This Is Beirut 14/05 21:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States will back Ukraine until its security is "guaranteed," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, hours after Russian forces claimed further advances in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Blinken's visit comes just weeks after the US Congress finally approved a $61-billion financial aid package for ...
This Is Beirut 14/05 15:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations said Tuesday that it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff which was hit in southern Gaza, killing a UN official. One UN security services member was killed and another wounded in the attack on Monday, the United Nations said, marking the first death of a UN employee in Gaza since ...
This Is Beirut 14/05 15:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The EU passed a major reform of its asylum system on Tuesday, which seeks to harden its border policies ahead of an expected right-wing surge in the upcoming European elections. The EU gave the final green light on Tuesday to a landmark overhaul of its migration and asylum policies that will see hardened borders and responsibility shared among ...
This Is Beirut 14/05 11:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China this week on the invitation of leader Xi Jinping, Beijing's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Putin will be in Beijing from Thursday to Friday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, in the Russian leader's second visit to China in just over six months. It will be the Russian leader's ...
This Is Beirut 14/05 10:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Anthony Blinken made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Tuesday to reassure Ukraine of American support amid Russia's renewed offensive in the East and incursion in the Kharkiv region. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived on Tuesday in Kyiv on an unannounced visit to assure Ukraine of continued American support and the flow of much-needed ...
This Is Beirut 13/05 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Putin's Sunday defense shake-up, which saw the ouster of long-serving defense minister Sergei Shoigu, appears designed to facilitate Russia's transition to a war economy. Vladimir Putin's nomination of top economic official Andrei Belousov as defense minister is a sign of the importance the Russian leader places on the war economy in what he ...
This Is Beirut 13/05 14:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the procedure, according to the US hospital that carried it out. "Mass General is deeply saddened at the sudden passing of Mr. Rick Slayman. We have no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant," the Boston hospital said in ...
This Is Beirut 13/05 13:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France has received combined investment commitments from foreign companies of more than 15 billion euros, President Emmanual Macron's office stated on Monday. The announcement came as Macron kicked off a day of meetings with foreign business leaders at the Chateau de Versailles, called 'Choose France.' The biggest single commitment is by ...
Salam Zaatari 13/05 11:50 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel, recently shed light on the motivations driving certain ministers within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner circle to advocate for escalated conflict in the Middle East. Speaking in a televised interview with the LCI channel, Barak asserted that these ministers are pushing for heightened ...
This Is Beirut 13/05 11:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Armenian police said on Monday that they had detained dozens of people attempting to block streets in the capital, Yerevan, as part of protests against government plans to concede land to Azerbaijan. Armenia has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts in a bid to secure an ...
13/05 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Aside from pacifist daydreaming and faked humanitarianism, how evitable are the battles in Rafah and South Lebanon? Is the unilateral pressure on Israel likely to forestall the inevitable confrontation on both sides of the border, while Hamas and Hezbollah are still determined to derail diplomatic mediations and engage in long hauled conflicts ...
This Is Beirut 12/05 23:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The separatist parties that have governed Catalonia for a decade lost their majority in Sunday's regional vote with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists taking a clear lead, partial results showed. With 90 percent of the votes counted, Carles Puigdemont's hardline JxCat, the moderate ERC of outgoing regional leader Pere Aragones and ...