says Determined to Secure Return of all Hostages
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 14:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Donald Trump USA Hamas
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he was determined to ensure that Hamas hands back the remains of hostages still in Gaza, adding that the fight "is not over yet". Under a ceasefire agreement spearheaded by US President Donald Trump, Hamas returned the last 20 surviving hostages to Israel, and said it ...
Bangladesh Prosecution Demands Death Penalty for ex-PM Hasina
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Bangladeshi prosecution lawyers demanded on Thursday that fugitive ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina receive the death penalty in her trial for crimes against humanity. Hasina has defied court orders to return from India, where she fled last year, to face charges of ordering a deadly crackdown in a failed attempt to crush a student-led ...
Sandra Oh Makes Her Opera Debut
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Best known for her acclaimed TV roles in Grey's Anatomy and Killing Eve, Sandra Oh says she finds herself "amazed" by the magic of the stage as she readies for her operatic debut in New York on Friday. In La Fille du Regiment, Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera, the Canadian-American actress plays the Duchess of ...
Rare Earths: Strategic Metals Key to Future Tech
This is Beirut 2025-10-16 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump European Union US Treasury China Rare Earths
Rare earths are minerals used to make magnets crucial to the auto, electronic and defense industries, as well as in renewable energy. The US Treasury Secretary slammed export curbs imposed by Beijing last week on technologies used for rare-earth mining, smelting, and other processing steps. Scott Bessent said on Thursday it was "China versus the ...
Israel Says Military Received Two Hostage Bodies from Red Cross in Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-10-15 23:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel said its forces received two hostage bodies from the Red Cross on Wednesday, which had been returned under a US-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza. "Israel has received, through the Red Cross, two coffins containing the bodies of hostages who were handed over to the [Israeli military] and Shin Bet (security agency) forces inside the Gaza ...
Australian Moths Use Stars as Compass
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-15 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Each spring, in the silence of Australian night, billions of Bogong moths take flight on an extraordinary journey. They travel hundreds of kilometers from their native lands in southeastern Australia to the icy caves of Australian Alps, where they cluster by thousands to spend summer in a protective torpor known as aestivation. In autumn, they ...
In 'the Last Ship', Sting Honors a Lost Industry and Warns of a Divided Future
This is Beirut 2025-10-15 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Music Sting AI Britain Culture Art
British singer-songwriting legend Sting finds the multiple genres and streaming platforms of the modern music scene "quite odd", but still believes in the power of song to unite people. In an interview with AFP, the 74-year-old with 17 Grammy Awards and sales of over 100 million albums also spoke about his worries about AI as a tool for ...
Two Years After October 7, Israel Still Awaits Its Official Truth
Mario Chartouni 2025-10-07 12:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Two years on from Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel, the country is still waiting for an official account of the events. Although the Israeli army and security services have acknowledged a “total failure,” no State Commission—the most powerful investigative body under Israeli law—has yet been convened. This absence has fueled ...
‘Entre Terre et Mer:’ Irène Ghanem at the Edge of the World
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-07 10:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Lebanon Irène Ghanem Exhibition Mark Hachem Paintings Culture
In the vibrant arena of contemporary Lebanese painting, few artists carry color as both a sharp wound and an act of faith. Born in Beirut in 1970, Irène Ghanem embodies a generation that has seen light emerge from chaos, enduring war, exile and then rebirth, never losing sight of the need to invent a personal visual language. Just hours before ...
The End of an Era: Hezbollah Without Its Anchor
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-09-26 12:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah Lebanon
September 27, 2024, marked a turning point for Hezbollah. At 6:30 PM, a powerful shockwave tore through Beirut’s southern suburb and its surroundings, but the deeper tremor was political. In a matter of seconds, the “Party of God” entered free fall. Hassan Nasrallah, the movement’s towering figure, its uncontested leader and the symbol of ...