This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 16:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A far-right Israeli minister said Wednesday he had prayed at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, yet again defying longstanding rules that permit Jewish visits but forbid prayer. The mosque compound is Islam's third holiest site and a symbol of Palestinian national identity but it is also revered by Jews as the site of their ancient ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 14:52 - Reading : less than a minute
Reuters reported on Wednesday that a car bomb in northern Moscow injured an official from Russia's military intelligence agency. Russia's Interior Ministry stated that two people were injured in a blast caused by an unidentified device. Russian media reports that shortly after the officer and an unidentified woman got into the car in a Moscow ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 13:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Joe Biden will give what could be his final Oval Office speech on Wednesday to explain why he dropped out of November's election and deny that he will spend six months as a lame duck. With the world's eyes already on a looming clash between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Biden will insist in his address to the nation ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 13:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Republican candidate Donald Trump's campaign has filed a complaint on Tuesday to the Federal Election Commission over Vice President Kamala Harris' use of campaign funds raised by Joe Biden. President Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday, following a disastrous debate performance and growing dissent within the Democratic Party over his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 12:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Trash-carrying balloons sent by North Korea hit the South Korean presidential compound on Wednesday, security officials told AFP, prompting Seoul to mobilize chemical response teams in the escalating tit-for-tat propaganda war. It is the first time the South Korean leader's office in downtown Seoul, which is protected by scores of soldiers and a ...
Aubin Eymard 2024-07-24 11:59 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
From his beginnings as a senator, to his nomination as Barack Obama’s running mate and his election as President of the United States, Joe Biden has left a mark on America’s political history over the last fifty years. Let us take a deep dive into his long-spanning career in the service of Uncle Sam. In recent weeks, Joe Biden made a plethora ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 11:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A passenger plane crashed on takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage, but all 18 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital told AFP. Nepal has a woeful track record on aviation safety, and the Himalayan republic has seen a spate of deadly light plane and helicopter crashes over the ...
Rami Rayess 2024-07-24 10:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The recent rise in regional tensions – marked by Houthi attacks on Tel Aviv and Israel’s unprecedented response of targeting the port of Hodeidah – signals a broadening of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This could usher in a new phase of military intervention that extends beyond traditional boundaries, without necessarily escalating into a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 09:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Germany on Wednesday banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre, an association that has been under investigation for several months over its alleged support for Lebanon's Hezbollah group and its links to Iran. Tehran reacted in fury, summoning Germany's ambassador to Iran to condemn a "hostile action" it branded as a "clear example of Islamophobia". ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-23 23:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron, on Tuesday, dismissed a left-wing alliance's push to name a new prime minister after snap elections, saying parties in a fractured parliament must come together to build a broad coalition after the Paris Olympic Games. "Of course we need to be concentrated on the Games until mid-August," Macron told broadcaster ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-23 22:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United States announced Tuesday that it had invited Sudan's warring sides to hold ceasefire talks next month. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington had invited Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to start US-mediated negotiations beginning on August 14 in Switzerland. "The United States remains ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-23 21:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lucie Castets was nominated as prime minister of France by head of the Green Party Marine Tondelier, Tuesday on X, following initial reports by newspaper L'Humanité. 37-year-old Castets told AFP she had accepted the nomination "with great humility but also great conviction," believing herself a "serious and credible candidate" for prime ...