This is Beirut 2025-03-26 18:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Rosalie Cote and her parents vacationed in the US state of Maine every summer for 25 years -- but this year they are staying home, incensed like many Canadians by Donald Trump's threats of annexation and tariffs. The United States was the top destination for Canadian tourists, with 20.4 million visits reported last year by the US Travel ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Wednesday to seize areas of Gaza if Hamas does not release hostages, with the Palestinian Islamist movement warning that their lives are at risk following the resumption of Israeli bombardments. The Israeli military also announced that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, one ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 15:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Protesters were defiant Wednesday despite a growing crackdown and nearly 1,500 arrests as they marked a week since the start of Turkey's biggest street demonstrations against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since 2013. The protests erupted on March 19 after the arrest of Istanbul opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of a graft and ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the opposition on Wednesday of fueling "anarchy" in Israel following mass anti-government protests in recent days. In a speech to parliament, Netanyahu addressed the opposition, stating: "You recycle the same worn-out and ridiculous slogans about 'the end of democracy.’ Well, once and for all: Democracy ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 13:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Sudanese army on Wednesday recaptured Khartoum airport from the Rapid Support Forces, an army source told AFP, while troops surrounded the paramilitaries' last major holdout position south of the city. The army, battling the RSF since April 2023, "fully secured" the airport in central Khartoum from RSF fighters stationed inside, the source ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 12:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Armenia's parliament passed a bill Wednesday launching Yerevan's bid for European Union membership, as the historically Russia-allied country drifts further away from Moscow's orbit. The landlocked Caucasus nation has grown increasingly close to the West, frustrated by what it says was Moscow's failure to protect it from arch-foe ...
Maroun Chahine 2025-03-26 12:30 - Reading : less than a minute
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In Kabul, Afghanistan, after every shower, Fatima carefully collects the hair that has fallen into the bathtub plug and keeps it preciously. When she reaches a few hundred grams, she discreetly sells it, like many Afghan women, to earn a modest income, despite the ban imposed by the Taliban authorities. Before the Taliban returned to power in ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Three months after the ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Washington underscored the persisting challenges facing the process of peaceful political transition in light of recurring security incidents, notably mass killings in the country’s western part. At a UN Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East, US interim ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 12:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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China remains the main threat to the United States globally, but of increasing concern is its closer cooperation with Russia, Iran, and North Korea, said an annual US intelligence report released Tuesday. China's rise in all areas of power has been identified for years by the US as its main threat, and was behind Barack Obama's strategic ...
Malo Pinatel 2025-03-26 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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While the world’s attention was fixed on the March 12 summit between Ukraine and the United States in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, another important meeting was taking place in the region – in Ankara. It brought together Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the aim of strengthening ties between the ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 09:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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In a matter of days, US President Donald Trump has extended a hand to Iran and bombed Tehran's allies in Yemen. His administration has both demanded that Iran dismantle its nuclear program and offered more flexibility. Trump has for years dangled force as a means to get his way in negotiations. But on Iran, some observers see less a strategy ...
This is Beirut 2025-03-26 09:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Huthi media in Yemen reported Wednesday at least 17 strikes in Saada and Amran, blaming the United States for the attacks. The rebels' Ansarollah website said US warplanes carried out "aggressive air raids... causing material damage to citizens' property" but gave no details of casualties. Washington on March 15 announced a military offensive ...