par This Is Beirut, 25/03 13:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Senegal's anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to become president after his main rival on Monday recognized his victory in elections that came barely days after he was freed from prison. The win by the opposition candidate who will be Senegal's youngest president could trigger a political earthquake with policies that ...
par This Is Beirut, 25/03 16:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Four Tajik nationals accused of carrying out a terror attack at a Moscow concert hall are to be held on "terror" charges, on Monday. Russia has ordered four men accused of killing at least 137 people in a massacre at a Moscow concert hall to be held in custody on "terror" charges with the death toll expected to climb as more than 100 people are ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/03 11:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore collapsed after a ship collided with it, the Maryland Transportation Authority said early Tuesday. "I-695 Key Bridge collapse due to ship strike," the MTA posted on social media platform X, referring to the interstate highway. It urged drivers to avoid the route over the Patapsco River, ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/03 22:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The US Treasury Department sanctioned 11 people and companies on Tuesday it said were involved in illicit financial transfers and drug smuggling in support of the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Many of those sanctioned were involved in the trade of the highly addictive amphetamine captagon, which is illegally trafficked ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/03 13:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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French President Emmanuel Macron concludes a state visit to Brazil on Thursday by addressing differences with his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva over Ukraine and rejecting the EU-Mercosur trade deal. French President Emmanuel Macron ends his three-day state visit to Brazil on Thursday on a more political note, with the focus on his ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/03 16:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French authorities are to deploy members of the security forces in front of all Catholic and Protestant churches for the upcoming Easter weekend, further bolstering security in the aftermath of the Moscow attack, according to a memo seen on Thursday. France has raised its security alert to the highest level after the Moscow concert hall attack ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/03 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia claimed, on Thursday, that it has evidence that Ukrainian nationalists were linked to last week's Moscow attack. The US has dismissed these claims as absurd. Russia said Thursday it had evidence the perpetrators of last week's massacre at a concert hall outside Moscow were linked to "Ukrainian nationalists", a claim that the United States ...
28/03 19:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France has announced that it will provide 30 million euros to UNRWA, so long as it "completes its mission ... devoid of any call to hatred or violence." France will provide 30 million euros ($32 million) for the embattled UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA if it commits to neutrality, the foreign ministry said Thursday, without giving a timeline ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/03 20:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia on Thursday accused Armenia of trying to rupture increasingly strained ties between the two ex-Soviet countries, as Yerevan voices mounting criticism of Moscow's role as regional security guarantor. The small Caucasus nation has been in a decades-long standoff with its neighbour and rival Azerbaijan, and has repeatedly accused Moscow of ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/03 10:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia blocked on Thursday the renewal of a panel of UN experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, weeks after the body said that it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang. The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by South Korea's Foreign Ministry, which said that Russia had made an ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/03 12:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Biden raised a record $25 million for his re-election bid in a star-studded event in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, as Trump attends the wake for a killed NYPD officer. US President Joe Biden was joined in New York on Thursday by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at a blockbuster fundraising event where he collected $25 million to go towards his ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/03 12:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The rupture of a key oil pipeline that carries oil from South Sudan to Port Sudan may cause severe turmoil in the poverty stricken South Sudan, potentially delaying its first ever election. Experts warned that oil-dependent South Sudan is at risk of economic and political turmoil over the shutdown of a key pipeline in its war-torn ...
