This is Beirut, 06/04 15:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Volodymyr Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that Moscow is increasing its aerial bombardment after Russia mounted a "massive" missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing two people and wounding at least seven. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that "the number of Russian air attacks is increasing," which ...
This is Beirut, 06/04 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Music Culture Art Opera Russia
Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko — shunned on some world stages since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine — will appear at London's Royal Opera House later this year. Netrebko, 53, will star in a production of Puccini's Tosca from September 11, marking her return to Covent Garden after a six-year absence, the Royal Opera said on its ...
This is Beirut, 05/04 16:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Volodymyr Zelensky Russia Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the US embassy for what he called a "weak" statement that did not blame Russia for a missile strike on his hometown that killed 18 people, including nine children. In one of the deadliest strikes in recent weeks, a Russian missile on Friday evening struck a residential area near ...
This is Beirut, 05/04 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Russian ballistic missile strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rig killed 18 people on Friday, among them nine children, authorities said. The missile struck a residential area near a children's playground and wounded more than two dozen others, according to the head of the city's military ...
This is Beirut, 04/04 12:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. Discovered last year, the calf nicknamed Yana, for the river basin where she was found, is in a remarkable ...
This is Beirut, 04/04 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Russia Washington Donald Trump Vladimir Putin
The most senior Russian official to visit Washington since the start of the Ukraine war said Thursday he had discussed potential cooperation with the United States in the Arctic and on rare earth metals but acknowledged that "disagreements" remain. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and President Vladimir ...
This is Beirut, 04/04 04:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian drone strikes killed at least four people and injured more than 30 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, authorities said Friday. Russia and Ukraine have stepped up aerial attacks even as US President Donald Trump pushes them to agree to a ceasefire after more than three years of costly fighting. The attack late Thursday targeted ...
This is Beirut, 30/03 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Vladimir Putin United States Russia Iran
US President Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be bombed if it persists in developing nuclear weapons. "If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing," NBC News said the president told one of its correspondents in an interview late Saturday. It said he also threatened to punish Iran with what he called "secondary ...
This is Beirut, 26/03 22:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France Emmanuel Macron Russia Ukraine Military Aid
On Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron announced an additional €2 billion in military aid from France to Ukraine, accusing Russia of demonstrating a "willingness for war." On the eve of a summit he is organizing in Paris with nearly thirty countries ready to contribute, in various ways, to the "security guarantees" that Europeans wish to offer Kyiv in ...
This is Beirut, 26/03 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United States Marco Rubio Russia Ukraine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the United States will examine Russia's requested conditions for agreements with Ukraine but cautioned that a peace deal would take time. "It won't be simple. It'll take some time, but at least we're on that road and we're talking about these things," Rubio told a news conference in Jamaica. Russia ...
This is Beirut, 26/03 12:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Armenia's parliament passed a bill Wednesday launching Yerevan's bid for European Union membership, as the historically Russia-allied country drifts further away from Moscow's orbit. The landlocked Caucasus nation has grown increasingly close to the West, frustrated by what it says was Moscow's failure to protect it from arch-foe ...
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China remains the main threat to the United States globally, but of increasing concern is its closer cooperation with Russia, Iran, and North Korea, said an annual US intelligence report released Tuesday. China's rise in all areas of power has been identified for years by the US as its main threat, and was behind Barack Obama's strategic ...