This is Beirut 2025-09-28 05:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Widespread UN sanctions against Iran returned into force late Saturday for the first time in a decade, after last-ditch nuclear talks with Western powers failed to produce a breakthrough. The sanctions, three months after Israel and the United States bombed Iran, bar dealings related to Tehran's nuclear and ballistic missiles program and are ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-27 18:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump ICE Portland
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered the deployment of the military to Portland, marking the fourth city targeted in his campaign against crime in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, and authorized “the use of force if necessary.” “I am directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy all necessary troops to protect Portland, ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-27 18:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine Patriot Defense System
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Saturday that Ukraine has received a Patriot air defense system from Israel, a costly American-made weapon crucial for repelling Russian missile attacks on the country. “An Israeli (Patriot) system is operational in Ukraine; it has been working for a month,” Zelensky said at a press conference, ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-27 17:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Ukraine on Saturday accused Russia of disconnecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian grid for four days in an attempt to “steal” it by linking it to the Russian-controlled network, despite safety risks. “We urge all nations concerned with nuclear safety and security to make it clear to Moscow that its ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-27 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam United Arab Emirates Benjamin Netanyahu Abdullah bin Zayed West Bank
A meeting reportedly took place between the UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Sheikh Abdullah conveyed “the UAE’s decisive position closing the file on Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands,” wrote Anwar Gargash, diplomatic ...
Amine Jules Iskandar 2025-09-27 14:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Peace Enemy
According to Carl Schmitt, the concept of the enemy lies at the heart of politics. It stands apart from morality, aesthetics, and economics. To identify an enemy is thus a strictly political act, carrying no moral weight and showing no regard for historical accuracy. Within this realm, free from any claim to objectivity, an enemy can be conceived ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-27 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iraq Oil and Gas Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraq resumed crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday after a more than two-year halt over legal and technical disputes. Control over lucrative oil exports has been a major point of contention between Baghdad and Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, with a key pipeline to Turkey shut since 2023. Iraq's oil ministry ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 23:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Deep sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program look set to go into force once again, even as a UN watchdog confirmed Friday inspections of its atomic sites had resumed. Russia failed in an effort with Beijing Friday to delay the reimposition of the measures on Tehran, with Moscow raising the prospect that it may not enforce the sanctions -- ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 23:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine Palestinian Authority Gaza
Twelve countries including Britain, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Spain on Friday announced a new coalition to financially support the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority as Israel withholds its tax revenues. The Emergency Coalition for the Financial Sustainability of the Palestinian Authority "was established in response to the urgent and ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 19:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam West Bank Palestine Jordan crossing
The Israeli military detained several Palestinians in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, an AFP journalist at the scene said on Friday. When contacted by AFP, an Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raid and said that "forces operated in the Nablus area to apprehend several suspects involved in terrorist ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 17:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Donald Trump Hamas Hezbollah
In an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reopened the door to peace with Lebanon. He declared that “peace between Israel and Lebanon is possible,” contingent on the disarmament of Hezbollah. “If Lebanon takes action to disarm Hezbollah, I’m confident peace will follow,” he ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-26 15:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Nigerian leather is already coveted by top luxury houses such as Gucci, Prada, Hermès and Louis Vuitton. But more and more local designers want to go further: they aim to give “Made in Nigeria” leather its own identity and true added value.