par This Is Beirut, 27/04 11:30 - Reading : less than a minute
A former minister reportedly said that if Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri accepts French President Emmanuel Macron's invitation to visit Paris, it would constitute a major breakthrough for Lebanon to negotiate a way out of the crisis. A source close to Ain el-Tineh also reported that Berri's visit to Paris could take place around mid-May. In ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 30/04 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The statement issued at the conclusion of the Elysée meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Lebanese Army (LAF) Commander-in-Chief General Joseph Aoun was capped with the assurance that "President Macron will guarantee follow-through on various points." Consequently, he dispatched Foreign ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/05 18:56 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Xi Jinping arrived in Paris on Sunday, where his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron intends to advocate trade "reciprocity" and the search for a resolution to the war in Ukraine, in the face of a Chinese president who continues to show his support for Russia. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in France on Sunday, on a state visit hosted by ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/05 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a high altitude lunch at a childhood haunt in the Pyrenees mountains. Macron pressed a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade. The first day of Xi's state visit to France, his first to Europe since 2019, saw ...
par This Is Beirut, 17/05 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday that Moscow would not comply with calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Summer Olympics, pointing to what he said was the unfair treatment of Russian athletes. When asked during a visit to China whether he backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea for a global "Olympic truce" during ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/05 23:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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French President Emmanuel Macron's personal envoy to Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian is expected in Beirut on Tuesday, according to information relayed by local TV channel al-Jadeed. He is due to meet the members of the National Moderation parliamentary bloc over lunch on Wednesday at the Résidence des Pins, the headquarters of the French Embassy in ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/05 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Emmanuel Macron has vowed to quell an "unprecedented insurrection" in New Caledonia on Thursday as he visits the region rife with unrest. France's president visited the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Thursday, urging a "return to peace" after deadly rioting, and vowing thousands of military reinforcements will be deployed for "as ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/05 12:01 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Emmanuel Macron arrived Sunday in Berlin on the first state visit to Germany by a French president in a quarter-century, bringing a plea to defend democracy against nationalism at upcoming European elections. Macron made an appearance at a democracy festival his first stop, where, accompanied by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, he warned ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/05 22:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Europe needs to "wake up" to authoritarian trends among far-right parties and governments, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, ahead of key European Union elections. "Everywhere in our democracies these ideas thrive, pushed by the extremes and, in particular, the far right," Macron said in a speech in the eastern city of Dresden, ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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According to sources close to the Elysée Palace, during a meeting on April 19 with Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Army Commander-in-Chief General Joseph Aoun, French President Emmanuel Macron paid a tribute to the chief of the Lebanese armed forces. The same source relayed that Macron was pleased by Joseph Aoun's briefing on the ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 22:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Intense shelling and gunfire rocked Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday, after Israel declared it had seized a strategic corridor along the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt. Israel launched its military incursion into Rafah in early May despite international objections over the safety of civilians sheltering in the city. A strike that ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/06 22:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Canada Emmanuel Macron France Joe Biden Justin Trudeau Ukraine United Kingdom United States Volodymyr Zelensky
United States President Joe Biden warned, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, that democracy around the world was at risk, as leaders marked the 1944 landings in occupied France that helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Biden, Britain's King Charles III, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron ...
