Ali A. Hamadé, 31/01 20:35 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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The re-election of Donald Trump marks the dawn of a new expansionist era, fueled by bold promises made during his campaign. From the proposal to annex Greenland to the dream of integrating Canada as the 51st US state, and the ambition to regain control of the Panama Canal—an engineering marvel and a crucial artery of global trade—Trump ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 11:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Ahmed Abdelatty emphasized Egypt’s commitment to Lebanon’s stability, stressing the need for the full implementation of UN Resolution 1701 in “all its provisions.” Speaking after a meeting with President Joseph Aoun on Friday, Abdelatty expressed Egypt’s solidarity with the Lebanese ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 10:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Investigators on Thursday recovered the black boxes from a passenger plane that collided mid-air with a military helicopter over Washington's Potomac River, killing all 67 people, as rescuers pulled bodies from the freezing water. US President Donald Trump launched a political attack blaming diversity and inclusion policies championed by his ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 10:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US military said it killed a senior operative of Al-Qaeda's Syria branch in an air strike on northwestern Syria on Thursday. The area was the stronghold of interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group before it led the rebel offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December. "US Central Command forces conducted a ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran is ready to discuss its nuclear programme if Western countries show they are "serious", the foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying in an interview published on Thursday. "We have said several times that we are ready for discussions, but only if the other side is serious about this," Esmaeil Baqaei told the government daily ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 09:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The United States and Russia have pledged their readiness to resume nuclear disarmament talks after years of confrontation, but analysts are sceptical that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin can or even want to reach a breakthrough new agreement. Days after returning to the White House for a second term, Trump said he would like to see ...
Alain E. Andrea, 29/01 20:15 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Music Art Los Angeles United States Vienna
January 2025. The scene seemed unreal. A devastating fire ravaged the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, sweeping away everything in its path, including a major pillar of musical history. In the Schoenberg family home, Belmont Music Publishing preserved one of the greatest treasures of modern Western art music: the scores of Arnold ...
This is Beirut, 29/01 11:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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US export controls on high-tech chips may have inadvertently fuelled the success of start-up DeepSeek's AI chatbot, sparking fears in Washington there could be little it can do to stop China in the push for global dominance in AI. The firm, based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, has stunned investors and industry insiders with its R1 ...
This is Beirut, 27/01 20:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US chip-maker Nvidia led a rout in tech stocks Monday after the emergence of a low-cost Chinese generative AI model that could threaten US dominance in the fast-growing industry. The chatbot developed by DeepSeek, a startup based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, has apparently shown the ability to match the capacity of US AI pace-setters ...
This is Beirut, 27/01 13:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Kremlin said Monday it was still waiting for "signals" from the United States about a possible meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and newly-inaugurated US counterpart Donald Trump. The leaders of both countries said last week they were ready for contact but neither side has indicated when or how. "So far, we have not received ...
This is Beirut, 27/01 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards have deployed missiles featuring artificial intelligence technology during military drills in the Gulf, state media reported Monday. The Guards' naval force "fired Ghaem and Almas missiles equipped with artificial intelligence from advanced Mohajer-6 and Ababil-5 drones", the IRNA state news agency said. The report ...
This is Beirut, 24/01 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hundreds of migrants in the United States were arrested Thursday and others flown out of the country on military aircraft as the White House said President Donald Trump's promised deportation operation had started. The crackdown came as Trump prepared to head on Friday to California and North Carolina, where natural disasters have turned into ...