Cian ward 21/09 14:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Saturday marks the ten-year anniversary of the Houthi capture of Sana'a, Yemen's capital city. A decade of Houthi rule has transformed the country, putting an end to its tentative liberalization, and replacing it with an increasingly radical theocratic police state. Ten years ago, on September 21, 2014, the Houthis declared the capture of ...
This Is Beirut 21/09 13:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and an upgraded one-way attack drone at a military parade on Saturday, state media said, amid soaring regional tensions and allegations of arming Russia. Iran stands accused by Western governments of supplying both drones and missiles to Russia for use in its war with Ukraine, a charge it has repeatedly ...
This Is Beirut 21/09 12:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One person has died and at least seven others are missing in Japan, where the authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 60,000 residents in the centre of the country on Saturday due to flooding caused by heavy rain. A dozen rivers in the region, on the west coast of central Japan, had burst their banks by 11:00 am (0200 GMT), land ministry ...
This Is Beirut 21/09 10:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
2024 Presidential Election opposition Sri Lanka Votes
Sri Lankans voted on Saturday to elect their president, two years after a catastrophic financial crisis that imposed a widely unpopular and harsh austerity program on the country. Polls opened at 7:00 AM local time (01:00 GMT) and closed at 4:00 PM (10:30 GMT) after a calm election marked by high voter turnout, according to AFP ...
This Is Beirut 20/09 20:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Following the strike on Beirut's southern suburbs that killed Hezbollah elite force commander Ibrahim Aqil, the Israeli military congratulated itself on its operation. "Israeli Air Force fighter jets carried out a targeted strike on Beirut, eliminating Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah's operations unit, commander of the Radwan unit," an Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 20/09 14:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah Brigades iraq Israeli Strike Syria
A militant from Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, an armed group, was killed Friday in a strike targeting pro-Iran factions in Syria, a group member told AFP, blaming Israel for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said a member of the Hezbollah Brigades was killed but was unable to verify the strike itself. The ...
This Is Beirut 20/09 11:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday that she had arrived in Kyiv to offer support ahead of winter, as Russia keeps up its bombing campaign of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. "My eighth visit to Kyiv comes as the heating season starts soon, and Russia keeps targeting energy infrastructure," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, along with a ...
20/09 10:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Two people from Taiwanese companies were questioned as part of a probe into pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, investigators said Friday, as top officials insisted the devices were not from the island. Questions and speculation have swirled over where the devices came from and how they were supplied to the ...
This Is Beirut 20/09 06:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Kamala Harris held a star-studded rally hosted by talk show legend Oprah Winfrey on Thursday in a bid to bedazzle voters, as rival Donald Trump criticized Jewish Americans for not voting for him. Hollywood stars including Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, and Ben Stiller beamed in remotely to lavish praise via screens on ...
This Is Beirut 19/09 12:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Security forces in New Caledonia killed two men during an overnight operation, the public prosecutor said on Thursday, taking the death toll to 13 after months of unrest in the French Pacific territory. An AFP journalist witnessed clashes erupt between French police and civilians in Saint Louis, a heartland of the independence movement just south ...
This Is Beirut 19/09 10:26 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Donald Trump railed against illegal immigrants on Wednesday and pledged to visit an Ohio town simmering with racial tensions fueled by his campaign's conspiracy theories, as Kamala Harris courted minority voters and relished a poll bump in key swing states. The Republican ex-president, whose hardline anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a ...
18/09 20:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
ECCHR European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights Germany ICJ International Court of Justice Israel Weapons Trade
Germany has paused new arms exports to Israel due to legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry. Last year, Germany approved weapons exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), a ten-fold increase from 2022, according to data from the Economy Ministry, which approves ...