This Is Beirut 01/06 19:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A former commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards who is under US sanctions registered his candidacy on Saturday for next month's presidential election, state media reported. Like other hopefuls, Vahid Haghanian will have to wait to see if his candidacy is approved by the Guardian Council, a 12-strong body of jurists dominated by conservatives ...
This Is Beirut 01/06 17:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iranian authorities have arrested 35 people in a raid on a "satanist network gathering" in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, local media reported on Saturday. The raid took place after police had "identified the location" of the gathering, which featured "signs and symbols of satanism, alcohol, and drugs," the ISNA news agency said. Raids ...
This Is Beirut 01/06 11:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia fired a combined 100 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that targeted energy sites across the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Russia has launched hundreds of aerial attacks at Ukraine's power facilities throughout the two-year war, causing significant damage and energy shortages as Ukraine's stretched air ...
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 ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 20:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump lashed out in rambling, angry comments on Friday at his "sick" opponents and "fascists" after what he called a "very unfair" trial that made him the first former US president to become a convicted felon. The 77-year-old Republican, who is neck and neck with President Joe Biden in the 2024 White House race, confirmed he would ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 19:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four entities associated with OFAC-designated Rayan Roshd Afzar Company (RRA) that have supplied significant material for Iran’s UAV program. Additionally, OFAC has sanctioned an Iranian executive, Afshin Khajeh Fard, of the Iran Aviation Industries ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 15:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
G7 foreign ministers said on Friday that they were “gravely concerned” about deepening cooperation between Russia and North Korea, particularly arms transfers from Pyongyang to Moscow for use in attacking Ukraine. “We are gravely concerned by the deepening DPRK-Russia cooperation in flagrant violation of multiple United Nations Security ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 15:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
International reactions poured in on Friday after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business documents to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star, making him the first former US president to be convicted of a crime. On Friday, the Kremlin denounced the “elimination of political opponents” in the United States. “An ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 11:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States and China will resume military-to-military communications "in the coming months", US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday, as Beijing hailed the "stabilizing" security relations between the countries. Austin met with his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in the first ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 10:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Former Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Friday, submitted his candidacy for a presidential election set for next month following Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash, state media reported. The election was originally slated for 2025 but was brought forward following Raisi's death on May 19. The interior ministry on Thursday ...
This Is Beirut 31/05 09:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Houthis on Friday threatened to escalate attacks on Red Sea shipping after overnight strikes by the United States and Britain killed 16 people, according to Houthi media. The toll reported by the Houthis' Al-Masirah TV, which AFP could not independently verify, would constitute one of the deadliest strikes since the United States and Britain ...
This Is Beirut 30/05 20:41 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran is recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs, some of them children, as proxies to commit "acts of violence" against Israel and others in Sweden that Tehran considers a threat, Sweden's intelligence agency said Thursday. The announcement came two weeks after night-time gunfire was reported outside Israel's embassy in Stockholm, and three ...