This Is Beirut 20/08 19:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine's parliament voted Tuesday to ban the Russian-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move Kyiv says strengthens its independence as the country cuts ties with institutions it considers aligned with Moscow. Kyiv has been trying to curb spiritual links with Russia for years—a process accelerated by Moscow's 2022 invasion, which the powerful ...
This Is Beirut 20/08 17:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran shut two offices linked to Germany's government on Tuesday, the judiciary said, nearly a month after the closure of a religious center in Germany over ties to the Islamic republic. "Two branches of illegal centers affiliated with the German government, which violated Iran laws and committed numerous illegal acts and extensive financial ...
This Is Beirut 20/08 13:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The world's oldest living person, Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, has died at the age of 117, her family said on Tuesday. "Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain," her family wrote on her account on social network X. "We will ...
This Is Beirut 20/08 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Barack Obama will hail Kamala Harris as the future of the Democratic Party on Tuesday as she is formally crowned its presidential nominee after a roller-coaster ride in US campaign politics. Former President Obama, still hugely popular and an influential figure in the party, will tell delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago ...
20/08 09:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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On his ninth visit to the region since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the subsequent war and massacres in Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Sunday to deliver a message from the American administration to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US efforts to secure a ceasefire through the Doha and Cairo ...
This Is Beirut 20/08 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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An emotional Joe Biden won a huge ovation as he gave a farewell speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday, after Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance to thank him for being an "incredible" president. "I love you," the tearful 81-year-old president told the crowd to deafening cheers, less than a month after dropping out ...
Cian ward 19/08 16:31 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
On August 6th, more than two years into Vladimir Putin's "special military operation", Ukraine launched a "special military operation" of its own. It is a risky gambit, but one that may be crucial in eventual peace talks. At 5 a.m. on the 24th of February 2022, President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian people from deep within the Kremlin, ...
This Is Beirut 19/08 13:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two wildfires in southern France forced several thousand people to flee before the blazes were brought under control, officials said on Monday. Some 3,000 holiday makers were evacuated from a camping site to a municipal building in the coastal town of Canet-en-Roussillon, near the city of Perpignan, in the face of a fire fanned by strong winds, ...
This Is Beirut 19/08 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations condemned on Monday the "unacceptable" level of violence becoming commonplace against humanitarian workers, a record 280 of whom were killed worldwide in 2023. And it warned that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is potentially fueling even higher numbers of such deaths this year. "The normalization of violence against aid workers ...
This Is Beirut 19/08 11:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden will give a bittersweet farewell address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday, passing the torch to Kamala Harris as the party's nominee for November's election. Less than a month after his stunning withdrawal and Harris' astonishing ascent, Biden can expect a hero's send-off from many of the same ...
This Is Beirut 19/08 10:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An official from the Russian Investigative Committee has claimed that Ukraine has hit a third strategic bridge in Russia's Kursk region. This follows Ukraine's acknowledgement on Sunday, that it has destroyed two others, seeking to disrupt Moscow's supply routes, as Kyiv's unprecedented incursion on Russian soil stretched through its second ...
This Is Beirut 18/08 19:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A United Nations task force on Sunday warned of soaring child malnutrition in Yemen's government-controlled areas, reporting "extremely critical" levels of malnutrition in parts of the country's south for the first time. "The number of children under the age of five suffering acute malnutrition, or wasting, rose by 34 percent compared to the ...