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The Silent War Over Lebanon’s Underwater Heritage
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 14:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Geopolitical instability in the region does not end at the water’s edge – it extends below the surface, into Lebanon’s territorial waters. Maritime border disputes, particularly with Israel around Block 9 in the south, involve more than contested gas fields; they also threaten the preservation of invaluable cultural heritage. Any discovery ...
One Killed in Israeli Drone Strike in Bint Jbeil
This is Beirut 2025-08-25 12:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam South Lebanon Drone raid
One person was killed on Monday in southern Lebanon after an Israeli drone targeted a Rapid vehicle along the Ain al-Mazrab–Tibnine road in the Bint Jbeil district, the Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center confirmed. The fatal strike comes amid a series of Israeli military operations. In Marjayoun, an Israeli unit entered ...
Slop: The Digital Waste Flooding Our Feeds
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-07-20 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) surges, a new term is gaining traction: slop. No longer just a word for literal mud or lukewarm food, in digital lingo it now refers to a rising wave of unwanted, AI-generated content, vacantly produced, algorithmically amplified, and clogging up social media. From Messy Mud to Messy Media In ...
Israeli Unit Briefly Infiltrates South Lebanon Village
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 12:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah South Lebanon Israël
At dawn on Wednesday, an Israeli infantry unit of approximately twenty soldiers crossed into Lebanese territory, infiltrating the village of Mari in the Hasbaya district. The incursion was launched from the vicinity of the border town of Abbasiye. On the ground, Israeli forces searched multiple homes, both occupied and abandoned, conducting ...
Ozzy Osbourne’s Death: When the Voice of Heavy Metal Falls Silent
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ozzy Osbourne Singer Legacy Music Culture Heavy Metal
Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3, 1948, into a working-class family in Birmingham, England, Ozzy’s life started far from the stages he would eventually command. Nicknamed “Ozzy” as a boy, he left school at 15, struggling with dyslexia and working jobs such as a plumber’s assistant and at an abattoir. Inspired by hearing The Beatles ...
Climate and International Law: Five Key Questions Posed to the ICJ
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 10:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The International Court of Justice is preparing to hand down its first-ever opinion on climate change, seen by many as a historic moment in international law. Judges have waded through tens of thousands of pages of written submissions and heard two weeks of oral arguments during the ICJ's biggest-ever case. Its own "advisory opinion" is expected ...
Al-Shabaab Resurgence Exposes Somali Military Fragility
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 10:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Despite billions of dollars in international support, Somalia's army has melted in the face of a months-long offensive by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgency, and donors are running out of patience. Using hundreds of fighters and a vehicle packed with explosives for a suicide attack, Al-Shabaab retook the town of Moqokori on July 7, the ...
Invisible but Unbroken: Women Fighting Iran’s Repression
Soumia Benmerzoug 2025-07-23 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Repression of women in Iran is not new. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, their freedoms have been tightly controlled by an institutionalized patriarchal system that monitors every aspect of their lives, such as education, work, movement and expression. The veil, often internationally seen as the symbol of this oppression, is only the most ...
Coca-Cola Plans US Cane Sugar Alternative After Trump Push
This is Beirut 2025-07-22 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Coca-Cola on Tuesday said it would release a version of Coke in the United States made with US-grown real cane sugar, a move requested by President Donald Trump. "We're going to be bringing a Coke sweetened with US cane sugar into the market this fall, and I think that will be an enduring option for consumers," said CEO James Quincey on a call ...
Tablecoin: When Human Intelligence Becomes a Currency
Christiane Tager 2025-07-22 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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As technological advances accelerate, Washington has just passed two landmark pieces of legislation: the country’s first national framework for stablecoins and the ambitious Genius Act. The aim? To regulate digital assets while safeguarding human intellectual contribution in an increasingly automated world. What Is the Genius Act? Recently ...
Toxic Algae Bloom Lingers off Australia, Killing Marine Life
This is Beirut 2025-07-22 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Algae Australia Toxic Marine Life
A vast toxic algae bloom has sparked growing concern in Australia as it lingers off the south coast, killing hundreds of marine species and disrupting fisheries. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unlocked federal funds this week to cope with the Karenia mikimotoi algae as it persists four months after first appearing. South Australia's government ...
Charbel’s Path, the Path of a People: The Lebanese Camino Is Launched
Makram Haddad 2025-07-21 16:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Saint Charbel Annaya Christians
A breath of spirituality swept through the heights of Annaya on Sunday, July 20, with the official inauguration of Section 1 of Darb Mar Charbel, the first long-distance pilgrimage trail in Lebanon. Also known as the Camino de San Charbel, in reference to the world’s great spiritual routes, this ambitious project aims to connect key sites tied ...
Superman Flies High Again, Soars Past $400 Million Worldwide
This is Beirut 2025-07-21 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Superman Cinema Box Office Culture Art
The Man of Steel has staying power: Superman topped the North American box office for a second week running and surpassed the $400 million mark worldwide, industry estimates showed Sunday. Riding largely positive reviews, the latest big-budget action film featuring the iconic superhero from Warner Bros. and DC Studios earned $57.3 million in the ...
When a Camel Becomes a Symbol
This is Beirut 2025-07-21 11:55 - Reading : less than a minute
In June 2024, in a village in southeastern Pakistan, a young camel named Cammie was brutally mutilated when a farmer cut off her front leg after she wandered into his field in search of food. Rescued by an animal shelter in Karachi, Cammie was fitted with a prosthetic leg and is now learning to walk again. Cammie is no longer just an injured ...
World's Major Courts Take Growing Role in Climate Fight
This is Beirut 2025-07-21 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries. Wednesday's highly anticipated advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice comes in the wake of landmark international decisions ...
Top Holy Land Clerics Visit Gaza after Deadly Church Strike
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 19:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Pierbattista Pizzaballa Theophilos III
Two of the most senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem made a rare visit to Gaza on Friday, a day after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church, provoking international condemnation. The Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Theophilos III, ...
Melania Trump May Soon Have Her Name on Opera House
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A House budget committee has approved an amendment that would force the Kennedy Center, Washington’s cultural institution, to rename its opera house the “First Lady Melania Trump Opera House.” The amendment is part of a 2026 Interior Department funding bill, which covers cultural affairs among other responsibilities. It threatens to strip ...
Lebanon: A Cry for Help from Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals
Makram Haddad 2025-07-18 13:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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“Have you ever thought about the suffering of hospitals?” That poignant question opened the press conference held on Thursday in Beirut by the Bikhazi Medical Group (BMG). In front of a crowd of journalists and healthcare professionals, hospital and union officials laid out, without sugarcoating, the suffering of a sector in crisis. A ...
Sharaa's Pullout From Syria Druze Heartland Exposes Shaky Leadership
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 12:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Syria Druze Ahmad al-Sharaa
Under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure, Ahmed al-Sharaa pulled troops from Syria's Druze heartland -- a move that exposes the interim leader's weakness just as he sought to assert control. Since seizing office in December after ousting longtime autocrat Bashar al-Assad, Sharaa has worked to recast himself from jihadist to statesman, ...
Digging into Ice to Predict Our Future
Hala Abdallah 2025-07-18 12:15 - Reading : less than a minute
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What if the secrets to climate change are frozen in ancient ice? Scientists are discovering mysteries hidden in Antarctic ice cores, some over 100,000 years old, in search of clues about our planet’s changing climate.
England Reach Euro 2025 Semis After Shootout Win Over Sweden
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
England roared into the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Thursday after coming back from two goals down and then beating Sweden 3-2 on penalties to continue their title defence. Smilla Holmberg blasted over from the spot in an eventful shootout in Zurich after the match finished 2-2 after extra time thanks to Lucy Bronze and Michelle ...
Iraq Shopping Mall Fire Kills at Least 60
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 15:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said Thursday as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives. Officials said many people suffocated in bathrooms, while one person told AFP his five relatives died in an elevator. The blaze -- the latest ...
UK to Lower Voting Age to 16 in General Elections
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
European Union United Kingdom Keir Starmer
The British government said Thursday it plans to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in general elections, a landmark change giving the UK one of the lowest voting ages worldwide. It follows a pledge from the ruling Labour Party to make the shift ahead of winning power last year, and is among several planned changes to the democratic system, which ...
What If AI Could Let You Watch Your Dreams Like a Movie?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-17 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
AI Dreams Film Japan Neuroscientists
Sleep, dream… and soon, wake up and watch your dreams like a movie? While it may still sound like science fiction, this technology is taking shape in research labs. At Kyoto’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, neuroscientist Yukiyasu Kamitani and his team have created an AI system that decodes brain activity during REM sleep—the ...
World-First IVF Trial Reduces Risk of Babies Inheriting Diseases
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 11:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday. The findings were hailed as a breakthrough which raises hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day have ...
In 'Materialists,' Dakota Johnson Explores Love in the Age of Algorithms
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-07-17 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dakota Johnson Cinema Culture Materialists Art Actress
In Materialists, Céline Song reinvents the romantic comedy with Lucy, a New York matchmaker specializing in high-end unions, who suddenly finds herself torn between two very different men: Harry, a wealthy, reassuring heir, and John, a struggling but genuine actor. Beneath its glamorous surface, the film dissects the bold machinery of an era ...
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 ...
Russian Strikes Continue in Ukraine Despite Trump’s Ultimatum
This is Beirut 2025-07-16 21:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A Russian strike on a commercial area in eastern Ukraine killed at least two people and injured around twenty others on Wednesday, local authorities reported, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Moscow to end the war. On Monday, President Trump gave Russia 50 days to reach a peace agreement with Ukraine or face ...
When the Body Speaks: The Truth Behind Self-Harm
David Sahyoun 2025-07-16 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Self-Harm Psychoanalysis Body Scars Sufferings
Once treated as a fringe concern in psychiatry, self-harm has become far more visible in recent decades. Clinical and epidemiological studies agree that it primarily affects adolescents and young adults, with a marked prevalence among girls and young women. It appears in hospitals, schools and prisons, but also across digital spaces. On platforms ...
Vaccine Against Cavities? Researchers Reach a Milestone
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-23 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Vaccine Cavities Dentists Science Research Health
What if, in the near future, simply applying a product to your teeth could protect you from cavities? A scenario that once seemed like science fiction is becoming increasingly plausible as research advances. For years, scientists have been working on a vaccine against dental cavities, the world’s most common chronic infectious disease. Now, ...