Mario Chartouni 03/11 19:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Donald Trump has renewed international attention on the tragedy facing Christians in Nigeria. In a fiery post published Sunday on Truth Social, the U.S. president threatened a “swift and brutal” military intervention if Abuja did not put an end to the massacres of Christians, accusing the Nigerian government of “failing to protect religious ...
This is Beirut 03/11 18:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza's future must be Palestinian-led and avoid any new system of tutelage, Turkey and six of its top Muslim allies said Monday after talks in Istanbul. Turkey, which played a central role in forging the now shaky three-week-old ceasefire, is pushing for Muslim nations to bring their influence to bear on the reconstruction of the embattled ...
This is Beirut 03/11 17:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI signed a $38 billion deal Monday with Amazon's AWS cloud computing arm, as the artificial intelligence company continues on a major partnership spree that has also included Oracle, Broadcom, AMD, and chip-making juggernaut Nvidia. Under the seven-year agreement, OpenAI, which is partly owned by AWS's archrival Microsoft, will ...
This is Beirut 03/11 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Tehran would only consider cooperation with the United States if it changed its policy in the region, including supporting Israel. "If they completely abandon support for the Zionist regime, withdraw their military bases from here (the region), and refrain from interfering ...
This is Beirut 03/11 14:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza on Monday, bringing the total number handed over under the ceasefire deal to 270, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli ...
This is Beirut 03/11 14:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The prosecutor's office at the International Criminal Court warned Monday that atrocities committed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. After 18 months of siege, bombardment and starvation, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city on October 26, ...
This is Beirut 03/11 13:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump has repeated his threat of a military operation in Nigeria over killings of Christians, and that it could be ground or air attacks. As claims of Christian "persecution" in Africa's most populous country have found traction online among the US and European right, experts say Nigeria's myriad conflicts ...
Michael al-Andary 03/11 13:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday in a mayoral contest that has become one of the city’s most unpredictable in decades. Voters are weighing three very different candidates: a youthful leftist with national attention, a scandal-tainted former governor, and a Republican outsider. The outcome will determine leadership for a metropolis of 8.5 ...
This is Beirut 03/11 12:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hamas is "determined" to stick to the Gaza truce, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan said Monday, adding it was crucial that Muslim nations play a leading role in the Palestinian territory's reconstruction. "It seems that Hamas is quite determined to adhere to the agreement," Erdogan told delegates from the ...
This is Beirut 03/11 12:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Over 36,000 Sudanese civilians have fled towns and villages in the Kordofan region east of Darfur, according to the UN, as the paramilitary warned that its forces were massing along a new front line. In recent weeks, the central Kordofan region has become a new battleground in the two-year war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary ...
This is Beirut 03/11 12:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on a London-bound train, British Transport Police said on Monday. The 32-year-old, named as Anthony Williams from Peterborough in central England, was also charged with actual bodily harm and possession of a knife in connection with the incident on Saturday ...
This is Beirut 03/11 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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China denied testing nuclear weapons on Monday after US President Donald Trump alleged the country was among those to have conducted tests unknown to the public. "China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development, pursued a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, upheld a self-defense nuclear strategy and abided by its ...