This is Beirut, 20/11 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Western countries on Wednesday formally submitted a new resolution critical of Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ahead of its board meeting, diplomatic sources said. "The text was formally submitted" just before midnight on Tuesday, a diplomatic source told AFP on condition of anonymity, with a second diplomatic source ...
This is Beirut, 19/11 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations General Assembly’s Economic and Financial Committee approved a resolution on Tuesday requesting that Israel assume responsibility for prompt and adequate compensation to Lebanon affected by an oil slick on its shores during Israel’s 2006 military operations in Lebanon. The resolution marks the 19th consecutive year it has ...
This is Beirut, 19/11 05:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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G20 leaders failed on Monday to break a deadlock in UN climate talks at a summit in Rio that was dominated by divergences over the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump's impending return to the White House. Ahead of the meeting, the UN had implored the leaders of the world's richest economies to rescue stalled climate talks in Azerbaijan by boosting ...
This is Beirut, 18/11 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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There is no alternative to the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees, its chief insisted Monday, following Israel's order to ban the organization that coordinates nearly all aid in war-ravaged Gaza. "There is no plan B,” head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, told reporters in ...
This is Beirut, 18/11 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran said Monday it hoped talks on its nuclear program would be conducted "away from political pressure and considerations" ahead of a UN nuclear agency board meeting this week. "All our efforts and our emphasis in our talks were to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to do its technical work away from the destructive and evil ...
Michel Touma, 18/11 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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During one of the early phases of the Lebanese war, Bachir Gemayel made a quip to journalists that, while tinged with sarcasm, offered a fundamentally sharp insight into an aspect of public life in the country. “Lebanon (before the war) was not so much a land of coexistence, but rather one of mutual deceit among its people,” he stated, with a ...
This is Beirut, 17/11 19:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Gaza's civil defense agency said 34 people were killed on Sunday, including children, and dozens were missing after an Israeli air strike hit a building in the Palestinian territory's north. Israel's army told AFP that it had conducted overnight strikes and hit "terrorist targets" in the area. After the strike early ...
This is Beirut, 16/11 18:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Many Iranians were sceptical on Saturday about the possibility of the Islamic republic opening negotiations with the United States under Donald Trump, given the fractured history he has with Tehran. On Thursday, The New York Times reported that tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk had met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to ...
This is Beirut, 16/11 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The UN's climate chief urged G20 nations on Saturday to push COP29 negotiations toward a deal to raise money for developing nations, warning there was a “long way to go.” Negotiators worked through the night to narrow their differences at the UN talks in Baku before ministers arrive next week for the final days of the summit, but ...
This is Beirut, 15/11 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN nuclear chief toured two Iranian uranium enrichment plants that have been the focus of Western concern on Friday after Tehran said it was ready to address "doubts" about its ambitions. The visit to Iran by International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi comes after he warned "the margins for manoeuvre are beginning to ...
Soumia Benmerzoug, 15/11 12:49 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
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RFK Jr., Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a longtime health and environmental campaigner, who at 70 proudly shows off his muscular body. But the scion of the famous US political dynasty is also a leading anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist who has promoted the disproven idea that childhood vaccines cause autism and claimed ...
This is Beirut, 15/11 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US President-elect Donald Trump, met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted anonymous Iranian sources as describing the meeting between the world's richest person and Ambassador ...