This is Beirut 24/02 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Alibaba AI Jack Ma Cloud computing
Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Monday it will spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing over the next three years, a week after co-founder Jack Ma was seen meeting President Xi Jinping. Investors have piled into Chinese technology stocks since the start of the year, with Alibaba – which runs some of the ...
This is Beirut 24/02 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Russia
Defying Kyiv and its European allies, Washington plans on Monday to submit to the UN Security Council and General Assembly a draft text that calls for a "swift end" to the Ukraine conflict but makes no reference to its territorial integrity, in an early test of Donald Trump's muscular approach to the crisis. Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine ...
This is Beirut 24/02 09:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared to resume fighting against Hamas after the Palestinian group accused it of endangering a five-week-old Gaza truce by suspending prisoner releases. The first phase of the truce, which has largely halted more than 15 months of devastating war in the Gaza Strip, is due to ...
This is Beirut 24/02 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky hailed his country's "resistance" and "heroism" on Monday on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion as EU leaders arrived in Kyiv in a show of solidarity. Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to launch what he called a "special military operation" set off the biggest conflict in Europe since World ...
This is Beirut 24/02 09:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Germany's conservative election winner Friedrich Merz vowed to get to work Monday on the arduous task of building a new coalition government, warning "the world isn't waiting for us". Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the German economy is in ...
This is Beirut 24/02 05:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Elon Musk Donald Trump Politics
Multiple US federal agencies, including some led by prominent Donald Trump loyalists, have pushed back against a move by Elon Musk to force employees to explain what they had achieved at work or risk losing their jobs. The resistance signaled a possible rift between key Trump administration figures and Musk, who has spearheaded a campaign to ...
This is Beirut 23/02 22:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkey late Sunday, Moscow's state news agency TASS reported, a day ahead of talks with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. Turkish diplomatic sources had said that Lavrov would visit Turkey Monday, the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. TASS released footage Sunday of Lavrov ...
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Syria will hold a two-day national dialogue conference in the coming week, a member of the organizing committee told AFP on Sunday, months after an Islamist-led coalition, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ousted Bashar al-Assad. The conference "will begin Monday afternoon and continue Tuesday", said Hind Kabawat, one of seven organizers preparing ...
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Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Lebanon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reaffirmed that Israeli forces will maintain their positions in Lebanon, citing strategic oversight of several Israeli areas. “We expect the Lebanese army and government to uphold their commitments under the ceasefire agreement,” Netanyahu stated during a military ceremony in Holon, ...
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Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine NATO Russia United States
Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday -- the eve of the third anniversary of Russia's invasion -- that he was ready to quit as Ukraine's president if it meant Kyiv would be admitted to the NATO military alliance. Zelensky has faced fierce criticism from the new US administration and said he wantss to meet Donald Trump before the US president ...
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Ukraine Russia Precious Metals
Around $350 billion of worth of Ukraine's critical resources are in areas captured by Russia, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, as Washington pushes for a deal to secure preferential access to the country's resource base. Kyiv is pushing back against President Donald Trump's calls for Ukraine's resources to be used as compensation to the United ...
This is Beirut 23/02 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Steve Witkoff
US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that he was headed to the Middle East this week to discuss an extension to phase one of the Israel-Hamas peace deal. "We have to get an extension of phase one, and so I'll be going into the region this week, probably Wednesday, to negotiate that," Witkoff told CNN. "And we're hopeful ...