Board of US Fulbright Program Quits, Citing Trump Interference

This is Beirut 11/06 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

United States Education Fullbright Program

The board overseeing the Fulbright program, the prestigious exchanges between US and foreign scholars, quit on Wednesday, accusing President Donald Trump's administration of political interference. Members of the board, nominated by successive presidents, voiced alarm about "injecting politics and ideological mandates" into a long non-partisan ...

EU and UK Strike Deal on Gibraltar's Post-Brexit Status

This is Beirut 11/06 19:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

European Union United Kingdom Gibraltar Brexit

The European Union and Britain on Wednesday sealed a "historic" deal on the status of the territory of Gibraltar, five years after Brexit. The deal will ease the flow of people and goods over the Gibraltar-Spain border, forming part of London's much-vaunted "reset" in ties with Brussels. When Britain left the EU in 2020, the relationship between ...

VideosFires Force Indigenous Canadians to Tourist Town of Niagara Falls

This is Beirut 11/06 17:40 - Reading : less than a minute

When Travis Bighetty fled his village in central Canada, it was “practically engulfed in fire,” and ash was falling from the sky. Since then, like thousands of other evacuees, this Indigenous man has found refuge over 2,000 kilometers away, near Niagara Falls.

Iran Hangs Man over 2022 Protest Deaths, Activists Say Conviction Wrongful

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Iran Hanging Human Rights

Iran on Wednesday hanged a man convicted of killing seven people, including a 10-year-old boy, during nationwide protests in 2022 but human rights groups said he was the victim of a wrongful conviction. Abbas Kurkuri, also known as Mojahed Kurkur, was hanged at dawn in Sheiban prison in the western city of Ahvaz, the Norway-based Iran Human ...

President Donald Trump Hails Rare Earth Deal with China, Praises "Excellent" Relations

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United States China Rare Earths Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed a tentative agreement reached overnight in London between Washington and Beijing, which he says will enable the supply of rare earth minerals to the United States, praising the “excellent” relationship between the two countries. "An agreement with China has been reached, pending final approval ...

SpotlightLife Emits a Light That Death Extinguishes

Bélinda Ibrahim 11/06 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Light Body Death Life Living Beings

Until a few decades ago, this phenomenon remained virtually unknown. All living organisms, from plants to mammals, continuously emit a faint, invisible light, far too subtle for the human eye to detect. This emission, referred to as ultra-weak bioluminescence or oxidative chemiluminescence, ceases abruptly upon death. Long overlooked, this optical ...

Nuclear: Iran Threatens US Military Bases in the Middle East, Trump Less and Less Confident

This is Beirut 11/06 15:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Iran Middle East United States Nuclear

Iran threatened Wednesday to target US military bases in the region if conflict breaks out, while President Donald Trump said he was "less confident" about reaching a nuclear deal. Tehran and Washington have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new nuclear deal to replace the 2015 accord that Trump abandoned during his ...

Monsoon-Loving Indian Expats Chase Rain in UAE Desert

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Gulf United Arab Emirates

Tracking the rare summer showers in the desert of the United Arab Emirates is the mission Mohammed Sajjad took on after leaving his native India in the middle of the monsoon season to settle in this arid Gulf country.

Israeli Opposition Submits Bill to Dissolve Knesset

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Israel Opposition Knesset Haredim

Israeli lawmakers will vote Wednesday on a bill submitted by the opposition to dissolve parliament, which, if successful, could start paving the way to a snap election. While the opposition is composed mainly of centrist and leftist groups, ultra-Orthodox parties that are propping up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government are also ...

New Deadly Fire in Iranian Industrial Complex

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Iran Fire Petrochemical

A fire broke out at a petrochemical complex in southern Iran on Wednesday, killing at least three people, state television reported. "Given the scale of the incident, the number of injuries and deaths is likely to increase," the broadcaster added, airing images of smoke rising from the Kaveh Petrochemical Complex in Bushehr province, 1,200 ...

Elon Musk Says He "Went Too Far" in Criticism of Trump

This is Beirut 11/06 11:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Donald Trump Elon Musk United States

Elon Musk, the world's richest person and Donald Trump's former advisor, said Wednesday he regretted some of his recent criticisms of the US president after the pair's public falling-out last week. "I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far," Musk wrote on his social media platform X. Musk's ...

Three Alawites Killed as Violence Flares Near Syrian-Lebanese Border

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Alawites Syria

Three Alawite civilians were killed in western Syria overnight, hours after an attack on government forces killed at least one officer, a war monitor said on Wednesday. Syrian authorities said four civilians were targeted by unknown attackers in the Tal Kalakh area near the Lebanese border, killing two of them. Since the offensive that toppled ...