This is Beirut, 21/05 22:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was open to a "temporary ceasefire" in Gaza as international pressure intensified over Israel's renewed offensive and aid blockade in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. "If there is an option for a temporary ceasefire to free hostages, we'll be ready," ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 20:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Marco Rubio United States Abraham Accords U.S. State Department
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Wednesday that more Arab nations could forge ties with Israel this year, as Washington presses hard for relations to normalize with Saudi Arabia. President Donald Trump, near the end of his first term, led the so-called Abraham Accords in which the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco became the ...
Maurice Matta, 21/05 20:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Economy Banks Karim Souhaid Nawaf Salam
It seems that the relationship between Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Karim Souhaid and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is far from ideal. In fact, it can be described as tense – a situation that didn’t arise recently but dates back to Souhaid’s appointment as Governor of the Central Bank, which was secured through a majority vote in the ...
Bassam Abou Zeid, 21/05 19:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Hezbollah Joseph Aoun Saudi Arabia
According to information from Washington, the Americans have informed the Lebanese government that the Israelis will not withdraw from the positions they occupy in southern Lebanon unless the Lebanese side takes serious and successive steps toward disarming Hezbollah. They emphasized that Israel has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and that ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Cannes 2025 Julien Assange Eugene Jarecki Documentary France Culture
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has recovered well after his release from jail last year, his wife told AFP ahead of the premiere of a documentary Wednesday that includes never-seen-before footage of the whistleblower. Assange is at the Cannes Festival to promote the documentary by American filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who said he was trying to ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Pope Leo XIV Gaza
Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for sufficient humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-ravaged Gaza, where humanitarian agencies say a total blockade has sparked critical food and medicine shortages. "The situation in the Gaza Strip is worrying and painful," the pope said during his first weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. "I renew my ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Cannes 2025 ‘Mama’ Maids France Cuture
Director Or Sinai didn't have to go far to find the subject of her acclaimed debut film about the secret lives of the millions of women who support their families back home by being domestic workers abroad. She was chatting to the "wonderful Ukrainian woman" who looks at her mother, who has Parkinson's Disease, when the housekeeper started ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 10:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah drone strike Tyre
An Israeli drone strike in the southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun on Wednesday targeted a motorcycle, killing one person, in what marks the third fatality from Israeli attacks in the region that day. The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported that the victim was a member of Hezbollah. Shortly afterwards, the Public Health ministry announced ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 10:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Crude prices surged Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears. While safe haven gold pushed almost two percent higher, the news from CNN appeared to be having little detrimental ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 09:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran said Wednesday it executed a man convicted of a deadly January 2023 attack on the Azerbaijani embassy, which sparked a sharp downturn in relations between the neighbouring countries. "The law of retribution was implemented this morning against the attacker of the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran," the judiciary said. An Azerbaijani diplomat ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 09:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam United Arab Emirates Humanitarian
The United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement with Israel to allow the delivery of "urgent humanitarian aid" to Gaza, according to a statement released Wednesday on Emirati state media. Israel has come under massive international pressure to allow aid into Gaza, where humanitarian agencies say a total blockade imposed on March 2 has sparked ...
This is Beirut, 20/05 22:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Qatar
Israel said Tuesday that it was recalling its senior Gaza hostage negotiators from Doha "for consultation", days after launching an intensified campaign in the Palestinian territory. The indirect talks in Qatar, which has played a mediating role throughout the war, began over the weekend, just as Israel's new offensive was getting ...