This is Beirut 2024-11-26 05:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Justice
A judge on Monday granted a request by prosecutors to dismiss the election subversion case against Donald Trump because of a Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president. Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to the request by Special Counsel Jack Smith to dismiss the case against the president-elect "without prejudice," ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syria Qusayr Hezbollah Lebanon Israel
Syrian state television reported Israeli strikes on several bridges in the Qusayr region near the Lebanese border on Monday, with the defense ministry reporting two people were killed and five were injured in the attacks. Israel's military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since its conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Middle East USA Israel Hezbollah
US Deputy Secretary of Defense Daniel B. Shapiro was due to meet senior Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, in Tel Aviv on Monday to discuss the agreement (for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon) and, more specifically, the monitoring mechanism to be headed by the United States. Israeli and US officials believe that an ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel Gaza Danish Refugee Council
Explosive weapons used in a densely populated area like the Gaza Strip will continue to pose risks to civilians even after peace is restored, warns a Danish NGO in a report published on Monday. "These remnants of war, which may not explode immediately or might have been left behind during fighting, are a long-term threat to civilians, often ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
ICC Ali Khamenei Iran Benjamin Netanyahu
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a "death sentence". In his first remarks since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu last week, Khamenei told a Tehran ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 16:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria OPCW Bashar Al-Assad Chemical Weapons
The world's chemical watchdog said Monday that it was "seriously concerned" by large gaps in Syria's declaration about its chemical weapons stockpile, as large quantities of potentially banned warfare agents might be involved. Syria agreed in 2013 to join the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, shortly after an ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 16:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel United States Amos Hochstein Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his tentative approval to a proposed ceasefire deal with Hezbollah during a security meeting with Israeli officials on Sunday night, according to a source familiar with the discussions and quoted by CNN. According to a Sky News report, the negotiated agreement stipulates a gradual Israeli withdrawal ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron France Panthéon
Before the upcoming Panthéon induction of historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch, announced on Saturday by Emmanuel Macron, the president has previously enshrined four other great figures in this republican temple: Simone Veil, Maurice Genevoix, Joséphine Baker, and Missak Manouchian. Additionally, on February 14, 2024, during a tribute to ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia United Nations Antonio Guterres US
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed on Monday the "renewed threat" of anti-personnel landmines, days after the United States said it would supply the weapons to Ukrainian forces battling Russia's invasion. In remarks sent to a conference in Cambodia to review progress on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, Guterres hailed the work of ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
West Bank Israel Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority said two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, were killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank village of Yabad. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli forces entered the village on Sunday night, leading to clashes during which soldiers shot dead two Palestinians. The two dead were ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 12:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
G7 foreign ministers on Monday are meeting near Rome for two days of talks with regional counterparts on the Middle East before turning to Russia and the war in Ukraine. The Group of Seven ministers will also discuss the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's military chief, "and ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Taiwan United States China Japan
The United States is drawing up contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. They will be incorporated in a first joint operation plan to be formulated in December, Kyodo reported late Sunday, citing sources familiar with Japan-US relations. A US ...