This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 13:33 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sri Lanka's first presidential elections since an unprecedented economic crisis spurred widespread unrest will be held in September, the election commission said Friday. The election will be the first test of the public mood since the height of the 2022 downturn, which caused months of food, fuel and medicine shortages across the island ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 13:28 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Former US president Barack Obama endorsed his fellow Democrat Kamala Harris' bid for the White House on Friday, delivering a major boost to her campaign to defeat Donald Trump in November's presidential election. The country's first woman vice president is seeking to make history again in November after President Joe Biden abruptly announced he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 12:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump refused to agree to a debate with Democrat presumptive-nominee Kamala Harris on Thursday, saying that it would be "inappropriate" until she is officially nominated. The country's first female vice president has enjoyed a groundswell of support from labor groups, ethnic minorities and her own party ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 12:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An "out of control" wildfire has devoured up to half of the main town in western Canada's popular Jasper National Park, authorities said on Thursday, with 400 foreign firefighters called in to help battle the blaze. While the fire has so far caused no casualties, as many as 25,000 residents and tourists were evacuated from the area before the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 10:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French security forces are hunting the people behind Friday's arson attacks that hobbled the country's high-speed rail network hours before the Olympic Games opening ceremony and disrupted travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers on Friday. According to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, "Our intelligence services and law enforcement are ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 09:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US arrested two top bosses of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa drug cartel on Friday in a reportedly dramatic sting operation. US agents arrested two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel in Texas on Thursday, the justice department said, striking a major blow to one of the most powerful and violent criminal organizations in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian authorities on Thursday executed Kurdish man Kamran Sheikheh, the last surviving defendant in a case linked to a Muslim cleric's killing in 2008, rights groups said. Sheikheh, one of seven men first arrested in the case more than 14 years ago, was put to death in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 16:28 - Reading : less than a minute
King Abdullah II has issued a royal decree to dissolve Jordan's parliament on Thursday, Jordanian media reports. A royal decree has been issued to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies, effective today, Thursday, July 25, 2024, according to the Petra Agency. “I, Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, pursuant to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 13:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The death toll from a devastating landslide in southern Ethiopia has risen to 257, the United Nations said Thursday, warning it could increase to up to 500. The disaster occurred on Monday following heavy rains in a tiny community in a mountainous area of South Ethiopia regional state. The last toll, given by the local authority on Tuesday, was ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 11:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Boeing will plead guilty to fraud as part of a deal with the US Department of Justice over two fatal 737 MAX crashes, according to a court filing Wednesday. The agreement comes after prosecutors concluded Boeing flouted an earlier settlement addressing the disasters, in which a total of 346 people were killed in Ethiopia and Indonesia more than ...
Salam Zaatari 2024-07-25 10:52 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The turn of events in the presidential elections took an unexpected twist when President Biden suspiciously suspended his campaign over social media and not in a televised speech and endorsed Kamala Harris. This move raised eyebrows, particularly because the Obamas did not endorse Harris, whereas the Clintons did, fueling speculation about ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amnesty International called on the United Nations Thursday to extend the arms embargo on Darfur to cover all of Sudan, in a report on weapons flooding the war-torn country. The 15-month war between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces "is being fuelled by an almost unimpeded supply of weapons into Sudan by states and ...