This Is Beirut 16/06 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual of the hajj, the "stoning of the devil", in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of the three concrete walls symbolising the devil in the Mina ...
This Is Beirut 16/06 12:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The international community gathered in Switzerland Sunday for the first Ukraine Peace Summit. Dozens of countries meeting for a landmark international summit on peace in Ukraine agreed Sunday that Kyiv should enter dialogue with Russia on ending the war, while strongly supporting Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity. Leaders and top ...
This Is Beirut 16/06 12:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two prison guards at a jail in southern Russia have been freed without harm after they were taken hostage by Islamic State inmates, with the assailants "liquidated", the country's prison service said Sunday. "During a special operation... the criminals were liquidated and the employees taken hostage were freed and were not wounded," the service ...
This Is Beirut 16/06 09:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As the Sudanese civil war rages unabated, man-made devastation and the changing climate are exacerbating a dangerous water crisis. War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan to the shores of a water crisis. In the blistering sun, as temperatures climb past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), Issa's family -- along ...
Ali A. Hamadé 15/06 17:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In an unexpected turn of events, Kate Middleton, formally known as Catherine, Princess of Wales, has shared significant news about her cancer treatment, three months after beginning chemotherapy. Her Royal Highness stated, "I am making good progress, but as with anyone undergoing chemotherapy, there are highs and lows," noting that her ...
This Is Beirut 15/06 17:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran and Sweden announced on Saturday a prisoner exchange that saw a former Iranian official jailed in Sweden freed as Stockholm said Tehran had released a European Union diplomat and a second Swede. "Hamid Noury, who has been in illegal detention in Sweden since 2019, is free and will return to the country in a few hours," Kazem Gharibabadi, ...
This Is Beirut 15/06 14:27 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Former French president François Hollande announced on Saturday his candidacy for the legislative elections in Corrèze under the banner of the Nouveau Front Populaire, while a crisis has erupted within La France Insoumise (LFI) over nomination disputes. Former French President François Hollande is standing as a candidate for the legislative ...
This Is Beirut 15/06 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 1.5 million Muslims will pray on Mount Arafat in soaring temperatures on Saturday, in the high-point and most gruelling day of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Worshippers from all over the world will climb the rocky, 70-metre (230-feet) hill, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mecca, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have given his ...
This Is Beirut 14/06 15:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would only halt its offensive on Ukraine if Kyiv effectively surrenders by pulling its troops out of the east and south and dropping its bid for NATO membership. Ukraine, NATO and the United States immediately rejected Putin's hardline conditions to halt the full-scale military offensive ...
This Is Beirut 14/06 15:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Francis called on Friday for a ban on "lethal autonomous weapons," when he addressed the G7 leaders' summit in Italy on the perils of artificial intelligence. "In light of the tragedy that is armed conflict, it is urgent to reconsider the development and use of devices like the so-called 'lethal autonomous weapons' and ultimately ban their ...
This Is Beirut 14/06 15:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
At weddings, football matches and other special events, some Iraqi men like to fire salvos of celebratory gunfire into the sky, worrying little about where the bullets might fall. For some Iraqis, the tradition has been devastating, as have random bullets from sporadic gun battles in a society still awash with weapons after decades of war and ...
This Is Beirut 14/06 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than a million Muslim pilgrims were in Mecca Friday for the start of a hajj pilgrimage held against the grim backdrop of the Gaza war and in exhausting summer heat. Crowds of robed worshipers will circle the Kaaba, the black cubic structure at Mecca's Grand Mosque, with many expressing sadness eight months into the Israel-Hamas war. "Our ...