This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 16:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi urged Iranians to protest a "full-scale war against women" after authorities intensified a crackdown obliging women to obey the country's Islamic dress code. Mohammadi, who is held in Tehran's Evin prison, urged Iranian women to share their stories of arrest and sexual assault at the hands ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 13:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Armenia and Azerbaijan started settling their border dispute on Tuesday in an effort to normalize relations following Azerbaijan's capture of Nagorno-Karabakh last year. Armenia and Azerbaijan announced on Tuesday that they had started fixing their border, as part of normalization efforts between the arch foes that had been locked in a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 12:09 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The UK's plan to deport migrants to Rwanda passed through parliament on Monday, with deportations set to begin within days, although international legal challenges may remain. The UK readied on Tuesday to start detention of migrants within days before deporting them to Rwanda, after the controversial plan cleared its final hurdle, sparking ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 00:06 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, embarked on his first state visit to neighboring Iraq in years, with discussions centered around water, oil, and regional security matters. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in neighboring Iraq on Monday for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil, and regional security ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-22 22:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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During the opening arguments on Monday in the historic first criminal trial of a former US president, prosecutors leveled accusations against Donald Trump, alleging involvement in "criminal conspiracy and a cover-up." Prosecutors accused Donald Trump of engaging in "criminal conspiracy and a cover-up" as opening arguments began on Monday in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-22 19:19 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered Apple to pull WhatsApp and Threads from the Chinese app store, citing national security concerns. "We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree," Apple said in a statement. This decision against internationally popular US messaging apps like WhatsApp ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-22 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
American journalist Terry Anderson, who was snatched by Islamic militants in Lebanon in 1985 and held hostage for six years, died at age 76 Sunday, his former employer the Associated Press (AP) said. Anderson, then the AP's Beirut bureau chief, was the longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon when he was finally released in 1991. He died at his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-22 11:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
North Korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the sea off South Korea's east coast, Seoul's military said on Monday, the latest in an apparent volley of tests by Pyongyang this year. "North Korea has fired an unidentified missile into the East Sea," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Tokyo also confirmed the launch, with ...
2024-04-22 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Iranian tempestuous power projections in the larger Middle East, the militarization of national security, the repeated attempts at creating an international authoritarian counter-order, and the false sense of omnipotence and ubiquitousness are hardly tested with the derailment of the war objectives set after the October 7, 2023 attack in South ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-21 23:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published Sunday by official news agency that Syria had held meetings "from time to time" with Washington. US-sanctioned President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published Sunday Syria has held meetings "from time to time" with Washington, as it seeks openings after over a decade of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-21 13:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An explosive device killed one person and wounded three others in Kabul on Saturday evening, police in the Afghan capital announced. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Khorasan (EI-K) group. "An adhesive bomb exploded under a minibus in the Kot-e-Sangi district of Kabul. The driver was killed and three other civilians wounded," ...
Ali A. Hamadé 2024-04-21 12:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On the 26th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement – a crucial historic milestone that sealed peace between Protestant loyalists and Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland – the specter of uncertainty looms more than ever over the future of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. This agreement, once considered a cornerstone of ...