This Is Beirut 2024-09-16 14:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Germany will expand border controls from Monday to the frontiers with all nine of its neighbors to stop irregular migrants, in a move that has sparked protests from other EU members. Berlin announced the sweeping measure following a string of deadly extremist attacks that have stoked public fears and boosted support for the far-right Alternative ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-16 12:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France will propose Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne to serve on the European Commission after the shock resignation of Brussels heavyweight Thierry Breton, President Emmanuel Macron's office said on Monday. Sejourne "meets all the necessary criteria", the Elysee Palace said, highlighting his previous experience leading the liberal Renew group ...
2024-09-16 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The politics of intentional prevarication are part of the repertoire of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The simulation, the doublespeak, and the outright dissembling are essential keys to understanding the subtexts of its political strategizing. Observers have difficulty pinpointing the true motivations and sifting through the multilayered ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 21:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Sunday in Florida, the FBI said, with the Republican presidential candidate's campaign and law enforcement reporting he was safe and unharmed. The US Secret Service confirmed one or more of its agents "opened fire on a gunman" located near the boundary of Trump's golf course, and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thirty-four women prisoners went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison Sunday to mark two years since protests erupted against clerical authorities, the foundation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said. "Today, on the 15th September 2024 34 female political prisoners in Evin Prison have gone on a hunger strike in commemoration of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 13:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Spain rejected on Sunday allegations by Venezuela that Madrid was involved in a plot to destabilize the government of the Latin American country, according to a Foreign Ministry source. "Spain denies and categorically rejects any insinuation that it is involved in a political destabilization operation in Venezuela," the source told AFP after ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 13:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday nominated his chief of staff to be the new prime minister, the royal palace said, charging him with forming a government after parliamentary elections. The outgoing premier, Bisher Khasawneh, submitted his resignation to the king earlier on Sunday. Under the kingdom's constitution, the government usually ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 11:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Eight migrants died early Sunday when their overcrowded vessel capsized while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said, less than two weeks after the deadliest such disaster this year. The French and British governments have sought for years to stop the flow of migrants, who pay smugglers thousands of euros per ...
2024-09-15 11:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition. Two years after the eruption of a protest movement that opponents of Iran's clerical authorities hoped would mark a turning point in the Islamic Republic's 45-year history, a bleak picture now confronts them. Activists and exiles ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 11:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
If they had tried to do this a few years ago, the group of Iraqi women enjoying a night out in Mosul would probably have risked severe punishment. The northern city was under the harsh rule of the Islamic State (IS) group until the jihadists were ousted from their last major Iraqi bastion in 2017. Seven years later, Mosul's streets truly come ...
2024-09-15 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Neither Israel nor Syria has confirmed nor denied Western reports of a landing operation carried out by Israeli special forces in Masyaf, Syria. The operation allegedly targeted the Scientific Studies and Research Center facilities during the night of September 8-9. However, residents in the Tartous region reported hearing helicopters flying ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 18:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Moscow and Kyiv swapped 103 prisoners of war each on Saturday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, a rare moment of coordination between the two warring sides as Russia pushes ahead in east Ukraine. The Russians released in the swap were captured during Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk region, Moscow said, while some of the ...