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The US ambassador to Turkey, who has assumed the role of Syria envoy, said Saturday he had met the country's interim leader following Washington's lifting of sanctions on the war-torn country. Tom Barrack, who met with interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Istanbul, said in a statement: "I reiterated the United States' support for ...
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The number of Al-Qaeda members killed in strikes on southern Yemen blamed on the United States increased to nine, a Yemeni security source told AFP on Saturday. The official in Abyan province, which borders the seat of Yemen's internationally recognised government in Aden, said the strikes killed nine members of the group including a local ...
This is Beirut 24/05 18:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Kurds Al-Hol Refugee Camp
A Syrian government delegation visited a notorious camp in the Kurdish-administered northeast that hosts families of suspected Islamic State group jihadists, the new authorities' first visit, both sides said Saturday. Kurdish-run camps and prisons in the northeast hold tens of thousands of people, many with alleged or perceived links to the ...
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France Cannes Electricity Cannes Film Festival
A power substation and an electricity pylon were vandalized overnight in the region around France's Cannes, which has been hit by a major blackout on the final day of its film festival, officials said. A substation in the village of Tanneron, which supplies Cannes, was targeted by a suspected arson attack, while the legs of a pylon carrying a ...
This is Beirut 24/05 17:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Syria's interior ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba said Saturday that around a third of the population had been wanted by the intelligence and security services of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December. Baba told a press conference in Damascus that "the number of people wanted by the former regime for political ...
This is Beirut 24/05 17:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Arab Emirates Climate Climate Change
The United Arab Emirates breached its May temperature record for the second day in a row, hitting 51.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday, according to the National Center of Meteorology. "The highest temperature recorded over the country today is 51.6C in Sweihan (Al Ain) at 13:45 UAE local time (0945 GMT)," the office said in a post on X, ...
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A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack that wounded 18 people at a train station in Hamburg suffers from mental illness, police said Saturday. The suspect, a 39-year-old woman, is accused of going on a stabbing spree on Friday at the main station in Hamburg, stunning the northern city in the middle of the evening rush hour. The woman ...
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Pope Leo XIV took his message of building bridges and promoting dialogue to the Roman Curia on Saturday in his first audience with members of the Catholic Church's governing body. The late Pope Francis had sometimes difficult relations with the Curia and Vatican officials, accusing them early in his papacy of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and a lust ...
This is Beirut 24/05 14:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Baghdad is working on a deal to free kidnapped Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov in exchange for an Iranian jailed in Iraq for murdering a US civilian, security sources said Saturday. The deal depends on US approval, the senior Iraqi security officials told AFP, asking to remain anonymous because the matter is considered ...
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A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv Saturday wounded at least 15 people, even as Russia and Ukraine continued the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Moscow's invasion. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 14 ballistic missiles and 250 attack drones overnight, adding that it downed six missiles and 245 ...
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Syria on Saturday hailed the Trump administration's lifting of US sanctions, as Washington looks to open a new chapter in its relations with Damascus. US President Donald Trump surprised many with his announcement of the new policy on a Gulf tour earlier this month, during which he shook hands with Syria's jihadist-turned-interim ...
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Donald Trump United States Harvard University
The Trump administration’s decision to revoke the visas of foreign students at Harvard University – an enduring symbol of American global influence – risks further damaging the United States’ "soft power." Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has launched an ideological campaign to ...