This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 20:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jailed Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other female inmates were hurt in clashes that erupted at Tehran's Evin prison following a spate of executions, her family said, raising new concerns for her health. Iranian authorities acknowledged a confrontation had taken place on Tuesday but blamed Mohammadi for a "provocation" and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 17:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fighting between pro-Iranian groups supporting the Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces killed 13 people, mostly civilians, a war monitor said Friday. Six children were among the victims of intense shelling of Dahla in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. Fighting erupted on Wednesday when ...
2024-08-09 17:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Obstruction of humanitarian aid, lack of sanitary and medical infrastructure... In an interview with This Is Beirut, Ahmed Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division at Human Rights Watch, discusses the causes and consequences of the cholera epidemic currently affecting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 15:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden will next week make their first joint campaign trip since the US president's shock decision to drop out of the 2024 White House race against Donald Trump. Seeking to burnish his legacy in his final months in office and support the new Democratic ticket, Biden will appear alongside his vice president at an event in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 11:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled a trip to Central Asia after earthquake scientists warned the country should prepare for a possible "megaquake." The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the advisory on Thursday after eight people were injured by a tremor of magnitude 7.1 in the south. Kishida was due Friday to travel ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 11:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion into Russia, where state media and local officials on Friday reported a fire at a military airfield and "massive" drone attacks hundreds of kilometers from the border. The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region over the past few days appears to be the most significant attack on Russian soil ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-08 15:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 shook southern Japan on Thursday, but no major damage was reported, and only relatively minor tsunami waves lashed the coast. The quake hit at 4:42 PM (7:42 GMT) off Kyushu at a depth of 25 kilometers (16 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS had initially reported two ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-08 15:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 10 kilometers (six miles) into Russia in possibly the most serious border incursion of the conflict, the Institute for the Study of War said on Thursday. Pro-Kyiv forces stormed into Russia's southwestern Kursk region on Tuesday morning, deploying around 1,000 troops and more than two dozen armored vehicles ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-08 13:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of anti-racism protesters took to the streets in several English cities on Wednesday to oppose days of far-right violence that have had UK police on high alert. Nightly riots — during which mosques and migrant-related facilities have been attacked — have erupted across towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland fueled by a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-08 11:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to be the rightful winner of the country's presidential election, on Wednesday defied a Supreme Court summons over the disputed results. Election authorities declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July 28 vote, prompting the opposition to cry foul and sparking ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-08 11:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus will helm Bangladesh's interim government after the ouster of premier Sheikh Hasina, who had hounded him in speeches and through the courts. The 84-year-old, known as the "banker to the poorest of the poor," was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work loaning small cash sums to rural ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-07 14:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
China carried out a combat patrol to test "strike capabilities" near a flashpoint reef in the South China Sea on Wednesday, as the United States and its allies held joint military drills in the same waters. Tensions in the disputed waterway have spiked following a series of escalating confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels that ...