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Trees, Targets and Trillions: What's on the Agenda at COP30?
Trees, Targets and Trillions: What's on the Agenda at COP30?

This is Beirut 04/11 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda? The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them all, but unlike recent editions, this "COP" has ...

A Peacemaker Visits a Land of Perpetual War
Op-edA Peacemaker Visits a Land of Perpetual War

Alberto M. Fernandez 04/11 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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Pope Leo XIV’s expected visit to Lebanon later this month comes at a moment of peril for the country. Lebanon’s most recent war, launched by Hezbollah on October 8, 2023, has barely ended, with Israel threatening to renew the conflict at any moment should Hezbollah not disarm. The Lebanese government has pledged to assert state power and ...

Qatar Warns Will Cut Gas Supply to Europe over EU's Green Rules
Qatar Warns Will Cut Gas Supply to Europe over EU's Green Rules

This is Beirut 03/11 22:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Qatar's energy minister on Monday warned the Gulf state would halt its supply of liquefied natural gas to Europe over Brussels's planned environmental and human rights rules. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) requires large companies to fix the "adverse human rights and environmental impacts" of their supply chains ...

Microsoft Unveils $15.2 Billion AI Investments in UAE
Microsoft Unveils $15.2 Billion AI Investments in UAE

This is Beirut 03/11 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Microsoft United Arab Emirates Artificial intelligence

US tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced $15.2 billion in investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft's vice chairman and president Brad Smith said Microsoft had invested $7.3 billion in the Gulf country since 2023 and would spend $7.9 billion more by the end of 2029. The deal sent US ...

Violence in Sudan's El-Fasher Could Be War Crimes, Says ICC
Violence in Sudan's El-Fasher Could Be War Crimes, Says ICC

This is Beirut 03/11 19:49 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The International Criminal Court warned on Monday that atrocities committed in Sudan's El-Fasher could amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, as the UN said that thousands had fled a neighboring region where paramilitaries have turned their focus. According to United Nations figures, more than 36,000 civilians have fled towns and ...

The Ordeal of Nigeria’s Christians
The Ordeal of Nigeria’s Christians

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 ...

Turkey and Muslim Allies Say Palestinian Self-Rule Key to Gaza Future
Turkey and Muslim Allies Say Palestinian Self-Rule Key to Gaza Future

This is Beirut 03/11 18:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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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 ...

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Infrastructure Deal with Cloud Giant AWS
OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Infrastructure Deal with Cloud Giant AWS

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 ...

Israel Returns 45 Palestinian Bodies to Gaza
Israel Returns 45 Palestinian Bodies to Gaza

This is Beirut 03/11 14:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Palestine Donald Trump Hamas Hostages

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 ...

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