Lyne Sammouri 22/01 11:15 - Reading : less than a minute
As newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump celebrated his return to power, he made a bold announcement to save TikTok. What is the TikTok ban? Why did President Trump choose to “save it”? What are the reasons behind TikTok’s ban?
This is Beirut 22/01 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Netflix on Tuesday said it added nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday season to finish out last year with more than 300 million subscribers. Company executives credited steady investments in shows and films with helping power growth at the streaming behemoth, while announcing it is increasing prices in Argentina, Canada, Portugal and ...
This is Beirut 22/01 09:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United Nations Panama Canal
Panama has complained to the United Nations over US President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the government in Panama City referred to an article of the UN ...
This is Beirut 22/01 09:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Donald Trump Democrats Republicans Tik Tok AI
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence led by Japanese giant Softbank, cloud giant Oracle and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The venture, called Stargate, "will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States," Trump said in remarks at the White House. ...
This is Beirut 22/01 05:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Republicans United States
If it succeeds, Donald Trump's overhaul of the right to citizenship by virtue of birth in the country could profoundly reshape the United States, wiping out a founding principle that has been applied for more than 150 years by this world power, according to several experts. Barely inaugurated as the 47th American president, the Republican ...
This is Beirut 22/01 04:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Israel Chief of staff
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi resigned on Tuesday, acknowledging his responsibility for the ‘failure’ to prevent a Palestinian Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, on the third day of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Following the entry into force on Sunday of the first phase of the truce, which led to the release of three Israeli hostages and 90 ...
This is Beirut 21/01 22:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday in Tel Aviv while the attacker was killed, Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said. The police said an initial investigation "revealed that a terrorist armed with a knife stabbed three civilians on Nahalat Binyamin Street and one civilian on Gruzenberg Street". Ichilov hospital in ...
This is Beirut 21/01 22:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump has claimed a mandate from God to reshape America, but the earthly powers of the US courts, a super-thin majority in Congress and foreign capitals may have other ideas. The Republican president unleashed a "shock and awe" blitz of executive orders in his first 24 hours back in power that overturned many of his predecessor ...
This is Beirut 21/01 21:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
At least 76 people were killed when a huge fire ripped through a hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey that was packed with people enjoying the winter holidays, among them families. The blaze at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya broke out around 3:30 am (0030 GMT), sending huge clouds of smoke into the night air and sparking ...
This is Beirut 21/01 20:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Six people were killed on Tuesday in Syria's central Homs province, a war monitor said, as security forces launched a sweep of the area. The security forces were operating in the area around the village of Ghour al-Gharbiya in western Homs "against the remaining militias supporting" ousted president Bashar al-Assad, the official ...
This is Beirut 21/01 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France Bashar al-Assad Syria prosecution
Two French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, the second such move by France's judicial authorities, a source said on Tuesday. Assad, who was ousted late last year in a lightning offensive by Islamist forces, is held responsible in the ...
This is Beirut 21/01 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iraq's parliament passed into law on Tuesday a revised bill that had sparked outrage over fears it rolled back women's rights and permitted underage marriage. The parliament said on its website that it had adopted "the proposal to amend the Personal Status Law", as well as "the second amendment of the general amnesty law". The amendment to the ...