This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 16:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations said on Tuesday their human rights offices in Sanaa had been stormed by Yemen's Houthis, with the UN's rights chief demanding they leave immediately and return all seized assets. On August 3, the Iran-backed Houthis sent a delegation to the UN Human Rights Office's premises in Sanaa and forced staff to hand over the keys. They ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 15:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that Moscow was "concerned" about civilian deaths in Gaza. "We are concerned above all about civilian losses," Putin said, according to images shown on Russian state television. "We are doing everything ... to support Palestine and the Palestinian ...
2024-08-13 12:16 - Reading : less than a minute
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 11:24 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump ran through his checklist of conspiracy theories on Monday in a rambling conversation with his uber-wealthy supporter Elon Musk that was initially derailed by what the tech titan said was a technical glitch. In a very one-sided conversation on X, Trump vented about a "zombie apocalypse" of immigration, repeatedly blasted President ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 21:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump will be interviewed Monday live on X by its billionaire owner, Elon Musk, an influential supporter, as the Republican ex-president works to reignite online enthusiasm for his sagging White House campaign. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has emerged as a major voice in US politics but is accused of turning the platform formerly known as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 17:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sudan is at a catastrophic "breaking point," with tens of thousands of preventable deaths looming due to multiple crises, the United Nations' migration agency warned Monday. The International Organization for Migration said famine and floods were adding to a catalogue of challenges facing millions of people in the war-torn country, amid the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 12:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who negotiated a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers, announced on Monday that he had resigned from his new post as vice president. "To avoid any suspicions or excuses for disrupting the work of the government... I resigned from the position of vice president for strategic ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-08-12 11:57 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The suspense in Tunisia has come to an end this Sunday, August 11: The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), responsible for organizing and supervising elections, has released the final list of candidates for the presidential election, which will take place on October 6. This will mark the fourth election since the 2011 overthrow of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 10:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Greece ordered fresh evacuations near Athens on Monday as wildfires spread despite "superhuman" efforts to contain the flames, firefighters said. At least five more communities were told to flee by civil protection authorities on Monday, after hundreds of people evacuated on Sunday from at least eight villages. "Civil protection forces battled ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
President Vladimir Putin ordered his army on Monday to "dislodge" Ukrainian troops who have entered Russian territory as authorities said over 120,000 people had been evacuated away from the fighting. Ukraine sent troops last week into Russia's border region of Kursk, in the largest cross-border operation by Kyiv since Moscow launched its ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 16:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thousands of Ukrainian troops are taking part in a major incursion into Russian territory, aiming to destabilize Russia by showing up its weaknesses, a top Ukrainian official has told AFP. "We are on the offensive. The aim is to stretch the positions of the enemy, to inflict maximum losses and to destabilize the situation in Russia as they are ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 15:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Five Iran-backed fighters were killed on Sunday in a drone strike in Syria's east, near the Iraqi border, a war monitor said, adding it was not clear yet who was behind the attack. "Five pro-Iranian fighters were killed and others were injured, some severely... after an unknown drone targeted the military vehicle they were in... near the ...