This is Beirut 2025-10-02 15:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Two suspects were arrested over the attack near a synagogue in Manchester in which two people were killed Thursday and three badly wounded, anti-terrorism police said. The car and stabbing attack was carried out outside a packed synagogue, with the suspect believed shot dead by UK police. As the Jewish community marked the holiday of Yom Kippur ...
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Mysterious drone flights and a Russian tanker detention spark security tensions in Europe.
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes killed at least 13 people across Gaza on Thursday, the territory's civil defence agency said, including an employee of the French charity Doctors Without Borders. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal, whose rescue agency operates under Hamas authority, said 10 people were killed in several air raids in central Gaza, while two ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 14:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to "storm" a police station in Morocco on Wednesday, state media said, as protests -- sometimes violent -- roil the north African nation. Demonstrations have convulsed Morocco for several days, urged on by the GenZ 212 group, a recently formed collective ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe Thursday to take coordinated action against Russia's so-called shadow fleet and follow his country's lead in clamping down on vessels used to bust Western sanctions. France is currently investigating a Benin-flagged ship that is among hundreds of ageing tankers blacklisted by the European ...
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Efforts to swiftly end the US government shutdown collapsed Wednesday as Democrats in Congress went home without resolving a funding stand-off with President Donald Trump and the White House threatened public sector jobs. Federal funding expired at midnight after Trump and lawmakers failed to agree on a deal to keep the lights on, prompting ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-02 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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After decades of research and broken promises, the arrival of Leqembi (lecanemab) marks a symbolic milestone in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Developed by Eisai and Biogen, this monoclonal antibody has just been approved in the European Union for the treatment of early-stage Alzheimer’s. For the first time, a drug aims to slow the progression ...
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to join talks with leaders from across Europe in Copenhagen Thursday, as the EU seeks to bolster Kyiv's fight against Russia in the face of dwindling US support. Heads of state and governments from just under 50 countries will converge on a conference centre under tight security after mystery drone ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 09:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Rescuers detected "no more signs of life" at a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people were believed missing days after it gave way, an official said Thursday, raising fears no more survivors would be found. Part of the multi-storey boarding school on the main island of Java suddenly collapsed on Monday as students gathered for ...
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Philippines Bantayan Cebu Earthquake
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 72 on Thursday, officials said, as the search for the missing wound down and rescuers turned their focus to the hundreds injured and thousands left homeless. The bodies of the three victims were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel overnight Wednesday in the city ...
Marc Saikali 2025-10-02 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Donald Trump has unveiled his peace plan for Gaza. The Israelis accepted it, and the international community applauded – sometimes hesitantly, but applauded nonetheless. The question now is Hamas. The group remains undecided. We are not immune to yet another historic misstep on their part – one more in a long series – that could prolong ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 02:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israeli naval forces on Wednesday intercepted a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, ending its latest bid to break an Israeli blockade of the war-battered Palestinian territory. The Global Sumud Flotilla -- involving around 45 vessels carrying politicians and activists including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg -- left Spain last month, ...