VideosTunisian Startup Turns Olive Waste Into Clean Energy
This Is Beirut 2025-04-03 16:25 - Reading : less than a minute
In Tunisia, olive waste is becoming a valuable source of energy, offering a local alternative to imported fuels.
Middle East
Rubio Says US Committed to NATO - But Tells Allies to Spend More
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 14:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump US Secretary of State Europe European Union
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told nervous NATO members on Thursday that Washington remained committed to the alliance, but said they must agree to massively ramp up their spending targets for defense. President Donald Trump has rattled Europe by casting doubt on his willingness to defend all allies, and by reaching out to Russia over the war ...
Hungary Announces ICC Withdrawal as Israel's Netanyahu Visits
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 14:31 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam International Criminal Court Benjamin Netanyahu
Hungary on Thursday said it will quit the International Criminal Court, just as Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the tribunal has accused of war crimes in Gaza. The government announcement to start the year-long withdrawal process came as Orban welcomed Netanyahu in the capital Budapest on his ...
UK Police Arrest Two Men Linked to Hezbollah Activities
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 13:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah Terrorism Counter Terrorism Command UK arrests
UK counter-terrorism police arrested two men on April 1, 2025, in connection with alleged links to Hezbollah, which has been banned in the UK since 2019. The first man, aged 39, was arrested at an address in northwest London on suspicion of being a member of a proscribed organization, preparing terrorism acts and financing terrorism. The second ...
Israel says Shares with France 'Common' Goal of Iran Without Nuclear Weapons
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Tehran United States France
Israel and France share a "common" goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Israeli foreign minister said in Paris on Thursday. Western countries including the United States have long accused Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapon, which Tehran has denied, insisting its enrichment activities were solely for peaceful purposes. "The ...
Forbes 2025: Lebanese Figures Stand Out Among the World's Billionaires
Christiane Tager 2025-04-03 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The latest Forbes Billionaires ranking for 2025 was released in early April, setting new records with a total of $16.1 trillion—$2 trillion more than the previous year. No longer just a compilation of names and figures, it now serves as a map of the global economic elite, where market surges, major acquisitions, and breakthrough innovations ...
Syria Local Govt says Israeli Bombardment kills Nine
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 10:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Syria Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Israeli bombardment killed nine people in Syria as troops conducted a raid in the south, the local government and a war monitor said, with the Israeli army saying its forces were responding to fire from militants. The shelling came after an "Israeli incursion", with "the occupation forces advancing for the first time to this ...
Q&AWhat is the 'Qatargate' Scandal Roiling Israel?
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel has been gripped by allegations linking aides of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to financing from Qatar, which hosts Hamas leaders and helped broker the release of hostages from Gaza. Dubbed "Qatargate" by Israeli media, the reports that sparked the investigation claimed that some of the people closest to Netanyahu had been recruited to ...
SpotlightThe US and Iran's Dangerous Dance
Salam El Zaatari 2025-04-03 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US and Iran are now locked in a decisive showdown—one that will either lead to a historic breakthrough or ignite a conflict that redraws the map of the Middle East. The Pentagon’s recent deployment of additional warplanes to the Middle East, notably the stationing of up to six B-2 stealth bombers at Diego Garcia, is a stark indicator of ...
Israel PM Says 'Dissecting' Gaza to Force Hamas to Free Hostages
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 09:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the military was "dissecting" the Gaza Strip and seizing territory to pressure Hamas into freeing hostages still held in the enclave. It came as rescuers said 34 people were killed in continued Israeli strikes on the territory, including on a UN building. The military ...
What the world said about Trump's tariffs
This is Beirut 2025-04-03 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron United States European Union
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced sweeping new tariffs on imports to the United States from countries right across the globe. Here are international reactions so far from the world's major economies: China Beijing said it "firmly opposes" the new tariffs on its exports, and vowed "countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and ...
Nothing Is Going Well for the Mullahs…
Marc Saikali 2025-04-03 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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By playing Russian roulette for too long, one eventually gets shot. This is the situation Iran's leaders are now facing. Since 1979, Khomeini and his successors have tried to export their so-called Islamic Revolution throughout the region. Without any success, but with plenty of blood, wars and tears. First in Iraq, then in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon ...