This Is Beirut 2024-09-21 21:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier Saturday, marked by a shift to the right 11 weeks after an inconclusive parliamentary election. The first major task for Barnier, appointed just over two weeks ago, will be to submit a 2025 budget plan addressing France's financial situation, which the ...
2024-09-21 18:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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In-person voting for this year's presidential election began on Friday, marking a significant milestone and the start of a six-week sprint leading up to Election Day, following a summer of political turbulence. Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Virginia, the first states to offer early in-person voting options. ...
2024-09-21 16:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he requested a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in a bid to "normalize" relations between their countries. The two countries severed all official relations in 2011, following the start of the Syrian ...
Cian ward 2024-09-21 14:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Saturday marks the ten-year anniversary of the Houthi capture of Sana'a, Yemen's capital city. A decade of Houthi rule has transformed the country, putting an end to its tentative liberalization, and replacing it with an increasingly radical theocratic police state. Ten years ago, on September 21, 2014, the Houthis declared the capture of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-21 13:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and an upgraded one-way attack drone at a military parade on Saturday, state media said, amid soaring regional tensions and allegations of arming Russia. Iran stands accused by Western governments of supplying both drones and missiles to Russia for use in its war with Ukraine, a charge it has repeatedly ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-21 12:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One person has died and at least seven others are missing in Japan, where the authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 60,000 residents in the centre of the country on Saturday due to flooding caused by heavy rain. A dozen rivers in the region, on the west coast of central Japan, had burst their banks by 11:00 am (0200 GMT), land ministry ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-21 10:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sri Lankans voted on Saturday to elect their president, two years after a catastrophic financial crisis that imposed a widely unpopular and harsh austerity program on the country. Polls opened at 7:00 AM local time (01:00 GMT) and closed at 4:00 PM (10:30 GMT) after a calm election marked by high voter turnout, according to AFP ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 20:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Following the strike on Beirut's southern suburbs that killed Hezbollah elite force commander Ibrahim Aqil, the Israeli military congratulated itself on its operation. "Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out a targeted strike on Beirut, eliminating Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah's operations unit, commander of the Radwan unit," an Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 14:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A militant from Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, an armed group, was killed Friday in a strike targeting pro-Iran factions in Syria, a group member told AFP, blaming Israel for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said a member of the Hezbollah Brigades was killed but was unable to verify the strike itself. The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 11:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that she had arrived in Kyiv to offer support ahead of winter, as Russia keeps up its bombing campaign of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. "My eighth visit to Kyiv comes as the heating season starts soon, and Russia keeps targeting energy infrastructure," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, along with a ...
2024-09-20 10:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two people from Taiwanese companies were questioned as part of a probe into pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, investigators said Friday, as top officials insisted the devices were not from the island. Questions and speculation have swirled over where the devices came from and how they were supplied to the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-20 06:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kamala Harris held a star-studded rally hosted by talk show legend Oprah Winfrey on Thursday in a bid to bedazzle voters, as rival Donald Trump criticized Jewish Americans for not voting for him. Hollywood stars including Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, and Ben Stiller beamed in remotely to lavish praise via screens on ...