Ali A. Hamadé 2024-04-21 12:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On the 26th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement – a crucial historic milestone that sealed peace between Protestant loyalists and Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland – the specter of uncertainty looms more than ever over the future of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom. This agreement, once considered a cornerstone of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 22:09 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Ukraine US Secretary of State
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his second visit to China in less than a year next week, with Chinese support for Russia against Ukraine expected to be the main topic. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay his second visit in less than a year to China next week, hoping to use easing tension to press Beijing to curb wartime ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 22:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US House of Representatives approved a major aid package on Saturday for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as a possible ban on the social network TikTok. Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives quickly passed legislation on Saturday to provide aid to Ukraine and Israel and bolster Taiwan, while also threatening a ban on TikTok if it ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The 10 days of hearings in the "Panama Papers" case concluded on Friday in the capital of Panama, with a verdict expected in the coming weeks. Hearings in the money-laundering trial of the heads of the now-defunct law firm Mossack Fonseca, the epicenter of the global "Panama Papers" scandal, concluded on Friday in the Panamanian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 14:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's foreign minister has dismissed as akin to child's play the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, and said Tehran would not respond unless Iranian "interests" were targeted. On Friday, Iran's state media reported explosions were heard after, according to an official, small drones were successfully shot ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 11:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pyongyang tested a "super large warhead" designed for a strategic cruise missile that experts believe is intended to be used by Russia in Ukraine. North Korea has tested a "super-large warhead" designed for a strategic cruise missile, state media said Saturday, the most recent test since UN sanctions monitoring against the nuclear-armed nation ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 10:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing Hashed al-Shaabi, a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday. The explosion hit the Kalsu military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad, where Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, or Hashed al-Shaabi, is stationed. It ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-19 19:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Europe Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
NATO countries agreed to give Ukraine more air defenses after desperate pleas from Kyiv for advanced systems to shoot down Russian attacks, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. "NATO defense ministers have agreed to step up and provide further military support, including more air defense," Stoltenberg said after virtual talks with ...
Samar Kadi 2024-04-19 17:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and Israel, the latest of which occurred early Friday targeting the city of Isfahan in central Iran, are not expected to go on, as both sides are covertly seeking to de-escalate the unprecedented tensions. Overnight explosions echoed across Isfahan in what was described as an Israeli attack by US and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-19 16:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia has killed eight people, including two children on Friday, in its latest aerial attack on Ukraine, as Kyiv, for the first time downed Russian strategic bomber. Russian strikes on Ukraine in the early hours of Friday killed at least eight people, including two children, as Kyiv said it shot down a Russian strategic bomber for the first ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-19 16:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French authorities Friday detained a man suspected of entering the Iranian consulate in Paris and claiming to be carrying explosives, police, and prosecutors said. No explosives or arms were found on the man or the premises after he surrendered to police after the incident. Police arrested the suspect, born in 1963 in Iran, when he exited of his ...
David Hale 2024-04-19 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Small powers can rarely indulge in national security self-delusion. The potentially existential cost of such luxury is simply too high. It is a different matter for great powers, which can carry on in willful contradiction of national interests, obvious threats, and plain facts for some time before reality intrudes. Since October 7, 2023, ...