Rayan Chami, 2024-02-24 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Two years ago, a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched. Despite international actions and territorial shifts, the conflict's resolution remains elusive, highlighting ongoing geopolitical complexities.
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-23 10:28 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukraine remained under Russian missile and drone attacks on Friday February 23, while Washington announced new sanctions against Moscow. The United States plans to impose sanctions on Friday on more than 500 targets involved in Russia's war in Ukraine, as Moscow claims fresh battlefield advances two years after its invasion. Ukraine, grappling ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-22 22:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The White House announced, on Thursday, that the United States will soon enact fresh sanctions against Iran due to its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The United States will soon impose new sanctions on Iran over its backing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Thursday. "In response to Iran's ongoing support for ...
Rami Rayess, 2024-02-21 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Even if the Russian-Ukrainian war has united Europe behind it, this does not mean that the old continent has overcome the many obstacles and issues that at times threaten to disintegrate and fragment it, contrary to what the early Europeans aspired to when they launched the unification project, which has made significant and historic ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-21 15:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The EU on Wednesday agreed to ban exports to three mainland Chinese firms and blacklist North Korea's defense minister in new sanctions for the second anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, officials said. The fresh round of measures -- the 13th since Russian President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion -- overall targets some two hundred ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-20 13:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia's FSB security services said on Tuesday it had arrested a US-Russian woman suspected of treason for raising funds for the Ukrainian army. The FSB in the central Urals city of Yekaterinburg said it had "suppressed the illegal activities" of a 33-year-old woman, a resident of Los Angeles with dual citizenship, and taken her into custody. It ...
2024-02-19 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The assassination of dissident leader Alexei Navalny is no fait divers. It brings us back to picture the nightmares of the deaths of the Gulag convicts, the “banality of evil” (Banalität des Bösen) and the steadfastness of the internal opposition to Vladimir Putin. It highlights the deep-seated fears of the cynical and bloody autocrat and ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-17 10:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three people, including a girl, were killed and four others injured after Ukraine shelled the Russian-occupied region of Donetsk on Saturday, a Moscow-installed local official said. Both Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of a sharp escalation in attacks targeting civilian areas over the past three months, amid intense fighting on the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-16 16:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine said on Friday that it was sending more reinforcements to the frontline city of Avdiivka, a main target for Moscow, ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. Facing a shortage of ammunition and being outnumbered on the battlefield, Ukraine may be forced to withdraw from the eastern town, which has become a symbol of ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-15 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that a delay in passing new US aid for Ukraine was already hurting Kyiv's forces on the battlefield against Russia. "We see the impact already of the fact that the US has not been able to make a decision, but I expect the US to be able to make a decision, that the Congress and the House of ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-13 20:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The US Senate approved a bill on Tuesday that would provide Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with a total amount of $95 billion in financial aid, amid claims of the importance of adopting an isolationist stance first and foremost. The US Senate on Tuesday approved long-delayed funding for Ukraine's war effort, part of a foreign aid package that ...
Ici Beyrouth, 2024-02-09 15:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
With Vladimir Putin claiming that Russia's defeat is"impossible," and the West being aware of this, the politically paralyzed US Congress finally agreed to consider legislation that would release billions of dollars for Ukraine. For his part, Volodymyr Zelensky appointed a new military chief and tasked him with producing a "realistic" battle plan ...