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Salam at Arab Summit: Lebanon Turns a New Page
This is Beirut 2025-05-17 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon 34th Arab Summit Baghdad Iraq
Lebanon has entered a new chapter in its history by restoring state sovereignty and recommitting to national reforms, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam declared Saturday at the 34th Arab League Summit in Baghdad, Iraq. “We meet today at a time when Lebanon has turned a new page in its history by restoring the state’s sovereignty over its entire ...
Postal Sector: A Chronicle of a Tender That Won’t Close
Christiane Tager 2025-05-14 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Rewind to July 2023: French logistics giant CMA CGM, through its subsidiary Merit-Colis Privé, was awarded the postal services tender launched by Lebanon’s Ministry of Telecommunications. It seemed like a turning point for the beleaguered sector: $12.8 million in promised investments, $6 million in guaranteed annual revenues for the state and a ...
First Group of White South Africans Arrive in US for Resettlement
This is Beirut 2025-05-13 05:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States South Africa Afrikaners
A group of around 50 white South Africans arrived on Monday for resettlement in the United States after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status as victims of what he called a "genocide." Trump essentially halted refugee arrivals after taking office, but is making an exception for the Afrikaners despite Pretoria's ...
US, China Agree to Slash Tariffs in Trade War De-Escalation
This is Beirut 2025-05-12 21:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump United Nations United States US Treasury
The United States and China announced Monday an agreement to drastically reduce tit-for-tat tariffs for 90 days, an outcome President Donald Trump dubbed a "total reset," as he said that talks with counterpart Xi Jinping could soon follow. After the first meetings between Washington and Beijing since Trump ratcheted up his trade war, ...
US Treasury Chief Declares 'Substantive Progress' in China Trade Talks
This is Beirut 2025-05-11 19:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States China Tariffs Donald Trump
US officials voiced optimism on Sunday, at the end of a weekend of trade talks with China aimed at de-escalating trade tensions sparked by President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff rollout. "We’ve made substantial progress," US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters after the talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, while Trade ...
Trump Announces US-UK Trade Agreement Amid Tariff Tensions
This is Beirut 2025-05-08 14:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Keir Starmer United Kingdom
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday an agreement with Britain on trade, which would be the first such deal since he launched his global tariffs blitz. Trump provided no details about the scope of the agreement, which comes a month after he imposed sweeping tariffs on US trading partners on his April 2 "Liberation Day." "The agreement ...
The Healing Power of Tears: Nature’s Own Painkiller
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-07 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Crying. This universal gesture, so often confined to the private sphere or burdened with shame, is in fact one of the most powerful signals the human body can send. We cry in response to pain, loss, injustice or overwhelming emotion – not only to express what words cannot, but also, biologically, to find relief. Emotional tears – distinct ...
Top US Diplomat Rubio Meets Saudi Crown Prince in Riyadh
This is Beirut 2025-02-17 21:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States Marco Rubio Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman
Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting the countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022 would result in a ...
Egypt's Sisi Discusses Mideast Peace with World Jewish Congress Chief
This is Beirut 2025-02-16 13:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Middle East Palestine Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Egypt
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the head of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder on Sunday that the establishment of a Palestinian state is "the only guarantee" for lasting peace in the Middle East. During his meeting with Lauder in Cairo on Sunday, Sisi called for starting the reconstruction of war-battered Gaza "without ...
Mass Influx of Afghans Expelled from Iran Before the July Deadline
This is Beirut 2025-07-06 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tens of thousands of Afghans streamed over the border from Iran in the days before a return deadline set for Sunday, the United Nations said, sparking an "emergency" situation at border points. In late May, Iran said undocumented Afghans must leave the country by July 6, potentially impacting four million people out of the six million ...
Syrian Refugees: De Waele Evokes Repatriation Policy
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 22:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sandra De Waele, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Lebanon, said on Thursday that the €1 billion package announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is intended "to support Lebanon" until 2027. Speaking on Europe Day, De Waele elaborated on the purported aims of this financial support, which she said should "support ...
US, Israeli Spy Chiefs Set to Attend Gaza Talks
This Is Beirut 2024-07-08 19:54 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States and Israeli intelligence chiefs are traveling to Doha on Wednesday for discussions on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, a source with knowledge of the talks told AFP. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Burns and the head of Israel's Mossad David Barnea "are travelling to Doha on Wednesday," the source ...
LACC Calls for the Implementation of UNSC Resolutions
This Is Beirut 2024-06-29 10:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In the context of the dire situation in Lebanon and the rising fears of a full-scale war in Lebanon, and based on its continuous communication with the U.S. administration and the active Lebanese diaspora in the United States and around the world, the Lebanese-American Coordinating Committee (LACC) emphasizes the following: 1. Lebanon ...
Geagea Denounces 'UNHCR Violations' in Letter to Guterres
This Is Beirut 2024-06-18 18:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, taking advantage of the visit of his representative to Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, to denounce "the position adopted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the issue of the Syrian presence in Lebanon." A ...
Equivocations of Truce
2024-06-10 09:01 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden’s proposal for a lasting truce should be clarified and subjected to further elaboration and incremental amendments if it were to offer a true alternative to the actual doldrums. The sequenced truce framework falls short of its projected objectives unless it specifies the conditions of a sustainable political plan ...
Syrian Migrants: Bou Habib Sounds the Alarm in Brussels
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 21:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou Habib warned against "an explosion of the situation in Lebanon (due to the massive presence of Syrians in the country) which, if it occurs, will have repercussions on neighboring countries and Europe." He stressed that "maintaining the status quo on this issue poses an existential threat to ...
Hasbani Criticizes Government and UNHCR Inaction on Syrian Migrants
This Is Beirut 2024-05-25 17:34 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanese Forces (LF) MP Ghassan Hasbani believes that “the international community is unwilling to tackle the issue of Syrian migrants seriously and find a comprehensive and radical solution to this existential problem.” Speaking on the Voice of Lebanon radio station, Hasbani warned against “the current status quo, which is content in ...
Lebanon to Present Refugee Management Proposal at Brussels Conference
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 23:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon is set to present a comprehensive paper at the upcoming Brussels conference addressing the Syrian refugee crisis, on Monday. The aim is to repatriate displaced Syrians and preserve Lebanese identity. The document in question includes basic procedures for addressing the issue of displaced Syrians. In its proposal, Lebanon urges a shift ...
More Than 300 Migrants Return to Syria Voluntarily
This Is Beirut 2024-05-14 12:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Some 330 Syrian migrants returned to Syria from Lebanon on Tuesday in two separate convoys as part of the process of voluntary departures organized by General Security. The return took place through the border crossings of Zamrani from Arsal in Lebanon towards Rif Damascus and Al-Qaa towards Rif Homs. The returnees registered their names with ...
LF MPs to UNHCR: Lebanon Is a Transit Country
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Thursday, MPs of the Strong Republic Bloc (Lebanese Forces) presented a memorandum to the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beirut, emphasizing that "Lebanon is not a country of asylum, but a transit country," citing the massive Syrian presence in Lebanon. During a meeting with the UNHCR ...
Gaza Humanitarian Operations Halted, Polio Outbreak Increasing
This Is Beirut 2024-08-26 21:28 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestine Hamas United Nations
The United Nations said Monday it had been forced to halt its humanitarian operations in Gaza due to a new Israeli evacuation order for the Deir al-Balah area, a senior UN official said. "We are not operating today. As of this morning, we're not operating in Gaza," the official said, adding that since the start of the war the UN has sometimes had ...
Israeli Operation in Rafah: When, How and Why?
2024-04-26 21:13 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The city of Rafah could mark the last military chapter of the war launched by Israel against Hamas. As negotiations leading to a potential truce struggle to advance, the Hebrew State remains committed to its project to launch a large-scale offensive in this roughly 64 km2 area south of Gaza, home to approximately one and a half million ...
Political Vignettes and Ongoing Conflicts
2024-04-08 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Sergei Shoïgu, the Russian minister of defense, surmises French responsibility behind Moscow’s terror attack since Ukrainians are masterminded by their European mentors and France has defied the moral and political arrogance of the dictator. Relaying the lies of the Russian autocrat, S. Shoïgu perpetuates the culture of dissembling and ...
Equivocations and the Ongoing Wars
2024-04-01 10:36 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The Russian and Iranian imperial wars in Ukraine, Georgia and the Larger Middle East, their similes throughout the geopolitical landscapes (Taiwan, Philippines, Eastern Armenia, Syrian-Iraqi interfaces/ China, Russia-Turkey-Azerbaidjan…), and their models of governance are redefining the landmarks of renewed fascism, political violence and ...
Israel’s Far Right Calls for Return of Settlements to Gaza
This Is Beirut 2024-01-29 14:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Thousands of Israelis, including several far-right ministers, gathered in Jerusalem on Sunday, January 28, to call for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza. Part of Israeli society is calling for the settlements to be repopulated, despite Benjamin Netanyahu's apparent refusal to do so. A few thousand Israelis in favor of relocating ...
A Brief History of State Finances
Nicolas Sbeih 2024-01-24 10:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The state finances are taking center stage these days. They are in the spotlight, dominating media headlines and the intros of television news with their Ibn Battouta-style prose. All of this is because we are on the eve of a new era: the state budget has been presented and is at risk of being adopted on time, for the first time in almost 20 ...
Near East: Is the Two-State Solution Still Possible?
Ali A. Hamadé 2023-12-21 19:28 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the possibility of conflict resolution in the near future remains remote. The proposition of a two-state solution, often presented as the ideal option in theory, encounters practical obstacles that make its attainment complex and uncertain. This theory was raised by US President ...
Global Refugee Forum: Lebanon Makes Its Voice Heard
2023-12-16 14:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Over a span of three days, the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva conducted a comprehensive exploration of worldwide refugee challenges. Governments, NGOs, and refugees’ representatives convened to share their cases and advocate for solutions. These included considerations such as the possibility of returning to their countries of origin or ...
UNRWA Chief Accuses Israel of Seeking to Expel Gazans
This Is Beirut 2023-12-10 19:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) accused Israel of wanting to expel Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, December 10. In response, the Israeli government rejected these accusations. The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees has accused Israel of laying the groundwork for the ...
Divided We Stand
2024-07-29 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu United States
If I had to choose a motto to depict, by and large, the international scenery, I would opt for the above-mentioned aphorism. The chaotic landscapes burgeoning, throughout the various geopolitical spectrums, is a quite appropriate representation when it comes to describing the dynamics of implosion on the crossroads between domestic and ...