Middle East

Israel Lifts State of Emergency for Communities Neighbouring Gaza

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute

Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Gaza Israel Katz

Israel has lifted the state of emergency for areas near the border with Gaza for the first time since Hamas's October 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Monday. "I have decided to adopt the (Israeli military's) recommendation and to lift, for the first time since October 7, the special state on the home front," a statement ...

Trump Says He Won't Meet with Canada 'For a While,'

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Donald Trump United States Canada Economy

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would not meet with Canada "for a while," as Prime Minister Mark Carney offered an olive branch to resume trade talks. Trump announced he would be hiking tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 percent and terminated all trade talks following what he called a "fake" anti-tariff ad campaign ...

Families of Missing Israeli Hostages Demand Pause in Gaza Truce Plan

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Palestine Hamas Hostage

The families of Israeli hostages on Monday demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives. "Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages is held. Two weeks have passed since the deadline set in the agreement for the return of all 48 hostages, ...

VideosThe Catrina Parade: When Life Celebrates Death

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:45 - Reading : less than a minute

Mexico Death Life celebration

In Mexico, death is not an end but a continuation. The Catrina Parade turns the streets into a living poem, painted skulls, bright flowers, and smiles honoring those who came before. Here, memory becomes celebration, and life becomes a colorful tribute to eternity.

PKK Withdrawal Ended First Peace Process Phase

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Turkey PKK Conflict Kurds

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Monday hailed the withdrawal of PKK fighters from Turkish soil as a "critical" step that completed the first phase of Ankara's peace process with the Kurdish militants. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has pursued four decades of violence against the government, began withdrawing its forces on Sunday, ...

Asia Stocks Surge on US-China Trade Deal Breakthrough

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Asian equities surged Monday as investors cheered a breakthrough in US-China trade talks that set the stage for leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to finalize a deal, averting an escalation in the world's biggest trade dispute. Markets rallied after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the threat of the US president imposing an additional ...

AnalysisThe Demise of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Charles Chartouni 2025-10-27 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Hamas United States

What’s dumbfounding is the equivocation of Hamas and Hezbollah toward the projected normalization initiated by President Trump. Nothing is new, since their obstructionism stems from ideological and strategic considerations. Whatever mediations are attempted by the U.S. and its associates, the state of mind within both formations is not inclined ...

Top US, India Officials Discuss Ties as Trade Rift Drags on

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 08:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with India's foreign minister on Monday, as the two countries push trade talks and ease tensions over Washington's punishing tariffs. Few details were released, but Rubio's meeting with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is the highest-level contact since the United States imposed sanctions last week on Russian oil ...

Sudan's RSF Claims Control of Last Army Stronghold in Darfur

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 08:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Sudan Conflict El Fasher Massaad Boulos RSF Darfur

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had seized full control of El-Fasher, the last major city in the expansive Darfur region not in its hands, in a potential turning point in the country's unrelenting civil war. The announcement came just hours after it claimed to have captured the army's main base in the city, which it ...

US Navy Helicopter, Jet Crash Into South China Sea

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 05:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

United States Army Crash

Two US Navy aircraft crashed into the South China Sea in separate incidents on Sunday, officials said, with no fatalities reported. The first crash involved a MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, which "went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz," according to a ...

Venezuela Says Us Military Exercises on Nearby Island a ‘Provocation’

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 18:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Venezuela on Sunday blasted the arrival in nearby Trinidad and Tobago of a US warship as a dangerous "provocation," amid mounting fears of potential attacks against the Venezuelan mainland. The USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, docked Sunday in the Trinidadian capital Port of Spain for a four-day visit, which will include joint ...

Netanyahu Asserts Israeli Control Over Gaza Security as Egypt Joins Hostage Recovery Effort

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived. The Egyptian convoy, captured on camera by AFP reporters in Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip, included heavy ...