This Is Beirut 2024-08-19 13:47 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two wildfires in southern France forced several thousand people to flee before the blazes were brought under control, officials said on Monday. Some 3,000 holiday makers were evacuated from a camping site to a municipal building in the coastal town of Canet-en-Roussillon, near the city of Perpignan, in the face of a fire fanned by strong winds, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-19 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations condemned on Monday the "unacceptable" level of violence becoming commonplace against humanitarian workers, a record 280 of whom were killed worldwide in 2023. And it warned that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is potentially fueling even higher numbers of such deaths this year. "The normalization of violence against aid workers ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-19 11:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden will give a bittersweet farewell address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday, passing the torch to Kamala Harris as the party's nominee for November's election. Less than a month after his stunning withdrawal and Harris' astonishing ascent, Biden can expect a hero's send-off from many of the same ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-19 10:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An official from the Russian Investigative Committee has claimed that Ukraine has hit a third strategic bridge in Russia's Kursk region. This follows Ukraine's acknowledgement on Sunday, that it has destroyed two others, seeking to disrupt Moscow's supply routes, as Kyiv's unprecedented incursion on Russian soil stretched through its second ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 19:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A United Nations task force on Sunday warned of soaring child malnutrition in Yemen's government-controlled areas, reporting "extremely critical" levels of malnutrition in parts of the country's south for the first time. "The number of children under the age of five suffering acute malnutrition, or wasting, rose by 34 percent compared to the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Central Bank of Libya said on Sunday it was "suspending all operations" after a bank official was abducted in the capital, Tripoli, in a statement posted on social media. Musab Msallem, head of information technology at the Central Bank, "was kidnapped by an unidentified group from his house this morning," said the statement. The bank said ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 13:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Iraqi Parliament is set to legalize child marriage, a major setback for the rights of women and girls in the country. The move follows a controversial bill passed on August 16, 2024, which would lower the legal age of marriage to 13 for girls and 16 for boys. The new legislation is a revision of the current Personal Status Law, which ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 11:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venezuela's opposition, claiming victory in presidential elections they say were stolen by strongman Nicolas Maduro, gathered in the thousands in Caracas and elsewhere on Saturday, vowing to fight "to the end." People rallied in several cities in Venezuela and as far afield as Spain, Belgium, and Australia in response to a call by opposition ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 10:23 - Reading : less than a minute
Ukrainian forces said they thwarted a Russian missile attack on the capital, Kyiv, where air raid sirens sounded before dawn on Sunday. "This is the third ballistic missile attack on the capital in August, with a clear interval of six days between each attack," the Kyiv City Military Administration posted on Telegram after the early morning ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-17 22:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, will shutter its local operations in Brazil following a bitter legal tussle over the platform's rights and responsibilities, owner Elon Musk said on Saturday. The service will remain available to Brazilian users. The closure was the apparent culmination of an ongoing legal battle between Musk and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-17 21:43 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding dueling campaign stops in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend, as new polling shows the United States vice president making major gains ahead of her big moment at next week's Democratic National Convention. Trump will hold a rally in the small town of Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-17 14:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine claimed on Friday to be continuing its unprecedented advance into Russia's Kursk region, saying it wanted to force Russia into “fair” negotiations after nearly two and a half years of a large-scale invasion of its territory by Moscow. The Russian army, for its part, is maintaining its pressure further south, in Ukraine's Donbas ...