This is Beirut 2024-11-02 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
spain valencia floods pedro sanchez
Spain is deploying 10,000 more troops and police officers to the eastern Valencia region devastated by historic floods that have killed 211 people, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. Hopes of finding survivors were slim more than three days after torrents of muddy water submerged towns and wrecked infrastructure in the European ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-11-02 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Kamala Harris Donald Trump USA
With less than three days to the election, former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump and vice-president and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris have clashed fiercely during their rallies. Today, the two candidates continue to make the rounds of the key states still undecided in an attempt to win, on Tuesday, a presidential election that ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 15:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kemi Badenoch United Kingdom Tories
The UK's battle-scarred Conservatives on Saturday elected “anti-woke” candidate Kemi Badenoch as its new head, making her the first black leader of a major UK party. The combative former equalities minister replaces Rishi Sunak and now faces the daunting task of reuniting a divided and weakened party emphatically ousted from power ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Journalism UNESCO Latin America
Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished. At 162 deaths, the number of journalists killed while working leaped 38 percent, the report found, calling the increase “alarming.” “In 2022 and ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 13:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tehran United States Ali Khamenei
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Saturday to retaliate against attacks by Israel and its ally the United States targeting Tehran and groups it supports in the region. "The enemies, both the USA and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a tooth-breaking response to what they are doing ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Democrats Donald Trump Republicans USA Washington White House
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final weekend of the most tense US presidential campaign of modern times with a flurry of swing-state rallies that will test their stamina –- and ability to persuade the country's last undecided voters. Harris, bidding to become the country's first woman president, will use rallies in ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 12:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestine US Presidential Elections West Bank
As Palestinian-American entrepreneur Jamal Zaglul stood by his olive press at the end of harvest season in the occupied West Bank, his mind was far away on next week's US election. Like other US passport holders living in Turmus Aya -- where they form the majority -- he was sceptical the ballot would bring change to the region. "Here we have ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 11:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Houthi Middle East Palestine Ukraine
Combat drones, sea surveillance drones, seabed drones: used in current conflicts, they'll be all over the stands at next week's Euronaval international defense show near Paris. The biennial exhibition will host 500 exhibitors from November 4 to 7 in Villepinte, north of the French capital, amid a tense geopolitical climate where the industry is ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-11-02 11:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Middle East United States Iran Threats
Listening to the reverberating rhetoric between the key players in the Middle Eastern conflict feels akin to witnessing a trivial quarrel. However, when words become the currency of fools, how can we gauge the credibility of the threats exchanged between Iran and Israel? A Volatile Rhetoric In the aftermath of the attack launched by Israel last ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 10:35 - Reading : less than a minute
Travel back in time to 1997. What happened in the USA on November 2, 1977? Join us weekly on Time Travel as we explore historical events under a different theme every month. This November, we're exploring natural disasters and the environment!
This is Beirut 2024-11-02 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump Ukraine United States election
Ukrainians are nervously following the final days of the US presidential election campaign, some fearing a victory for Donald Trump could halt Washington's vital aid. Tuesday's US vote will take place as the war with Russia grinds through its third year, with the outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian army on the back foot against Russia's advancing ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-01 19:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Gaza Hamas Izz al-Din Kassab Khan Younes
The Israeli army and Shin Bet announced on Friday the killing of Izz al-Din Kassab, a key figure in Hamas' political bureau and head of its national relations, in an airstrike on Khan Younes. As the head of national relations, Kassab coordinated connections between Hamas and other militant organizations in Gaza, wielding influence over the ...