This is Beirut 2024-11-11 14:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Fires that blazed on Monday west of Jerusalem were not caused by debris from an intercepted missile fired from Yemen and claimed by the Houthis, firefighters said. Israeli firefighters and the military had earlier said that blazes around Beit Shemesh about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Jerusalem had been caused by the missile's debris and its ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-11 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Shortages Electricity Fuel
Iran is to impose electricity rationing in Tehran and other provinces from Monday because of a shortage of fuel in power stations, the official IRNA news agency said on Sunday. The agency said different areas of the capital will experience two-hour power cuts on a rotating basis between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm (0530 GMT to 1330 GMT). It said similar ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-11 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Ukraine Russia
US President-elect Donald Trump allegedly spoke to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Trump supposedly held the call from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, just days after his stunning election victory over Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the report ...
Michel Touma 2024-11-11 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Donald Trump Middle East Tehran United States
Donald Trump's return to the White House, bolstered by a sweeping Republican victory in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, has sparked significant concern among some Western circles. These observers are uneasy about what they see as the newly elected president's overly “conservative” positions, particularly in terms of social ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-11 10:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
COP29 Climate United Nations Baku
Countries come to Baku after new warnings that 2024 is on track to break temperature records, adding urgency to a fractious debate over funding for climate action in poorer countries. Trump has pledged to once again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, and there are concerns the move could weaken ambition around ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-11 09:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Arab League Saudi Arabia Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Donald Trump
Arab and Muslim leaders gather in Saudi Arabia Monday for a summit addressing the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, a chance to send a message to US President-elect Donald Trump. Iran's First Vice President, Mohammad Reza Aref, announced in a statement on Monday that he would be attending. “This meeting is being held upon Iran's proposal ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-11 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Donald Trump Vladimir Putin
Air alerts wailed across Ukraine early Monday as Russian strikes killed at least six people, a day after record drone attacks by both sides, with US president-elect Donald Trump reportedly urging Russia's Vladimir Putin not to escalate the conflict. Trump's election to the White House has the potential to upend the almost three-year conflict and ...
Charles Chartouni 2024-11-11 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The undue prolongation of war in Lebanon and Gaza and its cohort of tragedies should be traced to the cynical calculations of the Iranian regime using the Near Eastern operational terrains as its remote defense lines. The war scheme is no hazard; it’s initially meant to protect Iranian strategic security, consolidate its dominions, destabilize ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-10 20:44 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran Pakistan Sistan-Baluchistan Jihadists
At least five members of Iran's security forces were killed Sunday in a "terror attack" in the restive southeast, where authorities have been conducting operations against rebels, local media reported. The Fars news agency reported that in a "terror attack in Saravan county, in the south of the Sistan-Baluchistan province, five ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-10 20:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A high police presence is being prepared for the France vs. Israel Nations League football match at the Stade de France in Paris on Thursday (November 14). Paris police chief Laurent Nunez described the event as high risk and revealed 4,000 gendarmes would be around the stadium, on public transport and in Paris. "An elite unit of national ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-10 19:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Iran Fayyad al Ruwaili Mohammad Bagheri
Saudi Arabia's top military official arrived in Tehran on Sunday for talks with Iranian officials, state media reported, in a rare high-level meeting since the countries restored ties last year. Fayyad al-Ruwaili, chief of staff of the Saudi armed forces, met his Iranian counterpart "General Mohammad Bagheri at the Iranian Armed Forces General ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-10 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Damascus Sayyida Zainab Area Syria
An Israeli strike on Sunday south of Damascus targeted a Hezbollah apartment, killing nine people including Ali Moussa Daqdouq, a Hezbollah official responsible for the group’s operations in the Golan Heights. Several Syrian media outlet, reported a toll of nine dead and twenty wounded in the strike. Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the ...