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US Envoy Thomas Barrack Urges Lebanon to Seize the Moment, or Be Left Behind
This is Beirut 2025-07-07 14:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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US Special Envoy Thomas Barrack delivered a strong message to Lebanese leaders on Monday, urging them to “seize the opportunity” for peace and reform while the region is moving forward on the path of change and the United States remains engaged and supportive. His remarks to the press followed a meeting with President Joseph Aoun at ...
BDL Takes Action: Ban on Transactions with Al-Qard Al-Hassan & co.
This is Beirut 2025-07-15 14:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Banks Banque du Liban Central Bank of Lebanon
The circular (No. 170) published by the Banque du Liban, accompanied by Basic Decision No. 13335, marks a decisive turning point in regulating the Lebanese financial sector. By formally banning banks and financial institutions from any relationship with unauthorized entities, particularly the association Al-Qard Al-Hassan, the Banque du Liban is ...
BTS to Drop New Album and World Tour in 2026
This is Beirut 2025-07-02 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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BTS agency HYBE confirmed Wednesday that the K-pop megastars would release a new album and go on tour in 2026, with the group's livestream announcement of their return attracting more than seven million views. The seven-member group had been on a self-described hiatus since 2022 while they undertook their mandatory military service — required ...
Renewables and Diversification: The Gulf’s Strategy
Alexandre Baz 2025-06-29 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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After decades of prosperity built on fossil fuels, the Gulf monarchies are increasingly turning toward green hydrogen, pursuing a dual goal: diversifying their economies and demonstrating a credible commitment to tackling climate change. As Karim Elgendy, an ecological transition specialist, told AFP, “The Gulf states want to lead the global ...
Top Chinese Diplomat in Europe to Promote Closer Ties
This is Beirut 2025-06-30 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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China's top diplomat heads to Europe on Monday for a visit that Beijing said will highlight ties as an "anchor of stability" in a world in turmoil. Wang Yi's tour will take him to the European Union's headquarters in Brussels as well as France and Germany as China seeks to improve relations with the bloc as a counterweight to superpower rival the ...
Russia’s Population Plummets as War, Alcoholism, and Low Birth Rates Collide
This is Beirut 2025-06-30 10:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Freshly married to a policeman, office manager Angelina Alexeyeva has been motivated by President Vladimir Putin's plea for Russians to have more children, part of the Kremlin's ultra-patriotic drive as its Ukraine offensive drags on. Russia's dwindling birth rate has been one of Putin's main worries during his 25-year rule. And with Moscow ...
Khalaf Warns: “Comprehensive Plan Urgently Needed”
This is Beirut 2025-06-30 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In an op-ed published ahead of the Association of Banks in Lebanon’s (ABL) monthly report, Secretary General Fadi Khalaf once again sounded the alarm, warning that the absence of a comprehensive solution remains the greatest threat to Lebanon’s economic and financial future. With the country’s systemic crisis entering its sixth year, Khalaf ...
Casino du Liban: Hitting the Jackpot of Scandal
This is Beirut 2025-07-01 16:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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For decades a beacon of entertainment in Maameltein, Casino du Liban now finds itself at the heart of a storm of scandal and investigation. At the center of a sprawling probe—where suspicions of money laundering, illegal online gambling, political collusion and opaque financial schemes converge—the iconic casino has been entangled in a series ...
Big Beautiful Bill: America’s Divisive Tax Overhaul
Mario Chartouni 2025-07-02 08:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Passed by the US Senate last Tuesday by a majority of 51 votes to 50, thanks to the decisive vote of Vice President J.D. Vance, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), nicknamed the “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB), is currently the most ambitious and polarizing budget bill championed by Donald Trump since his return to the political ...
Lebanon: A Laboratory for a Pharmaceutical Industry in Full Transformation
Makram Haddad 2025-07-02 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Pharmaceutical industry Crisis
Lebanon has always played a central role in the health field in the Middle East. A land of renowned hospitals, foreign-trained doctors, Gulf patients and proven pharmaceutical know-how, the 1990s saw the return in force of multinational drug companies, firmly established in a country relying on imports as a guarantee of quality in a liberal ...
Lebanon’s Gas Station Owners Syndicate Elects New Executive Council After Four-Year Vacancy
This is Beirut 2025-07-02 11:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
After more than four years without leadership, Lebanon’s Syndicate of Gas Station Owners has elected a new executive council. The vote took place on June 19 during the syndicate’s General Assembly, and the newly appointed council held its first meeting on Tuesday at the union’s headquarters in Adlieh. Georges Brax, succeeding his late ...
Iran Ends Cooperation with UN Nuclear Watchdog after Israel, US Strikes
This is Beirut 2025-07-02 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran on Wednesday officially suspended its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, a move triggered by the unprecedented Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities. Last month's 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel has sharply escalated tensions between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. On June 25, a day ...
BRICS Nations Slam Trump Tariffs, Condemn Strikes on Iran
This is Beirut 2025-07-07 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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BRICS leaders at a summit on Sunday took aim at US President Donald Trump's "indiscriminate" import tariffs and recent Israeli-US strikes on Iran. The 11 emerging nations -- including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- account for about half the world's population and 40 percent of global economic output. The bloc is divided about ...
Civilian Killings in South Sudan Hit Highest Level Since 2020
This is Beirut 2025-07-02 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The number of civilians killed in South Sudan has soared to the highest in almost five years, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The unstable east African nation has seen a drastic uptick in violence since simmering rivalry between President Salva Kiir and his vice-president, Riek Machar, boiled over into open hostilities. The detention in ...
U.S. Labels Iran’s Halt of IAEA Cooperation as "Unacceptable"
This is Beirut 2025-07-02 23:31 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Iran's suspension of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is unacceptable, US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Wednesday. Tehran officially suspended its cooperation with the IAEA, a move triggered by the unprecedented Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities over 12 ...
How Robots and Raw Earth Are Redefining Homebuilding
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-03 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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They look like cocoons, settled on the ground as if they had naturally grown there. No straight lines, no concrete, just earth, carefully layered by two robotic arms moving with the grace of a choreographed dance. In 200 hours—barely eight days—an entire house takes shape. Printed on site using only natural materials. Its name? TECLA. Its ...
The Target of Khaldeh Strike Is an Al-Quds Force Operative, According to the Israeli Army
This is Beirut 2025-07-03 17:50 - Reading : less than a minute
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An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in Khaldeh, south of Beirut, on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding five others, according to the Ministry of Health. Preliminary reports indicate that the target of the Israeli strike was Qassem al-Husseini, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On his X account, the ...
US Sanctions Seven al-Qard al-Hassan Officials and Iranian Oil Smuggling Network
This is Beirut 2025-07-03 20:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday against seven individuals linked to al-Qard al-Hassan (AQAH), Hezbollah’s illicit financial institution, the US Treasury Department announced in a statement. Sanctions also targeted a commercial network involved in smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi. The seven individuals sanctioned for ...
Adraee Confirms the Targeting of Qassem Salah al-Husseini in Khaldeh Strike
This is Beirut 2025-07-04 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced on Friday that the Israeli army had eliminated Qassem Salah al-Husseini, an operative working for Iran’s Quds Force, in a drone attack on his vehicle in Khaldeh. Thursday’s strike also injured three other individuals. Adraee wrote on his X account, “Yesterday, the Israeli ...
Are Lebanon’s Nature Reserves at Risk?
Vanessa Kallas 2025-07-05 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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In the scorching summer heat, wildfires creep through the dense forests of Lebanon, burning everything on their trail. The forest of Kobayat, Akkar, was the latest victim of this auburn nightmare, and possibly not the last. While the fire was eventually extinguished, it left irreparable damage on the forest. In response, Minister of Environment ...
Israel: Ultra-Orthodox conscription threatens Netanyahu’s coalition
This is Beirut 2025-07-06 21:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Israeli army announced Sunday that it would begin sending draft notices to 54,000 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who were previously exempt from military service, a move that threatens to split the governing coalition. "The army will begin this week issuing summons to complete the enlistment process for ultra-Orthodox men whose status as ...
Another Delay for Egypt’s Grand Museum Shakes Tourism Hopes
This is Beirut 2025-07-15 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped the long-awaited opening would bring, now once again out of reach. "I had bet everything on this opening," she told AFP from her shop, just steps from the iconic pyramids of Giza, which the much-anticipated museum ...
Luxury Bag Counterfeiting Takes on Major Fashion Houses
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-15 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Luxury Bags China TikTok Viral Counterfeits
At first glance, the video looks like just another promo for cut-price products. A young woman praises a handbag “identical to an Hermès model” for a fraction of the cost. The brand is blurred, but the resemblance is unmistakable. The caption reads: “Luxury brands are all made in China.” In other words: why pay €10,000 for a Hermès bag ...
Will Stablecoins Become Everyday Money?
This is Beirut 2025-07-30 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Stablecoins might not make people into surprise millionaires the way bitcoin did, but these cryptocurrencies are designed to be more useful when it comes to daily life. The GENIUS Act, a regulatory framework recently signed into law by US President Donald Trump, may boost stablecoins, digital currencies with values pegged to a country's ...
Macron Calls for Preventing Renewed Violence after Talks with Syria's al-Sharaa
This is Beirut 2025-07-26 18:40 - Reading : less than a minute
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday it was “imperative to prevent a recurrence of violence” in Syria, calling for those responsible for recent unrest to be held accountable, following talks with Syria's interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa. “The recent violence in Syria highlights the extreme fragility of the transition. Civilian ...
World's Top Court Paves Way for Climate Reparations
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 23:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states are obliged under international law to tackle climate change and warned that failing to do so could open the door to reparations. In a historic statement, the International Court of Justice said climate change was an "urgent and existential threat" and countries had a legal duty to prevent ...
Columbia Strikes $221 Million Deal to Restore Federal Funding After Trump Threats
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Columbia University said Wednesday it will pay $200 million to the US government after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding over what he said was its unwillingness to protect Jewish students. In a sweeping deal that will restore the prestigious New York institution's federal monies, Columbia has pledged to obey rules that bar ...
Trump's First Five Trade Deals
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Japan and the Philippines bring to five the number of countries that have concluded trade deals with the United States ahead of an August 1 deadline set by President Donald Trump to avoid punitive tariff rates. The agreed levies are often higher than the new base rate of 10 percent that the United States has applied to most countries since April ...
President Aoun, Mufti Derian Pledge Unity and Coordination
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 10:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun welcomed Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian and a delegation of regional muftis to the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Thursday, stressing that Lebanon has reached a “pivotal and possibly fateful crossroads.” In an atmosphere he described as both critical and sensitive, Aoun underscored that the ...
French Court to Rule on Assad Immunity in Chemical Attack Case
This is Beirut 2025-07-25 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France's highest court is to decide Friday whether to uphold an arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad as part of a probe into deadly 2013 chemical attacks during the country's civil war. Rights activists say that if the Court of Cassation confirms Assad does not enjoy immunity due to the severity of the accusations, it could ...