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 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 10:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine downed 22 missiles early Monday that Russia fired toward Kyiv and two other regions during an attack that wounded three people, authorities said. The missiles were among the 30 launched at Ukraine a few hours before Ukrainian children began a third school year under the Russian invasion. "Overnight, Russia fired a total of 35 missiles, ...
2024-09-02 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Political analysts are quite puzzled when they observe that negotiations in the Middle East are taking place between the US and the Iranian regime, which claims exclusive representation over the whole region. Twenty-two Arab states have no say over conflicts putting at stake their security, regional peace and international incidences. What is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 20:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Germany's far-right AfD won a landmark first regional vote on Sunday in the former East German state of Thuringia, exit polls showed, in a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of national elections in 2025. The AfD took between 30.5% and 33.5% of the vote in Thuringia, according to exit polls, with the conservative CDU in second place at around ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said Sunday. The helicopter carrying 63-year-old Raisi and his entourage came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran, killing the president and seven others and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iraq will impose a two-day curfew in November for the country's first census in 27 years, the authorities announced on Sunday. The "curfew will be imposed in all provinces of Iraq on November 20 and 21 to conduct a population census," Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement. Ravaged by decades of conflict and violence, Iraq has ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 14:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Algeria has been approved for membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the country’s finance ministry has announced. The decision was taken on Saturday and announced by NDB chief Dilma Roussef at a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. By joining "this important development institution, the financial arm of the BRICS group, Algeria is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Bernard Cazeneuve at the Elysée Palace on Monday morning as part of his consultations on the appointment of a new Prime Minister, the former head of the Socialist government was told on Sunday. While his name has been circulating for several days as a possible Prime Minister, “Bernard Cazeneuve is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
With its ban of X, which went into effect on Saturday, Brazil joins a small club of countries to have taken similar measures against the social network, most of them run by authoritarian regimes. Beyond permanent bans, some nations have temporarily restricted access to X, formerly Twitter, which has often been used by political dissidents to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 17:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Independent Russian media outlet Mediazona said Saturday that according to its estimates, more than 66,000 Russian military personnel have died during the war in Ukraine. Mediazona has been drawing up a list of known soldier deaths in conjunction with the BBC Russian Service using open-source data. Previously, in April, they announced they had ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A block on Elon Musk's X social network in Brazil started to take effect early Saturday after a Supreme Court judge ordered its suspension, according to AFP. Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the suspension of the platform following a months-long standoff with the tech billionaire over disinformation in South ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 10:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, with seven US troops injured during the operation, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday. The raid targeted Islamic State leaders and was carried out early Thursday morning, resulting "in the death of 15 Daesh operatives" with "no ...