This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 18:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syria is planning the phased demobilization of tens of thousands of reservists from next month, a defense ministry official said, as fighting in the civil war has wound down in recent years. "Tens of thousands will be demobilized by the end of the current year, and the same next year, while maintaining combat readiness and acting in the interests ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 12:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two people were shot dead and two others gravely wounded, on Thursday, in an area known for drug trafficking near the Gare de Midi train station in Brussels, police said. The incident occurred between 1:00 and 2:00 am near a cafe in the Saint Gilles district of the Belgian capital, and the suspect or suspects fled, a police spokesman said. In ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 11:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two ultraconservative candidates have pulled out of Iran's Friday presidential vote, leaving four contenders including one reformist still in the race. Tehran's ultraconservative mayor, Alireza Zakani, announced his withdrawal in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, after earlier denying he was ending his campaign. Zakani's withdrawal ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 10:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off in a crucial US presidential debate on Thursday, as they vie for voter support in a tightly contested and deeply polarized 2024 election. Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off for a historic US presidential debate Thursday, with the stage set for what could be an inflection point in the 2024 race, as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 10:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on southern Syria on Wednesday, the official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source. According to the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike targeted the service centre of a foundation affiliated with pro-Iranian groups including Lebanon's Hezbollah. The strike was near ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 10:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
North Korea successfully tested its multiple-warhead missile capability, state media said Thursday, as dozens more trash-laden balloons from Pyongyang landed in the South. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, with Pyongyang ramping up weapons testing while bombarding the South with balloons full of trash it ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-27 00:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Bolivian President Luis Arce on Wednesday called for democracy to be respected after soldiers and tanks deployed outside government buildings and tried to knock down a door of the presidential palace. AFP reporters saw soldiers and tanks entering Plaza Murillo, a historic square where the presidency and Congress are situated. One of the tanks ...
2024-06-26 21:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paris judges on Wednesday confirmed a French arrest warrant for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad over alleged complicity in crimes against humanity in the 2013 chemical attacks, the plaintiffs' lawyers said. The Paris appeals court found Assad could be sought over deadly August 2013 attacks on Syrian soil with chemical weapons. "This is a historic ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-26 15:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door espionage trial in Russia began Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested on charges that he, his newspaper and the White House reject as false and baseless. Hours after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was brought into court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Washington said it was doing ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-26 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
NATO's 32 nations appointed, on Wednesday, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the alliance's next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will hand over to Rutte on October 1. Major powers, led by the US, completed his nomination in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-26 11:35 - Reading : less than a minute
In jihadist-infested western Niger, an armed group killed 20 servicemen and one civilian on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry announced, declaring three days of national mourning. According to a ministry statement broadcast on national television, security forces were attacked by “a coalition of terrorist armed groups” close to the town of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-26 11:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can challenge the dominance of conservatives in the Islamic Republic. A presidential election had not been due until 2025, but was brought forward after ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month. Leading ...