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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday condemned the "radical Islamist terrorists" behind "massacres" of minorities in Syria and demanded that the interim administration hold those responsible to account. "The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent ...
This is Beirut 09/03 15:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US Secret Service agents shot an armed man near the White House during the night, an agency spokesman said early Sunday, while President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The man had been hospitalized and his condition was "unknown," the spokesman said in a statement that did not specify ...
This is Beirut 09/03 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israel on Sunday prepared to send a delegation to Doha for further talks on the Gaza truce, as Hamas called for an immediate start to negotiations on the ceasefire's second phase, which it hopes will lead to a permanent end to the war. Representatives of the Palestinian militant group, which waged a deadly war with Israel before a truce took ...
This is Beirut 09/03 05:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia said Saturday its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in its Kursk border region, in a fresh setback for Kyiv ahead of talks to try to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday named a high-level delegation including ministers to meet US negotiators in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, seeking to repair ties ...
This is Beirut 08/03 22:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Protesters took to the streets across the world Saturday to mark International Women's Day, demanding equal pay, political representation and an end to gender-based violence while voicing fears of rising repression. In eastern Ukraine, scores of demonstrators held a minute's silence to honour women killed defending the country from Russia's ...
This is Beirut 08/03 21:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The leaders of Syria's three main Christian churches issued a joint statement Saturday condemning "massacres targeting innocent civilians", following reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians by the security forces. Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said "532 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal ...
This is Beirut 08/03 20:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, is responding well to treatment, the Vatican said on Saturday, adding that the 88-year-old's condition had seen "a gradual, slight improvement". The Argentine pontiff has been in Rome's Gemelli hospital since February 14, and has suffered several respiratory crises since his admission, but for several ...
This is Beirut 08/03 19:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday slammed what he described as bullying tactics a day after US President Donald Trump threatened military action against Iran. "Some bully governments -- I really don't know of any more appropriate term for some foreign figures and leaders than the word bullying -- insist on ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 08/03 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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In the misty streets of New York in 1908, no one could have imagined that a group of exhausted, underpaid textile workers were paving the way for a global movement. As they stood up against inhumane working conditions, they had no idea they were writing the first chapter of a long history of struggle. Back then, March 8 was just another date on ...
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Syrian security forces deployed heavily in the Alawite heartland on the Mediterranean coast on Saturday, after a war monitor reported that government and allied forces killed at least 745 civilians from the religious minority in recent days. Residents of the region continued to report killings of civilians after deadly clashes broke out on ...
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Hamas accused Israel Saturday of "committing the war crime of collective punishment" by halting aid to Gaza for a seventh day, saying it also impacted Israeli hostages still held there. On Sunday, Israel announced it was blocking aid deliveries to Gaza until Palestinian militants accepted its terms for an extension of the ceasefire which had ...
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Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has warned that an attack on Iran's Gulf coast nuclear facilities would leave countries across the region without water. In an interview with right-wing United States media personality Tucker Carlson, who is close to US President Donald Trump, the premier said Doha had ...