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Social media platforms owned by Meta namely Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp have experienced a series of global outages Wednesday evening, acknowledged the company through one of its spokespersons. The website Downdetector, which tracks social media interruption issues through user reports, notably recorded a surge in reports around ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 11:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the successful launch of a new hypersonic missile, showcasing the country's advancements in missile technology and raising concerns among analysts about heightened security threats in the region. North Korea's Kim Jong-un oversaw the launch of a new medium-to-long range solid-fuel hypersonic missile, state ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 10:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan on Wednesday and resulted in at least seven fatalities, nearly 60 injuries, extensive building damage and regional tsunami warnings, prompting response efforts and interruptions in various industries. At least seven people were killed and more than 700 injured on Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan ...
This Is Beirut 02/04 21:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping engaged in discussions on Tuesday as part of a renewed effort to manage tensions between the United States and China, according to officials. Top US officials are expected to travel to Beijing soon as part of these efforts. President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping spoke Tuesday in a new bid to manage tensions between ...
This Is Beirut 02/04 18:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Bassirou Diomaye Faye took office as the youngest president in Senegal on Tuesday. He pledged to enact systemic reforms, strengthen sovereignty and bring back peace after years of turbulent unrest. Senegal's left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in on Tuesday as the country's youngest president, pledging systemic change, ...
This Is Beirut 02/04 12:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's President Ebrahim Raissi condemned on Tuesday a deadly air strike blamed on Israel against his country's consular annex in Damascus, saying the "cowardly crime will not go unanswered." "After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its ...
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Will Iran retaliate for the Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus, which resulted in the deaths of several Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials, most notably Mohammad Reza Zahedi? This strike has highlighted the absence of diplomatic or political red lines against Israeli attacks. It indicates that all military moves and operations ...
This Is Beirut 01/04 18:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A car bomb in Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine's eastern Lugansk region killed a Moscow-appointed government official on Monday, local authorities said. The local branch of Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said the deputy head of a state-run administrative agency was killed when "an unidentified device detonated ...
This Is Beirut 31/03 20:18 - Reading : less than a minute
According to early partial results, Turkey's opposition appears to be ahead for now in the key cities of Istanbul and Ankara, state media said on Sunday. With 20 percent of the votes counted, the current mayor of Istanbul was leading with 49.6 percent of the vote, compared with 41.6 percent of his main rival, who was backed by President Recep ...
This Is Beirut 31/03 15:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Francis urged the world to resist "the logic of weapons" in his Easter message at the Vatican on Sunday, easing growing health fears as he greeted thousands of Catholics. The 87-year-old's "Urbi et Orbi" (To the City and the World) blessing came after he led Easter Mass in front of 60,000 worshippers at Saint Peter's Square while appearing ...
This Is Beirut 31/03 10:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkish voters headed to the polls on Sunday in municipal elections, with all eyes on Istanbul, the national "jewel" that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to pry away from the opposition. As soon as he clinched re-election as president last May -- he has been head of state since 2014 -- Erdogan launched the campaign to reclaim the city of 16 ...
This Is Beirut 30/03 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Argentine government has suspended plans to transfer its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as reported by Argentine and Israeli media. However, it has decided on the immediate appointment of a new ambassador, Axel Wahnish, after days of negotiations, approved on Tuesday evening by the Senate Agreements Committee. Mr. Wahnish's proposal to ...