This is Beirut 08/06 16:22 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Russia said Sunday it was pushing into Ukraine's eastern industrial Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in its three-year offensive -- a significant territorial escalation amid stalled peace talks. Moscow, which has the initiative on the battlefield, has repeatedly refused calls by Ukraine, Europe and US President Donald Trump for a full ...
This is Beirut 08/06 16:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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Ukraine said Sunday that a planned exchange of captured soldiers would start "next week," after both sides accused each other of trying to thwart and delay the swap. "The start of repatriation activities based on the results of the negotiations in Istanbul is scheduled for next week," the head of Ukraine's defense intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, ...
This is Beirut 08/06 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A prominent Colombian right-wing presidential candidate who was shot during a campaign event in Bogota has successfully undergone initial surgery, the city's mayor said Sunday. Thirty-nine-year-old Senator Miguel Uribe was speaking to supporters in the capital when a gunman shot him twice in the head and once in the knee before being ...
This is Beirut 08/06 10:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Hundreds of National Guard troops took up positions in Los Angeles Sunday on the orders of US President Donald Trump, a rare deployment over the head of the state governor, afer unruly protests against immigration raids. The US military said 300 soldiers from the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team had been sent to three separate locations in ...
This is Beirut 07/06 22:45 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli army and the General Security Service announced on Saturday that they had eliminated the leader of the Mujahideen Brigades in Gaza, Assaad Abu Shariaa, who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. According to the Arabic-language spokesperson for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, Abu Shariaa was “one of the main perpetrators” of ...
This is Beirut 07/06 22:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump threatened his former advisor Elon Musk with "serious consequences" Saturday if the tech billionaire seeks to punish Republicans who vote for a controversial spending bill. The comments by Trump to NBC News come after the relationship between the world's most powerful person and the world's richest ...
This is Beirut 07/06 22:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will meet a US delegation for talks next week in Britain, Beijing announced Saturday amid a fragile truce in the trade dispute between the two powers. He will visit the United Kingdom from June 8 to 13 at the invitation of the British government, China's foreign ministry said in a statement. It said He and ...
This is Beirut 07/06 20:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations mission in Libya on Saturday welcomed the formation of two committees by the Libyan presidential council to address safety and human rights after recent deadly clashes in Tripoli. UNSMIL said the committees were "composed of key parties", with one aimed at "strengthening security arrangements to prevent the outbreak of fighting ...
This is Beirut 07/06 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A large-scale prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine -- the only concrete outcome of peace talks -- was thrown into doubt Saturday after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of delaying and thwarting the swap. The hold-up to an exchange that both sides said would take place this weekend came as Moscow's army launched a barrage of ...
This is Beirut 07/06 17:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians on Saturday, six of them in a shooting near a US-backed aid distribution center. The Israeli military told AFP that troops had fired "warning shots" at individuals that it said were "advancing in a way that endangered the troops". The shooting ...
This is Beirut 07/06 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian state television reported on Saturday that Tehran had obtained a trove of "strategic and sensitive" Israeli intelligence, including files related to Israel's nuclear facilities and defense plans. "Iran's intelligence apparatus has obtained a vast quantity of strategic and sensitive information and documents ...
This is Beirut 07/06 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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A notorious desert refugee camp in Syria has closed after the last remaining families returned to their areas of origin, Syrian authorities said on Saturday. The Rukban camp in Syria's desert was established in 2014, at the height of Syria's civil war, in a de-confliction zone controlled by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, ...