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Iran and the Unresolved Dilemmas
Charles Chartouni 2025-04-21 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Political observers are taken aback while trying to make sense of the Iranian regime's shifting postures. The first striking features are the ostensible cleavages among the Iranian concentric circles of power: moderates are deliberately engaging in the negotiations, while extremists are still jockeying. The second feature relates to the substance ...
Mbappe Sent Off as Real Madrid Beat Alaves
This is Beirut 2025-04-14 08:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Real Madrid Football Liga Alaves
Real Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappe was sent off for an ugly lunge, but his side still beat Alaves 1-0 on Sunday to stay four points behind Barcelona at the top of La Liga. Mbappe's dismissal put his teammates under pressure, but Alaves were also reduced to 10 players in the second half when Manu Sanchez hacked down Vinicius Junior. Eduardo ...
Gene Hackman Died of Natural Causes, a Week after Wife
This is Beirut 2025-03-08 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Actor Cinema Art Film Legacy Culture
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman died of natural causes about a week after his wife's death, a medical examiner said Friday, ending more than a week of mystery surrounding the death of one of Hollywood’s most beloved stars. The bodies of The French Connection star and his wife were found on February 26 in their home in New Mexico after ...
American-Iranian Talks Spring Eternal
David Hale 2025-04-12 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Iran USA Donald Trump United States
President Trump prides himself on his mastery of the art of the deal. On April 12, those skills will begin to be tested for the first time in the arena of the 45-year-old contest between America and Iran. All who care about stability and peace in the Middle East should wish him well and hope he and his team come to the negotiation prepared and in ...
Pentagon Chief Says US Could 'Revive' Panama Bases
This is Beirut 2025-04-10 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump Hegseth Mulino Panama Canal
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth floated the idea on Wednesday of US troops returning to Panama to "secure" its strategically vital canal, a suggestion quickly shot down by the Central American country's government. Hegseth suggested during a visit to Panama that "by invitation" the United States could "revive" military bases or naval air ...
US Supreme Court Lifts Order Barring Deportations Using Wartime Law
This is Beirut 2025-04-08 05:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Justice Supreme Court Migrants
The US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory on Monday by lifting a lower court order barring the deportation of undocumented Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. But the nation's top court also said that migrants subject to deportation under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act must be given an opportunity to legally ...
Real Madrid Hold Real Sociedad in Eight-Goal Thriller to Reach Copa Del Rey Final
This is Beirut 2025-04-02 09:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Real Madrid Copa Del Rey Real Sociedad
Real Madrid edged into the Copa del Rey final with a thrilling 4-4 draw against Real Sociedad after extra time on Tuesday, securing a 5-4 aggregate semi-final victory. Antonio Rudiger decided the pulsating tie with a header in the 115th minute, with Madrid to face Barcelona or Atletico Madrid in the final. Real Sociedad, trailing 1-0 from the ...
Trump Downplays Firestorm over Leaked Yemen Airstrike Chat
This is Beirut 2025-03-25 22:53 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump downplayed a growing scandal Tuesday after a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat about air strikes on Yemen, denying any classified information was shared and defending a top aide over the breach. Trump said he would "look into" the use of the Signal app, and put on a united front at a meeting ...
The 'Improbable Nation' and the Dysfunctional State
Charles Chartouni 2025-03-24 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The resumption of the reckless bombardment of Israeli territories from South Lebanon is a blatant violation of the internationally mandated truce stipulations and puts at stake the stability of Lebanon and its hypothetical national security. The tedious game of pinpointing the culprits is part of a hackneyed stratagem whose goal is to perpetuate ...
Questionable Transition
Charles Chartouni 2025-03-17 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon is still dealing with the imponderables and equivocations of a very tentative peace process. The drama lies at the very heart of the transition process and the absence of a consensual approach to the problems besetting it. Initially, the ongoing actors have failed to acknowledge the nature of the transformative process and its strategic ...
US Deports Over 200 Gang Members to El Salvador Despite Court Block
This is Beirut 2025-03-17 05:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Venezuela El Salvador Justice Gangs
The United States flew over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them. The deportations took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, ...
U.S.-Iran Ceasefire on Brink as UAE Reports Attacks
This is Beirut 05/05 04:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United Arab Emirates Ceasefire United States Iran
A ceasefire between Iran and the United States was teetering Monday as the two countries traded fire over the strategic Strait of Hormuz and the United Arab Emirates reported attacks for the first time since the truce was declared nearly a month ago. A day after President Donald Trump announced an operation to escort trapped vessels through the ...
U.S. Warns Banks Over Sanctions Risks Linked to Chinese 'Teapot' Refineries
This is Beirut 28/04 21:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Banks Donald Trump Tehran United States Washington
The United States has issued a fresh warning to global financial institutions over the risks of engaging with independent Chinese oil refineries—known as “teapot” refineries—amid their continued role in processing Iranian crude. In an alert published Tuesday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said these refineries, largely ...
Pension Reform Stalled: 13 Decrees Blocking Lebanon’s Social Protection Law
Liliane Mokbel 2025-11-08 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Thirteen. That is the number of implementing decrees still pending to activate the pension and social protection law passed in 2023. Without them, the long-awaited reform remains on hold. The new system was meant to gradually replace the decades-old end-of-service indemnity scheme. So far, only one decree has been partially addressed, the one ...
Israel Accuses Hezbollah of Assassinations in Beirut Port Blast Case
Tylia El Helou 2025-12-03 19:05 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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New and highly sensitive allegations emerged on Tuesday after the Israeli army accused a specialized Hezbollah cell—Unit 121—of assassinating four Lebanese figures who allegedly held information implicating the Shiite militia in the August 2020 Beirut port explosion. The claims, made by the army’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee ...
No More Free Passes: U.S. Ties Security Aid to Lebanese Action
Amal Chmouny 2025-12-11 10:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The U.S. Congress has sent a clear, stern message to Beirut that Washington’s support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is no longer a blank check. The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), up for a vote in the House of Representatives, imposes new conditions and restrictions on U.S. aid to the Lebanese army, ...
Who Really Defeated ISIS in Syria?
Mario Chartouni 2025-12-09 20:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Damascus European Union Washington Russia Syria ISIS
In the narrative promoted by Moscow and Damascus, Russia and Bashar al-Assad’s regime are credited with delivering the decisive blow against ISIS in Syria. This account frames Russia’s military intervention, which began in September 2015, as the turning point in the fight against the terrorist group. Yet, a closer look at the data paints a ...
Could the IMF’s debt plan for Lebanon unintentionally bolster Hezbollah?
Ian Talley 2025-12-09 17:50 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
Lebanon International Monetary Fund Hezbollah Amal Banque du Liban
The International Monetary Fund risks unintentionally reviving a war-weakened Hezbollah by insisting Lebanon push heavier losses onto the banking sector than critics say is necessary — a move they argue would entrench the cash economy that Iran’s terror-designated proxy thrives on. At issue is how the IMF wants Lebanon’s ...
Syria's Sharaa Vows to Promote Coexistence, Reconciliation One Year after Assad's Ousting
This is Beirut 2025-12-08 20:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa vowed to usher in an era of justice and coexistence a year after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, with tens of thousands taking to the streets to mark the anniversary. Sharaa's Islamist-led alliance launched a lightning offensive in late November last year and took Damascus on December 8, bringing a sudden ...
Hezbollah Challenges Security Council Visit, Army Acts on UNIFIL Attack
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-12-06 13:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The 15 UN Security Council ambassadors visiting Lebanon received reactions to Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem’s recent speech. In it, he opposed the appointment of Simon Karam as head of Lebanon’s negotiating delegation with Israel and reiterated the group’s refusal to disarm, saying that any impact would be limited to the ...
Syria’s Sweida on Edge: Clerics’ Deaths Expose Fractures in Druze Heartland
Samar El-Kadi 2025-12-05 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Damascus Israel Syria Sweida Druze
Four months after a ceasefire agreement halted a weeklong wave of clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters in Syria’s southern province of Sweida, insecurity continues to plague the region. The truce, reached on July 19 with U.S. and Jordanian mediation, remains volatile and has been repeatedly violated by renewed outbreaks of violence, ...
Key Hamas Rival, Yasser Abu Shabab, Killed in Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-12-04 15:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the Popular Forces and one of Hamas’s main rivals in Gaza, was killed on Thursday under unclear circumstances. Israeli media provided conflicting accounts: some reported the killing was carried out by Hamas members, while others claimed he died in family clashes in Gaza or from fire by members of his own group, ...
Kanaan Warns of “Constitutional Violation” in Unaudited State Accounts
This is Beirut 2025-12-03 15:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon Ibrahim Kanaan Budget 2025 Finance and Budget Committee
Following a Finance and Budget Committee meeting on Wednesday, its chairman, MP Ibrahim Kanaan, issued sharp warnings over the state’s continued failure to produce audited financial accounts, describing this as a “clear constitutional violation” of Article 87. Kanaan stressed that Lebanese citizens are required to submit their accounts for ...
Jaber’s Blunt Truth: The Law that Destroys Banks and Wipe Out Savings
This is Beirut 2025-12-13 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Finance Minister Yassine Jaber did not mince words: “The banks will be the first losers” if the Financial Gap Law is enacted. And if the banks lose, depositors inevitably lose too. The draft law places the full burden of repaying deposits on the banks alone — a move that would inevitably destroy the Lebanese banking sector and wipe out ...
Luck: Randomness or Quantum Secret? Science Is Just Starting to Look
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-12-03 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Quantum physics has upended the very foundations of how we understand the world. For over a century, it has challenged the idea that randomness is merely a product of our ignorance, suggesting instead that it is woven into the fabric of the universe itself. Before observation, particles exist in a cloud of probabilities. Nothing is predetermined. ...
From Porcelain to Tweed, EU Opens Protected Label to Crafts
This is Beirut 2025-12-01 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Europe European Union Porcelain Tweed Culture
Traditional crafts, from French Limoges porcelain to Irish Donegal tweed, became entitled to EU protected status as of Monday, placing them on par with agricultural products such as Champagne and Parma ham. Europe’s glassblowers, potters, jewellers, and other artisans will now be able to register their product names under the bloc’s new ...
Israeli Operation in Southern Syria: 13 Killed
This is Beirut 2025-11-28 14:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Violent clashes erupted overnight from Thursday to Friday in southern Syria when Israeli soldiers operating in the Beit Jinn area came under fire from armed residents, according to local and military sources. At least one Syrian was reported killed in the first hours of the exchange, which began around 3:15 a.m. local time and lasted several ...
Rare Fabergé 'Winter Egg' Expected to Break Records in London
This is Beirut 2025-11-28 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Auction The Winter Egg Fabergé History Britain Culture
The Winter Egg, one of Faberge's most dazzling creations, is due to be auctioned in London next week and set another sales price record for the legendary jeweler of Imperial Russia. The egg, commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1913 as an Easter gift to his mother, is expected to fetch at least £20 million ($26 million), according to Christie's ...
Ceasefire Anniversary: Hezbollah Rebuilds, Israeli Strikes Persist
This is Beirut 2025-11-27 12:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Ceasefire UN Security Council Lebanon Amal Israel
One year after the 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, southern Lebanon remains tense as the militia steadily rebuilds its military and civilian infrastructure, triggering daily Israeli airstrikes despite the truce. Hezbollah’s Ideology Drives Reconstruction An analysis of 669 Israeli airstrikes since November 27, 2024, by the ...
Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Turkey on First Foreign Mission of His Papacy
This is Beirut 2025-11-27 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Turkey on Thursday for a four-day visit, where he will hold talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and meet Christian leaders on the first overseas trip of his papacy. The trip, which includes a second leg to Lebanon, begins in the Turkish capital, Ankara, where the first American pope landed shortly after ...