Hamas Says Israeli Strike Kills Political Bureau Member

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 ...

Pope Expresses Gratitude in First Public Appearance Since February 14

This is Beirut 2025-03-23 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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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 ...

Istanbul mayor's lawyers vow to appeal court's arrest decision

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 ...

Paramilitary Shelling Kills 3 in Omdurman After Sudan Army Gains

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 ...

Op-edWhy America Should Keep Leading the Free World

Pierre Nahas 2025-03-23 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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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 ...

Israel Military Says it Intercepted Missile From Yemen

This is Beirut 2025-03-23 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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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 ...

Israel's Opposition Calls for General Strike

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 ...

Pope to Leave Hospital Sunday and Return to Vatican

This is Beirut 2025-03-22 19:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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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 ...

Turkey Braces for Fourth Night of Protest as Mayor Arrives in Court

This is Beirut 2025-03-22 19:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Huge crowds gathered outside Istanbul City Hall late Saturday for a fourth night of protests over the arrest of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who has blasted official allegations against him as "immoral and baseless". The demonstrations, which began in Istanbul on Wednesday, have since spread to more than 55 of Turkey's 81 provinces, ...

Israeli Border Town Mayor Urges Return to War after Rocket Fire

This is Beirut 2025-03-22 18:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The mayor of Israel's northern border town of Metula criticized the government Saturday after the area was targeted with rocket fire from Lebanon and called for a return to war. "We will not return to the reality of October 6th... and this is what the [Israeli military], the Northern Command, and the Israeli government are trying to normalize," ...

US Revokes Legal Status for 500,000 Immigrants

This is Beirut 2025-03-22 14:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The United States said Friday it was terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and curb immigration, mainly from Latin American nations. The order affects around 532,000 Cubans, ...

Witkoff: Normalization Between Israel and Lebanon Is Possible

This is Beirut 2025-03-22 12:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steven Witkoff, recently stated that the normalization of relations between Lebanon, Syria, and Israel is no longer a distant dream, but a real and tangible possibility. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff suggested that these countries could eventually establish formal diplomatic ties with Israel, a ...