This is Beirut 21/03 09:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
London's Heathrow Airport, which shuttered on Friday after a fire broke out at a substation serving the aviation hub, is Europe's busiest in terms of passengers. The sprawling facility west of London welcomed a record number of travellers last year, with the aviation sector having recovered from the turbulent Covid years. Almost 84 million ...
This is Beirut 21/03 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Britain's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest, was shut down early Friday for 24 hours after a major fire at an electricity substation cut power to the sprawling facility west of London, officials said. Airport authorities said they "expect significant disruption" over the coming days, with hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers ...
This is Beirut 21/03 05:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel's military on Thursday expanded ground operations across Gaza, after it reported missiles intercepted from Yemen and Hamas militants said they fired rockets towards Tel Aviv. The rocket fire from Hamas was its first military response to the growing civilian death toll from Israel's resumption of aerial bombardment and ground ...
This is Beirut 21/03 05:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Supreme Court Justice
US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations. A federal judge, in a strongly worded order, gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to explain why it went ahead with flights ...
This is Beirut 20/03 23:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Donald Trump Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky United States Earth minerals
President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the United States would soon sign a deal with Ukraine for access to its rare earth minerals. In a White House address, Trump said he had signed an order to "dramatically increase" US production of critical minerals and would "very shortly" sign a pact with Ukraine. "We're also signing agreements in ...
This is Beirut 20/03 22:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States Canada Mark Carney Elections
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a snap election for April 28, triggering an intense campaign dominated by how to react to President Donald Trump's trade war and demands to turn the close US ally into a 51st state. Carney, who replaced prime minister Justin Trudeau just last week, is set to announce the election ...
This is Beirut 20/03 21:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Volodymyr Zelensky European Union Donald Trump Europe Saudi Arabia
President Volodymyr Zelensky urged EU leaders Thursday to step up weapon supplies to Ukraine and keep pressuring Russia, as officials from Kyiv and Moscow readied to hold fresh talks with the United States next week. Europe is scrambling to weigh on the outcome as US President Donald Trump forges ahead with Russia on ending its war on Ukraine, ...
This is Beirut 20/03 20:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen on Thursday for the second time within a day, after air raid sirens sounded in several areas, including Jerusalem. "Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in a number of areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF (air force) prior to ...
This is Beirut 20/03 19:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump Houthi Middle East Iran Yemen
US warplanes carried out four strikes on Thursday evening against Houthi positions in the Al-Kathib region, in the Al-Minaa district of the Yemeni province of Al-Hodeida. These strikes come just hours after the Israeli army announced that it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen early on Thursday morning, against a backdrop of intensifying ...
This is Beirut 20/03 19:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Donald Trump Oval Office White House
Donald Trump promised a new "Golden Age" for America. In the Oval Office, at least, he has lived up to his promise with a blingy makeover. The Republican has decked out the inner sanctum of the US presidency with gilded trophies and gold-plated, Trump-branded coasters, and filled almost every available inch of wall space with portraits of his ...
This is Beirut 20/03 18:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Damascus Syria Germany Annalena Baerbock
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said after meeting Syria's interim leaders on Thursday that they must bring under control and hold accountable groups behind sectarian massacres committed this month on the Syrian coast. "It is imperative that extremist groups in their ranks are brought under control and those responsible for ...
This is Beirut 20/03 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Education White House
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order aimed at shutting down the Department of Education, a decades-long goal on the US right that objects to federal involvement in school systems run by individual states. "We're gonna shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good. We want to return our ...