This is Beirut 25/09 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine UN Mahmud Abbas
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday rejected any future role for Hamas and condemned antisemitism, as he appealed for full global support for a state in the face of Israeli annexation threats. Days after France led a special summit and several Western powers recognized a state of Palestine, the veteran 89-year-old leader was forced to ...
This is Beirut 25/09 17:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that an attack on Thursday by Islamic State group militants in Syria's east killed five of its members. IS jihadists, once in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the SDF with support from an international ...
This is Beirut 25/09 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine United Nations Gaza Hamas
The Israeli military said Thursday that 700,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza City to the south since late August, as it presses an air and ground assault on the urban center. When asked by AFP, the military said that "700,000 Palestinians have evacuated" from Gaza City to the south of the Gaza Strip. The UN's humanitarian agency, OCHA, on ...
This is Beirut 25/09 14:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sudan Rapid Support Forces Darfur
The war in Sudan has reached a critical phase that threatens to permanently fracture a country already devastated by displacement, famine, and disease. What began more than two years ago as a power struggle between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has escalated into a brutal fight for territorial control, with the ...
This is Beirut 25/09 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States White House Donald Trump government shutdown
The White House has told US federal agencies to prepare for more mass firings during a possible government shutdown next week, according to a memo first published by US news outlet Politico. The memo by the Office of Management and Budget indicated that President Donald Trump's administration would go beyond the usual practice of temporary ...
This is Beirut 25/09 12:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
HighAtlas Morocco Mountain Traditions Whistle
In Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a century-old language, now jeopardized by rural flight. "The whistle language is our telephone," joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the tradition in Imzerri, a hamlet in the ...
This is Beirut 25/09 11:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kim Jong Un North Korea South Korea Nuclear
North Korea is believed to possess up to two tonnes of highly enriched uranium, South Korea's unification minister said Thursday. The North has long been known to hold a "significant" amount of highly enriched uranium, the key material used to produce nuclear warheads, according to South Korea's defense ministry. But in a rare public ...
This is Beirut 25/09 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine United Nations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced leaders who had recognized a Palestinian state, as he headed to the United States on Thursday for White House talks and an address to the UN General Assembly. His remarks came three days after France led a special summit on the sidelines of the General Assembly, which saw a slew of Western ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 25/09 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Colostrum Milk Baby Feeding Newborns
Colostrum, a word that carries a trace of mystery, evokes a long-forgotten legacy. It is the very first maternal milk, secreted in the days immediately following birth, before mature milk takes over. Produced in small quantities, this golden fluid is rich in antibodies, enzymes, growth factors, and essential nutrients. Despite its biological ...
This is Beirut 25/09 10:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth more than $600 million from a fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, French authorities said on Thursday. The seizure by two navy ships on Monday followed a tip-off by anti-drug and maritime intelligence authorities and British police, authorities in France's northwestern Atlantic ...
This is Beirut 25/09 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Drones flew over multiple airports across Denmark and caused one of them to close for hours, police said Thursday after a similar incident this week prompted Copenhagen airport to shut. The latest incidents in Danish skies follow similar events in Poland and Romania and the violation by Russian fighter jets of Estonia's airspace, which have ...
Salam El Zaatari 25/09 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
When Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday, his words reignited an old debate: Is the United Nations an effective institution for peace and security, or merely a costly theater where leaders posture? Trump called the UN “obsolete,” echoing his long-standing skepticism about multilateral organizations. But behind the bluster ...