This Is Beirut 29/08 10:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A senior Chinese military official warned the United States to stop "collusion" with Taiwan while top White House aide Jake Sullivan stressed the importance of stability in the tense Strait in a rare one-on-one meeting Thursday, both sides said. Sullivan arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, the first US national security advisor to visit China since ...
This Is Beirut 29/08 02:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The 2024 Paralympics opened in Paris on Wednesday in a colourful and hope-filled ceremony, starting 11 days of competition in a city still riding the wave of the successful Olympics. French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open during a ceremony in a balmy Place de la Concorde in central Paris -- the first time a Paralympic opening ...
This Is Beirut 29/08 02:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France on Wednesday charged Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, with a litany of violations related to the messaging app and banned him from leaving the country while allowing the billionaire to walk free after four days under arrest. Durov, 39, was charged on several counts of failing to curb extremist and illegal content on the ...
This Is Beirut 28/08 20:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, who was arrested in France on charges of failing to curb illegal content on the app, is also being investigated on suspicion of "serious acts of violence" against one of his children, a source close to the case said Wednesday. The probe, opened recently by the French child welfare office, concerns ...
This Is Beirut 28/08 16:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Families of Burkina Faso civilians killed in a massacre have accused the army of exposing them to their jihadist killers by making them leave their village to dig a trench. Armed men carried out the attack in the village of Barsalogho in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday, killing dozens of civilians and security personnel, local sources ...
This Is Beirut 28/08 11:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia ignored a second summons from prosecutors Tuesday as his coalition denounced "judicial harassment" following President Nicolas Maduro's disputed reelection. Prosecutors loyal to Maduro want to question the 74-year-old, who is in hiding, in an investigation into his claim that ...
Rami Rayess 28/08 09:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Whether Vice President Kamala Harris wins the upcoming United States presidential election in November, or former President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office after a four-year absence, the challenge posed by China will remain a significant concern for Washington. However, the approaches may differ depending on who is in power. It is now ...
This Is Beirut 28/08 02:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Prosecutors on Tuesday filed a revised indictment of Donald Trump, pressing ahead with bombshell charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 US election after losing to Joe Biden. The superseding indictment retains the same four charges against Trump as in an earlier version but takes into account a recent Supreme Court ruling that a former ...
This Is Beirut 27/08 17:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that his military had recently carried out the first successful test of a domestically-produced ballistic missile. His announcement in Kyiv came in the wake of two consecutive nights of large-scale Russian bombardments across Ukraine that killed several people and battered energy ...
This Is Beirut 27/08 17:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran’s supreme leader opened the door on Tuesday to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, telling its civilian government there was "no barrier" to engaging with its "enemy," as reported by the Associated Press. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has final say on all state matters, set clear ...
This Is Beirut 27/08 14:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that he supports a swift end to the grinding conflict in Ukraine after visiting the war-hit country. Modi, 73, has trodden a delicate balance between maintaining India's historically warm ties with Russia while courting closer security partnerships with Western ...
This Is Beirut 27/08 14:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi kicked off a visit on Tuesday to "independently assess" conditions at Russia's Kursk nuclear plant following Ukraine's unprecedented cross-border offensive into the Russian region. Russia fired hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine on Monday, killing at least four people and battering the country's ...