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Ads Pressured to Evolve as AI Changes Google Search
This is Beirut 2025-05-22 10:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Google Artificial Intelligence AI
As Google races to lead in artificial intelligence, it faces the challenge of making sure the technology doesn't slow its profit-pumping advertising engine. The internet giant is dabbling with ads in its new AI Mode for online search, a strategic move to fend off competition from ChatGPT while adapting its advertising business for an AI ...
US Says Israel Backs Latest Gaza Truce Plan Sent to Hamas
This is Beirut 2025-05-29 21:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam USA Hamas Palestine Donald Trump Gaza
The White House said on Thursday that Israel had "signed off on" a new Gaza ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas, as the Palestinian militants confirmed they were studying the deal. Negotiations to end more than 19 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in Gaza in March after a brief ...
IMF: Three Billion to Bury 85 Billion? No, Thank You.
Marc Saikali 2025-05-29 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
International Monetary Fund Europe Gulf Hezbollah
The International Monetary Fund wants to lend $3 billion to Lebanon. On paper, it’s an "opportunity" to get a devastated country back on its feet. In reality, it’s a cruel joke. Lebanon is staring into an $85 billion abyss - a gaping hole dug by decades of mismanagement, clientelism, and public governance as cynical as it is incompetent. In ...
Starship Megarocket Blows up Over Indian Ocean in Latest Bumpy Test
This is Beirut 2025-05-28 11:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company's Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that ...
Shakespeare’s 'King Lear' Rocks Tehran with Beat and Passion
This is Beirut 2025-05-28 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Shakespeare Iran Theater Culture Art Tehran
An Iranian director is bringing a jolt of energy to King Lear, staging the Shakespearean tragedy in Persian in Tehran with electrifying rock music and dazzling lights to draw in younger crowds. In Iran, artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and playwrights constantly walk a fine line to avoid censorship of content considered inappropriate by ...
Short-Cycle Prose: Georges Perec, the Washing Machine’s Poet
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-27 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Georges Perec Washing Machine Writer Literature Poet Culture
A drum, a muffled sound, cycles, programs. A round door swings open onto the world’s laundry. A washing machine, yes – but for Georges Perec, it’s never just an appliance. It’s a trigger – his engine for writing. In the workshop of this master of literary constraints, even the most ordinary object can become a source of invention. ...
Israeli Night Raid on Yater Leaves One Dead
This is Beirut 2025-05-27 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Baalbeck Lebanese Army South Lebanon UNIFIL Syria
An Israeli raid targeted on Tuesday evening a motorcycle on the outskirts of Yater (Bint Jbeil), killing the rider, reportedly from the Al Balaghi family, according to preliminary information. At dawn on Tuesday, an Israeli infantry unit crossed approximately 200 meters into Lebanese territory in the Mays al-Jabal area (Marjayoun district). The ...
SpaceX set for Next Starship Launch After Fiery Failures
This is Beirut 2025-05-27 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
SpaceX is set Tuesday for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket -- the linchpin of founder Elon Musk's Mars ambitions -- after the vessel's last two outings ended in fiery explosions. A launch window opens at 6:30 pm (2330 GMT) from the company's Starbase facility near a southern Texas village that recently voted to become a city, also ...
SE Asian Leaders Meet China's Li and Gulf States to Bolster Ties
This is Beirut 2025-05-27 09:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Southeast Asian leaders are looking to insulate their trade-dependent economies from geopolitical uncertainty, in particular US tariffs, as they hold talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Gulf state dignitaries in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump blew up global trade norms in April when he announced a slew of punishing levies ...
Car Ploughs into Crowd during Liverpool Victory Parade
This is Beirut 2025-05-26 22:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Kingdom Liverpool Car Ramming
A car ploughed into football fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League title victory on Monday injuring several people while police said a 53-year-old man had been detained. Witnesses reported people being knocked over as a dark-coloured people carrier swerved through huge crowds among tens of thousands who turned out to see the English ...
Cannes Hit by Power Cut as Film Festival Draws to a Close
This is Beirut 2025-05-24 17:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
France Cannes Electricity Cannes Film Festival
A power substation and an electricity pylon were vandalized overnight in the region around France's Cannes, which has been hit by a major blackout on the final day of its film festival, officials said. A substation in the village of Tanneron, which supplies Cannes, was targeted by a suspected arson attack, while the legs of a pylon carrying a ...
A Power Revolution with No Current
Ryan Chaba 2025-05-24 10:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
It’s a quietly growing trend. Since Lebanon’s 2021 fuel crisis, the electric vehicle market has been steadily gaining ground. Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), in particular, are spearheading the shift. Their futuristic designs are increasingly becoming common sights on Lebanon’s roads. The numbers are still small but rising. In the absence ...
At Last: Saida Votes
Chelsea Al Arif 2025-05-23 12:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Municipal Elections Saida Municipals 2025
As the fourth and final phase of Lebanon’s municipal and mukhtar elections approaches, the southern city of Saida stands at a pivotal moment in its political history. Scheduled for Saturday, May 24, the elections come after intensive administrative and security preparations led by Minister of Interior and Municipalities Ahmad al-Hajjar. His ...
Screen Addiction: The False Promise of 'Mindset Therapy'
David Sahyoun 2025-05-21 18:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Addictions Mind Therapy Culture
Excessive screen use often results in compulsive patterns, where individuals struggle to cut back despite being fully aware of the negative consequences. Today, the screen has become a space of projection—a mirror reflecting our solitude, a portal to fantasy and an endless source of stimulation. It is no longer just a tool, it’s embedded in ...
New Metro Cuts Through Saudi Social Divisions
This is Beirut 2025-05-30 09:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Transport Traffic Social Metro
For decades, civil servant Zayed al-Ghamdi's social circles in Saudi Arabia were more than predictable, bound by routine and kinship in a country where societal divisions have rarely been challenged. Then came the metro. A decade after breaking ground, Riyadh's gleaming new metro opened in December, offering the capital's eight million residents ...
US Expects Russia Offer Soon as Zelensky Sounds Warning
This is Beirut 2025-05-21 05:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday he expected Russia to present a Ukraine ceasefire outline within days that will show if it is serious, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of buying time. President Donald Trump spoke separately by telephone on Monday to Zelensky and Russia's Vladimir Putin, after Russian and ...
Adrenaline and Stopwatch at the Faqra Speed Test
Makram Haddad 2025-05-20 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The mountain shook, tires screamed and the stopwatch spoke. The second Speed Test of the season, masterfully organized by the Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon (ATCL), delivered all the thrills this weekend in Faqra (Kfardebian). With a record-breaking participation of 102 cars, the mechanical showdown counted as the second round of the ...
Cannes Behind the Scenes: Red Carpet, Silent Hands
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-20 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Festival Cannes Cinema Red Carpet France
In Cannes, everything seems to float. Spectacular gowns, knowing glances and intense spotlight beams. Yet, beneath this radiant veneer, hundreds of anonymous figures move quietly behind the scenes. They don’t climb the steps or feature in Instagram stories. But without them, the red carpet would simply be a piece of red fabric. Every ...
Wes Anderson’s Starry Cast Shines Bright at Cannes
This is Beirut 2025-05-19 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Wes Anderson Cinema Cannes Film Festival Culture Cannes France
US director Wes Anderson brought his latest A-list cast led by Benicio del Toro to the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, ramping up the star power as the competition reaches the halfway mark. Anderson's typically whimsical The Phoenician Scheme, which also finds roles for Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet's daughter, Mia Threapleton, ...
Ruling Party Tops Portugal Polls Marked by Far-Right Surge
This is Beirut 2025-05-19 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Portugal's incumbent centre-right party won the most seats in the country's third general election in three years on Sunday but again fell short of a parliamentary majority, while support for the far-right Chega rose. The outcome threatens to extend political instability in the NATO and European Union member state as the bloc faces growing global ...
Stephanie Hobeika, Lebanese Rocket at Silverstone
Makram Haddad 2025-05-16 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Stephanie Hobeika Silverstone
Born in 2003 in Lebanon, originally from Baskinta, raised between Dubai and England, Stephanie Hobeika is racing where few Lebanese – and even fewer women – have dared to venture: British racetracks. A student in design engineering at the University of Bath, she combines intelligence, driving skill and formidable composure. In April 2025, for ...
The Cost of Nepotism in Formula 1
Jad Ramadan 2025-05-15 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Formula One Miami Max Verstappen Ferrari
Formula 1 is often romanticized as the pinnacle of motorsport — a fusion of elite engineering, strategic brilliance, and exceptional driving skill. But behind this facade, lies a controversial, often unspoken problem: nepotism. While some people see it as a “passing of the torch” moment, others have criticized this issue, arguing that ...
Qatar Airways Makes Record-Breaking Order for Boeing Planes
This is Beirut 2025-05-14 21:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Qatar Qatar Airways Boeing
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday Qatar Airways had placed a "record" order for 160 planes from Boeing as he signed a raft of deals in Doha alongside Qatar's emir. The order, which the White House said was Boeing's largest ever for wide-body jets, deepens ties between the US aerospace giant and the giant Middle East ...
‘To Exist Is to Be Different:’ Creativity as Self-Affirmation
David Sahyoun 2025-05-14 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Exist Creativity Self-Affirmation Culture
For philosopher Jean Baudrillard, consumption is far more than an economic act – it is a system of communication and social control. We don’t consume merely to meet our needs; we consume to be like others, to belong to the collective. Behind the apparent abundance of choice hides an insidious conformity: you need to have this object to be ...
Protection Racket? Asian Semiconductor Giants Fear Looming Tariffs
This is Beirut 2025-05-14 12:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States USA Washington
Inside one of South Korea's oldest semiconductor research institutes, the cleanrooms and workshops are calm and immaculate, but outside the Seoul National University campus, a chip storm is brewing. Last month, Washington announced a national security probe into imports of semiconductor technology, which could put the industry in the crosshairs ...
Inner Workings of AI an Enigma - Even to its Creators
This is Beirut 2025-05-13 11:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Even the greatest human minds building generative artificial intelligence that is poised to change the world admit they do not comprehend how digital minds think. "People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work," Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei wrote in an essay posted ...
Papal Election and Contemporary Challenges
Charles Chartouni 2025-05-12 09:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
The election of Robert Francis Prevost as bishop of Rome is a powerful indicator of the Catholic Church's ability to reform its bi-millennial odyssey and reinterpret its ecclesiology to make it adjust to the challenges of contemporary ministries in a global world. The changing of the theological and ecclesiological paradigms is a Church ...
Hamas Says Israel-Approved US Truce Plan Falls Short
This is Beirut 2025-05-29 22:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine USA Gaza Ceasefire
The White House said Thursday Israel had "signed off" on a new Gaza ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas, but the Palestinian militant group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands. Negotiations to end more than 19 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in Gaza in March after a ...
When Cigarettes Fueled the Economy…
Christiane Tager 2025-05-31 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Europe United States USA tobacco
For decades, cigarettes were a real nicotine cash cow for governments. A thriving industry, lucrative taxes, countless jobs and mass consumption that, despite health warnings, was an integral part of the global economic and social landscape. But that was before public health got seriously involved. On May 31st, we take a collective breath: it’s ...
US to Clarify Ambiguity Over Success of its Strikes on Iran's Nuclear
This is Beirut 2025-06-26 12:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam iran israel conflict us
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to hold a news conference on Thursday to offer a fresh assessment of strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, following a stinging row over how much American bombardment set back Tehran's nuclear program. After waves of Israeli attacks on nuclear and military sites and retaliatory missile fire from Iran since ...