par Jad Ramadan, 25/05 16:44 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Europe football Premier League
As this series comes to a close, there are still two uncovered teams in Europe that have defied the odds throughout the season, making a name for themselves on the biggest stage. These underdogs are none other than England’s Aston Villa and Italy’s Bologna, who have both offered their fans a season to remember. While Aston Villa gradually ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/05 22:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dresden Emmanuel Macron Europe France Germany Right-wing
Europe needs to "wake up" to authoritarian trends among far-right parties and governments, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, ahead of key European Union elections. "Everywhere in our democracies these ideas thrive, pushed by the extremes and, in particular, the far right," Macron said in a speech in the eastern city of Dresden, ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/06 17:28 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Britain, France, and Germany late on Monday submitted a resolution to the UN nuclear watchdog's board, censuring Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency despite US opposition, two diplomats said. It was the latest of numerous diplomatic maneuvers by Western powers who fear Iran might be seeking to develop a nuclear weapon -- a claim the ...
par This Is Beirut, 17/06 16:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Europe Italy Mediterranean migrant boat migrants shipwrecks
Eleven migrants have died and dozens of others are feared missing after two shipwrecks off Italy, a migrant rescue charity and the coastguard said Monday. Rescuers coming to the aid of migrants on a wooden boat off Lampedusa found 11 bodies below deck, the German aid group ResQship posted on X. The crew aboard ResQship's vessel, the Nadir, "is ...
par This Is Beirut, 17/06 23:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Emmanuel Emmanuel Macron Europe European Union European Union Elections Giorgia Meloni
European Union leaders huddled in Brussels on Monday to thrash out how to divide up the bloc's top jobs, with early signals putting Ursula von der Leyen on track for a second term as chief of the powerful European Commission. Far-right gains in EU-wide elections in early June, which triggered snap polls and political upheaval in France, appear to ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/06 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
diplomacy Europe France Mark Rutte NATO Poutine Trump Ukraine
NATO's 32 nations appointed, on Wednesday, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the alliance's next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will hand over to Rutte on October 1. Major powers, led by the US, completed his nomination in ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/07 19:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Marine Le Pen's party on Monday teamed up with the camp of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to launch a new far-right camp in the European Union parliament, a day after being dealt a surprise defeat in French elections. Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's 28-year-old lieutenant and chief of her National Rally (RN) party, will take the reins of the ...
par This Is Beirut, 13/07 17:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dmitry Peskov Europe Kremlin missiles Russia USA
The Kremlin on Saturday warned that the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles in a repeat of Cold War-style confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke of a "paradox" in which "Europe is a target for our missiles, our country is a target for US missiles in Europe". "We have enough ...
par Marc Saikali, 05/09 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
This war is going to end badly. It stands as the worst bloodbath in Europe since World War II—a senseless, pointless conflict. Here, two similar peoples, Slavic and mostly Orthodox, are engaged in mutual destruction with chilling indifference. Both Ukraine and Russia were already facing demographic crises before the conflict began. Since ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/09 12:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Europe Pope Francis The Vatican
Pope Francis is to pay a rare visit to Luxembourg before heading to Brussels, a trip to "the heart of Europe" that he will use to discuss the continent's role in the world. Recovering from a mild flu after a grueling Asia-Pacific trip, the 87-year-old pontiff took off from Rome aboard the papal plane and was due to land at Luxembourg Airport at ...
