The Diplomatic Security Service is being targeted for firings. Why that matters: Analysis
The Diplomatic Security Service has not been exempted, as have other agencies, from the administration's downsizing plans.
A Displaced Father Was Desperate to Return Home. He Never Made It.
Thousands uprooted by the war in Lebanon have been unable to reach southern towns occupied by Israel, but some have tried anyway. For one man, the journey was deadly.
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Israeli forces will remain in 5 locations in Lebanon after Tuesday’s pullout deadline, official says
Lebanon’s government has opposed any further delay in the Israeli pullout under the ceasefire agreement that ended fighting with the Hezbollah militant group.
Woman killed as Israeli forces fire on returnees to southern Lebanon ahead of ceasefire deadline
Lebanese media say a woman has been killed and several people wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a group of ...
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USAID Shutdown: What it means for Lebanon
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent federal government agency primarily ...
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After over 30 years of ties, Israel opens its first embassy in Moldova
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Tuesday opened Israel’s first embassy in Moldova, over 30 years after the two countries established diplomatic relations, the Foreign Ministry said.
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Emirates resumes flights to Beirut and Baghdad on Saturday
The UAE last week announced that its embassy in Lebanon's capital Beirut had officially resumed diplomatic activities ... 50m-wide iron meteor crashes in Arizona with the violence of 10 megatonne ...
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Iran is funding Hezbollah via suitcases stuffed with sash, Israel warns
According to the Israeli complaints, Iranian envoys have been flying from Tehran to Beirut’s international ... Behnam Khosravi, a diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon, told Iranian state ...
The Financial Times19d
Beirut has suffered endless catastrophes — its art galleries offer a glimmer of hope
Beirut has suffered endless catastrophes — its art galleries offer a glimmer of hope on facebook (opens in a new window) Beirut has suffered endless catastrophes — its art galleries offer a ...
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Israel kills two in Lebanon-Syria border bombings, as Egypt FM arrives in Beirut
That agreement has been extended to 18 February, after Israel refused to withdraw from parts of southern Lebanon it still occupies by the initial 26 January deadline, claiming Beirut was not ...
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The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
The Soviet news agency Tass responded, laughably blaming the blast on large-scale construction work, while reminding everyone that Soviet foreign minister Molotov had announced in 1947 that the USSR ...
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Jordan chairs meeting on unified Arab water strategy in Beirut
A view of the King Talal Dam in Jerash, some 50km north of Amman (File photo) AMMAN — Secretary-General of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation Hisham Heisa, during a recent meeting in Beirut, chaired ...