This is Beirut 24/07 12:20 - Reading : less than a minute
A dramatic wildfire is currently tearing through Limassol, Cyprus, driven by strong winds and soaring temperatures. The blaze poses a serious threat to residential areas, forests, and the safety of local communities.
This is Beirut 24/07 12:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Foreign aid cuts, jihadist violence, and food inflation are pushing millions toward hunger in northeastern Nigeria. The World Food Programme warns: their warehouses are empty.
This is Beirut 24/07 11:43 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Ceasefire
Hamas said on Thursday that it had responded to an Israeli proposal for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, as pressure mounted for a breakthrough to end almost two years of devastating conflict that has triggered a humanitarian crisis for civilians. Mediators have been shuttling between Israeli and Hamas negotiators in the Qatari capital Doha for ...
This is Beirut 24/07 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote spot in Russia's far eastern region of Amur on Thursday, with no immediate signs of survivors, authorities said. The aircraft, a twin-propeller Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was headed to the town of Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it disappeared from radar at ...
This is Beirut 24/07 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Eight people were taken to the hospital after a car plowed into a bus stop in central Israel on Thursday in a suspected car-ramming attack, emergency services said. Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) first responders said they received a report at 9:25 am (0625 GMT) that a vehicle crashed into a bus stop near Kfar Yona. A man and woman in their ...
This is Beirut 24/07 10:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Scotland Aberdeen Golf
Donald Trump will fly into Scotland on Friday for a private visit to the land where his mother was born and spent her childhood on the remote Isle of Lewis. "It's great to be home; this was the home of my mother," he said when he arrived on his last visit in 2023. Born Mary Anne MacLeod, Trump's mother immigrated to the United States when she ...
This is Beirut 24/07 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Tariffs Trade
Japan and the Philippines bring to five the number of countries that have concluded trade deals with the United States ahead of an August 1 deadline set by President Donald Trump to avoid punitive tariff rates. The agreed levies are often higher than the new base rate of 10 percent that the United States has applied to most countries since April ...
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Columbia United States Donald Trump
Columbia University said Wednesday it will pay $200 million to the US government after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding over what he said was its unwillingness to protect Jewish students. In a sweeping deal that will restore the prestigious New York institution's federal monies, Columbia has pledged to obey rules that bar ...
Salam El Zaatari 24/07 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon United States Syria Hezbollah
By now, we should know that when the Middle East falls silent, it’s rarely a good sign. As if history itself were pausing for breath, the region today is locked in what I call a “violent pause”—not peace, not war, but something infinitely more dangerous: indecision. The past six months have redrawn the map of alliances and threats, but ...
This is Beirut 24/07 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cambodia Thailand Escalation Military
Thailand launched airstrikes on Cambodian military targets on Thursday as Cambodia fired rockets and artillery, killing a civilian, in a dramatic escalation of a long-running border row between the two neighbors. The neighbors are locked in a bitter spat over an area known as the Emerald Triangle, where the borders of both countries and Laos ...
This is Beirut 24/07 09:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
China European Union Russia Ukraine
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and the EU must deepen trust in a turbulent world, but the bloc's chiefs called for "real solutions" to move past an inflection point as they met in Beijing on Thursday. China's leadership has sought to draw the European Union closer as it positions itself as a more reliable partner than the United States ...
This is Beirut 24/07 05:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Barack Obama Donald Trump United States
The White House pulled out all the stops Wednesday to promote claims that Barack Obama headed a "treasonous conspiracy" against Donald Trump, seeking to redirect public attention from uproar over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein affair. Trump's intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard told a White House press briefing there had been a ...