Rayan Chami 26/06 19:15 - Reading : less than a minute
United Nations 80th Anniversary
As the UN marks its 80th anniversary, it seems increasingly powerless in a world shaped by shifting power and growing global challenges.
This is Beirut 26/06 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kenya's under-fire government on Thursday condemned protests across the country during which at least 16 people were killed and thousands of businesses ruined as "terrorism disguised as dissent". The marches on Wednesday were called to mark the one-year anniversary of anti-tax demonstrations that peaked when a huge crowd stormed parliament and ...
This is Beirut 26/06 18:24 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused US President Donald Trump on Thursday of exaggerating the impact of US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, in his first appearance since a ceasefire in the war with Israel took hold. In a televised speech, Khamenei hailed what he described as Iran's "victory" over Israel, vowed never to ...
This is Beirut 26/06 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Washington Donald Trump Israel Iran
President Donald Trump said Thursday that Iran was not able to evacuate nuclear materials from a deep underground site bombed by long-range US planes last week. "Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!" Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform, referring to the ...
This is Beirut 26/06 16:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel Justice Corruption Netanyahu Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump weighed in on ally Benjamin Netanyahu's long-running corruption trial Wednesday, urging for Israel's "Great War Time Prime Minister" to be exonerated after the conflict with Iran. "Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me," Trump wrote in a long post on his ...
This is Beirut 26/06 16:35 - Reading : less than a minute
The global matcha craze is putting serious pressure on Japanese producers. In Los Angeles, some matcha bars are nearly out of stock. Now, Japan faces the challenge of meeting demand while preserving tradition.
This is Beirut 26/06 16:05 - Reading : less than a minute
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli forces killed 56 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on Thursday, updating a previous toll of 35. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 56 people were killed by Israeli fire across Gaza, including six who were waiting for aid in two separate locations. AFP
This is Beirut 26/06 15:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday spoke out against Moscow's key ally Iran suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after Iranian lawmakers voted in favor of halting work with the UN nuclear agency. "We are interested in continuing cooperation between Iran and the IAEA, so that everybody respects ...
This is Beirut 26/06 15:05 - Reading : less than a minute
Syria Tal Mardikh Abdel Aziz al-Mohammad
Syrian architect Abdel Aziz al-Mohammad returns to his war-ravaged hometown, Tal Mardikh, using drone footage to chart a path toward reconstruction.
This is Beirut 26/06 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Armenia politics arrest Bagrat Galstanyan Nikol Pashinyan
An Armenian court on Thursday sent an influential cleric into a two-month pre-trial detention on coup attempt charges, a day after authorities claimed to foil a plot to overthrow the government. Authorities on Wednesday arrested Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, a charismatic senior church figure opposing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, along with ...
This is Beirut 26/06 12:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to hold a news conference on Thursday to offer a fresh assessment of strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, following a stinging row over how much American bombardment set back Tehran's nuclear program. After waves of Israeli attacks on nuclear and military sites and retaliatory missile fire from Iran since ...
Salam El Zaatari 26/06 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Iran Israel United States China
On the morning of June 22, 2025, the world woke up to the smoldering ruins of Iran’s most fortified nuclear facilities – Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. The strikes, led by Israel and backed silently but unmistakably by the United States, were not a surprise to those watching closely. This wasn’t a spontaneous act of self-defense. It was the ...