This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:45 - Reading : less than a minute
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.
This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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, ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-27 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump Europe Stocks Markets Tariffs
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-27 05:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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 ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-26 18:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Venezuela United States Trinidad and Tobago
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 ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-26 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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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 ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-26 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Malaysia United States Rare earths
US President Donald Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim signed a trade agreement Sunday, boosting US access to critical minerals as China tightens controls on rare earths. Beijing this month announced sweeping restrictions on the rare earths industry, prompting Trump to threaten 100 percent tariffs on imports from China in ...
This is Beirut 2025-10-26 13:45 - Reading : less than a minute
The US president, Donald Trump, co-signed a historic ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand, following deadly clashes earlier this summer. After Kuala Lumpur, Donald Trump continues his tour of Asia. Next stop, Japan, then South Korea, where he hopes to conclude a trade agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday.
This is Beirut 2025-10-26 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui will visit Russia for a three-day trip from Sunday, the Russian foreign ministry said. Choe would be in Russia "on a working visit" from Sunday to Tuesday, it said in a statement. Russian ambassador Aleksandr Matsegora accompanied the minister to the airport, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said in a ...