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Protests in Senegal Demanding New Election Date

This Is Beirut 2024-02-24 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Hundreds of people gathered in Dakar on Saturday, February 24, to call on President Macky Sall to set a date for the presidential elections. The poll, which was supposed to take place this weekend, has been postponed. Several hundred people demonstrated in Dakar on Saturday calling on the president to set a date to elect his successor before his ...

Zelensky Promises Victory Over Russia on Second War Anniversary

This Is Beirut 2024-02-24 15:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised victory against Russia on the second anniversary of the invasion on Saturday as his troops fight on despite a lack of Western aid and recent Russian gains. "We will win," he said at a ceremony at Kyiv's Gostomel airport, which was targeted by Russia in the first days of the all-out assault in ...

Armenia Signs Arms Contract With France to Deter Azerbaijan

This Is Beirut 2024-02-23 14:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Armenian Defense minister Suren Papikian announced on Friday that his country has signed an arms contract with France in order to deter "possible strikes by potential aggressors" against civilians. France signed commitments to sell precision rifles to Armenia and train Armenian military officers, their defense ministers said Friday, as Yerevan ...

Russia Steps Up Attacks on Ukraine as US Unveils New Sanctions

This Is Beirut 2024-02-23 10:28 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Ukraine remained under Russian missile and drone attacks on Friday February 23, while Washington announced new sanctions against Moscow. The United States plans to impose sanctions on Friday on more than 500 targets involved in Russia's war in Ukraine, as Moscow claims fresh battlefield advances two years after its invasion. Ukraine, grappling ...

US Announces Fresh Iran Sanctions Over Support for Russia

This Is Beirut 2024-02-22 22:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The White House announced, on Thursday, that the United States will soon enact fresh sanctions against Iran due to its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The United States will soon impose new sanctions on Iran over its backing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Thursday. "In response to Iran's ongoing support for ...

Campaigning Begins for Iran’s Parliamentary Elections

This Is Beirut 2024-02-22 13:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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On Thursday, February 22, Iran entered a short campaign for the March 1 legislative elections. According to the few polls published, Iranians remain largely indifferent to the vote, more than a year after the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Candidates running for seats in Iran's legislature launched their election campaigns on ...

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Kremlin Deems Biden's Insults Towards Putin as "Shameful"

This Is Beirut 2024-02-22 13:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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During a meeting with Democratic Party donors on Thursday, US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "crazy SOB." The Kremlin denounced "shameful" remarks. US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "crazy SOB" at a public fundraising event Wednesday, which the Kremlin decried as ...

French Defense Minister in Armenia Amid Tensions With Azerbaijan

This Is Beirut 2024-02-22 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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French Minister of Defense Sébastien Lecornu is traveling to Yerevan on February 22 and 23 to strengthen the defense relationship between the two countries. France and Armenia have been forging closer ties on security issues since October 2023. French Minister of Defense Sebastien Lecornu is traveling to Armenia on Thursday for a two-day visit ...

US Warning Over Iranian Involvement in Sudan

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The United States expressed apprehension on Wednesday, regarding purported arms deliveries from Iran to Sudan's military. Sudan's army is currently engaged in a lethal conflict with paramilitary groups purportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates and Russia. The United States voiced concern Wednesday at reported arms shipments by adversary Iran ...

European Union to Face Unprecedented Challenges

Rami Rayess 2024-02-21 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Even if the Russian-Ukrainian war has united Europe behind it, this does not mean that the old continent has overcome the many obstacles and issues that at times threaten to disintegrate and fragment it, contrary to what the early Europeans aspired to when they launched the unification project, which has made significant and historic ...

New EU Sanctions Against China, N. Korea Amidst War on Ukraine

This Is Beirut 2024-02-21 15:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The EU on Wednesday agreed to ban exports to three mainland Chinese firms and blacklist North Korea's defense minister in new sanctions for the second anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, officials said. The fresh round of measures -- the 13th since Russian President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion -- overall targets some two hundred ...

Navalny’s Mother’s Case to Be Heard in Russian Court

This Is Beirut 2024-02-21 14:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said Wednesday. Lyudmila Navalnaya has travelled to the remote IK-3 prison where her son died, but since Saturday, when she arrived, she has been prevented ...