This Is Beirut 2024-08-07 11:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Bangladesh's Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus will lead an interim government after mass protests forced longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee, the presidency announced Wednesday. The appointment came quickly after student leaders called on the 84-year-old Yunus — credited with lifting millions out of poverty in the ...
Marc Saikali 2024-08-07 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The days when the Syrian army terrorized the Lebanese population and relentlessly bombarded the neighborhoods of Beirut and Zahlé instead of fighting Israel are long gone. The days when this army was part of an international coalition against Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War are long gone. Nothing in the Near East could happen ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-07 09:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Rescue teams were Wednesday working to free people trapped after part of a hotel collapsed in western Germany, killing two and injuring several others, authorities said. A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons around 11:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Tuesday, police said in a ...
Rami Rayess 2024-08-07 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The twelve countries that founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on April 9, 1949, in Washington, D.C., possibly did not foresee that this alliance would last 75 years, including more than thirty years after the fall of its rival, the Warsaw Pact, which dissolved with the collapse of the Soviet-led socialist bloc before the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-07 05:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris made her debut Tuesday with new White House running mate Tim Walz, who unleashed a stinging rebuke of their Republican rival Donald Trump, questioning his commitment to the country and skewering his record in office. Hours after being announced on the Democratic ticket, the Minnesota governor took the stage with Vice President ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-06 17:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
From his teen start in the United States military to teaching in China and on a Native American reservation before entering politics, Democratic vice presidential pick Tim Walz packs a full resume – and exudes folksy appeal. A second-term Minnesota governor and now Kamala Harris's running mate, Walz brings a rural Midwestern perspective to her ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-06 17:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate Tuesday, opting for the Minnesota governor as the partner most likely to complement her in a historic bid for the White House. Walz had been on a shortlist with a string of other Democratic figures seen as broadening Harris's appeal as she sprints into the contest against Donald Trump. Aiming to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-06 12:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venezuela's opposition leaders on Monday appealed to the Army, the main pillar of support for President Nicolas Maduro, to "take the side of the people" after his disputed reelection, a call swiftly met with a criminal probe. Prosecutors said they had opened an investigation targeting opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and presidential ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-06 11:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Bangladesh's army chief was due to meet student protest leaders on Tuesday, a day after the military took control as mass demonstrations forced longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina to flee the country. Hasina, 76, had been in power since 2009 but was accused of rigging elections in January and then watched millions of people take to the streets over the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-06 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris was set to announce her running mate on Tuesday before the pair heads out on a five-day swing through America's hottest battleground states, just three months out from the presidential election. The US vice president's campaign has come out of the blocks at a lightning pace since she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-05 20:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN experts on Monday called for the prosecution of Iranian officials who may have committed crimes against humanity during a 2022 crackdown on demonstrations that particularly targeted ethnic and religious minorities. The UN Human Rights Council mandated experts to carry out an investigation on Iran following nationwide protests triggered by the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-05 20:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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France's President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he had spoken to the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and all three had urged "restraint" to avoid an escalation in the Middle East. "I have spoken to President Mohamed bin Zayed and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the situation in the Middle East. We call on all actors to be ...