This Is Beirut 2024-05-19 13:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French forces smashed through around 60 road blocks to clear the way from conflict-stricken New Caledonia's capital to the airport. However, they still have not reopened the route, a top government official said on Sunday. After six nights of violence, which left six dead and hundreds injured, security forces will launch "harassment" raids to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 22:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
German activists glued themselves to a runway at Munich airport Saturday and caused dozens of flights to be cancelled, in their latest action aimed at pushing authorities to tackle climate change. The activists from the Last Generation environmental protest group forced their way into Germany's second-busiest airport by cutting through a fence in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 18:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi faces a new trial over accusations she made against the security forces of sexually assaulting female prisoners, her family said on Saturday. The trial, due to begin on Sunday, relates to an audio message she shared from prison in April, which was also shared by supporters. In it, she ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 17:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Violence linked to riots in New Caledonia, a French archipelago in the South Pacific, continued on Saturday with a sixth death in six days, according to the authorities. One more person was killed Saturday and two injured in France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia as security personnel tried to restore order after a fifth night of riots and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 17:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, director Mohammad Rasoulof undertook an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous border to avoid imprisonment in Iran for national security reasons. Film director Mohammad Rasoulof made an "exhausting and extremely dangerous" walk across a mountainous borderland in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 15:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Slovakia's health minister said Saturday the prognosis for Prime Minister Robert Fico was "positive" after an assassination attempt, while the suspected gunman appeared in court for the first time. Fico has been in hospital since Wednesday when a lone gunman shot him four times, including in the abdomen. He underwent a five-hour surgery on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 15:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Junta-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalized plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia. Their foreign ministers met Friday in Niger's capital Niamey to agree on a text establishing the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). "The objective was to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 15:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said in a statement. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 14:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Three Spanish tourists and three Afghans were killed Friday in a shooting in the popular tourism destination of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, local and Spanish authorities said. The bodies were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group were fired on while walking through a market in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 14:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have announced their willingness to open "safe passages" out of the city of El-Fasher in Darfur, which has been gripped by fighting for weeks. The RSF, battling the regular army for more than a year, affirmed in a post on X late Friday "the readiness of its forces to help citizens by opening safe passages ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 11:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
President Zelensky told AFP in an exclusive interview that Russia's Kharkiv offensive will intensify. He rejected French suggestions of an 'Olympic truce' and requested more Western military support. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with AFP on Friday, warned that Russia could intensify its offensive and said Kyiv would ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-17 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday that Moscow would not comply with calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Summer Olympics, pointing to what he said was the unfair treatment of Russian athletes. When asked during a visit to China whether he backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea for a global "Olympic truce" during ...