This is Beirut 2025-07-17 16:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV confirmed Thursday he hoped to visit Turkey in the coming months for a Christian religious commemoration, in what could be his first overseas trip as pontiff. "I hope to be able to meet you again in a few months to take part in the ecumenical commemoration of the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea," Leo said at a meeting with ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 16:02 - Reading : less than a minute
The Grand Canyon National Park has closed its North Rim for the 2025 season after a wildfire ignited by lightning on July 4th. Fueled by strong winds over the weekend, the fire destroyed numerous buildings and forced the evacuation of more than 500 visitors and staff. Arizona’s governor has called for an investigation into the fire’s ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 15:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said Thursday as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives. Officials said many people suffocated in bathrooms, while one person told AFP his five relatives died in an elevator. The blaze -- the latest ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 14:40 - Reading : less than a minute
A wounded city takes a breath again: with a modern terminal and cutting-edge radar, Mosul is reconnecting with the world.
This Is Beirut 2025-07-17 14:35 - Reading : less than a minute
tajikistan apricot climate change agriculture
Tajik apricot farmers face an uncertain future as climate change brings drought, floods and shifting seasons to Central Asia’s key fruit-growing region.
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
European Union United Kingdom Keir Starmer
The British government said Thursday it plans to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in general elections, a landmark change giving the UK one of the lowest voting ages worldwide. It follows a pledge from the ruling Labour Party to make the shift ahead of winning power last year, and is among several planned changes to the democratic system, which ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 14:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine Catholic Church Gaza
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said an Israeli strike on Gaza's only Catholic Church killed two people on Thursday, as Israel said it "never targets" religious sites and was investigating what happened. "With deep sorrow, the Latin Patriarchate can now confirm that two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 13:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A drone loaded with explosives struck an oil field in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region on Thursday, Kurdish forces said -- the second attack in two days on the Norwegian-operated site. "At 10:55 am (0755 GMT) a new attack by an explosives-laden drone hit" the DNO-operated Tawke field in Zakho disrict, Kurdistan's counterterrorism services ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-17 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
AI Dreams Film Japan Neuroscientists
Sleep, dream… and soon, wake up and watch your dreams like a movie? While it may still sound like science fiction, this technology is taking shape in research labs. At Kyoto’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, neuroscientist Yukiyasu Kamitani and his team have created an AI system that decodes brain activity during REM sleep—the ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 11:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Kingdom United States IVF Babies Mitochondrial
Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the results of a world-first trial said Wednesday. The findings were hailed as a breakthrough which raises hopes that women with mutations in their mitochondrial DNA could one day have ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 11:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United States Georges Ibrahim Abdallah France
A French appeals court Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. Abdallah, 74, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his involvement in the murders of US military attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli ...
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 10:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Yemen Houthi Movement
Yemen's Huthi rebels claimed a missile launched at Israel's main civilian airport, after the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from the Arabian Peninsula country. The Iran-backed rebels targeted Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv with a "Zulfiqar ballistic missile" and drone, military spokesman ...