This Is Beirut 2024-07-13 19:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An oil depot caught fire Saturday in Russia's Rostov region after a Ukrainian drone attack, its governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram. Both Moscow and Kyiv have extensively used drones, including larger self-detonating craft with ranges stretching hundreds of kilometres, throughout the conflict, which began in February 2022. "After a drone ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-13 18:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced the imminent end to the Turkish forces' operation against Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq and Syria. Turkey launched Operation Claw-Lock in April 2022 to secure its border with northern Iraq, from where it accused Kurdish separatists of launching attacks against Turkish territory. "We ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-13 17:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Kremlin on Saturday warned that the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles in a repeat of Cold War-style confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke of a "paradox" in which "Europe is a target for our missiles, our country is a target for US missiles in Europe". "We have enough ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-13 14:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian said he looks forward to improved relations with European nations, even though he accused them of reneging on commitments to mitigate the impact of US sanctions. Pezeshkian won a runoff election against ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili last week. The 69-year-old has called for ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-13 09:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A fired up Joe Biden again rejected speculation he would quit the US presidential race and tried to turn the spotlight on rival Donald Trump as he took his crisis-hit reelection bid back on the campaign trail Friday. But as he addressed a lively rally in the battleground state of Michigan, the drumbeat of Democrats urging the 81-year-old Biden to ...
2024-07-12 23:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday pleaded for donors to fund the embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, warning there was no alternative despite Israeli criticism of the body. At a pledging conference, Guterres warned that suffering Palestinians would lose a "critical lifeline" without the agency known as UNRWA. "Let me be ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-12 20:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin held a telephone call where they discussed lowering the risk of "possible escalation", the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. The call, which was initiated by Moscow, comes as tensions between the two sides flare over Washington's plan to deploy long-range missiles ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-12 20:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thousands of prisoners are to be released early from September in order to prevent the "collapse" of the prisons system, the UK's new justice minister announced on Friday. Shabana Mahmood said failure to do so risked the "total breakdown of law and order", with just 700 places left for men, and jails operating at 99 percent capacity since ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-12 17:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
CNN reported on Friday that US intelligence successfully foiled a plot earlier this year to assassinate Rheinmetall’s CEO, Armin Papperger. Rheinmetall is one of the world's biggest producers of artillery and tank shells, supplying weaponry to Ukraine since the start of the war. The Irish Times reports that the company is set to produce about ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-12 15:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban jetted off to Florida on Thursday to meet with former US President Donald Trump after the end of the NATO summit in Washington. The sit-down at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is likely to further upset Budapest's allies after Orban drew widespread ire from European counterparts for meeting Russian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-12 14:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Iranian court has ordered the United States to pay almost $6.8 billion in damages for the effect of sanctions on patients with a rare skin disease, the judiciary said. The International Court in Tehran ordered its foe the United States to pay $6.785 billion to patients with epidermolysis bullosa, a disorder that causes the skin to blister ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-12 12:11 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party's grip on power. It will be the fourth election to Syria's largely rubber-stamp parliament since civil war erupted in 2011. As in the previous ones, President ...