This is Beirut 06/02 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled the country's first drone carrier on Thursday in Gulf waters, state media reported. The carrier, called the Martyr Bahman Bagheri, is a commercial vessel that was repurposed as a drone carrier over the past two-and-a-half years, Guards naval commander Alireza Tangsiri said during the unveiling ...
This is Beirut 06/02 11:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
With his dizzying moves to slash spending, abolish government departments and lay off much the federal workforce, Donald Trump has upended the US constitutional order in an unprecedented assertion of executive might. Critics complain that Congress has been slow to react in the face of a full frontal assault on the Founders' vision of the ...
This is Beirut 06/02 10:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The M23 armed group and allied Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, days before the Rwandan and Congolese presidents are due to attend a crisis summit. The United Nations meanwhile said the battle for the key city of Goma, which the M23 and Rwandan troops seized last week, had left at ...
This is Beirut 06/02 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United States said Wednesday that its government vessels would sail for free through the Panama Canal following heavy pressure from President Donald Trump, but authorities at the waterway swiftly issued a denial. "US government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees, saving the US government millions of dollars a year," ...
This is Beirut 06/02 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Tens of thousands of survivors held torchlit vigils across southern Turkey at 4:17 am Thursday, expressing pain and anger as they marked the exact moment two years ago when a devastating earthquake struck, claiming more than 53,000 lives in Turkey and some 6,000 in neighbouring Syria. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck before dawn when people were ...
This is Beirut 06/02 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Last month was the hottest January on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of record-breaking global temperatures. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said January was 1.75C hotter than pre-industrial times, extending a persistent run of history-making highs ...
Salam El Zaatari 06/02 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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History is often written in treaties. Sometimes, it’s forged in war. And sometimes, apparently, it’s written in golden pagers. Yes, you read that correctly. In a moment that blended Middle Eastern geopolitics with the aesthetics of a 1990s tech museum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted US President Donald Trump a golden pager, ...
This is Beirut 06/02 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump's administration appeared to backtrack Wednesday after his proposal to take over Gaza sparked uproar, with the United Nations warning against "ethnic cleansing" in the Palestinian territory. Facing a wave of criticism from Palestinians, Arab governments and world leaders, Trump's Secretary of State ...
This is Beirut 05/02 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump only wants Palestinians to leave Gaza temporarily while the territory is reconstructed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. Trump stunned the world and drew condemnation when he proposed Tuesday at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States could take over war-battered ...
This is Beirut 05/02 21:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Wednesday accused the UN Human Rights Council of anti-Semitism as he announced Israel would boycott of the United Nations body. "This body has focused on attacking a democratic country and propagating anti-Semitism, instead of promoting human rights," Saar said in a post on X. The minister cited Israel ...
This is Beirut 05/02 19:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Several Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt on Wednesday have strongly rejected Donald Trump's plan to take control of Gaza and relocate its Palestinian population. The United Arab Emirates rejected any attempts to displace Palestinians after US President Donald Trump proposed to "take over" the ...
This is Beirut 05/02 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Arab League said on Wednesday that a shock suggestion by US President Donald Trump to take over Gaza and displace Palestinians would violate international law and cause further instability. While "confident in the United States and its president's desire to achieve a just peace in the region", the Arab League's secretariat said Trump's ...