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Scholz Urges Ukraine Talks in First Call with Putin Since 2022

This is Beirut 15/11 20:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks with Ukraine, in the first call between the two leaders in almost two years. In the call, Scholz "condemned Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and called on President Putin to end it and withdraw troops", the chancellor's spokesman ...

NGOs Report: Israel's Targeting of Gaza Police Facilitates Aid Looting

This is Beirut 15/11 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Looting of aid reaching Gaza has been made easier by Israel's army targeting the local police which would otherwise be able to prevent it, a group of non-governmental organizations said Friday. A report by the 29 NGOs, including Save the Children, Oxfam and Care, said that humanitarian aid entering the Palestinian territory had fallen to an ...

Second Israeli Strike in Two Days Hits Damascus

This is Beirut 15/11 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Friday, the second such attack in as many days to hit the neighborhood home to embassies, security headquarters and United Nations offices. Attacks blamed on or claimed by Israel have intensified in Syria, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly ...

The JCPOA: The Iranian Nuclear Deal Dismissed Too Soon

Malo Pinatel 15/11 17:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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On Wednesday evening, IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Tehran for talks on Iran’s nuclear activities. His visit, spanning several days, is no coincidence. With Trump’s expected return to the White House in early 2025, any hope of reviving negotiations seems increasingly unrealistic. Moreover, the simultaneous appointment of Marco Rubio as ...

French Court Orders Release of Lebanese Militant Held Since 1984

This is Beirut 15/11 17:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said. The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves France, French ...

ExplainerDiabetes, a disease with a bitter taste

Alain E. Andrea 15/11 16:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally elevated blood glucose levels. Often asymptomatic in its early stages, it primarily affects the vascular system. Inadequately managed chronic hyperglycemia leads to progressive damage to blood vessel walls, resulting in microangiopathy (pathological changes in small blood ...

IAEA Chief Tours Sensitive Iran Nuclear Plants

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 ...

AnalysisWhy Fear the New When We Know the Old?

Johnny Kortbawi 15/11 15:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The idea of a "new Middle East" often takes on more weight than it deserves, as it is always associated with assumptions, fears, and troubling considerations as if this new Middle East is inherently an enemy of everything we know today. If we look back at World War I, when the concept of a "new Middle East" was first discussed before the ...

Hamas Official Says ‘Ready’ for Gaza Ceasefire, Urges Trump to ‘Pressure’ Israel

This is Beirut 15/11 15:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A senior Hamas official said Friday that the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza and urged US President-elect Donald Trump to pressure Israel to end the war. "Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected" by Israel, Hamas political bureau member Bassem ...

PortraitLoyalists and Powerhouses: Key Figures of the Trump Administration

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 ...

SpotlightChina Tests Building Moon Base With Lunar Soil Bricks

This is Beirut 15/11 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the Moon's own soil. Brick samples will blast off aboard a cargo rocket heading for China's Tiangong space station, part of Beijing's mission to put humans on the Moon by ...

Xi, Biden Attend Asia-Pacific Summit, Prepare to Meet

This is Beirut 15/11 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will attend the first day of an Asia-Pacific leaders' summit Friday ahead of a face-to-face meeting under a cloud of diplomatic uncertainty cast by Donald Trump's election victory. Biden and Xi are due to hold talks Saturday, in what a US administration official said will probably be the ...