par This Is Beirut, 19/02 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
With 150 days to go until the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Games' organizing committee, is launching "La Course du Relais" in 133 countries around the world. The global event will take place over 24 hours, starting at 9:00 AM local time in each country. Among the emblematic ...
par Roudi Abou Nader, 01/03 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hervé Magro Land of Games Olympic Games paris Relay Race
On Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Olympic Organizing Committee organized a "Relay Race" in the courtyard of the Palais des Pins in Beirut under the slogan "Land of Games," in collaboration with the Sports Academy. With 150 days to go before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris next summer, the organizers decided to stage a ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/03 11:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza Humanitarian Aid Israel paris Stéphane Séjourné This is Beirut
In an interview with the French daily Le Monde published on Saturday, France's Foreign Minister, Stéphane Séjourné, blames the Israeli authorities for blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and for "unjustifiable" situations. "Responsibility for the blockage of aid is clearly Israeli", stresses Stéphane Séjourné, noting that the catastrophic ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/03 13:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Women's Rights Abortion France paris Parliament This is Beirut
France became the first country to explicitly enshrine abortion in its Constitution on Monday March 4, marking a clear step forward at a time when this right is under threat around the world. The French parliament on Monday voted to anchor the right to abortion in the constitution, making France the first country in the world to offer explicit ...
par Hala Abdallah, 23/03 18:37 - Reading : less than a minute
The Enhanced Games Qualifiers for doping athletes are scheduled to take place on the day the Paris Olympics close. While some are warning of serious health risks, potentially leading to deaths, its founder Aron D'Souza claims that it's "safer than the Olympics."
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 14:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The sacred flame of the Paris 2024 Olympics was lit on Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Games, in a ceremony inspired by antiquity and marked by messages of hope amid multiple global crises. "In ancient times, the Olympic Games brought together the Greek city states, even – and in particular – during times of war ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/04 16:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Explosive France Iran Iranian Consulate paris This is Beirut
French authorities Friday detained a man suspected of entering the Iranian consulate in Paris and claiming to be carrying explosives, police, and prosecutors said. No explosives or arms were found on the man or the premises after he surrendered to police after the incident. Police arrested the suspect, born in 1963 in Iran, when he exited of his ...
par Abbass Attara, 02/05 11:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Champions League football paris
In this first round of semi-finals, the tension on the pitch is palpable. Real Madrid welcome Bayern Munich to the Santiago Bernabeu, while Paris struggle to find their feet in Dortmund. A Face-Off Between Titans The meeting between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid is a spectacle of twists and turns. Despite the Bavarians' initial dominance in the ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/05 15:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza Hamas Israel Palestine paris war
Police entered Paris' Sciences Po university on Friday to remove dozens of students staging a pro-Gaza sit-in in the entrance hall, AFP journalists saw, as protests fire political debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One student told reporters "around 50 students were still inside the rue Saint-Guillaume site" when police ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 23:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
2024 Paris Games Olympic Flame paris
The Olympic flame arrived on French soil on Wednesday, on board a 19th century ship. It was greeted at the port of Marseille by 150,000 spectators, in a ceremony that posed a first major test for organisers ahead of the 2024 Paris Games. Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Florent Manaudou carried the torch from the deck of the Belem, a ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/06 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jamal Valizadeh, a refugee wrestler, overcame hardship to reach the Paris Olympics with the Refugee Olympic Team, driven by a decade-long dream of winning a medal. Sixteen hours of barely paid daily work in Turkey, swimming part of the Mediterranean, and ten years after all that ordeal, the Paris Olympics: for refugee wrestler Jamal Valizadeh, a ...
par Makram Haddad, 11/06 14:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Olympics Paralympic Paralympic Games paris
In a few weeks, Paris will host the Paralympic Games, which are set to kick off on August 28, just 17 days after the “great celebration of sport,” the Summer Olympics. Although we are far from the early days of the first edition of these Games in Rome in 1960, there is still a long way to go to achieve full recognition of these Games and their ...
