This is Beirut 04/02 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Israeli army said Tuesday that its troops had killed a gunman who critically wounded two soldiers when he opened fire at a military post in the occupied West Bank. "A terrorist fired at soldiers at a military post in Tayasir. The soldiers exchanged fire with the terrorist and killed him," the military said in a statement. Israeli emergency ...
This is Beirut 04/02 09:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as Israel and Hamas say they are ready for negotiations on a new phase in their fragile Gaza ceasefire. Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Trump returned to power last month, will discuss the truce's future and efforts to ...
This is Beirut 04/02 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Elon Musk and his aides have taken control of the US Treasury Department's payments system, triggering a lawsuit charging he is illegally getting access to private data of millions of Americans. Musk, the world's richest person, is leading President Donald Trump's federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called Department of Government ...
Christiane Tager 03/02 22:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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After a year marked by record highs, gold seems poised to continue its surge in 2025, as investors seek to shield themselves from global economic uncertainties. The trade policies of US President Donald Trump, particularly the new tariffs that could provoke a trade war, dampen economic growth and fuel inflation, will likely benefit gold. Gold ...
This is Beirut 03/02 22:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump said on Monday there were "no guarantees" that a fragile ceasefire in Gaza will hold, as he prepares to discuss its future with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu was in Washington for talks with the new Trump administration on a second phase of the truce with Hamas, which has not yet been ...
This is Beirut 03/02 21:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa said Monday organising elections could take up to five years, the week after he was appointed interim president and less than two months after ousting Bashar al-Assad. "My estimate is that the period of time will be approximately between four and five years until the elections," Sharaa said in a pre-recorded ...
This is Beirut 03/02 20:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday he had been put in charge of the US aid agency, saying he would stop its "insubordination" to President Donald Trump's agenda. After Trump's billionaire friend and advisor Elon Musk vowed to destroy the US Agency for International Development (USAID), whose website went dark over the weekend, Rubio ...
Sana Richa Choucair 03/02 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Elon Musk stated on Monday that President Donald Trump confirmed his intention to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). “I discussed USAID in detail with (the president), and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said during a conversation on X Spaces early on Monday morning. The announcement comes ...
This is Beirut 03/02 18:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump delayed the start of tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month Monday after the US neighbors struck last-minute deals to tighten border measures against the flow of migrants and the drug fentanyl. Global stock markets had slumped as Trump's threat of sweeping 25 percent levies on exports from Canada and Mexico to the ...
This is Beirut 03/02 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Ontario, Canada's most populous province and its economic engine, announced Monday a ban on US companies bidding on tens of billions of dollars worth of government contracts, and dumped a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink in a pushback to US tariffs. "Ontario won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy," Ontario Premier Doug ...
This is Beirut 03/02 17:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hamas is ready to begin talks on the details of a second phase of the ongoing truce in Gaza, two officials from the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Monday. "Hamas has informed the mediators, during ongoing communications and meetings held with Egyptian mediators last week in Cairo, that we are ready to start the negotiations for the second ...
This is Beirut 03/02 16:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A car bomb on Monday killed 15 people, mostly women farm workers, in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed groups, state media reported. Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA news agency said there had been a "massacre" on a local road, with "the explosion of a car bomb near a vehicle transporting ...