This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 11:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Mexico elected its first female president by a landslide on Sunday in a historic first for the country facing growing violence and criminality. Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as Mexico's first woman president by a landslide on Sunday, preliminary official results showed, making history in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
European countries are hoping to censure Iran over its nuclear program despite US fears that it could further inflame tensions in the Middle East. Britain, France and Germany will seek to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at its board meeting on Monday, despite US opposition, diplomats told AFP. According to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-02 17:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Clashes broke out near the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday between members of the security forces and a group “involved in drug smuggling” close to Hezbollah, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Homs | Clashes erupt between members of regime’s patrols and group of dr*ug smu*gglers close to Lebanese Hez*bollah in northern ...
Ali A. Hamadé 2024-06-02 16:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
What if Keir Starmer entered 10 Downing Street on July 4? Since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for early general elections, the leader of the opposition and of the Labour Party has been eyeing the realistic chance of winning and putting an end to 14 years of consecutive Conservative rule. Currently leading in the polls, Starmer stands at a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-02 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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France's far-right National Rally (RN) party holds a commanding lead in voting intentions for upcoming European Parliament elections, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday. Voting intentions remained "very volatile", however, said the Elabe institute, which conducted the polls for broadcaster BFMTV and weekly La Tribune Dimanche. "One ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-02 13:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday registered his candidacy for a presidential election this month, state media reported. The Islamic republic goes to the polls on June 28 to replace ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. Ahmadinejad, 67, held the post for two straight ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-01 19:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A former commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards who is under US sanctions registered his candidacy on Saturday for next month's presidential election, state media reported. Like other hopefuls, Vahid Haghanian will have to wait to see if his candidacy is approved by the Guardian Council, a 12-strong body of jurists dominated by conservatives ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-01 17:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iranian authorities have arrested 35 people in a raid on a "satanist network gathering" in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, local media reported on Saturday. The raid took place after police had "identified the location" of the gathering, which featured "signs and symbols of satanism, alcohol, and drugs," the ISNA news agency said. Raids ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-01 11:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia fired a combined 100 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that targeted energy sites across the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Russia has launched hundreds of aerial attacks at Ukraine's power facilities throughout the two-year war, causing significant damage and energy shortages as Ukraine's stretched air ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-31 23:11 - Reading : less than a minute
Ukraine United States Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday hailed the United States' decision to allow Kyiv to use American-supplied weapons to strike in Russia, with some restrictions. "This is a step forward toward [the] goal ... of making it possible to defend our people who live in the villages on the border," Zelensky told reporters in Stockholm where ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-31 20:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump lashed out in rambling, angry comments on Friday at his "sick" opponents and "fascists" after what he called a "very unfair" trial that made him the first former US president to become a convicted felon. The 77-year-old Republican, who is neck and neck with President Joe Biden in the 2024 White House race, confirmed he would ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-31 19:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four entities associated with OFAC-designated Rayan Roshd Afzar Company (RRA) that have supplied significant material for Iran’s UAV program. Additionally, OFAC has sanctioned an Iranian executive, Afshin Khajeh Fard, of the Iran Aviation Industries ...