This is Beirut, 26/11 11:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Russia launched a record 188 drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said Tuesday, amid growing international tensions over Russian missile threats and hints Moscow could strike European cities. Moscow and Kyiv have been escalating their drone and missile broadsides, with Ukraine recently firing US long-range missiles at Russia and the Kremlin ...
This is Beirut, 25/11 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed on Monday the "renewed threat" of anti-personnel landmines, days after the United States said it would supply the weapons to Ukrainian forces battling Russia's invasion. In remarks sent to a conference in Cambodia to review progress on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, Guterres hailed the work of ...
This is Beirut, 25/11 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Far-right candidate Calin Georgescu surged unexpectedly in Romania's presidential election, pulling ahead of the pro-European prime minister with more than 98 percent of votes counted Monday and looking all but certain to advance to a runoff. Exit polls had initially shown centre-left Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu with a comfortable lead and put ...
This is Beirut, 24/11 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said during a telephone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he wants to expand trade between Ankara and Moscow. "President Erdogan declared that he aimed to increase the cooperation between Turkey and Russia in a number of areas, notably expanding the volume of trade," the ...
This is Beirut, 22/11 22:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukraine is asking its Western partners for updated air defense systems after Russia fired an ultra-fast ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday. "Ukraine's defense minister is already holding meetings with our partners on new air defense systems, exactly the kind of systems that can ...
This is Beirut, 22/11 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Pro-Kremlin Muscovites voiced confidence in President Vladimir Putin on Friday, a day after Russia test-fired a new intermediate-range missile at Ukraine in a stark escalation of tensions. Putin delivered an unscheduled TV address after the strike, in which he told Russians that the Ukraine conflict had taken on "elements of a global ...
This is Beirut, 22/11 04:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the conflict in Ukraine had characteristics of a "global" war and did not rule out strikes on Western countries. The Kremlin strongman spoke out after a day of frayed nerves, with Russia test-firing a new generation intermediate-range missile at Ukraine -- which Putin hinted was capable of ...
This is Beirut, 21/11 19:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Russia's strike on Ukraine was not an ICBM, but an "experimental" medium-range ballistic missile, a US official said Thursday, playing down the significance of the attack. "Russia may be seeking to use this capability to try to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters... but it will not be a game changer in this conflict," the US official ...
This is Beirut, 21/11 18:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United States unveiled sanctions on dozens of Russian banks Thursday, including the largest remaining one yet to face such action, over the war in Ukraine. The move taking aim at financial institutions and officials "will further diminish and degrade Russia's war machine," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. "This sweeping ...
Soumia Benmerzoug, 21/11 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Washington has crossed a red line for Moscow by permitting Ukraine to use long-range "ATACMS" missiles to target strategic sites on Russian soil. This unprecedented support, along with the controversial delivery of "non-persistent" antipersonnel mines, is aimed at slowing the Russian military’s advance in eastern Ukraine. While Kyiv has praised ...
Salam Zaatari, 21/11 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
During his US presidential campaigns, Donald Trump frequently expressed concerns about the potential for World War III, often blaming rising global tensions on the foreign policy decisions of the Biden administration. He specifically criticized actions he views as provocative or escalatory, such as the administration's approval of sending ...
This is Beirut, 19/11 17:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine's use of long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a "new phase of the Western war" against Moscow, and vowed to react "accordingly." Ukraine used the missiles to target a military facility in Russia's Bryansk border region overnight, Moscow said, just days after Washington gave the green light ...