This Is Beirut 02/04 18:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Bassirou Diomaye Faye took office as the youngest president in Senegal on Tuesday. He pledged to enact systemic reforms, strengthen sovereignty and bring back peace after years of turbulent unrest. Senegal's left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in on Tuesday as the country's youngest president, pledging systemic change, ...
This Is Beirut 02/04 12:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's President Ebrahim Raissi condemned on Tuesday a deadly air strike blamed on Israel against his country's consular annex in Damascus, saying the "cowardly crime will not go unanswered." "After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its ...
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Will Iran retaliate for the Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus, which resulted in the deaths of several Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials, most notably Mohammad Reza Zahedi? This strike has highlighted the absence of diplomatic or political red lines against Israeli attacks. It indicates that all military moves and operations ...
This Is Beirut 01/04 18:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A car bomb in Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine's eastern Lugansk region killed a Moscow-appointed government official on Monday, local authorities said. The local branch of Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said the deputy head of a state-run administrative agency was killed when "an unidentified device detonated ...
This Is Beirut 31/03 20:18 - Reading : less than a minute
According to early partial results, Turkey's opposition appears to be ahead for now in the key cities of Istanbul and Ankara, state media said on Sunday. With 20 percent of the votes counted, the current mayor of Istanbul was leading with 49.6 percent of the vote, compared with 41.6 percent of his main rival, who was backed by President Recep ...
This Is Beirut 31/03 15:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Francis urged the world to resist "the logic of weapons" in his Easter message at the Vatican on Sunday, easing growing health fears as he greeted thousands of Catholics. The 87-year-old's "Urbi et Orbi" (To the City and the World) blessing came after he led Easter Mass in front of 60,000 worshippers at Saint Peter's Square while appearing ...
This Is Beirut 31/03 10:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkish voters headed to the polls on Sunday in municipal elections, with all eyes on Istanbul, the national "jewel" that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to pry away from the opposition. As soon as he clinched re-election as president last May -- he has been head of state since 2014 -- Erdogan launched the campaign to reclaim the city of 16 ...
This Is Beirut 30/03 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Argentine government has suspended plans to transfer its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as reported by Argentine and Israeli media. However, it has decided on the immediate appointment of a new ambassador, Axel Wahnish, after days of negotiations, approved on Tuesday evening by the Senate Agreements Committee. Mr. Wahnish's proposal to ...
This Is Beirut 30/03 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States announced on Friday that it was «taking steps» to put fresh visa curbs on Hong Kong officials responsible for cracking down on rights in the Chinese city, days after a new national security law came into force. In a statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that over the past year, Beijing has "continued to take ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 22:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian security services claimed on Friday to have arrested three "nationals of a Central Asian country" who were planning a bomb attack in southwest Russia, a week after the attack on a concert hall near Moscow that left at least 144 people dead. Russia's security services said Friday that they had arrested three people from "a Central Asian ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 19:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iraq announced on Friday that a power line would soon bring electricity from Jordan, as the authorities seek to diversify energy sources to alleviate the country's chronic blackouts and reduce its dependence on Iran. Iraq said Friday a power line would soon bring electricity from Jordan to the border area as authorities aim to diversify energy ...
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 ...