This Is Beirut 2024-07-02 19:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
At least 200 candidates stood down ahead of France's runoff election as President Emmanuel Macron and a left-wing coalition seek to block the far right, an AFP tally showed on Tuesday. On Sunday, France votes in the decisive final round of the snap legislative polls Macron called after his camp received a drubbing in European elections last ...
Cian ward 2024-07-02 17:20 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
The UK’s “most boring election in history” is currently underway, with Labour’s Keir Starmer appearing, more than ever, the PM-to-be. The battle for No.10 Downing Street is characterized by bland ideas and even blander politicians. But the real contest that will define Britain's future is on the right. As the traditional right ...
2024-07-02 16:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
In early March, US President Joe Biden made an announcement regarding the construction of a floating dock off the coast of Gaza. The project has been a hot topic ever since. The aim is to deliver humanitarian aid to the enclave following the closure of land crossing points by the Israeli army. Beyond the humanitarian issue, what strategic ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-02 14:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The General Prosecutor's Office of the Paris Court of Appeal stated on Tuesday to AFP that it had referred the French arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad to the Court of Cassation for a ruling on a "legal question." Al-Assad is accused of complicity in crimes against humanity for the 2013 chemical attacks in Syria. "Without calling into question ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-02 11:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Violence raging in troubled Haiti is forcibly displacing one child every minute, on average, with some 300,000 already affected, the United Nations children's agency warned on Monday. Displaced children account for more than half of the 600,000 people who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, according to UNICEF, particularly in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-02 11:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for a surprise visit to the war-torn country by the EU and NATO's most vocal critic of Western support for Kyiv. Orban has not visited Kyiv since Russia invaded in February 2022 and has publicly hit out at Europe's financial and military aid, temporarily blocking a 50-billion ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-02 10:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that talks would soon resume with the United States, which has reimposed crippling sanctions on the South American country's oil industry, as he looks towards this month's election. Maduro claimed that Washington had initiated the proposal and that Caracas had agreed to it after two months of careful ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-01 23:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha. Rights organizations have strongly criticized the controversial UN move to exclude the groups, including women's rights activists, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-01 12:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that will likely delay his trial for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. The 6-3 decision split along ideological lines comes four months ahead of the election in which Trump is the Republican candidate to take on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-01 09:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight in regions near the border, Moscow's defense ministry said Monday. "Air defense systems on duty destroyed and suppressed 18 UAVs over Bryansk region, nine UAVs were destroyed over Kursk region and nine UAVs over Belgorod region," the ministry said in a Telegram post. The ministry said on ...
2024-07-01 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ostentatious takeover of the government of Lebanon by fascist Shiite militancy is no more a secret; it is an established fact. The whole constitutional process is fraudulent and systematically rigged to serve and cover the politics of subversion conducted by Hezbollah and its acolytes. It’s worth mentioning that this policy, far from being a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-30 23:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron has taken many risks in a political career marked by countless crises, but his decision to call snap elections may be one too many, marring his legacy and ushering in an era of extremes. The tremors from Macron dissolving the National Assembly after his centrist party suffered a drubbing in European polls remain strong, with even ...