This is Beirut 08/10 14:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey Kurds Recep Tayyip Erdogan Syria
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Syrian Kurds to "complete their integration" with Syria's new government after the announcement of a comprehensive ceasefire, in a transcript shared by his office Wednesday. "The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) must keep their word. They must complete their integration with Syria," Erdogan told Turkish ...
This is Beirut 08/10 14:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Ben Gvir Al-Aqsa Jerusalem
Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, visited the Al-Aqsa compound on Wednesday, his spokesperson told AFP, as indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas were being held in Egypt on ending the Gaza war. The visit is Ben Gvir's eleventh as minister to the disputed area, located in occupied East Jerusalem, which ...
This is Beirut 08/10 13:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Donald Trump Ukraine Russia Vladimir Putin War
Russia said Wednesday that momentum towards reaching a peace deal in Ukraine following Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's presidential summit in Alaska had largely "gone". The two leaders met at an air base in the Alaskan city of Anchorage in August, but failed to reach any kind of agreement on ending the three-and-a-half year war. Diplomatic ...
This is Beirut 08/10 11:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Palestine Hamas Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Peace deal
US President Donald Trump asked Turkey to "persuade" Hamas to accept his plan for ending the Gaza war, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a transcript shared by his office Wednesday. His remarks came as negotiators from Israel and Hamas were due to hold a third day of indirect negotiations in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh aimed ...
This is Beirut 08/10 11:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam European Union Middle East Iran Nuclear
Iran summoned envoys from European Union member states to protest the bloc's "interventionist" statements on contested islands in the Strait of Hormuz as well as the Islamic republic's nuclear program, local media reported Wednesday. Iran considers the islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa, all near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 08/10 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
ChatGPT AI Artificial Intelligence Science World Hallucinate
Like other generative models, ChatGPT revolutionized our relationship with information while continuing to deliver confident factual errors. OpenAI, the company behind the famous chatbot, published a new study that doesn’t dispel doubts but instead reveals how deeply the problem is rooted in the system’s design. These so-called hallucinations ...
This is Beirut 08/10 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Sébastien Lecornu France Prime Minister
The clock ticked down Wednesday for France's President Emmanuel Macron to find an exit from his worst domestic crisis, after his first prime minister and one-time ally urged him to resign. Macron, who has been in power since 2017, has failed to lift the country out of political deadlock after snap elections last year ended in a hung parliament ...
This is Beirut 08/10 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine is intensifying strikes on Russian refineries and oil infrastructure, with more than 30 attacks since early August, aimed at weakening Moscow's ability to finance war against its neighbor. Current Consequence? Russia is the world's third-largest producer and second-biggest exporter of crude oil. Oil and gas revenues represented about 30 ...
This is Beirut 08/10 08:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine Turkey USA Qatar Egypt
Qatar's prime minister and senior delegates from the United States and Turkey will join Hamas and Israeli negotiators on Wednesday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the Gaza war. Israel and Hamas are holding indirect negotiations in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, based on a 20-point plan proposed by US President Donald Trump ...
This is Beirut 08/10 08:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gold Economy World Ounce Record
Gold's relentless rise reached another milestone on Wednesday as the precious metal hit $4,002.95 an ounce for the first time. "Investors continue to bid up the price of gold, with the precious metal rising more than 50 percent year to date and nearly 12 percent in September alone – one of the strongest monthly performances on record," said ...
This is Beirut 08/10 05:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Canada Diplomacy
President Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney would be "very happy" after their trade talks at the White House Tuesday, but offered no immediate concessions on lifting steep US tariffs. Striking a friendly tone in the Oval Office, Trump praised Carney as a "world-class leader" adding that the former central ...
This is Beirut 07/10 22:43 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump United States Gaza Hamas
US President Donald Trump voiced optimism that there was a "real chance" to end the war in Gaza, as Israel marked the second anniversary of the October 7 attack on Tuesday. In his message marking the anniversary, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to achieve all the goals of the war. "We are in fateful, decisive days. ...