This is Beirut 2025-03-23 21:45 - Reading : less than a minute
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Turkey's authorities, faced with a mass opposition movement following the detention of the opposition mayor of Istanbul, have called for the closure of more than 700 accounts on X, the online platform said Sunday. "We object to multiple court orders from the Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority to block over 700 ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 18:38 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel's military pressed ground operations across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, encircling part of Rafah city near Egypt almost a week into a renewed assault on the Palestinian territory. Deployment of Israeli troops in parts of Gaza, despite calls to revive a January truce with Hamas militants, comes alongside a deadly flare-up in Lebanon and ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 18:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US and Ukrainian officials were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for talks on a partial ceasefire in the war with Russia, with Washington hoping for "real progress" but the Kremlin warning of "difficult negotiations" and a long journey to peace. US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to the three-year war and ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 18:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned on Sunday an Israeli decision to recognize more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighborhoods to independent settlement status. The decision by Israel's security cabinet was a show of "disregard for international legitimacy and its resolutions," ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 15:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Palestinian group Hamas confirmed on Sunday that Salah al-Bardawil, a senior member of its political bureau, was killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza the previous day. Bardawil, 65, was killed along with his wife in a camp in al-Mawasi, near Khan Younes, according to the Palestinian Islamist movement. He is the third member of the ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Francis greeted and thanked the faithful from a balcony of Rome's Gemelli hospital Sunday, the first time the 88-year-old has been seen in public since his admission on February 14. "Thank you, everyone," a weak-sounding Francis said into a microphone as he sat in a wheelchair, waving gently to hundreds of people gathered below ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 12:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's legal team will appeal a court decision Sunday that formalized the key opposition figure's arrest in a graft probe, one of the lawyers told AFP. Separately, the court decided against formalizing his arrest in a "terror" probe. Imamoglu's detention on Wednesday over both investigations has ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Three civilians including two children were killed Sunday in an artillery attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Omdurman, part of Greater Khartoum, a medical source told AFP. Eyewitnesses in the area said the strikes were some of the heaviest in recent months, coming two days after the army recaptured the capital's presidential ...
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In 1958, President Eisenhower sent 10,000 US Marines to Lebanon to protect it from a potential takeover by Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose ambition was to unite all Arab countries under a Pan-Arab vision. This was the first and only time the Eisenhower Doctrine was used. Without American troops and shrewd diplomacy at the time, Lebanon would not exist ...
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Israel's military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early on Sunday, with Huthi rebels later claiming responsibility for an attack they said targeted Israel's Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. "Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-23 05:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel's opposition leader on Saturday called for a general strike if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to obey a Supreme Court decision freezing the government's dismissal of the internal security chief. If the government "decides to disobey the Court's decision it will become a government outside of the law," Yair ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-22 19:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Francis is to leave the hospital on Sunday and return to his residence in the Vatican, where he is to spend "at least two months" recovering, one of his doctors announced. The 88-year-old pontiff has been in Rome's Gemelli hospital since February 14, when he was admitted with breathing problems, and he subsequently battled ...