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Chikungunya in China: What You Need to Know
This is Beirut 2025-08-06 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Cases of chikungunya fever are rising in southern China, prompting local authorities to take measures to curb its spread. Here is what you need to know about the disease: What is chikungunya? Chikungunya is caused by a virus that can be passed to humans by infected mosquitoes, with most cases occurring in Africa, Asia and the ...
Iran Executes Man Convicted of Spying for Israel: Judiciary
This is Beirut 2025-08-06 09:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iranian authorities on Wednesday executed a man convicted of spying for Israel by passing on information about a nuclear scientist killed during the 12-day war with Israel in June, the judiciary said. "Roozbeh Vadi... was executed following judicial proceedings and confirmation of his sentence by the Supreme Court," the judiciary's Mizan Online ...
Putin Meets US Envoy Witkoff Ahead of Sanctions Deadline
This is Beirut 2025-08-06 07:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, two days ahead of a deadline imposed by US President Donald Trump on Moscow to halt its Ukraine offensive or face fresh sanctions. Trump, who had boasted he could end the conflict within 24 hours of taking office, has given Russia until Friday to ...
Hiroshima Marks 80 Years as Us-Russia Nuclear Tensions Rise
This is Beirut 2025-08-06 05:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Japan marked 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as sabre-rattling between the United States and Russia keeps the nuclear "Doomsday Clock" close to midnight. A silent prayer was held at 8:15 am (2315 GMT), the moment when US aircraft Enola Gay dropped ...
#MeToo: Exposed Online, Condemned Without Appeal
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-12 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Since the start of #MeToo, public exposure has reached unprecedented levels. Sometimes, a single post on social media — even an anonymous one — is enough to destroy a reputation or end a career. The exclusion is sudden, brutal. Accusations spread online at a speed that traditional justice cannot match. Many see this as real progress: scandals ...
Doomscrolling: The Anxiety Metronome
David Sahyoun 2025-10-15 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Doomscrolling is a neologism that combines the darkness of “doom,” meaning fate, calamity, or collapse, with the act of “scrolling,” the finger’s movement that steadily moves through a page’s content. It has now earned a place in English dictionaries. Merriam-Webster defines to doomscroll as “spending an excessive amount of time ...
Japan's Sega Eyes Return to 1990s Gaming Glory
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The big-screen success of 1990s video game speedster "Sonic the Hedgehog" has brought new fans to Japan's Sega, which says it is poised for a comeback after two tough decades. This year all eyes have been on Nintendo, whose Switch 2 recently became the fastest-selling console in history. But unlike its former arch-rival, Sega has not sold gaming ...
Son of Iran's Late Shah Says 'Final Victory' Near
This is Beirut 28/02 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The son of Iran's last shah voiced confidence Saturday in victory against the Islamic republic after the United States and Israel launched an attack. Reza Pahlavi released a video message online shortly after the strikes, suggesting coordination after he repeatedly urged President Donald Trump to intervene. "We are very close to final victory. I ...
Power Outages Hit Tehran After Strikes on Energy Infrastructure
This is Beirut 30/03 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Parts of Tehran and the neighboring Alborz Province were plunged into temporary darkness on Sunday night after strikes damaged elements of the local electricity grid, according to Iranian state media and international reports. The disruptions followed a new wave of airstrikes attributed to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), targeting areas in and ...
Iran Hangs Two Convicted of Links to Banned Opposition
This is Beirut 30/03 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iranian authorities executed two men on Monday after convicting them of membership in a banned opposition group and attempting to overthrow the Islamic republic, the judiciary said. "After confirmation and final approval of the sentence by the Supreme Court, Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi-Sangdehi were hanged this morning," the ...
Lebanon Kids Struggle to Keep Up Studies as War Slams School Doors Shut
This is Beirut 29/03 05:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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In a classroom turned shelter for displaced families, teenager Ahmad Melhem follows a recorded lesson on a tablet as the war between Hezbollah and Israel interrupts education for hundreds of thousands of students in Lebanon. "I don't want to regret not finishing my studies despite the difficult circumstances," said Melhem, whose ...
Iran Arrests Over 460 People Over Online Activity
This is Beirut 24/03 13:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday the arrest of 466 people accused of seeking to destabilise the country through their online activity, state media reported, as the war with the US and Israel ground on. "These individuals sought to sow confusion in public opinion, create fear and anxiety in society, promote insecurity and spread ...
London Summons Iranian Ambassador Following Allegations of Spying
This is Beirut 23/03 20:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Britain's foreign ministry on Monday summoned Iran's ambassador to London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, criticizing what it called Tehran's "reckless and destabilizing actions" in the UK and overseas. "The summons follows the recent charging of two individuals, one Iranian national and one British-Iranian dual national, under the National Security Act, on ...
Ship Traffic Down 95% in Strait of Hormuz
This is Beirut 23/03 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers—most of them Iranian—have made it through the Strait of Hormuz since Iranian forces effectively blocked the crucial trade route in the Middle East war. Here are facts and figures about vessels that have passed through the 167-kilometre (104-mile) long strait since the war broke out with US-Israeli ...
Iranian Missiles Sow Panic, Destruction in Israeli Towns
This is Beirut 22/03 07:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Sheltering from an Iranian missile attack on his town in southern Israel on Saturday, 17-year-old Ido Franky heard "terrifying" blasts like nothing he had experienced before. An Iranian missile hit Franky's town of Arad, hours after another struck Dimona -- home to a nuclear facility -- wounding dozens and leaving entire apartment ...
Trump Gives Iran 48 Hours to Open Hormuz as Tehran Strikes Israel
This is Beirut 22/03 07:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launched its most destructive attack yet on Israel. The ultimatum, made just a day after the U.S. leader said he was considering "winding down" military operations after ...
U.S. Strikes Iran Bases Threatening Blocked Hormuz Oil Route
This is Beirut 21/03 17:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The U.S. military declared on Saturday it had damaged an Iranian bunker housing weapons threatening oil and gas shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, as thousands of Iranians marked Eid al-Fitr with prayer. The U.S. statement appeared designed to calm the concerns of energy markets and of Washington's sceptical international allies, more than 20 of ...
Roots of Radicalization: The Lebanese Immigrant Behind the Michigan Attack
Claudia Groeling 19/03 12:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A Lebanese immigrant to the U.S. last Thursday drove a truck laden with explosives into a synagogue in Michigan, as Israel fought a war with Hezbollah thousands of miles away, a group to which the assailant’s brother reportedly has ties. The FBI described Ayman Ghazali’s attack as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.” ...
The Day Loyalty Met Reality
Salam El Zaatari 06/03 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Hezbollah consolidated its power on the simple promise that confronting Israel would protect its people. Yet once again, its military actions have forced a mass exodus of its support base from South Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut. Cars are fleeing war zones in slow convoys, carrying the few essentials panicked people can pack in ...
Gulf Countries to Hold Video Meeting on Iran Attacks Sunday: Two Diplomats
This is Beirut 01/03 15:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gulf countries will convene Sunday evening to discuss a unified response to Iran's attacks, two Gulf diplomats said, as Tehran presses on with a second day of strikes after US and Israeli attacks killed its supreme leader. "It will be an online meeting of GCC foreign ministers due to the airport closures," a Gulf diplomat told AFP, ...
Student Protests Enter Third Day at Tehran Universities
This is Beirut 23/02 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Student demonstrations continued for a third consecutive day across several universities in Iran’s capital on Monday, coinciding with the start of the new academic semester on February 21, according to local media reports. In parallel, Iran warned the United States on Monday that any attack would be met "ferociously" in response ...
At Least a Dozen Migrants Die Trying to Cross Channel
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At least 10 migrants died off the northern French coast on Tuesday trying to cross the Channel to England, with a major rescue operation underway after the deadliest such disaster this year. AFP correspondents on site said they saw six body bags on the coast off the northern port of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Emergency services were out in force and ...
IS Urges Members to Fight Syria's New Government
This is Beirut 22/02 16:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Islamic State group on Saturday urged its fighters to confront Syria's new authorities, in its spokesperson's first audio message in two years. In a recording posted online, Abu Huzaifa al-Ansari said IS members in Syria must fight "the new Syrian regime, with its secular government and national army" and "make that ...
Iran Court Sentences 14 Protesters to Death in Online Proceedings
This is Beirut 16/02 15:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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According to sources who spoke to Iran International, an Iranian court has handed down death sentences to 14 individuals accused of participating in last month’s anti-government protests in proceedings conducted online. The virtual hearings were overseen by Judge Abolghasem Salavati, head of Branch 15 of Iran’s Revolutionary Court, a ...
Anti-Khamenei Chants Erupt in Tehran as Iran Marks Revolution Anniversary
This is Beirut 11/02 10:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Residents in several neighborhoods of Tehran chanted slogans against Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, late Tuesday, in a rare resurgence of public dissent on the eve of the Islamic Republic’s most symbolic national commemoration. Videos circulating on social media showed voices ringing out from apartment balconies with chants including ...
Israel Foils Two Lebanon-Linked Cells in West Bank
This is Beirut 10/02 15:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Israeli Army’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee revealed on Tuesday that Israel’s Shin Bet security agency had thwarted the activity of two alleged terror cells operating in the West Bank under direct guidance from operatives based in Lebanon, as part of plans to carry out attacks against Israeli targets. In a post on X, Adraee said ...
Khamenei Issues Pardons Excluding Protest Cases
This is Beirut 10/02 14:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved pardons or sentence reductions for more than 2,000 convicts on Tuesday, according to the judiciary, while explicitly excluding those linked to recent nationwide protests. According to AFP, the decision, which covered 2,108 inmates, was made at the request of the head of the judiciary and ...
Will Hezbollah Turn to Political Assassinations Again?
Iftah Burman 10/02 13:00 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
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As Hezbollah faces mounting pressure, the risk is growing that the group could once again turn to assassinations to preserve its fragile military, political, and financial positions. In December 2025, fresh revelations about the activities of Hezbollah’s assassination squad, Unit 121, brought the group’s use of political violence back ...
Iranian Authorities Arrest Several Prominent Reformist Figures: Fars News Agency
This is Beirut 09/02 09:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian authorities on Sunday arrested three reformist figures including the head of Iran's Reform Front coalition, Azar Mansouri, the Fars news agency reported. "Azar Mansouri, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, and Mohsen Aminzadeh were arrested by security and judicial institutions," the agency said. "The accusations against these individuals include ...
UN Warns Islamic State Threat Is Growing More Complex Worldwide
This is Beirut 05/02 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United Nations warned on Wednesday that the global threat posed by Islamic State has increased steadily since mid-2025 and is becoming more sophisticated, as the group adapts its tactics and expands its reach across multiple regions. Briefing the UN Security Council, Alexander Zuev, Acting Assistant Secretary-General at the UN Office of ...