This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 15:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Five Iran-backed fighters were killed on Sunday in a drone strike in Syria's east, near the Iraqi border, a war monitor said, adding it was not clear yet who was behind the attack. "Five pro-Iranian fighters were killed and others were injured, some severely... after an unknown drone targeted the military vehicle they were in... near the ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-08-11 14:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The name of the possible new Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, was announced on Sunday by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Araghchi could therefore succeed Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, assuming he receives the approval of Parliament and Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei. As a reminder, his predecessor died in a helicopter crash in May ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 14:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian presented his cabinet to Parliament on Sunday, notably including a woman and a Western-friendly diplomat as the country's foreign minister. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on state ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-11 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A man and his four-year-old son were killed in an overnight Russian missile attack near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the emergency service said Sunday. Explosions rang out Saturday night in the center and east of Kyiv, AFP journalists noted, as Ukraine's air force said two Russian missiles were headed towards the city. Air raid sirens sounded in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-10 10:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Moscow on Saturday launched a "counter-terror operation" in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia's western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack and have advanced several kilometers, according to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-10 10:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
King Charles III on Friday made his first comments about riots that have shaken British cities to praise the work of police in countering the violence. While the monarch and Queen Camilla conveyed their condolences to the families of three girls killed in a mass stabbing on July 29, Buckingham Palace had not commented on the near-daily riots that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 21:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An airplane with 62 people on board crashed Friday in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, killing all its passengers dead according to firefighters and the airline Voepass. According to a Brazilian official the passengers were instantly killed upon the crash. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said earlier during an official event that it appeared there ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 20:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jailed Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other female inmates were hurt in clashes that erupted at Tehran's Evin prison following a spate of executions, her family said, raising new concerns for her health. Iranian authorities acknowledged a confrontation had taken place on Tuesday but blamed Mohammadi for a "provocation" and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 17:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fighting between pro-Iranian groups supporting the Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces killed 13 people, mostly civilians, a war monitor said Friday. Six children were among the victims of intense shelling of Dahla in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. Fighting erupted on Wednesday when ...
2024-08-09 17:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Obstruction of humanitarian aid, lack of sanitary and medical infrastructure... In an interview with This Is Beirut, Ahmed Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division at Human Rights Watch, discusses the causes and consequences of the cholera epidemic currently affecting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 15:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden will next week make their first joint campaign trip since the US president's shock decision to drop out of the 2024 White House race against Donald Trump. Seeking to burnish his legacy in his final months in office and support the new Democratic ticket, Biden will appear alongside his vice president at an event in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-09 11:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled a trip to Central Asia after earthquake scientists warned the country should prepare for a possible "megaquake." The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the advisory on Thursday after eight people were injured by a tremor of magnitude 7.1 in the south. Kishida was due Friday to travel ...