This is Beirut 09/03 20:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pope Francis, who the Vatican said is responding well to treatment for pneumonia, thanked his doctors and healthcare workers on Sunday as he missed delivering a fourth straight Angelus prayer in person. The 88-year-old, in Rome's Gemelli hospital since February 14, issued a written Angelus in which he thanked those who volunteer to help others in ...
This is Beirut 09/03 19:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States has ended a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighboring Iran, in line with President Donald Trump's policy of exerting "maximum pressure" on Tehran. In a statement Sunday, the State Department said the decision not to renew the waiver was made to "ensure we do not allow Iran any ...
This is Beirut 09/03 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US envoy who held unprecedented direct talks with Hamas said Sunday the meeting had been "very helpful," and he was confident a hostage release deal could be reached "within weeks." Speaking to CNN, Adam Boehler acknowledged that as a Jewish American it had been "odd" sitting face-to-face with leaders of a ...
This is Beirut 09/03 18:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Israel ordered an immediate halt to Gaza's electricity supply Sunday in an effort to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages, even as it prepared for fresh talks on the future of its truce with the Palestinian militants. Israel's decision comes a week after it blocked all aid supplies to the war-battered territory, a move ...
This is Beirut 09/03 18:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel's foreign minister has urged Europe to "stop granting legitimacy" to Syria's transitional authorities after hundreds of civilians were reportedly killed in clashes, in an interview published Sunday. "Europe must not fail in reading the reality," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told Germany's Bild ...
This is Beirut 09/03 18:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
President Ahmed al-Sharaa called for national unity and peace on Sunday amid a growing international backlash following the killing of Alawite civilians in the worst violence since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said the killings "must cease immediately", while the Arab League, the United ...
This is Beirut 09/03 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday condemned the "radical Islamist terrorists" behind "massacres" of minorities in Syria and demanded that the interim administration hold those responsible to account. "The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent ...
This is Beirut 09/03 15:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US Secret Service agents shot an armed man near the White House during the night, an agency spokesman said early Sunday, while President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The man had been hospitalized and his condition was "unknown," the spokesman said in a statement that did not specify ...
This is Beirut 09/03 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israel on Sunday prepared to send a delegation to Doha for further talks on the Gaza truce, as Hamas called for an immediate start to negotiations on the ceasefire's second phase, which it hopes will lead to a permanent end to the war. Representatives of the Palestinian militant group, which waged a deadly war with Israel before a truce took ...
This is Beirut 09/03 05:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia said Saturday its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in its Kursk border region, in a fresh setback for Kyiv ahead of talks to try to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday named a high-level delegation including ministers to meet US negotiators in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, seeking to repair ties ...
This is Beirut 08/03 22:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Protesters took to the streets across the world Saturday to mark International Women's Day, demanding equal pay, political representation and an end to gender-based violence while voicing fears of rising repression. In eastern Ukraine, scores of demonstrators held a minute's silence to honour women killed defending the country from Russia's ...
This is Beirut 08/03 21:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The leaders of Syria's three main Christian churches issued a joint statement Saturday condemning "massacres targeting innocent civilians", following reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians by the security forces. Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said "532 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal ...