This is Beirut, 12/01 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Days after an inferno razed Pacific Palisades, Maya Lieberman is desperate to find somewhere to live. But unscrupulous landlords who are jacking up prices are making it hard. "The price gouging is going haywire, it's obscene," the 50-year-old stylist told AFP. "I can't find anywhere for us to go." Huge fires that have torn through Los Angeles ...
This is Beirut, 12/01 13:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The multiple fires that have been raging in Los Angeles for the past five days have claimed at least 16 lives, and spread to previously unscathed areas on Saturday. Besieged by flames since Tuesday, the American megalopolis continues to count its dead: the death toll, which had hitherto stood at 11, rose on Saturday evening Despite huge ...
This is Beirut, 12/01 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said Saturday in a court filing. "The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the ...
This is Beirut, 12/01 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran has expanded military drills to cover two additional nuclear facilities in the west and centre of the country, state media reported on Sunday. The drills -- dubbed Eqtedar, or "might" in Farsi -- began last week and are set to continue until mid-March. They involve the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ideological ...
This Is Beirut, 11/01 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, called on Saturday President Joseph Aoun to congratulate him on becoming president and invited him to visit Saudi Arabia. Along with Qatar, Egypt, France and the United States, Saudi Arabia played an important role in resolving the presidential deadlock. Lebanon had been without a president since ...
This is Beirut, 11/01 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nicole Kidman breaks away from her glamorous star image in Babygirl, an edgy new erotic thriller hitting theaters Wednesday. The film revives a genre long dismissed as outdated in the wake of feminist movements. At 57, the Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) actress, who has never left the big screen, takes on one of her boldest roles ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 22:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkey's top diplomat on Friday ruled out a role for French troops in Syria, saying it was only negotiating with the United States which has sought to head off Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters there. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan accused Paris of turning a blind eye to Turkey's security concerns, and called on France to take back ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 13:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Local and international political leaders have warmly welcomed the election of Lebanon’s new president, ending a two-year vacancy in the country’s highest office. On Thursday, General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese Army's Commander-in-Chief, triumphed in the second round of voting, garnering 99 votes in a parliamentary session attended ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect's last-ditch efforts to frustrate a process that would make him the first felon in the White House. The judge has indicated, however, that Trump will not face prison – even though the 34 counts of falsifying business records ...
This is Beirut, 10/01 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California's National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder. News of the growing toll, announced late Thursday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, came as swaths of the ...
This is Beirut, 09/01 16:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Qatar is weighing a plan to provide Syria's new rulers with funds to increase public sector salaries, a diplomatic source said Thursday, as the interim government in Damascus seeks to rebuild state institutions. "Discussions are taking place, but an agreement is yet to be concluded," the source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity because ...
This is Beirut, 09/01 15:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Denmark's prime minister has called party leaders to a meeting on Thursday, a government source said, over US President-elect Donald Trump's ambitions to take control of Greenland. Trump, who takes office on January 20, set off new alarm bells on Tuesday when he refused to rule out military intervention over the Panama Canal and Greenland, both ...