This Is Beirut 2024-03-29 12:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The rupture of a key oil pipeline that carries oil from South Sudan to Port Sudan may cause severe turmoil in the poverty stricken South Sudan, potentially delaying its first ever election. Experts warned that oil-dependent South Sudan is at risk of economic and political turmoil over the shutdown of a key pipeline in its war-torn ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-29 12:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Biden raised a record $25 million for his re-election bid in a star-studded event in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, as Trump attends the wake for a killed NYPD officer. US President Joe Biden was joined in New York on Thursday by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at a blockbuster fundraising event where he collected $25 million to go towards his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-29 10:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia blocked on Thursday the renewal of a panel of UN experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, weeks after the body said that it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang. The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by South Korea's Foreign Ministry, which said that Russia had made an ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 20:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia on Thursday accused Armenia of trying to rupture increasingly strained ties between the two ex-Soviet countries, as Yerevan voices mounting criticism of Moscow's role as regional security guarantor. The small Caucasus nation has been in a decades-long standoff with its neighbour and rival Azerbaijan, and has repeatedly accused Moscow of ...
2024-03-28 19:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France has announced that it will provide 30 million euros to UNRWA, so long as it "completes its mission ... devoid of any call to hatred or violence." France will provide 30 million euros ($32 million) for the embattled UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA if it commits to neutrality, the foreign ministry said Thursday, without giving a timeline ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia claimed, on Thursday, that it has evidence that Ukrainian nationalists were linked to last week's Moscow attack. The US has dismissed these claims as absurd. Russia said Thursday it had evidence the perpetrators of last week's massacre at a concert hall outside Moscow were linked to "Ukrainian nationalists", a claim that the United States ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 16:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French authorities are to deploy members of the security forces in front of all Catholic and Protestant churches for the upcoming Easter weekend, further bolstering security in the aftermath of the Moscow attack, according to a memo seen on Thursday. France has raised its security alert to the highest level after the Moscow concert hall attack ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 13:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron concludes a state visit to Brazil on Thursday by addressing differences with his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva over Ukraine and rejecting the EU-Mercosur trade deal. French President Emmanuel Macron ends his three-day state visit to Brazil on Thursday on a more political note, with the focus on his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-27 21:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged Ukraine's allies to speed up deliveries of warplanes and air defense systems following a deadly Russian strike on the city of Kharkiv. "Bolstering Ukraine's air defense and expediting the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine are vital tasks. There are no rational explanations for why Patriots, which are ...
Rami Rayess 2024-03-27 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An estimated 64 million Turkish voters will head to the polls on Sunday (March 31) to elect municipal and local councils across 81 provinces. These elections are fraught with political calculations, particularly for the ruling party, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who seeks a decisive victory to solidify his popular legitimacy. In the ...
Aubin Eymard 2024-03-26 22:38 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
The terrorist attack that claimed around 140 lives on Friday, March 22, on the outskirts of Moscow at the Crocus City Hall, has fueled numerous conspiracy theories regarding the involvement of foreign intelligence services. Vladimir Putin continues to hold Ukraine responsible, where the attackers allegedly planned to flee, according to the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-26 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Russia attempted to deflect responsibility for the attack on the Moscow concert hall onto Ukraine and its allies in the West, despite the Islamic State group claiming accountability for the tragedy that claimed the lives of at least 139 individuals. Russia sought to shift blame on Tuesday for the Moscow concert hall attack onto Ukraine and its ...