This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 12:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Friday he had spoken by telephone with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky, and pledged to end the European country's war with Russia. "I appreciate President Zelensky for reaching out because I, as your next President of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 20:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within "one or two weeks," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday. News of Iran's capabilities follows the recent election of President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has said his goal is to "get Iran out of its isolation," and who favors reviving the 2015 nuclear deal ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 11:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Crowdstrike has stated that a "fix" has been deployed for the bug that caused the global IT outage. The American multinational Microsoft announced a global outage on Friday affecting businesses and users worldwide. The global technical outage caused significant disruptions on Friday morning, affecting various sectors around the globe, including ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 10:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Wall Street Journalist Reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony Friday, accused of spying in a trial the US has called a sham. US reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a Russian penal colony on Friday for "espionage", a verdict reached after three weeks of secretive hearings condemned by Washington as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 10:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Chinese officials pledged on Friday to help ease debt pressure on local governments through reforms to the tax system, after a key political gathering in the capital focused on jumpstarting the faltering economy. All eyes were on how this week's Third Plenum of the Communist Party in Beijing, attended by President Xi Jinping, might tackle the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 06:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump predicted an "incredible victory" Thursday in accepting the Republican presidential nomination from a party euphoric over his escape from assassination and buoyed by the apparent implosion of Joe Biden's reelection campaign. "We will have an incredible victory, and we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 03:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden was reportedly coming closer to dropping out of the White House race Friday as allies including Barack Obama were said to have expressed concerns that he can no longer win the 2024 election. The 81-year-old Democrat was holed up at his beach house with Covid as multiple US media reports said he was considering the future of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 18:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Bangladeshi students set fire to the country's state television station on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared on the network seeking to calm escalating clashes that have killed at least 32 people. Hundreds of protesters demanding reform of civil service hiring rules fought back and overwhelmed riot police who had fired at ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
German electric air cab developer Lilium announced, on Thursday, a landmark order for up to 100 “Lilium Jets” from Saudi state-owned airline Saudia. Contracts for 50 firm orders and an option for a further 50 machines were signed at a ceremony at Lilium's headquarters in Gauting, near Munich. The Saudia Group intends to use these air cabs to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 14:33 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several thousand machinists employed by Boeing in the Seattle area of the northwestern United States voted on Wednesday to go on strike if wage negotiations fail in September. Thousands of Boeing hourly workers voted in Seattle to authorize a potential labor strike if ongoing contract negotiations stumble, a union statement said Wednesday. The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 11:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected by MEPs on Thursday as head of the European Commission, paving the way for continuity in the European Union's main institutions. Members of the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg on Thursday granted a second five-year term of office to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who had already ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 10:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia downed 33 Ukrainian aerial drones overnight over Crimea and 10 naval drones that were heading for the peninsula, Moscow's defense ministry said Thursday. "Air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 33 aerial drones over... Crimea," the ministry said in a Telegram post, adding that forces "in the Black Sea destroyed 10 naval ...