This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 16:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Iranian police announced on Saturday that they had stepped up checks on the compulsory wearing of veils by women in the street, lamenting the fact that they are increasingly disregarded. "The police in Tehran, as in other provinces, will intervene against individuals who promote (...) not wearing the veil," warned the capital's police chief, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 13:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tel Aviv has warned Iran of the consequences of any escalation in the region, following the seizure by a Pasdaran commando of a ship linked to Israel. Iranian Revolutionary Guards took control of the Portuguese ship MSC ARIES in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. The ship is currently sailing in the Persian Gulf, according to ship-tracking website ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 11:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An explosive device detonated in a car in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus, Syrian state media said on Saturday, quoting a police source. "The explosion heard a short while ago in the Mazzeh area resulted from an explosive device detonating in a car in al-Huda square," Syria's official SANA news agency said, quoting a Damascus police command ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 11:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
"The situation on the eastern front has deteriorated significantly in recent days" in the face of a heightened Russian offensive, Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Saturday. Syrsky, who took over as commander-in-chief in February after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his popular predecessor, Valery Zaluzhny, said ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-13 10:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Australian police on Saturday said they had received reports that "multiple people" were stabbed at a busy shopping centre in Sydney, where at least six individuals were reportedly killed. Eight people, including a child, have been taken to the hospital after the attack, according to the ambulance services. The incidents occurred at the sprawling ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-12 12:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sudan has been brought to its knees by a war between the regular army and rival paramilitaries that has killed thousands of people and displaced 8.5 million more. Here are the main developments in the fighting, which has brought the country of 48 million to the brink of famine. April 2023: Fighting Erupts Explosions rock the capital Khartoum on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-12 10:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A court in Argentina called Iran a "terrorist state" on Friday for its role in two deadly terror attacks against the Israeli embassy and Jewish Centre in the 1990s. Over three decades after deadly attacks in Buenos Aires targeted Israel's embassy and a Jewish center, an Argentinian court placed the blame on Thursday on Iran and declared it a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-11 23:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that recent airstrikes on Ukraine's energy grid, which have caused huge blackouts, are part of the Kremlin's "demilitarization" of its neighbor. His comments came after Moscow launched a barrage of aerial attacks on Thursday, targeting energy facilities across Ukraine. "We assume that in this way ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-11 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The UN Fact-Finding Mission to Sudan, on Thursday, called for an immediate ceasefire, the end of attacks on civilians, and full access for humanitarian aid. The Sudanese people have had enough of the devastating conflict raging inside the country, UN investigators said Thursday as the fighting rolls on into a second year. Sudan's warring parties ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-11 12:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia launched one of the largest missile and drone attacks of the Ukraine war, on Thursday, while the Ukrainian parliament approved a new controversial mobilization bill. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia fired more than 40 missiles and 40 drones at Ukraine overnight, again hitting the city of Kharkiv and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-11 11:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The US and Japan announced their biggest upgrade to defense ties, during a Washington state visit, in which the leaders agreed that a Japanese astronaut will be the first non-American to walk on the Moon. US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled their countries' biggest ever upgrade in defense ties Wednesday ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-10 22:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The EU parliament on Wednesday adopted a contentious reform of Europe's asylum policies that will harden border procedures and force all the bloc's 27 nations to share responsibility. The parliament's main political groups overcame opposition from far-right and far-left parties to pass the new migration and asylum pact -- a sweeping reform nearly ...