This is Beirut, 07/03 22:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The US has temporarily suspended Ukraine's access to satellite imagery services, a new measure by the Trump administration, which had already frozen arms shipments and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, The Washington Post reports. Maxar, a leading US provider of commercial satellite imagery, confirmed that the suspension affects the Global Enhanced ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 17:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia over its bombardments of Ukraine, after previously suspending US aid to Kyiv in a stated bid to encourage diplomacy. "Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely 'pounding' Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large-scale banking ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Russia launched a "massive missile and drone" attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Friday, a Ukrainian minister said, after Washington said talks with Kyiv were back on track to secure a truce in the three-year conflict. The latest air assault came after EU leaders, shaken by the prospect of US disengagement, agreed to boost the European ...
This is Beirut, 06/03 17:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia said Thursday it would not accept a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine, rejecting proposals of a one-month halt in fighting or a stop in aerial and naval attacks - ideas floated by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron. Talk of a possible truce is at fever pitch with US President Donald Trump pushing for a rapid end ...
This is Beirut, 05/03 20:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Germany is set to ramp up defense spending with the incoming government saying it wants to invest hundreds of billions of euros to bolster Europe's security as US guarantees look increasingly fragile. Likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday he planned to reform the country's strict constitutional "debt brake" to pump up defense ...
Charles Chartouni, 03/03 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The international political scene is changing, but its features are still fleeting and with no final configurations. The main driver is the new foreign policy orientations outlined by President Trump. Are we witnessing the end of the transatlantic partnership, the demise of NATO, the withering of the civilizational framing of the Western political ...
This is Beirut, 01/03 18:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in London for meetings with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European allies, his spokesman said on Saturday, a day after his clash with US President Donald Trump. "We are in London," spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told AFP, adding that Zelensky would meet Starmer at 1715 GMT on Saturday and ...
This is Beirut, 27/02 21:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Donald Trump said he trusted Russia's Vladimir Putin to stick to any Ukraine ceasefire Thursday, as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer tried to win security guarantees for Kyiv - with the help of a royal invitation to visit Britain. Trump struck a friendly tone as he and Starmer met in Washington and even walked back a comment about Ukrainian ...
Alain E. Andrea, 27/02 19:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Some concerts provoke an almost mystical anticipation. They carry within them a promise—a moment of weightlessness where music, liberated from time, becomes absolute. Boris Berezovsky belongs to the elite of artists whose mere presence is enough to awaken collective fervor. But while emotion often precedes judgment, it must not dictate it. In ...
Marc Saikali, 27/02 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, everything has accelerated. Geopolitical time has sped up. The Middle East, Ukraine... all fronts are moving rapidly. As if by magic, Donald Trump managed to make the Slavic enemies utter the words “ceasefire” to halt the senseless slaughter after three years of unprecedented violence, reminiscent of the ...
Élie-Joe Kamel, 24/02 18:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The demographic crisis that Ukraine has been suffering from for decades has worsened over the past three years. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the country’s independence a year later, Ukraine had approximately 52 million inhabitants. Today, the Ukrainian population is estimated at nearly 35 million, according to the United Nations ...
This is Beirut, 24/02 13:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Three improvised explosive devices were thrown at the Russian consulate in the southern French port city of Marseille on Monday but no one was injured, a police source said. Only two of the three devices exploded in the attack on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the source said. The consulate was sealed off ...