This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 10:41 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
At least 51 people were killed and hundreds wounded Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, authorities said, in one of the single deadliest bombardments of the two-and-a-half-year war. United States President Joe Biden condemned the "deplorable attack," which Kyiv said hit a military training facility and a nearby ...
Rami Rayess 2024-09-04 09:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The prolonged Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, now extending beyond ten months, has thrust into the forefront the fate of the 1993 agreement signed at the White House and endorsed by then US President Bill Clinton. The Oslo Accords were signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-09-03 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
For months now, general discontent with the government has been brewing within Israeli society. This Sunday, however, it seems to have reached a boiling point, as Arnon Bar-David, head of the Histadrut (Israel's largest trade union federation), has called for a general strike. So, what exactly is going on? What’s Behind the Strike? Following ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-03 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Turkey has submitted a request to join the BRICS group of major emerging market nations, the spokesman of the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. "Our president has many times stated that we want to become a BRICS member... The process is now underway," said Omer Celik, spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-03 04:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Venezuelan court granted an arrest warrant Monday for opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have rightfully won July elections that authorities awarded to incumbent Nicolas Maduro. The court, the prosecutor's office said on Instagram, had granted its request for a warrant for Gonzalez Urrutia for "serious ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 20:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States on Monday seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's plane in the Dominican Republic and flew it to Florida, saying it acted over violation of US sanctions. United States officials moved to take the aircraft, a Dassault Falcon 900EX private jet used by Maduro and members of his government, with the Justice Department saying ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 19:53 - Reading : less than a minute
A suicide bomber detonated explosives in the Afghan capital on Monday, police said, killing six people and wounding 13 more. "This afternoon, a person wearing explosives on his body detonated them," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran posted on social media platform X. "Unfortunately six civilians, including a woman, were killed and 13 others ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 19:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tunisia's electoral authority announced on Monday that it had approved three presidential candidates for the October 6 election, including incumbent President Kais Saied, dismissing three other would-be candidates despite court rulings allowing them to run. The three dismissed candidates had won appeals last week at the Administrative Court ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 19:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian state television showed Putin's plane landing in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. The Russian leader is wanted by the Hague-based court for the alleged illegal deportation of Ukrainian children. Kyiv has urged Mongolian authorities to execute the arrest warrant, while the ICC said last week that all members had an "obligation" to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 12:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
China rolled out the red carpet on Monday for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. Beijing has said this week's China-Africa forum will be its largest diplomatic event since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than a dozen ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 12:46 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday intensified efforts to find a new prime minister after almost two months of deadlock following inconclusive legislative elections, hosting two former presidents and two potential candidates. France has been without a permanent government since the July 7 legislative polls where the left formed the ...
Michel Touma 2024-09-02 11:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
This piece of information almost slipped under the radar… Yet, it holds significant symbolic value and could indicate a recent political shift in Iran. On August 27, former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that he was withdrawing his resignation from his position as Vice-President for Strategic Affairs. He had been ...