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Stay Tuned for Live Updates: Who Will Be the Next US President?

Join us on This is Beirut tomorrow morning, Wednesday, November 6, for special coverage of the American presidential election results! Our correspondents, Tylia Helou and Rémi Amalvy, will provide live updates from Washington, DC. Don't miss this special edition from our studios in Beirut, featuring insightful reports and live segments. Stay ...

Inside the Vote Count: 2024 US Election Methods Explained

In 2024, US voters have multiple ways to participate, each with its own distinct counting process: Early In-Person Voting Many Americans prefer to vote early at polling locations. Early voting is meant to reduce lines and help those with scheduling conflicts on Election Day. These ballots are usually processed ahead of time, meaning they’re ...

Qataris Vote in Referendum on Scrapping Legislative Elections

Qataris went to the polls on Tuesday in a referendum on ending a brief and limited experiment with legislative elections in the wealthy emirate. Voters among the gas-rich peninsula's roughly 380,000 Qatari nationals cast their ballots on constitutional changes that would scrap the legislative council polls. In 2021, a year before Qatar held the ...

Israel… War Until April

Israel has not yet achieved the military objectives required to enter negotiations. Consequently, it is expected to press on with efforts to dismantle Hezbollah’s military and organizational structure, employing a scorched-earth strategy to create a 3-to-6-kilometer deep uninhabitable zone. According to Western diplomatic sources, after securing ...

Asian Markets Rise Ahead of US Election

Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday, a day before results from the US presidential election rolled in, with opinion polls showing a knife-edge vote, while Chinese equities were boosted by hopes over the country's economy. Uncertainty about the outcome and worries that the winner might not be known for days has led to warnings that investors could ...

New Hampshire Hamlet Tied in Election Vote

Voters in the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day in the first minutes of Tuesday with a tied vote, mirroring the incredibly close national polls in the White House race. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump each got three ballots in the tiny community in the northeastern state of New Hampshire which for decades has kicked off Election ...

America Votes for Either Trump or Harris

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump made their final case Monday in the hours before Election Day, when voters will either choose America's first woman president or hand the Republican an unprecedented comeback likely to rattle the world. With polls showing a dead heat, Trump promised to lead the United States to "new heights of glory" ...

Mikati Urges UNSC Permanent Members to Press Israel to End Aggression

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a series of diplomatic meetings on Monday “to support the Lebanese position to put an end to the Israeli aggression.” Mikati reiterated calls for putting pressure on Israel “to stop its aggression, opening the way for discussion on how to implement, to the letter, the provisions of resolution 1701 ...

Who Will Be the New US President?

Join us on This is Beirut on Tuesday, November 5, for a special day of coverage of the US presidential election! Our correspondents Tylia Helou and Rémi Amalvy will provide live updates directly from Washington, DC. Don’t miss our special morning edition on Wednesday, November 6, to follow up on the results from our studios in Beirut, with ...