This is Beirut 10/08 17:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Jordan will host a meeting between the United States and Syria to discuss the situation in the war-ravaged country and explore reconstruction efforts, Amman's foreign ministry said Sunday. The meeting on Tuesday, which will be attended by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and US special envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack, "will discuss the ...
This is Beirut 10/08 15:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 600 pilgrims in Iraq were briefly hospitalized with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, authorities said Sunday. The incident took place overnight on the route between the two Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, located in the center and south of Iraq, ...
Pierre Nahas 10/08 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States Universities Left
Today’s radicalism on college campuses is all about censorship, disruption and destruction—acts that are, by nature, antithetical to academic progress and healthy intellectual exchange. American universities—and many institutions across the globe, it seems—are being transformed, not by argument, but by ideological capture by a New Left ...
This is Beirut 10/08 05:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
European leaders urged more "pressure" on Russia overnight Saturday, after the announcement of a Trump-Putin summit to end the war in Ukraine raised concern that an agreement would require Kyiv to cede swathes of territory. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the US state of Alaska this Friday to try to resolve the ...
This is Beirut 09/08 17:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Ukraine won't surrender land to Russia to buy peace, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Saturday, after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold a summit in a bid to end the war. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in the US state of Alaska on August 15, to try to resolve the three-year conflict, despite warnings from Ukraine and ...
This is Beirut 09/08 16:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Iran Azerbaijan Nakhichevan Exclave Ali Khamenei
Iran will not allow the creation under a US-brokered peace deal of a corridor near the Iranian border linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave, an adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday. "With the implementation of this plot, the security of the South Caucasus will be endangered," Ali Akbar Velayati told the Tasnim ...
Kaline Antoun 09/08 15:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Syria’s first legislative elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime are scheduled for September 2025. Conducted through an unprecedented indirect voting system, these elections aim to lay the groundwork for political renewal. Yet, amid promises of representation, significant uncertainties leave the outcome fragile. According to the ...
This is Beirut 09/08 14:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Armenia and Azerbaijan have committed to a lasting peace after decades of conflict, US President Donald Trump said after the South Caucasus rivals signed a deal welcomed on Saturday by Iran and Western nations. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan's long-time President Ilham Aliyev said Trump's mediation should earn him a Nobel ...
This is Beirut 09/08 13:23 - Reading : less than a minute
Several Arab and Muslim countries on Saturday condemned as a "dangerous escalation" Israel's plan to take control of Gaza City. Some 20 countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, said the plan constituted "a flagrant violation of international law and an attempt to entrench the illegal occupation and impose a fait accompli... in ...
This is Beirut 09/08 05:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump said Friday he would meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in one week in Alaska, and suggested that an eventual deal between Moscow and Kyiv to end the war in Ukraine could involve swapping territory. The Kremlin later confirmed the summit, calling the location "quite logical." "The presidents ...
This is Beirut 08/08 23:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday. Lovell, who was played by actor Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13," never made it to the lunar surface, but was considered one of the ...
This is Beirut 08/08 22:50 - Reading : less than a minute
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The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Gaza on Saturday at 19:00 GMT, following Israel’s announcement of a plan to take control of the city, several diplomatic sources told AFP on Friday. Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, through a spokesperson, warned Israel against “a dangerous escalation” that ...