This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 11:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as he addressed Beijing's biggest summit since the pandemic. More than 50 African leaders and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres are attending this ...
Salam Zaatari 2024-09-05 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The 2024 US presidential election is poised to be one of the most consequential in recent history, with the potential to reshape the political landscape for years to come. While much of the attention has been focused on the re-emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, following the assassination attempt on Trump, victory over President ...
Marc Saikali 2024-09-05 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
This war is going to end badly. It stands as the worst bloodbath in Europe since World War II—a senseless, pointless conflict. Here, two similar peoples, Slavic and mostly Orthodox, are engaged in mutual destruction with chilling indifference. Both Ukraine and Russia were already facing demographic crises before the conflict began. Since ...
2024-09-05 03:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Twelve Syrian soldiers were killed on Wednesday by an Al-Qaeda linked group in northwest Syria, according to a war monitoring organisation, the highest such death toll in the region this year. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "12 members of the regime forces, including an officer, were killed following suicide attacks ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 22:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A 14-year-old gunman killed at least four people, including two students, and wounded nine more when he opened fire at a high school in the US state of Georgia on Wednesday, law enforcement said. The shooter -- also a student at the school -- was taken into custody. He will be charged with murder and tried as an adult, the Georgia Bureau of ...
Mario Chartouni 2024-09-04 21:04 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
While French President Emmanuel Macron is still searching for the ideal candidate to fill the position of Prime Minister, new names keep emerging on the list of contenders. Bernard Cazeneuve: A “Throwback” for Macron? Born in 1963 in Senlis, Bernard Cazeneuve is a seasoned figure in French politics. A former lawyer, he entered politics in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 20:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egypt's leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said they wanted to deepen their cooperation as they met in Ankara Wednesday to seal their mended ties. "We will strengthen our cooperation in all areas," said Erdogan, who visited Sisi in Cairo in mid-February when the two leaders said they had turned over a "new ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 19:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Six people were wounded when a roadside blast hit a convoy transporting local officials including the governor in Syria's southern Daraa province on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. "Six people were lightly wounded" when a roadside "explosive device planted by a terrorist group" went off while the local officials were returning "from a work ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 15:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iranian security forces reportedly tortured and killed Mohammad Mirmousavi, a detainee from the Lahijan province, on August 22, 2024, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Mirmousavi was reportedly apprehended for his alleged involvement in a street brawl. On August 29, President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the Minister of ...
Ici Beyrouth 2024-09-04 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A movie titled “The Goat Life” has sparked fierce controversy in Saudi Arabia, where citizens are calling for a boycott, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Monday. Released this month, it recounts the harrowing story of Najeeb Muhammed, an Indian migrant worker who, after being abandoned in the Saudi desert in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-04 10:41 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
At least 51 people were killed and hundreds wounded Tuesday in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, authorities said, in one of the single deadliest bombardments of the two-and-a-half-year war. United States President Joe Biden condemned the "deplorable attack," which Kyiv said hit a military training facility and a nearby ...
Rami Rayess 2024-09-04 09:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The prolonged Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, now extending beyond ten months, has thrust into the forefront the fate of the 1993 agreement signed at the White House and endorsed by then US President Bill Clinton. The Oslo Accords were signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) ...