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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 to Meet with Xi at South Korea Summit

This is Beirut 2025-10-17 16:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Donald Trump will hold talks with China's Xi Jinping during the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea, the US president said in a Fox interview excerpt released Friday. "We're going to meet in a couple of weeks. We're going to meet in South Korea, actually with the President Xi and other people, too," Trump said in an interview with Fox News show ...

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 ...

Hamas says Committed to Ceasefire Agreement, to Return all Bodies

This is Beirut 2025-10-17 10:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Ceasefire Hamas Palestine

Hamas said it was committed to the US-brokered agreement that halted its war with Israel, and to returning all the bodies of hostages still unaccounted for under the ruins of Gaza. Responding to a call from the militant group for assistance with locating the bodies of the 19 hostages, buried under the rubble alongside an untold number of ...

The Illusion of October 17

Tylia El Helou 2025-10-17 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Lebanon Revolution

In October 2019, Lebanon was on its last breath. Decades of corruption, clientelism, and mismanagement had pushed the country to the brink of collapse. The announcement of a tax on WhatsApp calls was the spark: hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, from all sects, poured into the streets, shouting their anger at the political class. The slogans ...

New York Mayoral Hopefuls Clash in High-Stakes Debate

This is Beirut 2025-10-17 05:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

New York United States Election

A socialist, an accused molester and a vigilante all hoping to be New York's next mayor clashed in a debate with "high levels of testosterone" Thursday as the unpredictable campaign enters the homestretch. Democratic candidate and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, independent former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis ...

Trump and Putin Hold Phone Call Ahead of Zelensky's Visit to Washington

This is Beirut 2025-10-16 18:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin began a «long» phone conversation Thursday, according to the U.S. president. «I am currently in conversation with President Putin. The conversation is ongoing, it is long, and I will report on it, just like President Putin, at the end,» Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.  The call ...

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 ...

Hezbollah and the “Reality Principle”

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

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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 ...

MTV Music: Farewell to an Icon

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

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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 ...

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

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

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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 ...

Sheikh Naim’s Clash with the Formal Economy

Johnny Kortbawi 2025-10-24 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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One of Hezbollah’s most pressing challenges, beyond its ongoing military decline and Israel’s persistent targeting of its depots and stockpiles, is its financial crisis. The depletion of resources has left the group unable to engage with its population as it once did to sustain its alternative economy. A clear example is Sheikh Naim ...

Trump Completes Demolition of White House East Wing

This is Beirut 2025-10-24 05:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Demolition workers have finished tearing down the White House's entire East Wing to make way for US President Donald Trump's giant new $300 million ballroom, satellite pictures showed Thursday. The completion of the wrecking work came as the White House released a list of donors to the ballroom including Apple, Google and Meta. A gray ...

Brigitte Bardot Silences Death Rumors With Defiant Message

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

"I'm doing well," the French 91-year-old film icon Brigitte Bardot said on Wednesday evening, seeking to quell persistent speculation over her health on social media while criticizing "idiot" internet users. "I'm doing well," the ’60s star and outspoken animal rights activist posted on X. "I don't know which idiot started this 'fake news' story ...

The Shamkhani Wedding Scandal: How a Leaked Wedding Became Iran’s Mirror of Moral Collapse

Salam El Zaatari 2025-10-23 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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In mid-October 2025, a leaked video from a private wedding set Iran ablaze, digitally, politically and morally. It wasn’t just any celebration. The footage showed the daughter of Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, one of Iran’s most powerful men and a close confidant of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, parading in a strapless white gown at the ...

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)

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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 ...

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 ...

Morocco Pledges Social Reforms Amid Protests

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

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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 ...

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, ...

The Lebanese Demand Peace with Israel

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

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"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)

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    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)

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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, ...

Two Killed as Violence Flares in Morocco Protests

This is Beirut 2025-10-02 14:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Morocco Protests

Two people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to "storm" a police station in Morocco on Wednesday, state media said, as protests -- sometimes violent -- roil the north African nation. Demonstrations have convulsed Morocco for several days, urged on by the GenZ 212 group, a recently formed collective ...

Generation Z: Anger Spreads Across Continents

Moncef Ait-Kaci 2025-10-01 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

In Morocco, the protest movement has reached an unprecedented scale over the past four days. From Rabat to Casablanca, from Oujda to Tiznit, and also in Agadir, thousands of young people have mobilized around the Gen Z 212 collective, which had been largely unknown until now. Clashes have multiplied, including confrontations with security forces, ...

Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall in Cuba After Roaring Across Jamaica

This is Beirut 2025-10-29 10:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

USA Cuba Hurricane Melissa Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa picked up strength as it bore down on Cuba, where it made landfall Wednesday after ripping a path of destruction through Jamaica as one of the most powerful hurricanes on record there, lashing the island nation with brutal winds and torrential rain. The monster storm was still 110 miles (175 kilometers) away from Guantanamo late ...