This is Beirut 14/05 10:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump Saudi Arabia Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa
Donald Trump became the first US president in 25 years to meet a Syrian leader on Wednesday after he offered sanctions relief in hopes of offering a new path to the war-battered country. Trump, in Riyadh on the first state visit of his second term, met with Ahmed al-Sharaa, an erstwhile Islamist guerrilla turned interim president after the ...
This is Beirut 14/05 09:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Gaza's civil defense agency said at least 29 people were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli strikes on the war-battered Palestinian territory on Wednesday. "At least 25 martyrs were killed and dozens wounded" in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, while another four people were killed in a strike on the southern city of Khan Yunis, agency spokesman ...
This is Beirut 14/05 09:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck south of the Greek island of Kasos on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The offshore quake hit at a depth of 74 kilometres (45 miles), about 23 kilometres from the island's capital of Fry around 1:50 am (22:50 GMT Tuesday). The USGS had ...
This is Beirut 14/05 08:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's army said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen Wednesday. "Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted," the Israeli army said in a statement. AFP correspondents in Jerusalem heard explosions, probably from the interception of the missile. It was the ...
This is Beirut 14/05 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Nations Gaza Israel Palestine
United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action "to prevent genocide" in Gaza, delivering a scathing account of Israel's actions in the Palestinian territory. Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, demanded that Israel lift its aid blockade on Gaza, where its ...
This is Beirut 13/05 23:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France Emmanuel Macron Russia Nuclear Weapons
France is "ready to open" a discussion on deploying French aircraft armed with nuclear bombs in other European countries, similar to the U.S. nuclear sharing arrangement, President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday on TF1. "I will define the framework officially in the coming weeks and months," Macron said, outlining three ...
This is Beirut 13/05 23:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel's military on Tuesday urged Palestinians residing in multiple areas of northern Gaza to evacuate "immediately" ahead of a planned attack after rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. "This is a final advance warning before the attack," the military's Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, said on X. ...
This is Beirut 13/05 22:35 - Reading : less than a minute
Yemen's Houthis said they attacked Israel's main airport on Friday, after the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said that the Iran-backed group targeted the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv "using a hypersonic ballistic missile," while also claiming a drone ...
This is Beirut 13/05 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Donald Trump Mohammed bin Salman United States Defense Artificial Intelligence
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday promised billions of dollars in deals with the United States, from defense to artificial intelligence, as it threw a lavish welcome for President Donald Trump on the first state visit of his second term. Trump returned the favor by lavishing praise on the kingdom's crown prince and moving on a key Saudi policy request ...
This is Beirut 13/05 21:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Saudi Arabia Iran Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would lift sanctions on Syria to offer it a chance for "greatness" after Bashar al-Assad's fall, as he cast himself as a peacemaker in the Middle East. On a state visit to Saudi Arabia primarily aimed at securing billions of dollars of investment, the billionaire president took aim at both ...
This is Beirut 13/05 21:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine Russia Vladimir Putin
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to help secure a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday, accusing the Russian leader of not seriously wanting to negotiate an end to the war. Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv that the West should impose massive sanctions if Putin skips ...
This is Beirut 13/05 20:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Ahmad al-Sharaa Saudi Arabia Syria
Donald Trump is set to meet the leader of Syria and the heads of the Gulf states Wednesday in Riyadh before travelling to Qatar where controversy is swirling over the gifting of a luxury aircraft. The US president was set to "say hello" to Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa during his last day in Riyadh, after vowing to remove sanctions against ...