This is Beirut 17/11 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US flights will return to normal schedules on Monday after reductions imposed during a government shutdown were lifted, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA said Sunday evening that restrictions would be lifted and "normal operations can resume" across the country from 6:00 am Washington time (1100 GMT) on Monday. Thousands of ...
This is Beirut 17/11 09:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United Nations Mali Conflict Jihadists JNIM
By waging an economic blockade and conducting attacks on fuel convoys, the jihadist group JNIM has made itself the arch nemesis of Mali's junta, weakening the country's central government in an unprecedented manner. The Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, as it is formally known, is the "most significant ...
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Climate Cop30 UN Brazil Energy
Companies and groups backing carbon-capture technology, which critics slam as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels, have deployed more than 500 participants to the COP30 climate talks, according to a list compiled by an NGO and shared exclusively with AFP. The list, assembled by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), names oil ...
This is Beirut 17/11 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Washington corruption Maduro
The United States plans to classify a cartel that it says Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro runs as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday, as tensions soar between the two countries. "Cartel de los Soles by and with other designated FTOs including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel are responsible ...
This is Beirut 17/11 09:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Republicans Politics Epstein
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he backed lawmakers' efforts to release more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite previous opposition to the measure. "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The 79-year-old Republican has ...
This is Beirut 17/11 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Nations Palestine Donald Trump Hamas Israël
The UN Security Council is set to vote Monday on a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, especially the deployment of an international force, as Washington warns that a failure to act could lead to renewed fighting. The draft, which has been revised several times as a result of high-stakes negotiations, "endorses" the ...
This is Beirut 16/11 19:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV decried poverty on Sunday, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalized people, as the Church celebrated a "Jubilee of the Poor." The pope has made social justice a key theme of his papacy, now in its sixth month since he was made head of the world's Catholics in May following the death of Pope Francis. The ...
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Iran Iran Nuclear Program Uranium Enrichment Abbas Araghchi IAEA
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that the country had no undeclared uranium enrichment sites and that all of its facilities were monitored by the UN's nuclear watchdog. The assertion came after US media outlets, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, reported that Iran had accelerated construction at a secret ...
This is Beirut 16/11 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel Washington Donald Trump Bahrain Saudi Arabia USA
The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), is expected in Washington on Tuesday November 18 for a meeting with United States President Donald Trump. The visit is seen as crucial for the US administration and is meant to revive and broaden the Abraham Accords while strengthening strategic and economic ties between Washington and ...
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Iran Cloud Seeding Drought Water
Iranian authorities have launched cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall as the country faces its worst drought in decades, state media reported. "Today, a cloud seeding flight was conducted in the Urmia Lake basin for the first time in the current water year," which begins in September, the official IRNA news agency said late ...
This is Beirut 16/11 13:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military said Sunday it had killed one person overnight during an operation in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, with the Palestinian health ministry reporting a teenager had been shot dead. "Overnight (Sunday), Israeli army reserve soldiers... conducted an operational activity in the area of Nablus during which a terrorist ...
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Democratic Republic of Congo Rwanda M23 Qatar
The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 militia signed a new framework for peace on Saturday at a ceremony in Qatar aimed at ending the fighting that has devastated eastern DRC. Qatar, along with the United States and the African Union, has been engaged in months of back-and-forth talks aimed at ending the conflict in DRC's ...