This Is Beirut, 25/06 18:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States unveiled sweeping sanctions Tuesday against almost 50 individuals and companies it says were part of a "shadow banking" network that moved billions of dollars for Iran's military. The sanctions target a network of Iranian exchange houses and foreign firms that enabled Iran's defense ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
Chelsea Al Arif, 25/06 12:13 - Reading : less than a minute
Crimes Time Travel United States
Travel back in time to 1910. What happened in the United States of America on June 25, 1910? Join us weekly on Time Travel as we explore historical events under a different theme every month. This June, we’re exploring crimes!
This Is Beirut, 25/06 10:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed on US soil on Wednesday to face a final court hearing under a plea deal expected to end years of legal drama and allow him to return to his native Australia as a free man. AFP reporters saw a private jet carrying the 52-year-old touch down in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Pacific US territory ...
This Is Beirut, 12/06 20:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United States announced a raft of sanctions on Wednesday aimed at constraining Moscow's war in Ukraine while raising the stakes for foreign banks that still deal with Russia, ahead of G7 leaders' talks this week. The Treasury Department and State Department's sanctions hit more than 300 targets, including entities in Russia and in countries ...
This Is Beirut, 11/06 19:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting United States president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the counts facing him, CNN and other US media reported. Hunter Biden was accused of lying about his illegal drug ...
This Is Beirut, 10/06 22:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Yemen's Houthis on Monday said they had arrested a "spy network" operating under the cover of humanitarian organizations, after aid workers, including 11 UN staff, were held last week. The Iran-backed group claimed the network was linked to the CIA and had been carrying out "espionage" activities in Yemen for years, initially through the United ...
This Is Beirut, 07/06 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West on Friday to do more to achieve a fair peace as Ukraine battles the Russian invasion, telling US leader Joe Biden that Kyiv is counting on “shoulder-to-shoulder” support. One day after Western leaders went to northern France to mark the 80-year anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II, ...
This Is Beirut, 06/06 22:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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United States President Joe Biden warned, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, that democracy around the world was at risk, as leaders marked the 1944 landings in occupied France that helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Biden, Britain's King Charles III, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron ...
This Is Beirut, 05/06 23:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticized the West's delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine, arguing Moscow could arm other countries with similar weapons to attack Western targets. The comment -- which Putin made at a rare press conference with foreign news outlets -- came after several Western countries including the United ...
This Is Beirut, 03/06 20:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views a plan outlined by US President Joe Biden for a truce in Gaza and hostage release deal as “partial,” a government spokesman said on Monday. Biden presented on Friday what he labelled an Israeli three-phase plan that would eventually end the fighting, free all hostages held by Palestinian ...
This Is Beirut, 03/06 20:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland, the White House said on Monday, after President Joe Biden was reportedly set to skip it for an election fundraiser hosted by George Clooney. Harris, who will be joined by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan for the June 15 meeting in Lucerne, will “underscore ...
This Is Beirut, 31/05 23:11 - Reading : less than a minute
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday hailed the United States' decision to allow Kyiv to use American-supplied weapons to strike in Russia, with some restrictions. "This is a step forward toward [the] goal ... of making it possible to defend our people who live in the villages on the border," Zelensky told reporters in Stockholm where ...