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Security Boosted in Paris Ahead of France-Israel Match

This is Beirut 10/11 20:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A high police presence is being prepared for the France vs. Israel Nations League football match at the Stade de France in Paris on Thursday (November 14). Paris police chief Laurent Nunez described the event as high risk and revealed 4,000 gendarmes would be around the stadium, on public transport and in Paris. "An elite unit of national ...

Saudi Army Chief in Iran on Rare Visit

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Saudi Arabia's top military official arrived in Tehran on Sunday for talks with Iranian officials, state media reported, in a rare high-level meeting since the countries restored ties last year. Fayyad al-Ruwaili, chief of staff of the Saudi armed forces, met his Iranian counterpart "General Mohammad Bagheri at the Iranian Armed Forces General ...

Israeli Strike in Damascus Kills Hezbollah Official Overseeing Golan Operations

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An Israeli strike on Sunday south of Damascus targeted a Hezbollah apartment, killing nine people including Ali Moussa Daqdouq, a Hezbollah official responsible for the group’s operations in the Golan Heights. Several Syrian media outlet, reported a toll of nine dead and twenty wounded in the strike. Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the ...

Netanyahu Says Spoke Again with Trump About Iran 'Threat'

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Sunday he had spoken three times with US president-elect Donald Trump over the past few days about the "Iranian threat" to Israeli security. "In the last few days, I have spoken three times with President-elect Donald Trump... Talks were designed to further tighten the strong alliance ...

Arab and Muslim Leaders Head to Saudi for Talks on Mideast Wars

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Arab and Muslim leaders have begun arriving in Saudi Arabia for a summit scheduled for Monday that will focus on Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon, Saudi state media said. The Saudi foreign ministry announced the summit in late October during the first meeting of an "international alliance" pushing for a two-state solution to the ...

Putin Finalizes Landmark Defense Pact With North Korea

This is Beirut 10/11 14:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a landmark defense pact with North Korea, a deal that comes amid reports that Pyongyang has dispatched thousands of troops to fight against Ukraine. Putin struck the deal during a visit to North Korea in June, but it had to pass through Russia's parliament and be signed by the Kremlin leader to ...

Record Drone Strikes on Moscow as Trump Speaks to Poutine

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US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Trump held the call from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, just days after his stunning election victory over Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the report said. Steven ...

Princess Catherine Resumes Royal Duties After Cancer Treatment at Remembrance Service

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King Charles III led Britain in two minutes of silence on Sunday to honor the country's war dead at a remembrance service also attended by Catherine, Princess of Wales, as she returns to royal duties after cancer treatment. The king, who was also diagnosed with cancer this year, was among dignitaries to lay wreaths at the Cenotaph memorial in ...

UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief to Visit Iran

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The United Nations' atomic watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, will visit Iran in days for talks with senior officials, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. “The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency will arrive in Iran on Wednesday at the official invitation of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the official IRNA news agency ...

Israeli Strikes in Jabalia Kill 30, Including 13 Children

This is Beirut 10/11 09:50 - Reading : less than a minute

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Gaza's civil defense agency on Sunday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in two Israeli strikes on two houses in the north of the Palestinian territory. The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing “at least 25” people, including 13 children, and injuring more than 30, the civil defense ...

US Strikes Houthi Arms Sites Amid Red Sea Tensions

This is Beirut 10/11 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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US warplanes staged multiple strikes Saturday night on Iran-backed Houthi advanced weapons storage facilities in Yemen, the Pentagon said. The facilities contained various weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, according to information provided to AFP by the ...

Trump Completes Swing State Sweep by Taking Arizona

This is Beirut 10/11 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Donald Trump’s stunning victory was solidified on Saturday as he claimed Arizona, making a clean sweep of key battleground states, just as Joe Biden pledged a “peaceful” transition of power. The outgoing president will host his fiercest political adversary in the Oval Office on Wednesday to begin preparations for Trump’s historic return to ...