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 ...
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 ...