This Is Beirut 01/07 23:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha. Rights organizations have strongly criticized the controversial UN move to exclude the groups, including women's rights activists, ...
This Is Beirut 01/07 12:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that will likely delay his trial for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. The 6-3 decision split along ideological lines comes four months ahead of the election in which Trump is the Republican candidate to take on ...
This Is Beirut 01/07 09:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight in regions near the border, Moscow's defense ministry said Monday. "Air defense systems on duty destroyed and suppressed 18 UAVs over Bryansk region, nine UAVs were destroyed over Kursk region and nine UAVs over Belgorod region," the ministry said in a Telegram post. The ministry said on ...
01/07 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ostentatious takeover of the government of Lebanon by fascist Shiite militancy is no more a secret; it is an established fact. The whole constitutional process is fraudulent and systematically rigged to serve and cover the politics of subversion conducted by Hezbollah and its acolytes. It’s worth mentioning that this policy, far from being a ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 23:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron has taken many risks in a political career marked by countless crises, but his decision to call snap elections may be one too many, marring his legacy and ushering in an era of extremes. The tremors from Macron dissolving the National Assembly after his centrist party suffered a drubbing in European polls remain strong, with even ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 22:27 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Jordan Bardella, 28 years old and ever closer to Matignon since the National Rally (RN)'s success in the first round of legislative elections, has established himself as the poster child and embodiment of LePenism without even bearing the name. Since the dissolution announcement, he has tried his hand at three-piece suits, whose austerity should ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 21:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
France's far right won the first round of pivotal legislative elections on Sunday with the centrist forces of President Emmanuel Macron coming in only third behind the left after the highest turnout in over four decades, estimates said. But it remained unclear if the far-right National Rally (RN) party of Marine Le Pen would win an absolute ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 19:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban government began meetings on Sunday with United Nations officials, as they attended talks in Doha with special envoys to the Central Asian country for the first time, a UN spokesperson said. The two-day, UN-hosted meeting in Qatar is the third of its kind in the gas-rich emirate in just over a year, but ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 18:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Turnout in France's snap parliamentary elections on Sunday was 59.39% at 5:00 PM (1500 GMT), the Interior Ministry said, some 20 points higher than at the same stage in the last such polls in 2022. This would equate to a final turnout of 67.5-69.7% when polling stations close this evening, according to projections by several polling ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 15:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The provisional results of the first round of the French legislative elections in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana have been released. They place the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) in the lead in these overseas departments, despite a breakthrough by the Rassemblement National (RN). In Martinique, no candidate managed to secure an absolute ...
Michel Touma 30/06 14:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An election with little strategic significance, but undeniable symbolic importance... The presidential election held in Iran on Friday to choose a successor to Ebrahim Raisi, who died on May 19 in a helicopter crash while returning from Azerbaijan, has led to a runoff between the moderate reformist candidate, Massoud Pezeshkian, and the ...
This Is Beirut 30/06 11:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Blackouts are becoming longer and more frequent in Egypt, as a growing energy and economic crisis pushes the Egyptian government to intensify "load shedding." At least once a day, the hum of every fan, air conditioner and fridge across Egypt goes quiet. The lights go out and an expletive is muttered or hurled into the quickly-heating air. Lifts ...