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Iran Offers New Proposal Amid Stalled U.S. Peace Talks

This is Beirut 01/05 17:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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According to Iranian state media reporting on Friday, Iran delivered a new proposal for peace talks with the U.S. via mediator Pakistan, with negotiations between the two sides frozen despite a weeks-long ceasefire. The text of the proposal was handed to Islamabad on Thursday evening, the IRNA news agency reported. The war, launched by the ...

Morocco Pledges Social Reforms Amid Protests

This is Beirut 2025-10-20 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Morocco Gen Z Education Protest

The Moroccan government on Sunday announced a set of measures aimed at encouraging young people to engage in politics and pledging social reforms amid youth-led protests, state media reported. A draft finance bill for 2026 would improve social services, including public education and healthcare -- two key sectors which demonstrators have urged ...

The Lebanese Demand Peace with Israel

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-10-21 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Peace

"Break the taboos; we demand peace," declared Marcel Ghanem, host of Lebanon’s premier talk show. "Demanding peace [with Israel] is not a crime," he emphasized, challenging entrenched narratives. Marwan Hamade, a seasoned Druze lawmaker, appeared on I24 News (French service) to discuss Gaza, signaling a willingness to defy Lebanon’s surreal ...

US Vice President Vance in Israel to Shore up Gaza Deal

This is Beirut 2025-10-21 14:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam USA Benjamin Netanyahu JD Vance Gaza

    US Vice President JD Vance landed in Israel on Tuesday to shore up a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, after President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breached the truce. Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were already in Tel Aviv, where they met Israeli hostages released by Hamas ...

France's Former President Sarkozy Jailed, Proclaiming his Innocence

This is Beirut 2025-10-21 12:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. France's right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012 was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Moammar Kadhafi's Libya for the campaign that saw him elected. AFP ...

China Hawk Takaichi Named Japan's First Woman PM

This is Beirut 2025-10-21 09:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Sanae Takaichi Japan China Prime Minister

Japan got its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social conservative, forged an 11th-hour coalition deal. Japan's fifth premier in as many years will lead a minority government and has a bulging in-tray, not least a scheduled visit by US President Donald Trump next week. The lower house of parliament ...

Bolivia's President-Elect Says Will Resume Ties with US after Nearly Two Decades

This is Beirut 2025-10-20 21:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Bolivia United States Rodrigo Paz

Bolivia's new center-right president-elect said Monday he would seek to reinstate diplomatic ties with the United States that were broken off nearly two decades ago under leftist ex-leader Evo Morales. "In the specific case of the United States... that relationship will be resumed," economist-turned-senator Rodrigo Paz, 58, told reporters after ...

AWS Outage Disrupts Major Apps and Services Worldwide

This is Beirut 2025-10-20 12:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused significant disruptions across many of the world’s most popular apps, websites, and online services from social media platforms like Snapchat to government websites such as the UK’s HMRC. The issue, which began around midnight Pacific time (10 a.m. Beirut Time) on Monday, ...

Hezbollah and the “Reality Principle”

Michel Touma 2025-10-20 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Middle East United States

Major developments are unfolding rapidly in the Levant, placing the region before what increasingly seems like an urgent reality: Hezbollah’s leadership, and more broadly its Iranian backers, need to align their political conduct with the so-called “reality principle.” In psychoanalytic terms, the “reality principle” means facing facts ...

Trump Urged Ukraine to Give Up Land in 'Tense' Talks

This is Beirut 2025-10-21 19:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to give up the eastern Donbas region in exchange for peace during "tense" talks last Friday in Washington, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP. The source added that the talks with Trump were "not easy" and that diplomatic efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war felt ...

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Delicate Position of Iran’s Jews

Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-10-19 19:10 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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With around 10,000 members, Iran’s Jewish community is the second largest in the Middle East. Its presence is discreet but tangible in a nation marked by pronounced hostility toward Israel, most recently expressed during 12 days of open conflict last June. The Jewish presence in the lands of present-day Iran dates back to the eighth century ...

Trump Says US to End 'Payments and Subsidies' to Colombia over Drug Production

This is Beirut 2025-10-19 17:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States is halting financial aid to Colombia, a longstanding US ally, as he accused its president of condoning the production of drugs. Trump said leftist President Gustavo Petro is doing nothing to stop cocaine production despite "large scale payments and subsidies from the USA." "AS ...

Looksmaxxing: The Male Side of the Beauty Obsession

Sana Richa Choucair 2025-10-19 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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On TikTok, forums and countless corners of the web, a growing trend grips young men: looksmaxxing, the drive to “maximize” one’s appearance. This isn’t just grooming or fitness, it’s conforming to rigid aesthetic ideals with extreme methods, turning bodies into commodities. What is the origin of this term? What vocabulary has it ...

US Says ‘Credible Reports’ Hamas Planning Attack Against Gaza Civilians

This is Beirut 2025-10-19 02:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam United States Gaza Hamas Israël

The US State Department on Saturday said it had "credible reports" that Palestinian armed group Hamas was planning an imminent attack against civilians in Gaza, a move Washington said would be a "ceasefire violation." "This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and ...

US Envoy Witkoff Felt 'Betrayed' by Israeli Attack on Hamas in Qatar

This is Beirut 2025-10-18 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam United States Qatar Steve Witkoff

US envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's chief negotiator on the Middle East, has said that he felt "betrayed" when Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month. In a CBS interview alongside Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who worked with Witkoff on the brokering of a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and ...

Pakistan to Hold Talks with Afghanistan in Qatar after Latest Strikes

This is Beirut 2025-10-18 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Pakistan Afghanistan Qatar

Pakistani and Afghan officials were due to meet in Qatar on Saturday, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes that killed at least 10 people in Afghanistan and broke a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border. The strikes targeted what Pakistani security sources said was a militant group linked to the Pakistani Taliban in the ...

Trump Says Middle East Allies Ready to 'Straighten out Hamas' If Asked

This is Beirut 2025-10-21 17:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that allied nations in the Middle East were prepared to send troops into Gaza, at his request, to confront Hamas if the group did not cease its alleged violations of his peace plan. The threat comes a day after Trump warned Hamas would be "eradicated" if the group did not meet expectations of the agreement, ...

Lebanon 2019: Behind a Programmed Revolution (2/2)

Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-22 12:30 - Reading : 11 minute(s)

Central Bank of Lebanon Free Patriotic Movement Amal Banks

Lebanon has an exceptionally dense civil society sector. Hundreds of local NGOs receive funding from international organizations such as the European Union, various United Nations agencies, private foundations like Ford, Rockefeller and Open Society, as well as contributions from the diaspora. Most of this funding is fully declared, independently ...

The British Museum Goes Glam: London’s Answer to the Met Gala

This is Beirut 2025-10-18 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The British Museum, the prestigious London institution, is hosting its first-ever fundraising gala on Saturday — a lavish and glamorous event aiming to rival New York’s Met Gala, and above all, to raise money to offset declining public subsidies. The museum, which holds one of the largest permanent collections in the world, says it aims to ...

US Imposes Sanctions on Colombia President

This is Beirut 2025-10-24 22:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

United States Colombia Sanction Politics

The United States on Friday announced sanctions on Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, who Washington has accused of failing to curb illicit drug trafficking, alongside his wife and son. "President Petro has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity," said US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a statement unveiling the ...

Labubu and Pazuzu: The Sinister Tale of a Viral Doll

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-26 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Labubu Pazuzu Doll Cuture Rumor

In recent months, social media has been buzzing with a peculiar rumor: the famous Labubu dolls, icons of Asian pop culture, may actually be modeled on Pazuzu, a demon from ancient Mesopotamia. Straddling the line between sensationalism and imagination, the rumor has sparked fascination and anxiety among fans, collectors and the wider public. But ...

Trump Says Increasing Tariffs on Canada by 10 Percent

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 05:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was hiking tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 percent, in the latest fallout over a Canadian anti-tariff ad that featured late US leader Ronald Reagan. The announcement came two days after Trump said he had terminated all trade talks with Canada over what he called the "fake" ad ...

Les Mains de Mamie Redefine Haute Couture

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-25 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Les Mains de Mamie Fashion Culture Grandmas Haute Couture

At first glance, Catherine’s flat in Saint-Étienne looks like any other French retiree’s home. Balls of yarn are scattered on the armchair, patterns are scribbled on scraps of paper, an old measuring tape lies nearby, and the television murmurs in the background. But for the past three years, her hands have been knitting for more than just ...

Criticism Will Motivate Yamal in Clasico, Says Barca Assistant

This is Beirut 2025-10-25 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Barcelona star Lamine Yamal will be motivated by criticism ahead of the Clasico, said the club's assistant coach on Saturday. Teenage winger Yamal has been in the spotlight in the Spanish capital after joking that Real Madrid "steal" and "complain" during an appearance on a social media stream. Spanish champions Barca face Real Madrid on Sunday ...

Kill the Woman

Amine Jules Iskandar 2025-10-25 12:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Lebanon Women Culture Christians Church

At the root of society lies the family, and at the root of the family lies the woman. Society is built on this basic unit, the household, which provides security and solidarity, shapes values and transmits heritage. This nucleus of social cohesion, for all humanity, is precisely what liberal and globalist ideologies have been targeting. To turn ...

1,500 People Facing Prosecution in Morocco Over GenZ Protests: NGO

This is Beirut 2025-10-24 22:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Morocco Justice Gen Z Protest

More than 1,500 people are facing prosecution in Morocco over recent GenZ 212 protests demanding better public education and health care, a local NGO said Friday. About a thousand of the suspects are currently in custody, and 240 have already been sentenced by a court in Agadir, in the south -- 39 of them to prison terms of between six and 15 ...

US Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats in Pacific Amid Rising Tensions with Colombia

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Donald Trump USA Gustavo Petro Colombia Drones Drugs

President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, traded angry threats Wednesday as the United States announced strikes on two alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean that left five people dead. Trump branded Petro a "thug" and suggested he was a drug trafficker leading his country to ruin, prompting the leftist ...

MTV Music: Farewell to an Icon

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-24 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Europe MTV Music Culture United Kingdom Shut down

The news broke quietly, first through news agencies and later confirmed by Paramount Global. MTV Music will cease broadcasting in several European countries by the end of 2025. Alongside its sister channels, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live, it will sign off in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and numerous other European and ...