This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 15:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Slovakia's health minister said Saturday the prognosis for Prime Minister Robert Fico was "positive" after an assassination attempt, while the suspected gunman appeared in court for the first time. Fico has been in hospital since Wednesday when a lone gunman shot him four times, including in the abdomen. He underwent a five-hour surgery on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 15:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Junta-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalized plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia. Their foreign ministers met Friday in Niger's capital Niamey to agree on a text establishing the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). "The objective was to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 15:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said in a statement. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 14:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Three Spanish tourists and three Afghans were killed Friday in a shooting in the popular tourism destination of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, local and Spanish authorities said. The bodies were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group were fired on while walking through a market in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 14:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have announced their willingness to open "safe passages" out of the city of El-Fasher in Darfur, which has been gripped by fighting for weeks. The RSF, battling the regular army for more than a year, affirmed in a post on X late Friday "the readiness of its forces to help citizens by opening safe passages ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-18 11:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
President Zelensky told AFP in an exclusive interview that Russia's Kharkiv offensive will intensify. He rejected French suggestions of an 'Olympic truce' and requested more Western military support. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with AFP on Friday, warned that Russia could intensify its offensive and said Kyiv would ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-17 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Ukraine Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday that Moscow would not comply with calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Summer Olympics, pointing to what he said was the unfair treatment of Russian athletes. When asked during a visit to China whether he backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea for a global "Olympic truce" during ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-17 19:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian forces pressed ahead on Friday with an offensive into northeast Ukraine, but President Vladimir Putin said that there were no current plans to occupy the key city of Kharkiv. On a trip to China, Putin said that the latest assault was direct retaliation for Ukraine's shelling of Russia's border regions and his country was trying to create ...
Alissar Boulos 2024-05-17 15:58 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
“Today at approximately 9 AM (Gaza time), trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore via a temporary pier in Gaza.” This is how United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the completion of a temporary aid assistance pier in Gaza on Friday. US President Joe Biden had announced this maritime corridor of humanitarian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-17 11:22 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
France's plans to change voting rules in its overseas territory of New Caledonia are opposed by pro-independence groups, pushing the archipelago to the brink of anarchy. Hundreds of military and armed police reinforcements were deployed Friday to the riot-scarred streets of France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, seeking to quell clashes ...
2024-05-17 09:08 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
By the end of May, at least five European countries, including Ireland, Norway, Spain, Slovenia and Malta, are expected to officially recognize the State of Palestine. This decision follows the symbolic vote on May 10th at the United Nations General Assembly, where 143 out of 193 member states endorsed a resolution granting Palestine all ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-16 18:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Antony Blinken American Task Force on Lebanon United States
The American Task Force on Lebanon (ATFL), a leadership organization of Americans of Lebanese descent, celebrated its annual awards dinner on May 5, 2024 in Washington DC, where it honored individuals of Lebanese descent who have strengthened the ties between Lebanon and the United States. The dinner featured interventions by dignitaries and ...