This is Beirut 04/04 04:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian drone strikes killed at least four people and injured more than 30 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, authorities said Friday. Russia and Ukraine have stepped up aerial attacks even as US President Donald Trump pushes them to agree to a ceasefire after more than three years of costly fighting. The attack late Thursday targeted ...
This is Beirut 03/04 22:30 - Reading : less than a minute
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According to information reported by British media outlet The Telegraph on Thursday, Iran has ordered its military forces in Yemen to withdraw from the country due to the intensification of US airstrikes on its Houthi allies. A senior Iranian official stated that the decision aimed to avoid a direct confrontation with the United States if an ...
This is Beirut 03/04 22:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Denmark's prime minister said on Thursday that Copenhagen would not give up Greenland, as she visited the resource-rich autonomous Danish region that US President Donald Trump has vowed to take over. Speaking in English and addressing the US, Mette Frederiksen said "you cannot annex another country." Tensions between the United States and ...
This is Beirut 03/04 21:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defense agency said at least 31 people, including children, were killed in an Israeli strike Thursday on a school serving as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war. Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that women and children were among the dead, while six people were still unaccounted for in the strike on Dar al-Arqam ...
This is Beirut 03/04 21:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of destabilizing Syria after a wave of strikes on military targets, including an airport, and a ground incursion killed 13 people. A war monitor later reported another two Israeli air attacks. Since Islamist-led rebels toppled longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has launched an ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 16:25 - Reading : less than a minute
In Tunisia, olive waste is becoming a valuable source of energy, offering a local alternative to imported fuels.
This is Beirut 03/04 14:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told nervous NATO members on Thursday that Washington remained committed to the alliance, but said they must agree to massively ramp up their spending targets for defense. President Donald Trump has rattled Europe by casting doubt on his willingness to defend all allies, and by reaching out to Russia over the war ...
This is Beirut 03/04 14:31 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Hungary on Thursday said it will quit the International Criminal Court, just as Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the tribunal has accused of war crimes in Gaza. The government announcement to start the year-long withdrawal process came as Orban welcomed Netanyahu in the capital Budapest on his ...
This is Beirut 03/04 13:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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UK counter-terrorism police arrested two men on April 1, 2025, in connection with alleged links to Hezbollah, which has been banned in the UK since 2019. The first man, aged 39, was arrested at an address in northwest London on suspicion of being a member of a proscribed organization, preparing terrorism acts and financing terrorism. The second ...
This is Beirut 03/04 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel and France share a "common" goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Israeli foreign minister said in Paris on Thursday. Western countries including the United States have long accused Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapon, which Tehran has denied, insisting its enrichment activities were solely for peaceful purposes. "The ...
Christiane Tager 03/04 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The latest Forbes Billionaires ranking for 2025 was released in early April, setting new records with a total of $16.1 trillion—$2 trillion more than the previous year. No longer just a compilation of names and figures, it now serves as a map of the global economic elite, where market surges, major acquisitions, and breakthrough innovations ...
This is Beirut 03/04 10:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli bombardment killed nine people in Syria as troops conducted a raid in the south, the local government and a war monitor said, with the Israeli army saying its forces were responding to fire from militants. The shelling came after an "Israeli incursion", with "the occupation forces advancing for the first time to this ...