This is Beirut 01/04 22:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump kept the world's leading economies on edge Tuesday as he made final preparations for a "Liberation Day" announcement of sweeping new tariffs that could trigger a global trade war. Trump has promised to be "very kind" when he unveils the so-called reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, but uncertainty reigned over which ...
This is Beirut 01/04 22:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey Ozgur Ozel Ekrem Imamoglu CHP Party
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party has called for a boycott on Wednesday to protest the detention of students rallying in support of Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor. "Stop all purchases! Supermarkets, online shopping, restaurants, petrol, coffees, bills, buy nothing," said Ozgur Ozel, head of the CHP party to which Mayor Ekrem ...
This is Beirut 01/04 20:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had a positive conversation with Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on issues including Gaza, where Washington has proposed displacement of the population. "My telephone call with President El-Sisi, of Egypt, went very well," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, using another spelling for ...
This is Beirut 01/04 20:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Luigi Mangione US Brian Thompson
US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday asked federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly gunned down an American health care CEO in a brazen attack. “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson—an innocent man and father of two young children—was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked ...
This is Beirut 01/04 19:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States US Judicial System Elon Musk
Donald Trump's rampaging new presidency faces its first electoral test Tuesday in an election to Wisconsin's Supreme Court and a pair of races in Florida where Democrats hope to deliver a show of strength. Trump has gone all out to boost Republican chances in the contests and sent his controversial, hugely powerful advisor Elon Musk -- the ...
This is Beirut 01/04 19:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Microsoft Bill Gates Technology
Founded in 1975 by two childhood friends, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, tech giant Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 4.
This is Beirut 01/04 18:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Tokyo Japan Cherry blossoms Spring
Despite the cold, Tokyo is filled with colors and smiles under the cherry blossoms.
This is Beirut 01/04 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Bezalel Smotrich Israel West Bank
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel was "here to stay" during a tour of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, defending Israeli settlements in the territory despite their illegality under international law. Both Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz, who accompanied him, denounced what they called "illegal" construction by ...
This is Beirut 01/04 14:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The French far right on Tuesday insisted it could still win 2027 elections after the movement's long time leader Marine Le Pen was banned from standing for office as part of an embezzlement conviction. Le Pen, who considered herself the favorite in the 2027 presidential elections where President Emmanuel Macron cannot stand again, was on Monday ...
This is Beirut 01/04 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A chest X-ray has confirmed a "slight improvement" in Pope Francis's lungs as he recovers from five weeks in hospital with life-threatening pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday. The 88-year-old Catholic leader left Rome's Gemelli hospital on March 23 after a stay in which doctors said he had almost died twice, returning to the Vatican for a ...
This is Beirut 01/04 13:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Shin Bet Eli Sharvit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Tuesday he had reversed a decision to appoint former navy commander Vice Admiral Eli Sharvit as security agency chief following criticism, including from a key US senator. Netanyahu had announced Sharvit's appointment on Monday, pushing back against a supreme court decision to freeze ...
This is Beirut 01/04 13:00 - Reading : less than a minute
The “very, very beautiful” Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak, is now little more than “small patches of ice and snow,” says veteran guide Charles Kibaki Muchiri. It is one of the few mountains on the African continent with glaciers, and scientists fear it could become one of the first in modern times to turn ...