This Is Beirut 06/07 17:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The war continued unabated on Saturday, with Israel's military saying it had conducted operations across much of the Gaza Strip, including Shujaiya in the north, Deir al-Balah in central Gaza and Rafah in the south. Shujaiya is among the areas the military had previously declared to be cleared of Hamas, but where fighting is again taking ...
This Is Beirut 06/07 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Newly elected United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday began his first full day in office by declaring himself "restless for change" and pledging that growth would be his Labour government's "number one mission." Starmer also confirmed his previously declared intention to end the outgoing Conservative government's flagship scheme to ...
This Is Beirut 06/07 11:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Joe Biden fended off questions about his mental fitness and electability on Friday in a TV interview meant to draw a line under a disastrous debate performance that triggered calls for him to quit his re-election bid. With rebellion brewing among some nervous Democratic voters, lawmakers and donors, the one-to-one with the ABC network was hyped ...
06/07 09:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday won a runoff presidential election against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the interior ministry said. Pezeshkian received more than 16 million votes and Jalili more than 13 million out of about 30 million votes cast, electoral authority spokesman Mohsen Eslami said, adding that voter ...
This Is Beirut 05/07 22:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's media adviser Luna al-Shibl died on Friday three days after being injured in a car crash, Assad's office announced. "The presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic mourns the death of the adviser Luna al-Shibl, who passed away today after a serious car accident", it said in a statement. "She served in recent years ...
Ali A. Hamadé 05/07 20:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The annihilation of the Conservative Party and the overwhelming victory of the Labour Party have indeed taken place. As expected, Sir Keir Starmer was appointed British Prime Minister by King Charles III. In these times of political alternation, the British people hope to regain faith in change after fourteen years of Conservative government. So, ...
This Is Beirut 05/07 19:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's party held onto its lead in opinion polls published Friday ahead of legislative elections, but its chance of wielding an absolute majority was receding. The anti-immigrant, eurosceptic National Rally (RN) remains on course to be the biggest party in parliament after Sunday's second-round vote but is not ...
This Is Beirut 05/07 10:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Keir Starmer on Friday swept into Downing Street for the first time as UK prime minister, promising urgent action to restore the country's fortunes. The Labour party leader oversaw a landslide victory in Thursday's general election, ending 14 years of rule by Rishi Sunak's Conservatives. "The work of change begins immediately," Starmer told ...
Ali A. Hamadé 05/07 09:58 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lacking charisma, dull, and repetitive: these are the terms often used to describe the new British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. However, he prefers to emphasize realism and caution. This political heavyweight will step into 10 Downing Street on July 5, ending fourteen years of uninterrupted Conservative rule. Could the former Northern Ireland ...
This Is Beirut 05/07 09:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Polls opened Friday for Iran's runoff presidential election, pitting reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili in the race to succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. The Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say in all state matters, cast his ballot when the ...
This Is Beirut 04/07 14:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The leaders of China and Russia on Thursday urged their allies to resist malign external influence, advancing their shared anti-Western agenda at a regional summit in Central Asia. Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping were in Kazakhstan for a gathering of leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional bloc ...
This Is Beirut 04/07 14:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Britain votes Thursday in a general election widely expected to hand the opposition Labour party a landslide win and end nearly a 14 years of Conservative rule. The national ballot follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's surprise call to hold it six months earlier than required. His gamble looks set to backfire spectacularly, with polls throughout ...