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Two Dead, 10 Hospitalized in Pennsylvania Steel Plant Explosions

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

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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)

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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 ...

UN, Media Groups Condemn Israel’s Deadly Strike on Al Jazeera Team in Gaza

This is Beirut 12/08 05:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Condemnations poured in from the United Nations, the EU and media rights groups Monday after an Israeli strike killed an Al Jazeera news team in Gaza, as Palestinians mourned the journalists and Israel accused one of them of being a Hamas militant. Dozens of Gazans stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City ...

Trump Signs Order Extending China Tariff Truce by 90 Days

This is Beirut 11/08 22:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump reportedly signed an order delaying the reimposition of higher tariffs on Chinese goods on Monday, hours before a trade truce between Washington and Beijing was due to expire. The halt on steeper tariffs will be in place for another 90 days, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC reported, citing Trump administration ...

Child Dies in Italy as European Heatwave Sets Records and Sparks Wildfires

This is Beirut 11/08 21:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain and French cities saw record temperatures, as a heatwave baked Europe on Monday. The four-year-old Romanian boy died days after being found unconscious in the family's car in Sardinia. The boy was airlifted to a Rome hospital but died of irreversible brain ...

Trump Says Gold Will Not Face Tariffs after Customs Confusion

This is Beirut 11/08 21:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump said Monday that gold imports will not face additional tariffs, days after confusion flared on whether recent hikes applied to certain gold bars, threatening to upend global trade of the precious metal. Trump's comments came after US customs authorities made public a letter saying that gold bars at two standard weights, ...

Larijani Starts Iraq and Lebanon Tour Amid High Tensions over Hezbollah's Disarmament

This is Beirut 11/08 20:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's top security body, met with senior officials in Iraq on Monday, ahead of a visit to Lebanon, where the government plans to disarm Tehran-backed group Hezbollah. Tehran has suffered a series of blows in its long-running rivalry with Israel, including during 12 days of open war between the two countries in ...

Syria Vows Accountability After Video of Sweida Hospital Killing

This is Beirut 11/08 19:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria said Monday it would hold accountable those responsible for the apparent killing of an unarmed man at a hospital during violence last month in Druze-majority Sweida province, after a purported video of the incident emerged. "We condemn and denounce this act in the strongest terms and affirm that the perpetrators will be held accountable and ...

Iraq Announces Nationwide Power Outage amid 'Record' Heat

This is Beirut 11/08 19:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Power was out on Monday across Iraq as scorching summer temperatures pushed demand on the electricity grid to unprecedented levels, authorities said. The electricity ministry said the grid suffered a "total outage" as heat reached 48-50°C in Baghdad and central and southern regions. It said two transmission lines were shut down "due to a record ...

Merz Plans Ukraine Talks Wednesday with Trump, Zelensky, European leaders

This is Beirut 11/08 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to hold talks with the US and Ukrainian presidents and European leaders on Wednesday, two days ahead of a US-Russia summit in Alaska, his office said. Merz's office said Monday he would discuss the Ukraine war with leaders from "Finland, France, the UK, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, the heads of the European ...

Trump Deploys National Guard to Tackle Washington Crime

This is Beirut 11/08 19:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Donald Trump on Monday deployed military and federal law enforcement to curb violent crime in Washington, as he seeks to make good on his campaign pledge to be a "law and order" president. The Republican leader said he would place the city's Metropolitan Police under federal government control while also sending the National Guard ...

Norway Sovereign Fund Drops Investments in 11 Israeli Companies

This is Beirut 11/08 18:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Norway's sovereign wealth fund said Monday that it was selling its investments in 11 Israeli companies following reports it had invested in an Israeli jet engine maker even as the war in Gaza raged. Nicolai Tangen, chief of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the fund, said the decision was taken "in response to ...