This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 14:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 14,000 people have been displaced in recent days from Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, where Russia launched a ground offensive on May 10, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The assault has seen Russian forces achieve their largest territorial gains in Ukraine in the last 18 months. "Over the past two weeks, fighting in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 13:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Greek court dismissed charges on Tuesday against suspects accused of involvement in a migrant shipwreck that killed over 600 people, amid criticism of the coastguards' role in the tragedy. A court in Greece dismissed on Tuesday the charges against nine suspects in one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks, saying that it did not have ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 12:36 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife, Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the president's office said on Tuesday. She will undergo a "specialized treatment protocol" that requires social distancing to avoid infection, the statement said, adding that she will "temporarily withdraw from ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-21 11:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tens of thousands of Iranians gathered Tuesday to mourn president Ebrahim Raisi and seven members of his entourage who were killed in a helicopter crash on a fog-shrouded mountainside in the northwest. Waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, mourners set off from a central square in the northwestern city of Tabriz, where Raisi ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 23:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States said on Monday that Iran had asked for its assistance after the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and offered its condolences while deeming that he had "blood on his hands". "The Iranian government has asked us for help," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters, even ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Following the death of Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, in a helicopter crash on Monday, Ali Bagheri Kani has been appointed by the Iranian government as the country's new Foreign Minister. Ali Bagheri Kani can be understood as a continuity candidate, who will likely continue the hardline policies of the now deceased Amir-Abdollahian. Ali ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 13:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A war monitor said at least six pro-Iran fighters were killed on Monday in Israeli strikes in Syria near the Lebanese border, in an area where Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group holds sway. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "Israeli strikes targeted two positions of pro-Iran groups in the Homs region," including "a Hezbollah site in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 13:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash is a major blow to the Islamic regime, an exiled opposition group said Monday, predicting a succession of crises. The People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and its political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have long detested Raisi, accusing him of involvement ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 10:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Joe Biden's national security advisor briefed Benjamin Netanyahu on the "potential" of a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia after holding talks in the region, the White House said Sunday. Jake Sullivan also called on the Israeli prime minister to link the military operation against Hamas in Gaza with a "political ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 10:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday that a planned visit this week by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been postponed "due to the health condition of King Salman." The announcement came hours after the Royal Court in Riyadh said Prince Mohammed's 88-year-old father had a lung infection and was undergoing treatment ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 09:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, is expected to assume the presidency after Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash as the country gears up for early elections. The Iranian constitution stipulates that the first vice president take over "in the event of the president's death, dismissal, resignation, absence, or illness for more ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-20 09:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's powerful allies on Monday mourned the death of its President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, while regional militants hailed him as a supporter of the Palestinian cause. Russia and China called the ultraconservative leader a "friend", while Iran's arch-foes the United States and Israel had yet to react publicly. Here is a roundup of ...