This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 21:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France began a frantically short election campaign Monday, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance facing an uphill struggle to avoid a new defeat at the hands of the far right. Macron called the snap parliamentary elections three years early in a dramatic gamble to shake up politics in France, after the far right trounced his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 16:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to North Korea on Tuesday, in a rare visit that may see Moscow sign a "strategic partnership treaty" with Pyongyang, the Kremlin said. The historic trip -- which the Kremlin called a "friendly state visit" -- comes as Putin seeks ammunition to continue his military offensive in Ukraine and as the West ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 16:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Eleven migrants have died and dozens of others are feared missing after two shipwrecks off Italy, a migrant rescue charity and the coastguard said Monday. Rescuers coming to the aid of migrants on a wooden boat off Lampedusa found 11 bodies below deck, the German aid group ResQship posted on X. The crew aboard ResQship's vessel, the Nadir, "is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Sunday, France was bracing for a frenetic fortnight of election campaigning for snap polls called by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the far right, as star footballer Kylian Mbappé waded into the febrile environment with a warning not to vote for extremes. Candidates had until 4 PM GMT to register for the 577 seats in the lower house ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual of the hajj, the "stoning of the devil", in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of the three concrete walls symbolising the devil in the Mina ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 12:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The international community gathered in Switzerland Sunday for the first Ukraine Peace Summit. Dozens of countries meeting for a landmark international summit on peace in Ukraine agreed Sunday that Kyiv should enter dialogue with Russia on ending the war, while strongly supporting Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity. Leaders and top ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 12:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two prison guards at a jail in southern Russia have been freed without harm after they were taken hostage by Islamic State inmates, with the assailants "liquidated", the country's prison service said Sunday. "During a special operation... the criminals were liquidated and the employees taken hostage were freed and were not wounded," the service ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 09:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As the Sudanese civil war rages unabated, man-made devastation and the changing climate are exacerbating a dangerous water crisis. War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan to the shores of a water crisis. In the blistering sun, as temperatures climb past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), Issa's family -- along ...
Ali A. Hamadé 2024-06-15 17:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In an unexpected turn of events, Kate Middleton, formally known as Catherine, Princess of Wales, has shared significant news about her cancer treatment, three months after beginning chemotherapy. Her Royal Highness stated, "I am making good progress, but as with anyone undergoing chemotherapy, there are highs and lows," noting that her ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-15 17:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran and Sweden announced on Saturday a prisoner exchange that saw a former Iranian official jailed in Sweden freed as Stockholm said Tehran had released a European Union diplomat and a second Swede. "Hamid Noury, who has been in illegal detention in Sweden since 2019, is free and will return to the country in a few hours," Kazem Gharibabadi, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-15 14:27 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Former French president François Hollande announced on Saturday his candidacy for the legislative elections in Corrèze under the banner of the Nouveau Front Populaire, while a crisis has erupted within La France Insoumise (LFI) over nomination disputes. Former French President François Hollande is standing as a candidate for the legislative ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-15 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 1.5 million Muslims will pray on Mount Arafat in soaring temperatures on Saturday, in the high-point and most gruelling day of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Worshippers from all over the world will climb the rocky, 70-metre (230-feet) hill, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mecca, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have given his ...