This is Beirut 2025-11-14 17:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Russia struck residential parts of Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Friday, Ukraine said, killing six people in a single apartment block in attacks President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced as "heinous" and aimed at civilians. Kyiv also said a Russian drone attack on a market in southern Ukraine hours later killed two more people. It was one of the ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Dozens of Indigenous protesters, some holding babies, peacefully blocked the entrance to the UN climate summit in Brazil on Friday to demand a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and discuss their plight in the Amazon. The human barrier of around 60 men and women, most in traditional garb and headdresses, lasted about two hours and ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 16:22 - Reading : less than a minute
The world is entering the era of “physical AI”: humanoid robots trained by teleoperation, tested in Tokyo, and backed by billions from tech giants. They can walk and dance, yet real-world tasks—from care work to house chores—remain challenging and costly. The humanoid revolution is underway, but the future still needs to prove it can ...
Giorgio Tawil 2025-11-14 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
“The horrifying crisis in Sudan is spiraling out of control,” warned UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the second World Summit for Social Development in Doha on November 4. He called on the warring parties to “come to the negotiating table” and put an end to what he described as a “nightmare of violence.” His warning followed ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 14:45 - Reading : less than a minute
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to seek to identify all those behind alleged atrocities in Sudan's El-Fasher to help ensure they are brought to justice. The United Nations' top rights body adopted a resolution ordering the UN's independent fact-finding mission on Sudan to urgently investigate violations of ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 14:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Gaza's Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis said it received the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Friday as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. In a statement, the hospital said that: "15 bodies of Palestinian martyrs arrived at Nasser Medical Complex as part of the thirteenth batch of the body ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 13:25 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Like many Lebanese of her generation, Carine Bassili was traumatized by civil war, loss, and a patriarchal culture, hardships that forged her personality and shaped her journey from Lebanon to the U.S., where she would come to form a religious bond with Israel. Bassili’s journey—a spiritual one based on her faith and reading of the Bible—led ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 11:15 - Reading : less than a minute
A breakthrough for Blue Origin: after weather delays, New Glenn finally launches and achieves a perfect booster landing, an achievement previously mastered only by SpaceX. On board, NASA’s “Blue” and “Gold” probes begin their journey toward Mars, where they will study the planet’s climate in 2026. Blue Origin sends a clear message: ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 11:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Big tech platforms, including TikTok and Netflix, are all looking to add video podcasts to their content, a rapidly growing format that attracts a young audience prized by advertisers and where YouTube dominates. Roman Wasenmüller, the head of podcasts at Spotify, said that the development "marks a new chapter for podcasting," as he announced a ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Google on Friday announced changes to its advertising services to avert the risk of a breakup, two months after Brussels hit the US giant with a massive fine. The European Commission slapped a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.43 billion) antitrust fine on Google for favoring its own services in September, giving the company 60 days to resolve the issues ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard and, in a breakthrough, nailed the landing of its booster. The launch was stalled for days over weather both on Earth and in space, but it was worth the wait: in the rocket's second-ever flight, Blue Origin managed to ...
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The BBC said Thursday that its chairman had sent a letter to US President Donald Trump apologizing for a misleading edit of one of his speeches but rejected that it was grounds for a defamation lawsuit. The comments came after Britain's embattled public broadcaster said earlier that it was investigating a possible second instance in which a Trump ...