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Search for Bodies as LA Firefighters Brace for More Wind
This is Beirut 2025-01-14 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Search teams with dogs fanned out looking for victims in Los Angeles on Monday, as firefighters girded for hurricane-force winds that could spark new blazes. With the disaster in America's second biggest city in its seventh day, 24 people are known to have died -- a toll expected to rise -- and more than 90,000 people remain displaced. But the ...
Ukraine Drone Sparks Huge Fire at Russia Gas Site
This is Beirut 2025-01-14 09:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A Ukrainian drone attack hit a gas storage tank in Russia's Tatarstan region on Tuesday, sparking a huge blaze, authorities said. Local media published images showing flames and black smoke billowing toward the sky near the city of Kazan, saying that the drone had struck a liquefied gas storage site near a chemical factory. "A gas tank caught ...
Supreme Court Looks Poised to Uphold TikTok Ban
This is Beirut 2025-01-10 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The US Supreme Court appeared likely on Friday to uphold a law that would force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down. A majority of the conservative and liberal justices on the nine-member bench appeared skeptical of arguments by a lawyer for TikTok that forcing a sale was a ...
Iran Reports Swiss National Accused of Spying Committed Suicide in Prison
This is Beirut 2025-01-09 18:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's judiciary said a Swiss national accused of spying was found dead in prison in the eastern city of Semnan on Thursday, adding that he had taken his own life. "This morning, a Swiss citizen committed suicide in Semnan prison," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said, adding that he had been "arrested by security agencies for espionage and ...
Israel Army Retrieves Body Of One Hostage in Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-01-08 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Israeli military said on Wednesday that its troops had recovered the body of a hostage in Gaza and brought it back to Israel following a "complex and difficult operation". In a statement, the military said: "The troops located and recovered the body of hostage Youssef al-Zayadna from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip ...
iCloud Hacking Compromises Coldplay's Unreleased Music Among Other Singers' Creations
Madeleine Cadoux 2025-01-05 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In a case that underscores the fragility of digital privacy and the sanctity of creative work, a 22-year-old hacker, Skylar Dalziel, exploited online vulnerabilities to access unreleased tracks from renowned artists such as Coldplay, Shawn Mendes and Bebe Rexha. The thefts began in 2021 when Dalziel hacked into cloud storage accounts linked to ...
TikTok Restores Service in US, Thanking Trump
This is Beirut 2025-01-20 09:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect. The video-sharing platform credited President-elect Donald Trump, who retakes power on Monday, for making the reversal possible – though the outgoing administration of President ...
Israeli Military Confirms Destruction of Iranian-funded Missile Factory in Syria
This is Beirut 2025-01-02 20:24 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday that dozens of its troops were flown into Syria in September to destroy an underground missile factory funded by Iran. The military, which rarely comments on its activities inside Syria, said in a statement that the September 8 raid involved more than 100 Israeli commando soldiers who dismantled the ...
Iran Lifts WhatsApp Ban, but Other Restrictions Persist
This is Beirut 2025-01-02 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ardavan Yousefi has gotten so used to life under Iran's sweeping internet restrictions that for him, a recent decision to lift a ban on messaging service WhatsApp went virtually unnoticed. "Is it really removed now?" Yousefi, a café owner from the capital Tehran, said of the two-year ban on the popular application. To be certain, he switched ...
Trump Sides With Musk in Right-Wing Row Over Worker Visas
This is Beirut 2024-12-29 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Donald Trump weighed in Saturday in a bitter debate dividing his traditional supporters and tech barons like Elon Musk, saying that he backs a special visa program that helps highly skilled workers enter the country. "I've always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favor of the visas, that's why we have them" at Trump-owned facilities, ...
Trump Asks US Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
This is Beirut 2024-12-28 10:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance. "In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more breathing ...
Syrian Authorities Arrest Official Responsible for Saydnaya Death Penalties
This is Beirut 2024-12-26 20:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death sentences for detainees in the notorious Saydnaya prison, a war monitor said Thursday. The confirmation by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights of his detention came a day after deadly clashes erupted in the coastal ...
Iran Lifts WhatsApp Ban After Two Years of Restrictions
This is Beirut 2024-12-24 17:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's top council responsible for safeguarding the internet voted Tuesday to lift a ban on the popular messaging application WhatsApp, which has been subject to restrictions for over two years, state media reported. "The ban on WhatsApp and Google Play was removed by unanimous vote of the members of the Supreme Council of ...
Italian Police Dismantle Terror Propaganda Cell
This is Beirut 2024-12-24 14:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Italian police said Tuesday they had dismantled a cell which promoted jihadist propaganda online, with five suspects of foreign origin targeted including their alleged leader, a Pakistani woman. Four of the suspects are accused of having "formed a terrorist association of Salafist-jihadist inspiration" through which they promoted Al-Qaeda and the ...
Parastoo Ahmadi Released on Bail after her Arrest
This is Beirut 2024-12-24 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi was released on bail on December 23 by a Tehran court, two weeks after her arrest for performing an online concert without wearing the mandatory veil for women in Iran. According to local media, the young artist appeared at the 38th district court in Tehran with her lawyers. The charges against her were detailed, and ...
Syrian Medical Staff Claim They Were Coerced Into False Chemical Attack Testimony
This is Beirut 2024-12-23 18:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad's government coerced them into providing false testimony to international investigators after a deadly 2018 chlorine attack. The three, who treated the wounded at a field hospital in the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus after the ...
Germany Mourns Five Killed, Hundreds Wounded in Christmas Market Attack
This is Beirut 2024-12-21 17:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday condemned the "terrible, insane" car-ramming attack on a crowded Christmas market that killed five people and injured more than 200. Police arrested a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatry doctor at the scene Friday, next to the battered SUV that had ploughed through the festive crowd leaving a trail of ...
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral: Modern Stained Glass Sparks Controversy
This is Beirut 2024-12-19 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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On Wednesday, December 18, the designs for six new stained glass windows for the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral were unveiled for the first time. French contemporary artist Claire Tabouret has been selected to infuse the iconic 12th-century structure with a modern twist as part of its ongoing restoration, following the devastating 2019 ...
'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' Arrives on Valentine’s Day 2025
Madeleine Cadoux 2024-12-16 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
After eight years of speculation, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has finally arrived. Following Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), the upcoming film adapts Helen Fielding’s bestselling novel of the same name. This chapter takes a dramatic turn: Bridget is a widowed single mother navigating ...
Angélique Angarni-Filopon Crowned Miss France at 34: Historic Feminist Victory
Madeleine Cadoux 2024-12-15 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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With an all-female jury and a presidency led by Sylvie Vartan, who succeeded Sylvie Tellier, the 2024 edition of Miss France broke boundaries and embraced a distinctly feminist tone. The evening celebrated diversity and the evolution of beauty standards by awarding the crown to Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss Martinique 2024, the first-ever ...
Trade Wars, Culture Wars, and Anti-Immigration: Trump's Big Promises
This is Beirut 2025-01-20 09:06 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A sweeping deportation program, "drill, baby, drill," and peace for Ukraine: President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to move big and fast when he returns to the White House on Monday. Here is a look at his sensational but frequently vague promises for a second term -- much of them likely to be enacted through executive ...
Stocks diverge as investors weigh earnings, Trump policies
This is Beirut 2025-01-24 19:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Global stocks diverged on Friday as investors weighed corporate earnings, economic data and President Donald Trump's policies. Meanwhile the US dollar lost more than one percent against the euro and pound following the US president's comments about not wanting to impose tariffs on China and calling for lower interest rates. The S&P 500 edged ...
US Says in Contact With New Syria Rulers
This is Beirut 2024-12-14 20:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The United States has made contact with Syria's victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday, despite previously designating the group as terrorists. Blinken's comments, after talks on Syria in Jordan, came as Turkey reopened its embassy in Damascus, nearly a week after the Islamist-led rebels toppled ...
Syria National Conference Lays Out Post-Assad Priorities
This is Beirut 2025-02-25 20:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Syria's national dialogue conference, held Tuesday in Damascus, called for transitional justice, freedom and a state monopoly on arms to be among the cornerstones of the country's reconstruction after Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in a speech earlier to the hundreds of attendees, said the country was ...
Zelensky Backs Energy Truce, But Needs 'Details' from Trump
This is Beirut 2025-03-18 23:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said Ukraine was favorable to a US-proposed truce on strikes against energy infrastructure endorsed by Russia, but needed more "details" from Washington first. Speaking after a call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Zelensky also warned in an online briefing ...
North Macedonia Nightclub Fire Kills 59
This is Beirut 2025-03-16 13:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia early Sunday, killing 59 people, apparently after on-stage fireworks set the place ablaze, the country's interior minister said. More than 100 people were wounded in the fire in the "Club Pulse" in the eastern town of Kocani, Interior Minister Pance Toskovsk said. The establishment had been ...
SpaceX Crew Dragon Opens Hatch with ISS to Reach Stranded Astronauts
This is Beirut 2025-03-16 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station were a step closer to returning home Sunday after a replacement crew docked with the orbital outpost. The astronauts were shown on live TV embracing and hugging their counterparts in zero gravity on the space station shortly after their SpaceX Crew Dragon ...
Syrian Foreign Minister Conducts First Visit to Iraq Since Assad's Fall
This is Beirut 2025-03-14 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria's interim foreign minister arrived in Iraq on Friday, conducting his first visit to the country since his Islamist alliance toppled Bashar al-Assad. Relations between neighbors Syria and Iraq have become more complicated since the fall of Assad, who was a close ally of the government in Baghdad. In Baghdad, Syria's top diplomat, Assaad ...
BDH: $100,000 to Support Aspiring Lebanese Homeowners
Christiane Tager 2025-03-12 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Housing Bank (BDH) is set to dramatically increase its loans, raising the amount from $50,000 to $100,000 with support from the Qatari Development Fund. BDH President Antoine Habib confirmed to This is Beirut that “the bank will soon offer $100,000 housing loans to low and middle-income individuals, as well as those with special needs, with ...
North Sea Cargo Ship Owner Says One Crew Member Missing
This is Beirut 2025-03-10 22:54 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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One crew member is missing from a cargo ship that was involved in a collision with a US-military chartered tanker carrying jet fuel in the North Sea on Monday, the cargo ship's owner said. The thirteen other crew members on board the cargo ship Solong "have been brought safely" ashore after the incident off the English coast, German ...