This Is Beirut 2024-08-14 11:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Taliban authorities kicked off celebrations of the third anniversary of their rule over Afghanistan on Wednesday at the former US Bagram air base. Hundreds of people, including Chinese and Iranian diplomats, gathered at the base, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) outside Kabul, for speeches and a military parade. Helicopters had carried senior ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-14 11:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US mediators launch a new bid Wednesday to broker an end to 15 months of fighting between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and forced millions from their homes. Both sides have been accused of war crimes. Here are the war's key players: The Protagonists In 2021, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-14 11:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday his troops were "moving further" into Russia, as Kyiv's biggest ever cross-border attack stretched into a second week. The Ukrainian army entered Russia's Kursk region on August 6, capturing dozens of settlements in the biggest offensive by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-14 01:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday officially launched a new data-driven "vulnerability" index that would help small island States and developing nations gain access to low-interest financing. The "Multidimensional Vulnerability Index" (MVI) is set to act as a complement to GDP and other development metrics. Since the 1990s, small island ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 18:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine said on Tuesday it would not hold on to Russian territory captured in its surprise cross-border incursion and offered to stop raids if Moscow agreed to a "just peace." Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region last Tuesday, taking over two dozen settlements in the biggest attack by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War II. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 17:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Iraqi government to "intensify efforts" on Tuesday, to exhume victims of the successive conflicts that have plagued the country. "To advance justice and accountability for victims and their families, the Iraqi government should intensify efforts to exhume graves, identify victims, return remains to families ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 16:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations said on Tuesday their human rights offices in Sanaa had been stormed by Yemen's Houthis, with the UN's rights chief demanding they leave immediately and return all seized assets. On August 3, the Iran-backed Houthis sent a delegation to the UN Human Rights Office's premises in Sanaa and forced staff to hand over the keys. They ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 15:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that Moscow was "concerned" about civilian deaths in Gaza. "We are concerned above all about civilian losses," Putin said, according to images shown on Russian state television. "We are doing everything ... to support Palestine and the Palestinian ...
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Donald Trump ran through his checklist of conspiracy theories on Monday in a rambling conversation with his uber-wealthy supporter Elon Musk that was initially derailed by what the tech titan said was a technical glitch. In a very one-sided conversation on X, Trump vented about a "zombie apocalypse" of immigration, repeatedly blasted President ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 21:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump will be interviewed Monday live on X by its billionaire owner, Elon Musk, an influential supporter, as the Republican ex-president works to reignite online enthusiasm for his sagging White House campaign. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has emerged as a major voice in US politics but is accused of turning the platform formerly known as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 17:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sudan is at a catastrophic "breaking point," with tens of thousands of preventable deaths looming due to multiple crises, the United Nations' migration agency warned Monday. The International Organization for Migration said famine and floods were adding to a catalogue of challenges facing millions of people in the war-torn country, amid the ...