This is Beirut, 2025-05-09 16:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The UN World Food Programme sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating hunger in West and Central Africa as needs reach "record levels." More than 36 million people are struggling to meet their food needs, a number that could rise to 52 million people during the lean season between harvests this summer, the agency said in a ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-08 09:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Drones targeted army-held areas of eastern and southern Sudan for a fifth straight day Thursday as paramilitaries kept up their attacks on areas formerly regarded as safe, an army source said. Attacks targeted the main naval base outside Port Sudan, seat of the army-backed government, as well as fuel depots in the southern city of Kosti, the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-07 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Lebanon continues to rank among the costliest countries for receiving money transfers, with recent data highlighting the financial strain on expatriates sending money home. In the third quarter of 2024, the average cost of transferring $500 from the United States to Lebanon rose to $31.23, representing 6.25% of the amount sent. This marks an ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-07 14:32 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The Syrian president, Ahmad al-Chareh, arrived in Paris this Wednesday and was received by French president Emmanuel Macron for a first and controversial visit to the West. On this occasion, he is expected to call on Macron to punish those responsible for the "abuses" that have tarnished the image of the Islamist coalition in power since ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-07 13:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine United Nations
The UN's human rights chief told AFP Wednesday that Israel's plan for an expanded offensive in the Gaza Strip represented "a very dangerous moment" for civilians there. "What we see is only more destruction, more hatred, more dehumanisation," said Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a visit to Copenhagen for ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-06 10:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Tuesday called on the Israeli military to fully withdraw from Lebanese territory. UNIFIL also emphasized its strong coordination with the Lebanese Armed Forces and reaffirmed its ongoing support for them. The appeal comes after UNIFIL’s Head of Mission and Force Commander, Lieutenant ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-06 09:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Emmanuel Macron Damascus United Nations
French President Emmanuel Macron will host Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Chareh on Wednesday for the former Islamist rebel's first European visit, the French presidency told AFP. Macron will "reiterate France's support for the construction of a new Syria, a free, stable, sovereign Syria that respects all components of Syrian society", the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-03 22:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Ukraine United Nations
Hamas on Saturday released footage of an apparently injured Israeli-Russian hostage held in Gaza as 11 Palestinians, including three infants, were killed in a strike on the territory, its civil defense agency said. Israel resumed major operations across Gaza on March 18 amid deadlock over how to proceed with a two-month ceasefire that had largely ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-03 11:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza United Nations
Gaza's civil defense agency said Saturday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed "after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp" in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am (0000 ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-02 11:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday replaced his national security advisor, Mike Waltz, following a scandal over a chat group leak, saying he would appoint him as ambassador to the United Nations instead. In the first major cabinet shake-up of Trump's new term, the president said Secretary of State Marco Rubio would now also serve as his ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-02 10:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine United Nations Gaza
The Red Cross warned Friday that the humanitarian response in Gaza was on the "verge of total collapse" after two months of Israel blocking aid to the war-torn Palestinian territory. "Without an immediate resumption of aid deliveries, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will not have access to the food, medicines, and life-saving ...
This is Beirut, 2025-05-02 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States on Thursday confirmed meeting Syria's top diplomat and called on the country's interim authorities to take action on sectarianism as violence flares against the Druze minority. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last Friday raised his country's flag at the UN headquarters, marking a new chapter after the December ...