This is Beirut, 2025-11-06 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Last month's spectacular Louvre heist, in which robbers made off with some of France's crown jewels, was a "deafening wake-up call" for museum security, the head of France's highest audit institution said Thursday. Upgrades to security at the world-renowned museum have been moving at a "woefully inadequate pace", Pierre Moscovici told a press ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-05 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran France Cécile Kohler Jacques Paris
For researchers, aid workers, and even tourists, Iran’s use of detention to extract concessions has become a serious dilemma for Western governments, which so far have failed to stop the practice. This so-called “hostage diplomacy,” consistently denied by Tehran, re-emerged just after the release on Tuesday of French nationals ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-05 19:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Shein opened its first physical store worldwide in Paris under the eye of riot police, as the French government said it was suspending the Asian e-commerce giant's online platform following outrage over its sale of childlike sex dolls. Hundreds of shoppers streamed into Shein's permanent physical store on the sixth floor of the BHV department ...
Rayan Chami, 2025-11-05 16:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Louvre Heist France Imperial Jewels
Four thieves broke into the Louvre in under eight minutes and vanished with France’s imperial jewels. Here’s how one of the world’s most daring museum heists unfolded and how it remains unsolved.
Natasha Metni Torbey, 2025-11-05 14:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria France Jamil Hassan Ali Mamlouk Abdel Salam Mahmoud Bashar Assad
Lebanon has once again found itself at the center of a sensitive international investigation tied to the post-Assad era. One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 8, 2024, Beirut is being asked to cooperate with international judicial authorities to locate senior Syrian security officials accused of war crimes and crimes ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-05 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Island Oleron Death Terrorism Attack France
A 35-year-old man Wednesday rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on the French Atlantic island of Oleron, wounding 10 people, including four seriously, a prosecutor said. The Oleron resident "deliberately hit several pedestrians and cyclists" along a main road on the scenic island off the western city of La Rochelle, prosecutor Arnaud ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-04 21:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France Iran Emmanuel Macron Cecile Kohler Jacques Paris
Iran has released from prison a French pair held for more than three years and sentenced to lengthy jail sentences on espionage charges their families always rejected, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, both retired teachers, were both on a tourist visit to Iran when they were arrested ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-01 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A woman arrested this week along with four other suspects over the unprecedented jewel heist at the Louvre on Saturday appeared before a magistrate who will decide whether to detain her. The 38-year-old woman was in tears as she confirmed that she lives in the northern La Courneuve suburb of Paris, an AFP journalist said. She has been charged ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-01 14:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Art Music Paris France Culture Africa
At 84, George Clinton is a funk legend, ubiquitous hip-hop sample source, father of psychedelic Afrofuturism — and now, a painter with a show opening in Paris. Through it all, the self-taught American artist, the force behind the celebrated groups Parliament and Funkadelic, has hewed to his signature vision: “Gotta have that funk.” A life ...
This is Beirut, 2025-11-01 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Museum Louvre Security Rachida Dati France Culture
France's culture minister said Friday anti-ramming devices would be set up around The Louvre by year's end, after a high-profile heist at the famed museum reignited debate over its security. The announcement comes after four thieves parked a truck with a moving lift under one of its windows during opening hours on October 19, then used cutting ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 2025-10-30 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Charlotte Gainsbourg Single Music Culture Art France
With her new single Blurry Moon, released in September 2025, Charlotte Gainsbourg marks a magnetic and deeply personal return to music. Produced by Saint Laurent and SebastiAn, the track blends elegance, restraint, and emotional clarity. The music is elevated by a video that is both artfully stylized and strikingly simple, a visual mirror of the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-30 10:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Paris Louvre France Heist Arrest
French police have arrested five more people, including a prime suspect, over this month's daring Louvre museum jewelry robbery, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday. "We had him in our sights," Laure Beccuau said of the main suspect, adding that none of the loot worth an estimated $102 million had been found. DNA evidence linked the main ...