This is Beirut 03/11 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian demonstrators gathered on Sunday outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between Washington and Tehran. The hostage crisis began in November 1979 following the Islamic revolution led by Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which ...
This is Beirut 03/11 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia are due Sunday to visit the Valencia region, Spanish media reported, where devastating floods have killed more than 200 people. Hopes of finding survivors ebbed five days after torrents of muddy water wrecked towns and infrastructure in Spain's worst such disaster in decades. Almost all the deaths have ...
This is Beirut 03/11 10:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales are holding at least 200 soldiers hostage, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday, as their weeks-long standoff with the state escalates. Three military units in central Bolivia's Chapare province were "assaulted by irregular groups" on Friday, with the assailants "taking more than 200 military ...
This is Beirut 03/11 10:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Democrats Donald Trump Palestine Republicans USA
A scion of the famed Kennedy family. A Green Party activist. A self-proclaimed "armed and gay" libertarian. The US presidential election is toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. However, the two-party system still left room this year for three fringe players who could yet influence an ultra-tight election on ...
This is Beirut 02/11 19:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
COP16 united nations biodiversity colombia
The world's biggest nature conservation conference closed in Colombia on Saturday with no agreement on a roadmap to ramp up funding for species protection. With other successes under its belt, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was suspended by its president Susana Muhamad as ...
This is Beirut 02/11 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
spain valencia floods pedro sanchez
Spain is deploying 10,000 more troops and police officers to the eastern Valencia region devastated by historic floods that have killed 211 people, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. Hopes of finding survivors were slim more than three days after torrents of muddy water submerged towns and wrecked infrastructure in the European ...
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Kamala Harris Donald Trump USA
With less than three days to the election, former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump and vice-president and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris have clashed fiercely during their rallies. Today, the two candidates continue to make the rounds of the key states still undecided in an attempt to win, on Tuesday, a presidential election that ...
This is Beirut 02/11 15:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kemi Badenoch United Kingdom Tories
The UK's battle-scarred Conservatives on Saturday elected “anti-woke” candidate Kemi Badenoch as its new head, making her the first black leader of a major UK party. The combative former equalities minister replaces Rishi Sunak and now faces the daunting task of reuniting a divided and weakened party emphatically ousted from power ...
This is Beirut 02/11 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Journalism UNESCO Latin America
Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished. At 162 deaths, the number of journalists killed while working leaped 38 percent, the report found, calling the increase “alarming.” “In 2022 and ...
This is Beirut 02/11 13:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tehran United States Ali Khamenei
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Saturday to retaliate against attacks by Israel and its ally the United States targeting Tehran and groups it supports in the region. "The enemies, both the USA and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a tooth-breaking response to what they are doing ...
This is Beirut 02/11 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Democrats Donald Trump Republicans USA Washington White House
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final weekend of the most tense US presidential campaign of modern times with a flurry of swing-state rallies that will test their stamina –- and ability to persuade the country's last undecided voters. Harris, bidding to become the country's first woman president, will use rallies in ...
This is Beirut 02/11 12:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestine US Presidential Elections West Bank
As Palestinian-American entrepreneur Jamal Zaglul stood by his olive press at the end of harvest season in the occupied West Bank, his mind was far away on next week's US election. Like other US passport holders living in Turmus Aya -- where they form the majority -- he was sceptical the ballot would bring change to the region. "Here we have ...