This Is Beirut 2024-09-21 10:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sri Lankans voted on Saturday to elect their president, two years after a catastrophic financial crisis that imposed a widely unpopular and harsh austerity program on the country. Polls opened at 7:00 AM local time (01:00 GMT) and closed at 4:00 PM (10:30 GMT) after a calm election marked by high voter turnout, according to AFP ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 20:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Following the strike on Beirut's southern suburbs that killed Hezbollah elite force commander Ibrahim Aqil, the Israeli military congratulated itself on its operation. "Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out a targeted strike on Beirut, eliminating Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah's operations unit, commander of the Radwan unit," an Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 14:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A militant from Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, an armed group, was killed Friday in a strike targeting pro-Iran factions in Syria, a group member told AFP, blaming Israel for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said a member of the Hezbollah Brigades was killed but was unable to verify the strike itself. The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 11:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that she had arrived in Kyiv to offer support ahead of winter, as Russia keeps up its bombing campaign of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. "My eighth visit to Kyiv comes as the heating season starts soon, and Russia keeps targeting energy infrastructure," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, along with a ...
2024-09-20 10:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two people from Taiwanese companies were questioned as part of a probe into pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, investigators said Friday, as top officials insisted the devices were not from the island. Questions and speculation have swirled over where the devices came from and how they were supplied to the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 06:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kamala Harris held a star-studded rally hosted by talk show legend Oprah Winfrey on Thursday in a bid to bedazzle voters, as rival Donald Trump criticized Jewish Americans for not voting for him. Hollywood stars including Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, and Ben Stiller beamed in remotely to lavish praise via screens on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-19 12:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Security forces in New Caledonia killed two men during an overnight operation, the public prosecutor said on Thursday, taking the death toll to 13 after months of unrest in the French Pacific territory. An AFP journalist witnessed clashes erupt between French police and civilians in Saint Louis, a heartland of the independence movement just south ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-19 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump railed against illegal immigrants on Wednesday and pledged to visit an Ohio town simmering with racial tensions fueled by his campaign's conspiracy theories, as Kamala Harris courted minority voters and relished a poll bump in key swing states. The Republican ex-president, whose hardline anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a ...
2024-09-18 20:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
International Court of Justice
Germany has paused new arms exports to Israel due to legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry. Last year, Germany approved weapons exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), a ten-fold increase from 2022, according to data from the Economy Ministry, which approves ...
2024-09-18 20:09 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
UN member states formally demanded in a non-binding resolution Wednesday an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months and sanctions for non-compliance. The text, which Israel said would fuel violence if adopted, is based on an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice calling Israel's occupation ...
2024-09-18 18:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that civilian objects should not be weaponized, in the wake of a deadly wave of explosions across Lebanon targeting pagers used by Hezbollah. "I think it's very important that there is an effective control of civilian objects, not to weaponize civilian objects – that should be ...
2024-09-18 18:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Those responsible for a deadly wave of explosions across Lebanon targeting paging devices used by members of the Hezbollah militant group "must be held to account," the UN rights chief said on Wednesday. The Iranian-backed group accused Israel and vowed to retaliate over the explosions that killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded up ...