Mario Chartouni 2024-09-04 21:04 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
While French President Emmanuel Macron is still searching for the ideal candidate to fill the position of Prime Minister, new names keep emerging on the list of contenders. Bernard Cazeneuve: A “Throwback” for Macron? Born in 1963 in Senlis, Bernard Cazeneuve is a seasoned figure in French politics. A former lawyer, he entered politics in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 20:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egypt's leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said they wanted to deepen their cooperation as they met in Ankara Wednesday to seal their mended ties. "We will strengthen our cooperation in all areas," said Erdogan, who visited Sisi in Cairo in mid-February when the two leaders said they had turned over a "new ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 19:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Six people were wounded when a roadside blast hit a convoy transporting local officials including the governor in Syria's southern Daraa province on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. "Six people were lightly wounded" when a roadside "explosive device planted by a terrorist group" went off while the local officials were returning "from a work ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 15:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iranian security forces reportedly tortured and killed Mohammad Mirmousavi, a detainee from the Lahijan province, on August 22, 2024, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Mirmousavi was reportedly apprehended for his alleged involvement in a street brawl. On August 29, President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the Minister of ...
Ici Beyrouth 2024-09-04 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A movie titled “The Goat Life” has sparked fierce controversy in Saudi Arabia, where citizens are calling for a boycott, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Monday. Released this month, it recounts the harrowing story of Najeeb Muhammed, an Indian migrant worker who, after being abandoned in the Saudi desert in the ...
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 ...