This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 12:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who negotiated a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers, announced on Monday that he had resigned from his new post as vice president. "To avoid any suspicions or excuses for disrupting the work of the government... I resigned from the position of vice president for strategic ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-08-12 11:57 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The suspense in Tunisia has come to an end this Sunday, August 11: The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), responsible for organizing and supervising elections, has released the final list of candidates for the presidential election, which will take place on October 6. This will mark the fourth election since the 2011 overthrow of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 10:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Greece ordered fresh evacuations near Athens on Monday as wildfires spread despite "superhuman" efforts to contain the flames, firefighters said. At least five more communities were told to flee by civil protection authorities on Monday, after hundreds of people evacuated on Sunday from at least eight villages. "Civil protection forces battled ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 10:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
President Vladimir Putin ordered his army on Monday to "dislodge" Ukrainian troops who have entered Russian territory as authorities said over 120,000 people had been evacuated away from the fighting. Ukraine sent troops last week into Russia's border region of Kursk, in the largest cross-border operation by Kyiv since Moscow launched its ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 16:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thousands of Ukrainian troops are taking part in a major incursion into Russian territory, aiming to destabilize Russia by showing up its weaknesses, a top Ukrainian official has told AFP. "We are on the offensive. The aim is to stretch the positions of the enemy, to inflict maximum losses and to destabilize the situation in Russia as they are ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 15:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Five Iran-backed fighters were killed on Sunday in a drone strike in Syria's east, near the Iraqi border, a war monitor said, adding it was not clear yet who was behind the attack. "Five pro-Iranian fighters were killed and others were injured, some severely... after an unknown drone targeted the military vehicle they were in... near the ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-08-11 14:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The name of the possible new Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, was announced on Sunday by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Araghchi could therefore succeed Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, assuming he receives the approval of Parliament and Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei. As a reminder, his predecessor died in a helicopter crash in May ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 14:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian presented his cabinet to Parliament on Sunday, notably including a woman and a Western-friendly diplomat as the country's foreign minister. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on state ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A man and his four-year-old son were killed in an overnight Russian missile attack near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the emergency service said Sunday. Explosions rang out Saturday night in the center and east of Kyiv, AFP journalists noted, as Ukraine's air force said two Russian missiles were headed towards the city. Air raid sirens sounded in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-10 10:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Moscow on Saturday launched a "counter-terror operation" in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia's western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack and have advanced several kilometers, according to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-10 10:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
King Charles III on Friday made his first comments about riots that have shaken British cities to praise the work of police in countering the violence. While the monarch and Queen Camilla conveyed their condolences to the families of three girls killed in a mass stabbing on July 29, Buckingham Palace had not commented on the near-daily riots that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 21:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An airplane with 62 people on board crashed Friday in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing all its passengers dead according to firefighters and the airline Voepass. According to a Brazilian official the passengers were instantly killed upon the crash. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said earlier during an official event that it appeared there ...