19/02 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The assassination of dissident leader Alexei Navalny is no fait divers. It brings us back to picture the nightmares of the deaths of the Gulag convicts, the “banality of evil” (Banalität des Bösen) and the steadfastness of the internal opposition to Vladimir Putin. It highlights the deep-seated fears of the cynical and bloody autocrat and ...
This Is Beirut 18/02 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Relatives of Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's foremost opponent, have still not been able to recover the body of the fierce Kremlin critic who died in an Arctic prison on Friday, February 16. They accuse Putin of concealing the truth about Navalny's cause of death. Alexei Navalny's supporters accused Russian authorities on Saturday of being ...
17/02 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Since Hamas' attack on October 7, US President Joe Biden was the first to show his and his country’s unwavering support for Israel. But today, four months after the beginning of the war in Gaza, Biden's support has begun to falter. The Israeli-American relationship is over 75 years old, with America being the first country to recognize ...
This Is Beirut 17/02 16:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The airport in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, was targeted in an explosives attack on Saturday, February 17th. The DRC army accuses Rwanda of orchestrating the attack. DR Congo's army on Saturday accused Rwanda of staging a "drone attack" at night that damaged civilian aircraft at the airport in the strategic eastern city of Goma. Fighting ...
This Is Beirut 17/02 10:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three people, including a girl, were killed and four others injured after Ukraine shelled the Russian-occupied region of Donetsk on Saturday, a Moscow-installed local official said. Both Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of a sharp escalation in attacks targeting civilian areas over the past three months, amid intense fighting on the ...
This Is Beirut 16/02 19:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia said the Kremlin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny died on Friday in an Arctic prison, drawing intense criticism from opposition and Western officials. Here are some of the key reactions: 'Murder' "Alexei's death is a murder. Organised by (Vladimir) Putin," Exiled Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov said. "Even if Alexei died ...
This Is Beirut 16/02 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Senegal plunged further into the unknown on Friday after the top constitutional body overturned President Macky Sall's contentious decision to postpone this month's presidential election. It is yet to be seen how and when the vote will now take place, with Sall so far offering no comment on the historic ruling by the Constitutional Council. His ...
This Is Beirut 16/02 16:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine said on Friday that it was sending more reinforcements to the frontline city of Avdiivka, a main target for Moscow, ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. Facing a shortage of ammunition and being outnumbered on the battlefield, Ukraine may be forced to withdraw from the eastern town, which has become a symbol of ...
This Is Beirut 15/02 21:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An explosion was reported near a vessel off the coast of Yemen, two maritime security agencies said Thursday, the latest in a series of incidents that have disrupted global shipping. On Thursday, a ship reported "an explosion in close proximity to the vessel" east of Yemen's Aden, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said, adding the ...
This Is Beirut 15/02 14:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The US military said on February 15 that it had seized an Iranian weapons shipment in January intended for Yemen's Houthi rebels, who have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea since November 2023. The US navy "seized advanced conventional weapons and other lethal aid originating in Iran and bound for Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen from a ...
This Is Beirut 15/02 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that a delay in passing new US aid for Ukraine was already hurting Kyiv's forces on the battlefield against Russia. "We see the impact already of the fact that the US has not been able to make a decision, but I expect the US to be able to make a decision, that the Congress and the House of ...
This Is Beirut 14/02 14:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed their intention to turn a new page in their country's relations after more than a decade of estrangement. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in Cairo on Wednesday that they were turning a ...