This is Beirut 2025-09-18 17:45 - Reading : less than a minute
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump attended a state banquet at Windsor Castle, joined by 160 guests alongside members of the royal family.
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 17:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Syria expects to finalize security and military agreements with Israel this year, an official said Thursday, in what would be a breakthrough less than a year after Bashar al-Assad's ouster. With the United States pushing for a settlement between the two neighbors, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in Washington to discuss talks with ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 16:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump United Kingdom Keir Starmer United States
Donald Trump hailed America's "unbreakable bond" with Britain Thursday as he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a huge tech deal on the second day of the US president's pomp-filled state visit. A day after King Charles III treated Trump to a day of royal pageantry at Windsor Castle, Trump flew to Starmer's Chequers country residence for talks ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 16:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An assailant who arrived in a truck carrying humanitarian aid from Jordan shot dead two men Thursday at the main border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli military and medics said. The security forces "neutralized" the attacker, the military said. Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said the ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
World Meteorological Organization Water Climate change Science
Climate change is spurring increasingly erratic and extreme swings between deluge and drought across the world, the United Nations warned on Thursday. The UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a report that the world's water cycle was becoming ever more unpredictable, with shrinking glaciers, droughts, unbalanced river basins, and severe ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron France Paris Lecornu
French protesters were on Thursday staging a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron's budget policies, with mass protests expected, transport chaos and clashes between police and demonstrators. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Macron's seventh head of government, took office last week, vowing a break from ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 12:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Swiss
Swiss exports to the United States fell to their lowest level since 2020 in August when massive US tariffs came into effect, official data showed Thursday. The Alpine country's exports to the United States reached 3.1 billion Swiss francs ($3.9 billion) in August, a 22.1 percent drop from July, customs figures showed. Donald Trump imposed a ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 12:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump United Kingdom Kyiv
After the royal hospitality and pageantry, US President Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the UK takes a serious turn on Thursday when he is hosted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer for wide-ranging talks. Starmer will greet Trump on the second day of the visit at his country residence, Chequers, with pressing issues such as trade, ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 11:15 - Reading : less than a minute
United States Washington Syria Assad al-Shaibani
Syria's foreign minister is heading to Washington on Thursday, a foreign ministry source rold AFP, in the first such visit in more than 25 years. "Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani will travel to Washington to discuss the lifting of the remaining sanctions," the source said, requesting anonymity as they were not allowed to brief the ...
Salam El Zaatari 2025-09-18 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Syria Peace United States Donald Trump Hezbollah
For decades, Israel and Lebanon have lived under a paradox: perpetual hostility punctuated by temporary ceasefires. The 1949 Armistice created quiet without peace until the Lebanese state allowed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to operate from its south in 1969. That decision transformed southern Lebanon into a launchpad for attacks on ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-18 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Down Syndrome Japan Chromosome Research Science
It is a milestone in the history of Down syndrome research. A team from Mie University in Japan has shown that it is possible, through CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, to erase the supernumerary chromosome that causes the condition, at least in cells grown in labs. The announcement, published in the scientific journal PNAS Nexus, made headlines, as it ...
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Morgan Ortagus
US Special Envoy Morgan Ortagus is expected to arrive in Beirut on Sunday to attend a meeting of the Ceasefire Oversight Committee. According to information obtained by Nidaa Al-Watan, her visit will focus mainly on technical and military aspects, rather than political ones, while the President of the Republic is due to fly to New York to attend ...