This Is Beirut 12/07 20:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thousands of prisoners are to be released early from September in order to prevent the "collapse" of the prisons system, the UK's new justice minister announced on Friday. Shabana Mahmood said failure to do so risked the "total breakdown of law and order", with just 700 places left for men, and jails operating at 99 percent capacity since ...
This Is Beirut 12/07 17:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
CNN reported on Friday that US intelligence successfully foiled a plot earlier this year to assassinate Rheinmetall’s CEO, Armin Papperger. Rheinmetall is one of the world's biggest producers of artillery and tank shells, supplying weaponry to Ukraine since the start of the war. The Irish Times reports that the company is set to produce about ...
This Is Beirut 12/07 15:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban jetted off to Florida on Thursday to meet with former US President Donald Trump after the end of the NATO summit in Washington. The sit-down at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is likely to further upset Budapest's allies after Orban drew widespread ire from European counterparts for meeting Russian ...
This Is Beirut 12/07 14:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Iranian court has ordered the United States to pay almost $6.8 billion in damages for the effect of sanctions on patients with a rare skin disease, the judiciary said. The International Court in Tehran ordered its foe the United States to pay $6.785 billion to patients with epidermolysis bullosa, a disorder that causes the skin to blister ...
This Is Beirut 12/07 12:11 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party's grip on power. It will be the fourth election to Syria's largely rubber-stamp parliament since civil war erupted in 2011. As in the previous ones, President ...
This Is Beirut 12/07 11:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he is “disappointed” with the problem-plagued effort to deliver aid to Gaza via a temporary pier, which American officials say will soon permanently end. The $230-million military pier has repeatedly been detached from the shore because of weather conditions since its initial installation in ...
This Is Beirut 12/07 09:27 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
During his crucial NATO press conference, Thursday, Biden failed to cool concerns over his fitness for office after making several verbal gaffes, including mistaking Ukraine's President Zelensky for Vladimir Putin, and Vice President Kamala Harris for Donald Trump. A defiant Joe Biden insisted Thursday that he will run for another term as US ...
This Is Beirut 11/07 21:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accused of leading a crackdown on dissent since mass protests in 2019, announced Thursday he will seek a second term in an election set for September. Tebboune, 78, was elected in 2019 with 58% of the vote, following months of pro-democracy protests. "Given the desire of many parties, political and ...
This Is Beirut 11/07 20:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded Thursday that Israel retain control of key Gaza territory along the border with Egypt as part of any accord to suspend the war with Hamas. The condition conflicts with Hamas's position that Israel must withdraw from all Gaza territory after a ceasefire. Speaking after the return of Israeli negotiators ...
This Is Beirut 11/07 20:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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G7 foreign ministers condemned on Thursday the move by Israel to legalize five outposts in the West Bank, and slammed its decision to expand existing settlements and establish new ones. Settlement expansion has increased sharply since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in late 2022, at the helm of a hardline pro-settler ...
This Is Beirut 11/07 15:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Solemn mourners began gathering in Srebrenica on Thursday to remember the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims, less than two months after the UN established a memorial day to mark the genocide. On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the eastern Bosnian town -- which was then a UN-protected enclave -- and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in ...
This Is Beirut 11/07 11:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden will hold a press conference on Thursday at NATO's summit in Washington, as he hopes to dispel calls to step down in the coming election in November. US President Joe Biden will give his first press conference on Thursday, the first since his debate disaster against Donald Trump, in a pressure-cooker moment that could seal ...