This is Beirut, 2025-12-22 13:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel United States Iran Diplomacy
Iran insisted on Monday that its missile program was defensive in nature and designed to dissuade attack, while adding the existence of its arsenal was not up for debate. Israel had presented Iran's ballistic missiles, along with its nuclear program, as the two main threats it sought to neutralize during the 12-day war the foes fought in ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-07 18:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam USA Iran Mexico Conflict Diplomacy
The United States and Israel on Friday accused Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, in what would be the latest attempt to take the two countries' conflict to another region. Israel said that Mexican authorities intervened to stop the attempt to kill the ambassador, Einat Kranz-Neiger. "We thank the security and law ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-28 05:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States Japan Donald Trump Diplomacy
Japan's new premier Sanae Takaichi lavished US leader Donald Trump with praise and vows of a "golden age of ties" on his visit to Tokyo Tuesday, before inking a deal with Washington aimed at securing critical minerals. Takaichi, Japan's first woman prime minister, lauded Trump's involvement in mediating conflicts and will ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-27 08:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
USA US Secretary of State India Asean Diplomacy
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with India's foreign minister on Monday, as the two countries push trade talks and ease tensions over Washington's punishing tariffs. Few details were released, but Rubio's meeting with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is the highest-level contact since the United States imposed sanctions last week on Russian oil ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-14 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Painting Museum Gustave Courbet Qatar France Diplomacy Culture
Qatar has revealed itself as the owner of a famous self-portrait by French realist master Gustave Courbet and will loan the painting to Paris's Musee d'Orsay for five years, museum officials said on Monday. "The Desperate Man" depicts Courbet with a wild-eyed stare looking out of the canvas in a work that is one of his best known alongside "The ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-08 05:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Canada Diplomacy
President Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney would be "very happy" after their trade talks at the White House Tuesday, but offered no immediate concessions on lifting steep US tariffs. Striking a friendly tone in the Oval Office, Trump praised Carney as a "world-class leader" adding that the former central ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-01 20:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Ortagus Ceasefire Military Diplomacy
Lebanon is preparing to receive US envoy Morgan Ortagus on October 14, ahead of her participation in the third meeting of the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee scheduled for October 15, according to a diplomatic source speaking to MTV on Wednesday. The visit comes at a sensitive time, as both Washington and Beirut navigate the challenges of ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-22 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Estonia Russia NATO Defence Military Diplomacy
NATO ambassadors will hold talks Tuesday on the violation by Russian fighter jets of Estonian airspace, after Tallinn called urgent consultations under Article Four of the alliance's founding treaty. NATO scrambled jets after three Russian MiG-31 fighters on Friday breached Estonian airspace for some 12 minutes, triggering complaints of a ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-22 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has "fond memories" of US President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the United States -- if he can keep his nukes. Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump's first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-17 05:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States United Kingdom Donald Trump Diplomacy
Britain will roll out a supersized royal welcome for Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit on Wednesday, with the king to greet the US president who has compared himself to a monarch. From a carriage ride with King Charles III to a flypast and a lavish state dinner in the nearly 1,000-year-old Windsor Castle, Britain is going to ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-04 18:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Conflict Diplomacy
Donald Trump on Thursday voiced frustration with EU countries that still buy Russian oil, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after the US president spoke to him and European leaders during a summit on Ukraine. Ukraine's allies met in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal to end Russia's war against ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-26 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Museum History Diplomacy France Madagascar Culture
France on Tuesday returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be a Malagasy king beheaded by French troops during a 19th-century massacre. The skull presumed to be that of King Toera and two others from the Sakalava ethnic group were handed over at a ceremony at the French culture ministry. French troops beheaded ...