This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 12:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron is beginning a round of thorny consultations on Friday with political leaders, hoping to cobble together a viable ruling coalition after last month's inconclusive election. A full six weeks after a snap election in which Macron lost his parliamentary majority, he has still not named a new prime minister, whose ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-23 10:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to drop out of the race for the White House, US media reported on Wednesday, with the independent candidate due to make a major address later in the week. The New York Times and CNN reported that Kennedy, whose support was at 8.7% in a nationwide poll by The Hill this week, would back ...
2024-08-23 10:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The issue of checkpoints in the Gaza Strip is a central point in the ceasefire talks held on August 15 in Doha. The Netzarim corridor is one of the contested routes. This is Beirut provides an overview of this area, which divides the enclave in two and has been recently developed by Israel. The final phase of ceasefire negotiations for Gaza, held ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-22 21:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venezuela's Supreme Court, which observers say is loyal to the government of President Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday declared him the winner of the disputed July 28 election amid opposition claims of widespread vote fraud. In its ruling read by presiding judge Caryslia Rodriguez, the court said it had "indisputably certified election materials and ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-08-22 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Former United States President Donald Trump may consider appointing Elon Musk to a role in his administration if he is re-elected in November, as he told Reuters during an interview on Monday. But what makes Musk so special? A non-linear odyssey The world's richest man, the CEO of multiple multinational companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-22 11:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia said Thursday that it had repelled several Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in the west of the country, including in Volgograd where a fire broke out at a Defense Ministry site. Volgograd region Governor Andrey Bocharov said Russian air defenses repelled a drone attack in the area of Marinovka and that "most of the drones were ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-22 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Tim Walz accepted the nomination as Kamala Harris's running mate at the Democratic National Convention, endorsing her and criticizing Donald Trump in a high-energy speech during a star-studded event. Tim Walz introduced himself to millions of Americans on a star-studded night at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, as he accepted the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-21 21:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed former President Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather and overloading, Iranian media said on Wednesday, citing an official. The helicopter carrying 63-year-old Raisi and his entourage came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran, killing the president and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-21 19:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's conservative-dominated Parliament on Wednesday approved reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian's proposed cabinet, which includes one woman and a foreign minister open to dialogue with the West. Lawmakers voted in favor of all 19 ministers picked by Pezeshkian – who was inaugurated in July after his predecessor Ebrahim Raisi died in a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-21 14:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran executed at least 87 people in the month after the recent presidential elections, reports Human Rights Watch (HRW). HRW reports that on August 7 alone, authorities carried out a mass execution of 29 prisoners. In the report, HRW condemned the surge, stating, “Human Rights Watch opposes the use of the death penalty in all circumstances ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-21 13:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three projectiles hit a merchant vessel off Yemen's Houthi-held port city of Hodeida on Wednesday, limiting the ship's ability to manoeuvre, British maritime security agency UKMTO said. The ship initially exchanged fire with two small vessels, one with three to five people onboard while the second carried around 10, the United Kingdom Maritime ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-21 11:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australia approved on Wednesday plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project billed as the "largest solar precinct in the world." Authorities announced environmental approvals for SunCable's US$24 billion project in Australia's remote north that is slated to power three million homes. The project, ...