This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 16:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won a second term with 84.3% of the vote in last week's election, as final results announced Saturday showed, down from an initial count contested by rivals. The preliminary results issued by the North African country's electoral authority, ANIE, on Sunday gave Tebboune nearly 95% support, prompting ...
2024-09-14 15:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Saturday, Iran blasted a new research satellite into orbit, state media said. "The Chamran-1 research satellite was successfully launched and put into orbit by the Ghaem-100 carrier," state television claimed. The satellite, which weighs around 60 kilograms (132 pounds), is designed to test hardware and software systems for orbital maneuver ...
2024-09-14 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Four Islamic State group leaders were killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid in western Iraq last month, including the head of the jihadist group's operations in the country, the US military said Friday. "This operation targeted ISIS leaders and served to disrupt and degrade ISIS' ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians," ...
2024-09-13 18:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ministers from Muslim and European countries along with the European Union's foreign affairs chief gathered Friday in Madrid to discuss how to advance a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Together, we want to identify the concrete actions that will enable us to make progress towards this objective," Spanish Prime Minister ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-09-13 17:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and main opposition party in Jordan, has won the September 2024 legislative elections by a landslide. However, this groundbreaking victory far from undermines the state’s control over the party or changes the fact that the Jordanian Parliament has a limited role ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-13 13:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US State Department said on Thursday it was unconditionally releasing $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt, at a time when Cairo and Washington have been working closely on a Gaza ceasefire deal. Last year, the United States released part of this annual aid conditional on progress being made on respecting human rights in Egypt, a country ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-13 12:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived in Washington where he will meet US President Joe Biden on Friday to discuss whether to let Kyiv use long-range missiles against Russia. It is likely their last meeting before an election that could upend US policy on Ukraine. Kyiv is pushing Washington and London to lift a restriction on firing ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-13 12:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Francis wrapped up an arduous 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific on Friday, defying health concerns to connect with believers from the jungle of Papua New Guinea to the skyscrapers of Singapore. The 87-year-old pontiff took off for Rome, completing his longest trip in duration and distance since he became head of the world's estimated 1.4 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-13 10:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia's FSB security service announced on Friday that the accreditation of six British diplomats had been withdrawn for suspected espionage and for "threatening Russia's security." "As a measure of reprisals to the multiple unfriendly acts of London, the Russian foreign ministry ... has withdrawn the accreditation of six employees from the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-13 05:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump said Thursday he would not take part in another debate with Kamala Harris, as the White House rivals headed back to battleground states that are set to decide a nail-bitingly close US presidential election. The Republican former president lashed out two days after his first televised clash with the Democratic vice president, when ...
2024-09-12 19:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States announced fresh sanctions on Thursday against 16 officials aligned with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose claim to reelection has been rejected by Washington as well as several European and Latin American nations. The individuals sanctioned include senior figures in the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Supreme ...
2024-09-12 17:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian attack on vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Thursday in his country's east had killed three people. "Today, the occupier attacked the vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian mission in the Donetsk region," Zelensky said. Artillery ...