This Is Beirut 2024-04-09 21:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia on Tuesday opened a probe into "financing terrorism" that implicates Western countries, saying funds received by US firms in Ukraine, including one that employed Joe Biden's son, were used for "terrorism acts" in Russia. The announcement came with Moscow continuing to blame the West and Ukraine for the attack on a concert hall last month ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-09 19:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Considered among the world's poorest countries, war-torn Sudan's already fragile infrastructure has pushed the country to the brink of famine, leading to a massive ongoing exodus from the country. One year since the conflict in Sudan erupted, thousands of desperate people are still fleeing the country daily "as if the emergency had started ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-09 19:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Washington has given Ukraine small arms and ammunition that were seized while being sent from Iranian forces to Tehran-backed insurgents in Yemen, the US military said on Tuesday. The transfer last week came as Ukraine suffers from significant shortages of ammunition and US Republican lawmakers block new aid, but it does not address Kyiv's need ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-09 13:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Beijing will strengthen its strategic cooperation with Russia, said a top diplomat on Tuesday during Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's most recent visit to China. China's top diplomat said on Tuesday that Beijing would strengthen its strategic cooperation with Moscow and that the two must stand on the side of "fairness and justice" as he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 15:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The EU will vote to reform its immigration policies on Wednesday, which would harden its stance towards asylum-seekers, in a move that has been criticized by groups on both the far-left and far-right. The EU will vote on Wednesday on a vast overhaul of its immigration policies that would notably harden entry procedures for asylum-seekers and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 12:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC agreed to increase its investment in the US to $65 billion on Monday, in a victory for Biden as November's presidential election looms. The Taiwan chip giant TSMC agreed to build a third semiconductor factory in Arizona, raising its total investment in the United States to $65 billion, US officials said on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-08 12:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China for an official visit on Monday, his ministry said, as the two countries look to strengthen diplomatic ties as Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds on. The Foreign Ministry announced that Lavrov had touched down in Beijing in a post on X on Monday morning. He will spend two days in the ...
2024-04-08 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Sergei Shoïgu, the Russian minister of defense, surmises French responsibility behind Moscow’s terror attack since Ukrainians are masterminded by their European mentors and France has defied the moral and political arrogance of the dictator. Relaying the lies of the Russian autocrat, S. Shoïgu perpetuates the culture of dissembling and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 18:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Seven children were killed in southern Syria's Daraa province on Saturday when an "explosive device" detonated, state media reported. "Seven children" were killed "and two other people were injured, one of them a woman, when an explosive device planted by terrorists" went off in the city of Sanamayn, state news agency SANA reported, quoting a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 13:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, on Friday night left seven people dead and at least ten injured, according to authorities. A Russian night-time attack on Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, killed seven people and wounded almost a dozen, Kyiv said Saturday. The northeastern city — 30 kilometers (18 miles) ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 12:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
"Political revenge" or a return to control? Iraq's federal government is reviewing its relations with autonomous Kurdistan and tightening its grip on it. Iraq is using a period of relative stability to assert more control over the oil-rich autonomous Kurdistan region, which has long had fraught relations with federal authorities, analysts and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States and China held talks this week on safety in interactions between their armed forces for the first time in more than two years, the US military said on Friday. The resumption of the talks came after US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed at a summit in November to restore military-to-military ...