Search : find someone on all social networks free 【Visit Sig8.com】9ZP42K8.ynWF 2385 result(s)
Kathryn Bigelow Ignites Venice with Explosive White House Thriller
This is Beirut 2025-09-02 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Venice Film Festival Italy Culture Art Movie
The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Kathryn Bigelow, is back at the Venice Film Festival Tuesday with a new White House thriller that Netflix hopes will find Oscar glory. The highly anticipated A House of Dynamite from the American director is one of 21 films competing for the top Golden Lion prize for best film on Saturday ...
Mobile Plans: When ‘Better Deals’ End Up Costing More
Christiane Tager 2025-09-02 15:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon economy communication Internet Mobile phone Alfa Touch
For years, Lebanon has struggled with failing essential services and soaring costs. This also applies to the mobile phone sector. With “adjusted” plans and unreliable networks, subscribers oscillate between resignation and frustration, all while waiting for a clear signal, both figuratively and literally. Here’s an example of a revision and ...
Seattle Sounders Stun Messi's Inter Miami to Lift Leagues Cup
This is Beirut 2025-09-01 18:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA MLS King's Cup Lionel Messi Inter Miami Seattle
The Seattle Sounders stunned Lionel Messi and Inter Miami 3-0 on Sunday to win the Leagues Cup, in a final marred by a post-match brawl in which Inter's Luis Suarez appeared to spit at an opposing coach. Osaze De Rosario scored in the 26th minute and Alex Roldan added a penalty in the second half before Paul Rothrock capped the scoring for the ...
AI Stirs Drama in Bollywood: Innovation or Invasion?
This is Beirut 2025-09-01 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cinema Bollywood AI Art Culture Movies
Bollywood, famed for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and vast production crews, now finds itself confronting a new kind of spectacle: artificial intelligence. From altering iconic endings to generating entire films, AI is shaking up India's multibillion-dollar film industry, raising alarm for some, excitement for others. The debate first ...
Xi and Putin Lash Out at the West Before Eurasian leaders
This is Beirut 2025-09-01 17:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin China Russia Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin took turns Monday to swipe at the West during a gathering of Eurasian leaders for a showpiece summit aimed at putting Beijing front and center of regional relations. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), comprising China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan ...
Argentine Cinema Shines at Venice Amidst Budget Cuts and Uncertainty
This is Beirut 2025-09-01 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cinema Culture Art Venice Film Festival Italy Festival
Although Argentina has been underrepresented at recent international festivals due to government cuts to the sector, five Argentine films are on show at the Venice Film Festival, including Lucrecia Martel's documentary Nuestra Tierra (Our Land). Since President Javier Milei came to power in December 2023, his austerity measures have had a major ...
Mental Load: The Silent Symptom of Feminine Desire
David Sahyoun 2025-09-03 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Feminine Desire Mental Load Symptom
In contemporary discourse, “mental load” refers to the invisible burden carried largely by women. It is the ongoing effort of planning, monitoring, remembering and worrying on behalf of others. Many describe it as a weight that never leaves the mind. From a psychoanalytic perspective, this phenomenon goes beyond domestic imbalance. Mental ...
Solomonic Judgment
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-01 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Gaza Hamas
International issues are pending, and nothing seems to move toward negotiated solutions across Ukraine and the wide arc of conflicts extending through the Middle East. None of the actors is interested in peacemaking; on the contrary, these zones of active conflict tend to work in the best interests of countries vying for imperial conquests and ...
The Nanjing Massacre Through Film: 'Dead to Rights' and China’s Lingering Trauma
This is Beirut 2025-08-30 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film China Japan Massacre History Culture
The film Dead to Rights, which recounts the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38, takes viewers through the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China. Released just before the 80th anniversary of China's victory over Japan, the film has become a powerful focal point of national remembrance, attracting large crowds to its filming set, now a tourist ...
Putin to Meet Iranian President After Europe Triggers Sanctions
This is Beirut 2025-08-29 17:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tehran Russia Nuclear Putin Masoud Pezeshkian
Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss Tehran's nuclear program with his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, in China on Monday, a meeting that comes as Iran faces fresh Western pressure. Britain, France and Germany have moved to reimpose sanctions on Iran, saying the country is failing to comply with a 2015 nuclear deal. Moscow on ...
Tom Barrack Calls on Netanyahu to Show ‘Tolerance and Understanding’ Toward Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-08-29 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Donald Trump Lebanese Army Hezbollah Tom Barrack
In an interview held after his departure from Lebanon, US special envoy Tom Barrack urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to show “tolerance and understanding” toward Lebanon, stressing that such an approach would benefit both countries. “I come from your region, I have Lebanese blood,” said Barrack, whose family hails from ...
Hope and Hate: How Migrant Influx has Changed Germany
This is Beirut 2025-08-29 13:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Ukraine Syria Migrants Germany Middle East
Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came during the huge migrant influx of 2015, when a million people arrived in a matter of months -- mostly from ...
Iranian Nuclear Issue: Moscow and Beijing Express Concerns Over EU Ultimatum
This is Beirut 2025-08-29 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tehran United Nations Nuclear Moscow Beijing Nuclear
Following the European decision to trigger the mechanism that could reinstate international sanctions against Iran within a month—a move set to be reviewed Friday by the UN Security Council, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-president, Kaja Kallas said Friday, “Western countries now have 30 days to find ...
Hope Dwindles for Survivors days After Deadly Afghan Quake
This is Beirut 2025-09-03 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Nations Afghanistan Earthquake Survivor
Hope faded Wednesday of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the weekend's powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as emergency services struggled to reach remote villages. A magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit the mountainous region bordering Pakistan on Sunday, leaving residents huddled in the open air for fear of powerful ...
Zelensky: Trump ‘Very Dissatisfied’ with EU’s Russian Oil Purchases
This is Beirut 2025-09-04 18:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Conflict Diplomacy
Donald Trump on Thursday voiced frustration with EU countries that still buy Russian oil, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after the US president spoke to him and European leaders during a summit on Ukraine. Ukraine's allies met in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal to end Russia's war against ...
Trump Blasts ‘Radical Left’ After Killing of Influencer Charlie Kirk
This is Beirut 2025-09-11 09:03 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Charlie Kirk United States Donald Trump
Donald Trump lashed out at the "radical left" on Wednesday after the apparent assassination of his right-wing ally Charlie Kirk, vowing a crackdown after a killing that has sparked fears of worsening political violence in the United States. Kirk, a powerful voice in conservative politics at just 31 years old, had been dead only a few ...
Channing Tatum Earns Acting Credibility in 'Roofman' Role
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Channing Tatum Actor Cinema Culture Art
Channing Tatum says his performance in Roofman, which tells the true story of a man who robbed dozens of McDonald's and hid out in a toy store, helped the stripper-turned-actor overcome "imposter syndrome." "I was getting (acting) jobs before I knew anything about what I was doing," Tatum told reporters Sunday, a day after the film's world ...
The Unconscious in the Digital Age: What Freud and Lacan Would Have Seen on Our Screens
David Sahyoun 2025-09-10 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Freud Lacan Social Media Culture Unconscious
Freud repeatedly insisted that the unconscious cannot be grasped directly; it reveals itself instead through slips of the tongue, dreams, fantasies, and symptoms. Today, the web provides a stage where these formations of the unconscious assume new forms. Each Google search, each video watched on repeat, each story posted—or deleted—becomes the ...
Elina Garanca Defends Opera Amid Digital Age Challenges
This is Beirut 2025-09-10 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Elina Garanca Vienna Mezzo-soprano Netflix Opera Music
In her decades-long career, star Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca has seen the ups and downs of the music industry first hand. But the business has changed drastically with the rise of social media, even impacting the way many people inside and outside the industry approach classical music — namely "without patience or time", she told ...
Macron Names Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu New Prime Minister
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
France Emmanuel Macron Sebastien Lecornu Francois Bayrou
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named defence minister and his close ally Sebastien Lecornu as the new prime minister to resolve a deepening political crisis as protests loom in the next days. In choosing Lecornu, 39, to replace Francois Bayrou as the seventh premier of his mandate, Macron has plumped for one of his closest allies ...
Macron Scrambles to Find New French PM After Bayrou Ousted
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
Macron Scrambles to Find New French PM after Bayrou Ousted
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France François Bayrou French National Assembly Confidence Vote
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
US Court Upholds $83 Million Sex Assault Defamation Order against Trump
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 18:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States E. Jean Carroll US Court of Appeals
A US appeals court upheld Monday a jury's $83.3 million penalty against President Donald Trump for defaming author E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found to have sexually assaulted. The January 2024 order consisted of $65 million in punitive damages after the jury found Trump acted maliciously in his many public comments about Carroll, $7.3 ...
Vienna State Opera Celebrates Season with Free Gala Concert
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Vienna Opera Music Opening Culture Art
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 ...
Sudan's RSF Commits 'Myriad Crimes Against Humanity': UN Probe
This is Beirut 2025-09-05 16:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan has committed numerous crimes against humanity in Sudan's civil war, in particular in its siege of El-Fasher in western Darfur, UN investigators said Friday. The United Nations' fact-finding mission for Sudan also found evidence of war crimes by both sides in the conflict between the regular ...
Russell Crowe Stuns at Toronto International Film Festival with Chilling Nazi Role
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Toronto International Film Festival Cinema Awards Canada Culture Art
Russell Crowe's nerve-shredding portrayal of a notorious Nazi on trial and Angelina Jolie's deeply personal dive into the world of French fashion led a busy Sunday of world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. Crowe's depiction of the second-ranking Nazi, Hermann Goering, in Nuremberg, as he plays a cat-and-mouse game with a psychiatrist (Rami ...
French Parliament Set to Eject PM in Blow to Macron
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron France Francois Bayrou Government Confidence
France's parliament is expected to oust Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday after just nine months in office, plunging the key EU member into new political uncertainty and creating a painful dilemma for President Emmanuel Macron. Bayrou blind sided even his allies by calling a confidence vote to end a months-long standoff over his austerity ...
Trump Threatens Russia with Sanctions after Biggest Aerial Attack on Ukraine
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Russia Donald Trump Sanctions
US President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to impose more sanctions on Russia, after the Kremlin unleashed its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine. Russian missiles and drones rained down across Ukraine early Sunday, killing four people and setting government offices in the capital Kyiv ablaze. Trump told reporters after the assault he was ...
A 1926 Bottle Brings a Father’s Voice Back to Life on Facebook
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-06 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Message Bottle Jennifer Dowker Michigan Facebook
Chance never lacks imagination when it comes to weaving connections between generations. That is what Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and diving instructor in the small town of Cheboygan in northern Michigan, discovered. One day in June 2021, she was simply tending to the maintenance of her boat, unaware that her routine was about to be disrupted ...
Cassettes Are Back: The Retro Revival Captivating Gen Z
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-05 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cassettes Revival Taylor Swift Music Gen Z Culture
Over the years, vinyl has established itself as the stylish, vintage symbol of music’s revival. Yet, unexpectedly, another format from the past is finding its way back into playlists: the audio cassette. Long dismissed as a relic, it is now enjoying a second life, fueled by nostalgia, tech curiosity and savvy marketing from certain artists. ...