This is Beirut, 12/03 05:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States and Canada traded angry tariff warnings Tuesday, as trade tensions soared and President Donald Trump doubled down on provocative plans to annex his country's northern neighbor. Despite a compromise arising after a day of threats and counter-threats, Canada and other US trading partners will still be hit at midnight by a ...
This is Beirut, 11/03 21:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Ukraine endorsed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and agreed to immediate negotiations with Russia in crunch talks in Jeddah on Tuesday after three years of grinding war. The positive response from Ukraine prompted President Donald Trump's administration to lift a freeze on military aid and to predict the beginning to an end to ...
This is Beirut, 11/03 17:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump announced massive new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum Tuesday, while threatening to "shut down" its auto industry and saying the best way to end the trade war was for Washington's ally to be absorbed into the United States. Trump's shock new threats came hours before a midnight deadline for ramping up the ...
Marie de La Roche Saint-André, 11/03 11:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
After more than a decade of conflict, Yemen is mired in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Malnutrition, epidemics and water shortages persist, with nearly half of the population facing “food insecurity,” according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and 80% relying on humanitarian aid to survive. The situation ...
This is Beirut, 11/03 05:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Protesters in New York and rights groups expressed outrage Monday over the arrest of a leader of pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University, as President Donald Trump vowed further crackdowns. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate and one of the most prominent faces of the university's high-profile protests, was arrested by US ...
This is Beirut, 09/03 19:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States has ended a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighboring Iran, in line with President Donald Trump's policy of exerting "maximum pressure" on Tehran. In a statement Sunday, the State Department said the decision not to renew the waiver was made to "ensure we do not allow Iran any ...
This is Beirut, 09/03 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US envoy who held unprecedented direct talks with Hamas said Sunday the meeting had been "very helpful," and he was confident a hostage release deal could be reached "within weeks." Speaking to CNN, Adam Boehler acknowledged that as a Jewish American it had been "odd" sitting face-to-face with leaders of a ...
This is Beirut, 09/03 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday condemned the "radical Islamist terrorists" behind "massacres" of minorities in Syria and demanded that the interim administration hold those responsible to account. "The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent ...
This is Beirut, 09/03 15:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US Secret Service agents shot an armed man near the White House during the night, an agency spokesman said early Sunday, while President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The man had been hospitalized and his condition was "unknown," the spokesman said in a statement that did not specify ...
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 20:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Canada Tariffs
US President Donald Trump on Friday said tariffs could be imposed on Canadian dairy and lumber products within days in a growing trade war between the United States and its northern neighbor. "Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and for dairy products," he said. "They'll be met with the exact same tariff unless they ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 12:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Steven Witkoff Middle East Peace
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) convened a high-level gathering in Washington, D.C., bringing together Trump Administration officials, diplomats, and thought leaders to launch the AJC Center for a New Middle East. The event underscored the organization's vision for fostering greater regional cooperation in the wake of the October 7 attacks and ...