This Is Beirut 2024-06-18 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a year in prison for "propaganda against the state," the jailed activist's lawyer said on Tuesday. Mohammadi, 52, has been jailed since November 2021 over several past convictions relating to her advocacy against the obligatory hijab for women and capital punishment in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-18 10:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to touch down on Tuesday night for his first trip to the isolated nation in 24 years, with a confrontation between North and South Korean troops on their shared border highlighting regional security tensions. Ahead of his visit, Putin hailed North Korea for "firmly supporting" Moscow's war in Ukraine ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 23:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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European Union leaders huddled in Brussels on Monday to thrash out how to divide up the bloc's top jobs, with early signals putting Ursula von der Leyen on track for a second term as chief of the powerful European Commission. Far-right gains in EU-wide elections in early June, which triggered snap polls and political upheaval in France, appear to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 22:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel struck Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory's south, but fighting has largely subsided after a day of relative calm and as Muslims marked Eid al-Adha. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his war cabinet, a government spokesman said, reflecting fractures at the top of the country's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 21:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France began a frantically short election campaign Monday, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance facing an uphill struggle to avoid a new defeat at the hands of the far right. Macron called the snap parliamentary elections three years early in a dramatic gamble to shake up politics in France, after the far right trounced his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 16:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to North Korea on Tuesday, in a rare visit that may see Moscow sign a "strategic partnership treaty" with Pyongyang, the Kremlin said. The historic trip -- which the Kremlin called a "friendly state visit" -- comes as Putin seeks ammunition to continue his military offensive in Ukraine and as the West ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-17 16:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Eleven migrants have died and dozens of others are feared missing after two shipwrecks off Italy, a migrant rescue charity and the coastguard said Monday. Rescuers coming to the aid of migrants on a wooden boat off Lampedusa found 11 bodies below deck, the German aid group ResQship posted on X. The crew aboard ResQship's vessel, the Nadir, "is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Sunday, France was bracing for a frenetic fortnight of election campaigning for snap polls called by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the far right, as star footballer Kylian Mbappé waded into the febrile environment with a warning not to vote for extremes. Candidates had until 4 PM GMT to register for the 577 seats in the lower house ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual of the hajj, the "stoning of the devil", in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of the three concrete walls symbolising the devil in the Mina ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 12:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The international community gathered in Switzerland Sunday for the first Ukraine Peace Summit. Dozens of countries meeting for a landmark international summit on peace in Ukraine agreed Sunday that Kyiv should enter dialogue with Russia on ending the war, while strongly supporting Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity. Leaders and top ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 12:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two prison guards at a jail in southern Russia have been freed without harm after they were taken hostage by Islamic State inmates, with the assailants "liquidated", the country's prison service said Sunday. "During a special operation... the criminals were liquidated and the employees taken hostage were freed and were not wounded," the service ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-16 09:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As the Sudanese civil war rages unabated, man-made devastation and the changing climate are exacerbating a dangerous water crisis. War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan to the shores of a water crisis. In the blistering sun, as temperatures climb past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), Issa's family -- along ...