This is Beirut 08/10 18:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran France Jean-Noel Barrot Lennart Monterlos
Iran has released a 19-year-old Franco-German national days after throwing out spying charges against him, the French foreign minister told AFP on Wednesday. "Lennart Monterlos is free," said Jean-Noel Barrot, with sources close to the case saying the young man would travel to France on Thursday. "We are relieved that our son will return to us," ...
This is Beirut 08/10 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Turkey Qatar Egypt
By backing the ongoing indirect negotiations in Egypt between Israel and Hamas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey is drawing on its long-standing ties with the Palestinian Islamist movement. Erdogan said Wednesday that he had been “explicitly” asked by Donald Trump to convince Hamas to engage in peace talks with Israel. The ...
Maroun Chahine 08/10 16:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Sunday, October 5, between 6,000 and 7,000 delegates cast votes at 62 polling stations across 11 governorates to elect Syria’s new legislative assembly. The People’s Assembly will have 210 seats, 119 of which have been filled so far, 40 fewer than under the Assad regime. Candidates must meet strict requirements, including age and ...
This is Beirut 08/10 15:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Gaza truce
Hamas said Wednesday that "optimism" was prevailing in indirect talks with Israel aimed at ending the Gaza war, with the militant group submitting a list of prisoners it wants released in exchange for freeing Israeli hostages under a deal. The talks aim to thrash out a plan to implement a 20-point peace proposal put forward last month by US ...
This is Beirut 08/10 14:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nobel prize Chemistry Susumu Kitagawa Richard Robson Omar Yaghi
Three scientists on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that can be used to capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from desert air, among other things. Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson, and American-Jordanian Omar Yaghi were honored for their groundbreaking discoveries ...
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 ...