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Hezbollah Is a State within the State, Not Only “Heavy and Medium” Weapons
Op-edHezbollah Is a State within the State, Not Only “Heavy and Medium” Weapons

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 15/07 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In policy, simplicity is valuable; naiveté is catastrophic. Lebanon has by now diluted UNSCR 1701 from dismantling Hezbollah’s militia, arms production, and illicit funding to merely surrendering “heavy and medium” weapons, or as U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack frames it: Hezbollah must hand over weapons that threaten Israel. Such oversimplification ...

Aid Cuts, Misinformation Threaten Child Vaccination Progress: UN
Aid Cuts, Misinformation Threaten Child Vaccination Progress: UN

This is Beirut 15/07 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Global infant vaccination levels have stabilised after shrinking during the Covid crisis, the UN said Tuesday, but it warned that misinformation and drastic aid cuts were deepening dangerous coverage gaps and putting millions at risk. In 2024, 85 percent of infants globally, or 109 million, had received three doses of the vaccine against ...

Trump Gives Russia 50 Days to Make Ukraine Deal
Trump Gives Russia 50 Days to Make Ukraine Deal

This is Beirut 15/07 09:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Donald Trump United States Russia Tariffs

US President Donald Trump told Russia on Monday to end its Ukraine war within 50 days or face massive new economic sanctions, as he laid out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv via NATO. Trump said he was "very, very unhappy" with Vladimir Putin, underlining his insistence that his patience had finally snapped with the Russian ...

Nvidia says it Will Resume Sales of 'H20' AI Chips to China
Nvidia says it Will Resume Sales of 'H20' AI Chips to China

This is Beirut 15/07 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US tech giant Nvidia said on Tuesday it will resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, after Washington pledged to remove licensing curbs that had put a stop to exports. The California-based firm produces some of the world's most advanced semiconductors but is not allowed to ship its most cutting-edge chips to China owing ...

Lavrov Meets Xi in Beijing: Russian Foreign Ministry
Lavrov Meets Xi in Beijing: Russian Foreign Ministry

This is Beirut 15/07 09:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday, Moscow said, as the top Russian diplomat visited for a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting. Xi received Lavrov in the Chinese capital "as part of his participation in the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation ...

EU Foreign Ministers Weigh Options on Gaza as Humanitarian Deal with Israel Takes Shape
EU Foreign Ministers Weigh Options on Gaza as Humanitarian Deal with Israel Takes Shape

This is Beirut 15/07 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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EU foreign ministers on Tuesday will discuss a raft of options for action against Israel over the war in Gaza -- but likely will not agree on any. The bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has put forward 10 potential steps after Israel was found to have breached a cooperation deal between the two sides on human rights grounds. The measures ...

Drone Attacks Target Iraq Airport and Oil Field
Drone Attacks Target Iraq Airport and Oil Field

This is Beirut 14/07 23:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A drone packed with explosives was shot down near Erbil airport on Monday, with two more later hitting an oil field in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish security forces said. "At 02:20 (1120 GMT) an explosive-laden drone was downed near Erbil International Airport, without causing casualties or damage," said the counterterrorism ...

Ceasefire Talks Underway After Southern Syria Clashes, Says Druze Group
Ceasefire Talks Underway After Southern Syria Clashes, Says Druze Group

This is Beirut 14/07 22:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Syria Israel Sweida

Negotiations are underway between Syrian authorities and Druze representatives in southern Syria to halt the fighting that has left around 100 people dead, one of the main Druze armed groups told AFP on Monday evening. Syrian government forces are advancing toward the city of Sweida, held by Druze fighters, following clashes since Sunday with ...

Almost 100 Killed as Syria Sectarian Clashes Rage
Almost 100 Killed as Syria Sectarian Clashes Rage

This is Beirut 14/07 20:59 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Israel Syria Sweida

Syrian government forces were advancing towards the southern city of Sweida on Monday amid clashes in the region between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes that have killed nearly 100 people, according to a war monitor. As the violence escalated, Israel, which had previously warned that it would intervene in Syria to protect the Druze, said it ...

Iran Says No Nuclear Talks If US Insists It Abandon Enrichment
Iran Says No Nuclear Talks If US Insists It Abandon Enrichment

This is Beirut 14/07 20:51 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Iran said on Monday there would be no new nuclear talks with the United States if they were conditioned on Tehran abandoning its uranium enrichment activities. Washington and Tehran had been engaged in several rounds of negotiations seeking to strike a deal on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, but Israel derailed the talks when it ...

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