Middle East

European Leaders Back Putin-Trump-Zelensky Meeting

This is Beirut 2025-08-16 15:26 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Russia United States Europe Ukraine

European leaders on Saturday expressed support for a three-way summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia's Vladimir Putin and US leader Donald Trump, after a US-Russia summit failed to produce a ceasefire. A statement, signed by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir ...

Air Canada Flight Attendants Strike Over Pay, Shutting Down Service

This is Beirut 2025-08-16 12:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Canada Air Canada Strike

Air Canada's flight attendants went on strike Saturday, as the airline announced a complete shutdown of operations, creating summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. "We are now officially on strike," the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents Air Canada's 10,000 flight attendants, said in a statement. Air ...

Trump and Putin Kick off Alaska Summit With a Hand Shake

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelensky Russia Ukraine Alaska Vladimir Putin

:Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands and smiled at an air base in Alaska on Friday as they opened a high-risk summit that will test the US president's promise to end the bloody war in Ukraine. In choreographed drama, Trump and Putin each arrived in their presidential jets and walked under gray skies to greet each other on the tarmac, ...

Falsehoods Swirl Around Trump-Putin Summit

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 21:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Ukraine Alaska Russia Summit Donald Trump Vladimir Putin

From false claims of a Ukrainian assassin shot dead in Alaska to baseless reports of Russia declaring the sale of the territory to the United States illegal, misinformation has swirled around the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The online falsehoods spreading across tech platforms were muddying the waters around Friday's closely ...

Ukraine: From the First Shot to the Trump-Putin Summit

Moncef Ait-Kaci 2025-08-15 20:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Donald Trump Ukraine Vladimir Putin Alaska Russia

It all began in Maidan Square, at the heart of what history would remember as the “Revolution of Dignity” or “Euromaidan.” In November 2013, thousands of Ukrainians gathered in Kyiv to say “no” to a pro-Russian turn and to demand “a European future.” Months of violently repressed protests led to the flight of President Viktor ...

UN Says at Least 1,760 Killed While Seeking Aid in Gaza Since Late May

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam United Nations Hamas Gaza humanitarian aid

The UN human rights office said Friday that at least 1,760 Palestinians had been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August. "Since 27 May, and as of 13 August, we have recorded that at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid; 994 in the ...

Nearly 200 Killed in Pakistan Monsoon Rains in 24 Hours

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 18:25 - Reading : less than a minute

Pakistan monsoon Torrential rains death

The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 194 people in the past 24 hours, the disaster authority said on Friday. Of those, 180 were reported in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the National Disaster Management Authority said. Another nine ...

PSP Calls for International Probe into Sweida's Violence

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Syria Sweida Aid Druze PSP Walid Jumblatt

The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) called on Friday for an international investigation into the recent violence in Sweida, the Druze heartland of southern Syria, where hundreds were killed. Rejecting what it described as “rumors and claims” about its stance, the PSP reiterated its demands for justice, urgent relief for the embattled city ...

VideosIvory Coast Village Faces Burial Crisis as Sea Advances

Rayan Chami 2025-08-15 17:05 - Reading : less than a minute

Lahou-Kpanda Ivory Coast

In the Ivory Coast village of Lahou-Kpanda, rising seas have engulfed nearly the entire cemetery, forcing families to exhume loved ones and relocate them inland as the Atlantic erodes the coastline.

Macron Vows to Punish Antisemitic 'Hatred' After Memorial Tree Cut Down

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 15:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Emmanuel Macron Hamas Palestine

The cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006 stirred outrage in France on Friday, with President Emmanuel Macron vowing punishment over an act of antisemitic "hatred". Politicians across the political spectrum condemned the act as an attack against the memory of Ilan Halimi, who was ...

China Says 'Opposes' European Sanctions Over Iran Nuclear Programme

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

USA china iran europe nuclear sanctions

China said on Friday it "opposes" invoking fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program after Britain, France and Germany told the United Nations they would reimpose them if no diplomatic solution is found by the end of August. China "opposes invoking" sanctions and "believes that it does not help parties build trust ...

Israeli Far-Right Minister Confronts Prominent Palestinian Inmate

This is Beirut 2025-08-15 13:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Palestine

Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir published a video on Friday in which he confronts the most high-profile Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody in his prison cell. Marwan Barghouti, a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah party, has spent more than 20 years behind bars after being sentenced for his role in ...