This is Beirut 22/03 11:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Heathrow Airport is "fully operational", a spokesperson said on Saturday, a day after a fire at a power station shut down Europe's busiest air hub and caused travel mayhem. The electricity substation blaze closed the London airport for most of Friday before some flights began to arrive and take-off later in the evening. "We can confirm that ...
This is Beirut 22/03 05:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States New York Columbia University Donald Trump
Columbia University, targeted by Donald Trump over student protests and alleged anti-Semitism from some demonstrators, unveiled a package of policies Friday in a bid to placate the president. Trump has targeted US universities that saw significant surges of protests against Israel's war in Gaza that followed the October 7, 2023 attacks ...
This is Beirut 22/03 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened Friday to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas militants release the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory. The warning came as Israel pressed the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire. A ...
This is Beirut 21/03 23:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Damascus Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Syria Palmyra
Israeli air strikes on Friday targeted the military airport near Palmyra in central Syria, a war monitor said, reporting the latest Israeli attack in the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. "Israeli warplanes targeted the Palmyra military airport," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Since Islamist-led rebels ...
This is Beirut 21/03 21:55 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had eliminated Osama Tabash, the movement's head of military intelligence. According to the army, Tabash was also head of Hamas's surveillance and targeting unit, and was said to have planned the October 7 attack.
This is Beirut 21/03 21:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Huthi media in Yemen reported strikes on the Iran-backed rebels' homeland of Saada on Friday, blaming "American aggression". The rebels' Al-Masirah TV cited their correspondent in Saada, in Yemen's north, for their latest claim of strikes since the United States on Saturday said it carried out air strikes that killed several Huthi leaders, after ...
Moncef Ait-Kaci 21/03 21:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Sudanese Army has announced it has retaken the presidential palace in Khartoum. But behind this advance lies a devastating war, ongoing since 2023, between two former allies turned enemies. Here's an explanation. The term "two former allies" refers to the roles played by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (Army) and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known ...
This is Beirut 21/03 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey Istanbul Protests Istanbul Bar Association
The Istanbul Bar Association's executive board was dismissed Friday on grounds of "terrorist propaganda" and "publicly spreading false information", according to a court ruling published online by a lawyers' association. Prosecutors had filed suit on January 15 several weeks after the Istanbul Bar Association demanded an investigation into the ...
This is Beirut 21/03 19:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Europe United Kingdom Heathrow
London's Heathrow Airport said it would resume "some flights" later Friday after a fire at a power station grounded planes at Europe's busiest air hub, causing travel chaos for thousands of people around the world. The electricity substation fire late on Thursday shut down the airport, leading to the cancellation or diversion of hundreds of ...
This is Beirut 21/03 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump USA United States F-47
US President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing has been awarded a major contract for the Air Force's high-tech next-generation F-47 fighter plane. The contract is aimed at continuing the development of the replacement for the F-22 stealth warplane -- which has been in operation for some two decades -- with a new, more advanced aircraft ...
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Hamas Israel Palestine United Nations Gaza
The UN warned Friday that all of Gaza's approximately one million children were facing "massive trauma" as fighting in the war-ravaged territory resumed and amid dire aid shortages. Humanitarians described an alarming situation in Gaza amid a growing civilian death toll since Israel resumed aerial bombardment and ground operations this week after ...
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Middle East Turkey Kurds New Year
Three weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan urged his militants to disband, Turkey's Kurds were celebrating their Newroz New Year Friday with peace prospects still remote. The efforts to broker a solution to the decades-long Kurdish conflict have likely been complicated by the widespread unrest provoked by Wednesday's arrest of Istanbul ...