This is Beirut, 28/03 05:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Justice Security Huthis
A US judge ordered Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to preserve messages from a chat group used by top national security officials to discuss plans for an attack on Yemen's Huthi rebels. The ruling adds to the pressure on the White House after the Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor had been accidentally added to the group ...
This is Beirut, 27/03 05:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States El Salvador Venezuela Immigration Justice
US President Donald Trump's homeland security chief on Wednesday visited the mega-prison in El Salvador where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have been deported under contested legal grounds. Standing in front of a cell of inmates who were stripped to the waist, revealing their tattooed torsos, Kristi Noem recorded a message telling others ...
This is Beirut, 27/03 03:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Immigration Justice Donald Trump
A US appeals court on Wednesday denied a bid by the Trump administration to lift a lower court order barring summary deportations of Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to temporarily keep in place the ban on deportations carried out under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act ...
This is Beirut, 23/03 05:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's opposition leader on Saturday called for a general strike if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to obey a Supreme Court decision freezing the government's dismissal of the internal security chief. If the government "decides to disobey the Court's decision it will become a government outside of the law," Yair ...
This is Beirut, 21/03 05:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Supreme Court Justice
US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations. A federal judge, in a strongly worded order, gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to explain why it went ahead with flights ...
This is Beirut, 18/03 02:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Justice Politics
US President Donald Trump barreled towards a showdown with the courts Monday after his administration expelled alleged members of a Venezuelan gang under little-used, centuries-old wartime legislation. Trump, already pushing the law to its limits on several fronts, also claimed he had annulled pardons issued by Joe Biden on the grounds that his ...
This is Beirut, 17/03 05:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Venezuela El Salvador Justice Gangs
The United States flew over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them. The deportations took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, ...
This is Beirut, 14/03 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Bkerke Justice Beirut port Hezbollah
Minister of Justice Adel Nassar stressed on Monday, from the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke, the need to implement the ministerial declaration aimed at limiting the possession of weapons to the Lebanese state. He emphasized that this measure was the essential starting point for state-building, calling for the establishment of ...
This is Beirut, 10/03 18:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tarek Bitar Port explosion Beirut Justice
Judge Tarek Bitar, who is in charge of investigating the Beirut port explosion case, will be able to continue his investigation, despite 34 appeals lodged against him by personalities against whom he had taken legal action. The acting public prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, Judge Jamal Hajjar, overturned a decision on Monday by his ...
This is Beirut, 20/02 05:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States New York Justice Corruption Politics
A US federal judge peppered a top member of Donald Trump's Justice Department with questions Wednesday during a hearing over the office's extraordinary move to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. The department's request prompted a wave of protest resignations within the Justice Department and at the mayor's ...
This is Beirut, 18/02 05:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States New York Justice
The head of New York's city council on Monday called for the resignation of Mayor Eric Adams, days after the US Justice Department moved to dismiss a corruption case against him. Adams, who pleaded not guilty in September to charges of fraud and bribery, has denied allegations he asked for the case to be dropped in exchange for enforcing ...
Cian Ward, 02/02 15:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
This Sunday, on the fourth anniversary of his assassination, Lokman Slim—a notable Shiite intellectual and free speech advocate—was commemorated in Beirut by his family, friends, and colleagues. This came just days after it emerged that investigative judge Bilal Halawi had decided to "close the file" on the case until "new elements ...