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Asia markets were down on Wednesday while gold extended its six-day rally after reaching a record high as investors sought safe havens following a selloff in equity and bond markets. Bullion for immediate delivery hit a fresh record as Asia markets opened, climbing 0.4 percent to hit $3,546.96 an ounce. Prices have risen five percent over the ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 23:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was "very disappointed" by Russian leader Vladimir Putin's failure to strike a Ukraine peace deal, but remained vague on any possible consequences for Moscow. Since meeting Putin in Alaska last month, Trump has pushed the Kremlin chief to hold bilateral talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump will make an "exciting" announcement on Tuesday about the Department of Defense, the White House said, days after Trump said he planned to rename it the Department of War. Republican Trump was due to make the announcement from the Oval Office at 2:00 pm (1800 GMT), according to his daily schedule, which did not give ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 15:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to quickly resolve what he called "the crime problem" in Chicago, hinting at sending troops into what he branded the "most dangerous city in the world." "I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, referring to his deployment of National Guard ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 11:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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An olive-green North Korean train, emblazoned with a gold stripe, carried leader Kim Jong Un into China on Tuesday for a grand military parade that President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin will also attend. Since taking power in 2011, Kim has now made nine international trips and crossed the border into South Korea twice, using his ...
This is Beirut, 01/09 11:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Turkey's mediation attempts around the Ukraine war at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in China on Monday. "I'm confident that Turkey's special role in these matters will continue to be in demand," the Russian president said during talks with Erdogan on the sidelines of the ...
This is Beirut, 01/09 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet European leaders on Thursday in Paris, a source told AFP, amid an international push to broker an end to Russia's three-and-a-half-year invasion. "We're planning such a meeting" between Zelensky and European leaders, the source said Monday, adding that US President Donald Trump "is not so far ...
This is Beirut, 01/09 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin took turns Monday to swipe at the West during a gathering of Eurasian leaders for a showpiece summit aimed at putting Beijing front and center of regional relations. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), comprising China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan ...
This is Beirut, 29/08 22:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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European powers said Friday they were ready to drop a new sanctions push on Iran if it addresses concerns on its nuclear program over the next month, but Tehran denounced the offer as insincere. Britain, France and Germany, known as the E3, triggered the so-called "snapback" mechanism the previous day to reinstate UN sanctions on Tehran for ...
This is Beirut, 29/08 20:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The United States said Friday it will deny visas to members of the Palestinian Authority to attend next month's UN General Assembly, where France is leading a push to recognize a Palestinian state. The extraordinary step further aligns President Donald Trump's administration with Israel's government, which adamantly rejects a Palestinian state ...
This is Beirut, 29/08 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Trump administration has withdrawn former vice president Kamala Harris's Secret Service security protection, a White House official said Friday. The administration terminated an extension approved by then-president Joe Biden for Harris, the defeated Democratic presidential candidate whose customary six-month period of protection as ex-VP ...
This is Beirut, 29/08 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In an interview held after his departure from Lebanon, US special envoy Tom Barrack urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to show “tolerance and understanding” toward Lebanon, stressing that such an approach would benefit both countries. “I come from your region, I have Lebanese blood,” said Barrack, whose family hails from ...