This Is Beirut 2024-05-22 14:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The decision by Ireland, Norway and Spain, announced on Wednesday, to recognize the State of Palestine has sparked a mixture of praise, evasion and fury internationally. The Palestine Liberation Organization and Islamist group Hamas welcomed the decision to recognize a Palestinian state as a boost for their cause. "We consider this an important ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-22 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Trump's lawyers rested their case on Thursday, without the former president testifying as he previously promised to do. The jury is scheduled to deliberate the verdict next week. Donald Trump's defense lawyers rested their case on Tuesday – without the former president following through on a vow to testify – as the judge scheduled jury ...
Rami Rayess 2024-05-22 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran is often described as the only country in the world where an elected president answers to a higher-ranking, unelected official—the Supreme Guide, who is not subject to any form of accountability. This is particularly significant since, in "Iranian Theology," the Supreme Guide represents divine authority and is above the mechanisms ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 22:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia announced the start of tactical nuclear weapons exercises near Ukraine on Tuesday, claiming it was reacting to Western "threats," as Ukrainian army claims some success around the Northeastern city of Kharkiv. Russia on Tuesday announced the start of tactical nuclear weapons drills close to Ukraine, in what it said was a response to Western ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 20:04 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Considered a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's death on Sunday has reshaped the succession process. The death in a helicopter crash of president Ebrahim Raisi, seen as a possible successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reshuffled the cards in the succession process and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 18:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler offered reassuring words on Tuesday about the health of the Gulf kingdom's aging monarch, who has a lung infection, state media said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, first in line to the throne, "reassures everyone about the health of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques," the official Saudi Press Agency said on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 17:53 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to the Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia in an attempt to resolve a political crisis, Paris said on Tuesday, as tourists were evacuated from the riot-hit territory after over a week of unrest. Macron "will leave as soon as this evening," government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot said, in a bid to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 14:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 14,000 people have been displaced in recent days from Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, where Russia launched a ground offensive on May 10, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The assault has seen Russian forces achieve their largest territorial gains in Ukraine in the last 18 months. "Over the past two weeks, fighting in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 13:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Greek court dismissed charges on Tuesday against suspects accused of involvement in a migrant shipwreck that killed over 600 people, amid criticism of the coastguards' role in the tragedy. A court in Greece dismissed on Tuesday the charges against nine suspects in one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks, saying that it did not have ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 12:36 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife, Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the president's office said on Tuesday. She will undergo a "specialized treatment protocol" that requires social distancing to avoid infection, the statement said, adding that she will "temporarily withdraw from ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 11:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tens of thousands of Iranians gathered Tuesday to mourn president Ebrahim Raisi and seven members of his entourage who were killed in a helicopter crash on a fog-shrouded mountainside in the northwest. Waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, mourners set off from a central square in the northwestern city of Tabriz, where Raisi ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 23:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States said on Monday that Iran had asked for its assistance after the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and offered its condolences while deeming that he had "blood on his hands". "The Iranian government has asked us for help," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters, even ...