This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Senegal plunged further into the unknown on Friday after the top constitutional body overturned President Macky Sall's contentious decision to postpone this month's presidential election. It is yet to be seen how and when the vote will now take place, with Sall so far offering no comment on the historic ruling by the Constitutional Council. His ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine said on Friday that it was sending more reinforcements to the frontline city of Avdiivka, a main target for Moscow, ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. Facing a shortage of ammunition and being outnumbered on the battlefield, Ukraine may be forced to withdraw from the eastern town, which has become a symbol of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 21:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An explosion was reported near a vessel off the coast of Yemen, two maritime security agencies said Thursday, the latest in a series of incidents that have disrupted global shipping. On Thursday, a ship reported "an explosion in close proximity to the vessel" east of Yemen's Aden, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said, adding the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 14:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The US military said on February 15 that it had seized an Iranian weapons shipment in January intended for Yemen's Houthi rebels, who have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea since November 2023. The US navy "seized advanced conventional weapons and other lethal aid originating in Iran and bound for Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen from a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that a delay in passing new US aid for Ukraine was already hurting Kyiv's forces on the battlefield against Russia. "We see the impact already of the fact that the US has not been able to make a decision, but I expect the US to be able to make a decision, that the Congress and the House of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-14 14:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed their intention to turn a new page in their country's relations after more than a decade of estrangement. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in Cairo on Wednesday that they were turning a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-14 13:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will on Wednesday detail increased defence spending by members of the alliance, rattled after Donald Trump threatened to encourage Russia to attack countries paying too little. The Republican White House frontrunner was widely rebuked after saying he would not defend NATO members who had not met their financial ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-14 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The South Korean military reported that North Korea launched missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, thrusting the region into uncertainty as the risk of a conflict looms. North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles Wednesday, Seoul's military said, part of a string of weapons tests this year that have accompanied increasingly aggressive ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-14 12:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gas supplies were disrupted in northern Iran after two explosions struck gas pipeline early Wednesday in an act of "terrorism and sabotage" according to state media. "This act of terrorism and sabotage was carried out in two locations at around 1:00 am," National Iranian Gas Company manager Saeed Aghli told the energy ministry's official Shana ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-14 09:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Voters in suburban New York picked a Democrat to replace expelled Republican congressman George Santos on Tuesday, US networks projected, after President Joe Biden's party poured cash into TV ads to flip the seat in an election year. CNN and NBC News both called the race in favor of Tom Suozzi, forecasting that he had defeated Republican Mazi ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-13 20:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The US Senate approved a bill on Tuesday that would provide Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with a total amount of $95 billion in financial aid, amid claims of the importance of adopting an isolationist stance first and foremost. The US Senate on Tuesday approved long-delayed funding for Ukraine's war effort, part of a foreign aid package that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-12 12:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin was admitted to critical care on Monday, February 12. Duties were handed over to deputy Kathleen Hicks. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was admitted to a critical care ward with a bladder issue as he battles prostate cancer. He transferred his duties to his deputy on Sunday, the Pentagon said. Deputy Secretary of ...