This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said Sunday. The helicopter carrying 63-year-old Raisi and his entourage came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran, killing the president and seven others and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iraq will impose a two-day curfew in November for the country's first census in 27 years, the authorities announced on Sunday. The "curfew will be imposed in all provinces of Iraq on November 20 and 21 to conduct a population census," Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement. Ravaged by decades of conflict and violence, Iraq has ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 14:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Algeria has been approved for membership in the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the country’s finance ministry has announced. The decision was taken on Saturday and announced by NDB chief Dilma Roussef at a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. By joining "this important development institution, the financial arm of the BRICS group, Algeria is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Bernard Cazeneuve at the Elysée Palace on Monday morning as part of his consultations on the appointment of a new Prime Minister, the former head of the Socialist government was told on Sunday. While his name has been circulating for several days as a possible Prime Minister, “Bernard Cazeneuve is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 19:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
With its ban of X, which went into effect on Saturday, Brazil joins a small club of countries to have taken similar measures against the social network, most of them run by authoritarian regimes. Beyond permanent bans, some nations have temporarily restricted access to X, formerly Twitter, which has often been used by political dissidents to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 17:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Independent Russian media outlet Mediazona said Saturday that according to its estimates, more than 66,000 Russian military personnel have died during the war in Ukraine. Mediazona has been drawing up a list of known soldier deaths in conjunction with the BBC Russian Service using open-source data. Previously, in April, they announced they had ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A block on Elon Musk's X social network in Brazil started to take effect early Saturday after a Supreme Court judge ordered its suspension, according to AFP. Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the suspension of the platform following a months-long standoff with the tech billionaire over disinformation in South ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 10:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, with seven US troops injured during the operation, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday. The raid targeted Islamic State leaders and was carried out early Thursday morning, resulting "in the death of 15 Daesh operatives" with "no ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-30 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed the country's air force chief, a day after Kyiv said a US-made F-16 fighter jet had crashed in combat, killing the pilot. In a video message, Zelensky said he had "decided to replace the commander of the air force" to strengthen Ukraine's military leadership. His office earlier published ...
2024-08-30 19:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin has spearheaded a new military recruitment strategy. Faced with a shortage of recruits, the Russian government has implemented a dual approach that merges commercial and ideological tactics. How is the death cult employed to further the war within this ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-30 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Kamala Harris declared Thursday that Americans are ready to turn the page on Donald Trump as she reached out to centrist voters in her first interview since her dramatic entry into November's presidential election. The 59-year-old Democrat insisted on CNN that she would be tough on illegal immigration and support controversial oil and gas ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-30 05:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kamala Harris declared on Thursday that Americans are ready to turn the page on Donald Trump, as she reached out to centrist voters in her first interview since her dramatic entry into November's presidential election. The 59-year-old Democrat insisted on CNN that she would be tough on illegal immigration and support controversial oil and gas ...