This Is Beirut 2024-09-07 12:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday began the first visit by a British leader to Ireland in five years, vowing to "reset" damaged post-Brexit relations between the two nations. The visit, described by Downing Street as a "historic moment for UK-Ireland relations", signals a further warming in bilateral ties that had frayed under the UK's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-07 11:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of left-wing demonstrators on Saturday took to the streets across France to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron's "power grab". Protests took place in Paris as well as other cities including Nantes in the west, Nice and Marseille in the south and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-07 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris appears to be taking a leaf out of rival Donald Trump's playbook by focusing on evoking emotion, rather than explaining policy, on the campaign trail -- and she's hoping her appeal to "joy" will help her beat the Republican at his own game. Since taking over from President Joe Biden at the top of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-07 10:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Algerians were set to cast ballots on Saturday in a presidential election widely expected to see Abdelmadjid Tebboune secure a second term. Tebboune, 78, is heavily favoured to see off moderate Islamist Abdelaali Hassani and socialist candidate Youcef Aouchiche in the race to lead the North African country. "The winner is known in advance," ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-06 15:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), pro-Iranian groups operating along the Syria-Iraq border are on high alert after an unidentified drone targeted a truck near one of their headquarters on Thursday, close to the town of Boukamal in the Deir Ezzor countryside. The attack resulted in three casualties: a Syrian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-06 10:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting Germany on Friday, where Ukraine's military backers are meeting, days after one of the deadliest strikes of the war and as Russian forces make battlefield gains. Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold "one-on-one" talks in Frankfurt, according to a German government spokesman, who did not ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-06 03:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty in a tax evasion trial on Thursday, after failing to secure a deal with prosecutors in a case that has caused embarrassment for the United States president. The 54-year-old admitted to nine counts of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes over the past decade, with prosecutors alleging he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 20:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron appointed the former minister and European Commissioner Michel Barnier as Prime Minister on Thursday, 60 days after the second round of legislative elections. This decision drew disapproval from the left, who denounced it as a “green light” to the National Rally (RN), the party of Marine Le Pen. Five hours later, the new Prime ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 20:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Poltava rose to 55 with over 300 wounded, Ukrainian officials said Thursday after a two-day search and rescue operation. The strike hit the Poltava military communications institute on Tuesday, said Ukrainian officials, who did not specify how many of the victims were military ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pope Francis appealed for religious unity Thursday as he addressed tens of thousands of people at a football stadium after meeting faith leaders at Southeast Asia's biggest mosque. "I encourage you to sow seeds of love, confidently tread the path of dialogue, continue to show your goodness and kindness... and be builders of unity and peace," he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 14:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron appointed former minister and right-wing ex-European Commissioner Michel Barnier, 73, as Prime Minister on Thursday, the Élysée announced, 60 days after the second round of legislative elections which resulted in a National Assembly without a majority. Since Wednesday, politicians and the media in France have ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 13:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
German police shot dead a gunman on Thursday who had opened fire at them near central Munich's Nazi era documentation center and the Israeli consulate, the Bavarian interior minister said. "Police responded with armed force against the perpetrator, who was carrying a rifle and had fired a number of shots," said state interior minister Joachim ...