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Hamas Delegation Expected in Cairo to Discuss Gaza Truce Efforts

This is Beirut 12/08 17:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Hamas Egypt Gaza Israel truce negotiations

A senior Hamas delegation was due in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials on efforts by mediators to secure an elusive ceasefire in Gaza, two Palestinian sources told AFP on Tuesday. Together with Qatar and the United States, Egypt has been involved in mediation between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas that has failed to secure ...

Iraq Electricity Gradually Back after Nationwide Outage

This is Beirut 12/08 16:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Iraq Electricity Heatwave Climate Change

Electricity supply returned to all of Iraq's provinces on Tuesday, a government official told AFP, expecting the grid's full recovery within a day after a nationwide power outage. Electricity shortages are a frequent complaint in Iraq, which suffers from endemic corruption and dilapidated public infrastructure. Most households rely on private ...

VideosCholera Crisis Deepens in Sudan’s Displacement Camps

This is Beirut 12/08 16:40 - Reading : less than a minute

Sudan Cholera North Darfur

Overcrowded camps in North Darfur face a deadly cholera outbreak as violence uproots thousands and access to clean water and healthcare disappears.

Syria, Kurdish Officials Meet after Paris Talks Canned

This is Beirut 12/08 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Syria Kurds Syrian Democratic Forces Ahmad al-Sharaa

Syria's foreign minister and a senior official in the country's Kurdish administration have met in Damascus, sources from both sides told AFP on Tuesday, days after the government boycotted talks in France. Damascus had said it would not participate in the Paris talks after the Kurds hosted a meeting last week involving Syria's Druze and Alawite ...

VideosKabyle Region: Where the Ground Shines White with Salt

Rayan Chami 12/08 16:10 - Reading : less than a minute

Algeria Kabyle salt harvesting heritage

In Algeria’s Kabyle mountains, villagers keep a centuries-old salt harvesting tradition alive, passing their craft from one generation to the next.

Larijani’s Controversial Mission to Iraq and Lebanon

Soumia Benmerzoug 12/08 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Hezbollah Lebanon Iraq Iran Ali Larijani

Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has set off on a three-day visit to Iraq and Lebanon amid growing political and security challenges tied to the armed Shia militias in both countries. Appointed just last week to lead the Supreme Council, Larijani signed a security agreement with Baghdad on Monday. His ...

WHO Wants More Aid in Gaza Ahead of Israeli Occupation of the City

This is Beirut 12/08 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Benjamin Netanyahu Israel United Nations WHO Gaza Aid

The UN health agency on Tuesday said Israel should let it stock medical supplies to deal with a "catastrophic" health situation in Gaza before it seizes control of Gaza City. Israel has said its military would "take control" of Gaza City in a plan approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet that sparked a wave of global ...

ReportSudan Refugees Face Cholera Outbreak with Nothing But Lemons for Medicine

This is Beirut 12/08 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

United Nations Sudan Cholera

In the cholera-stricken refugee camps of western Sudan, every second is infected by fear. Faster than a person can boil water over an open flame, the flies descend and everything is contaminated once more. Cholera is ripping through the camps of Tawila in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been left with nothing but the water they ...

Russian Forces Pierce Ukraine Lines in Isolated Advance

This is Beirut 12/08 11:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Ukraine Russia Conflict

Russian forces have rapidly advanced in a narrow but important sector of the front line, the Ukrainian military and analysts said Tuesday, days ahead of a meeting between the Russian and US presidents. Moscow's army, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, has made costly but incremental gains across the sprawling front in recent months and claims to have ...

Trump Says Plans to Test Out Putin as Europe Engages Ukraine

This is Beirut 12/08 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Donald Trump Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky European Union Vladimir Putin

US President Donald Trump on Monday described his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin as a "feel-out meeting" to gauge his ideas for ending the war in Ukraine, as European leaders rushed to ensure respect for Kyiv's interests. Trump has invited his Russian counterpart to Alaska on Friday -- the first face-to-face meeting between the two ...

Two Dead, 10 Hospitalized in Pennsylvania Steel Plant Explosions

This is Beirut 12/08 09:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

United States USA Explosion Pennsylvania Steel

Two workers died and 10 were wounded Monday after blasts at a US Steel plant in the state of Pennsylvania, officials said. "Multiple explosions occurred today at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works," the state's Governor Josh Shapiro said in a post on X, naming a plant some 15 miles (25 kilometers) outside the city of Pittsburgh. "Injured employees ...

Op-edAssad Is Gone. The Syrian Problem Persists

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 12/08 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Lebanon Israel Syria Hezbollah Ahmad el Sharaa

Nine months after Bashar al-Assad's fall and Ahmad al-Sharaa's rise to power, the UN Security Council met to address Syria’s ongoing crisis. The Council urged Damascus to establish a government “of the Syrians, by the Syrians, for the Syrians.” Despite the change in leadership, the Security Council views Syria as a failing state. Damascus ...