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Paris judges on Wednesday confirmed a French arrest warrant for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad over alleged complicity in crimes against humanity in the 2013 chemical attacks, the plaintiffs' lawyers said. The Paris appeals court found Assad could be sought over deadly August 2013 attacks on Syrian soil with chemical weapons. "This is a historic ...
This Is Beirut 26/06 15:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door espionage trial in Russia began Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested on charges that he, his newspaper and the White House reject as false and baseless. Hours after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was brought into court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Washington said it was doing ...
This Is Beirut 26/06 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
NATO's 32 nations appointed, on Wednesday, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the alliance's next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will hand over to Rutte on October 1. Major powers, led by the US, completed his nomination in ...
This Is Beirut 26/06 11:35 - Reading : less than a minute
In jihadist-infested western Niger, an armed group killed 20 servicemen and one civilian on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry announced, declaring three days of national mourning. According to a ministry statement broadcast on national television, security forces were attacked by “a coalition of terrorist armed groups” close to the town of ...
This Is Beirut 26/06 11:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can challenge the dominance of conservatives in the Islamic Republic. A presidential election had not been due until 2025, but was brought forward after ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month. Leading ...
This Is Beirut 26/06 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Norway's largest pension fund said on Wednesday that it had divested from US industrial group Caterpillar because of the risk its equipment was being used by the Israeli Army in Gaza. “For a long time, Caterpillar has supplied bulldozers and other equipment that has been used to demolish Palestinian homes and infrastructure to clear the way for ...
Rami Rayess 26/06 07:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli war against the Gaza Strip and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have overshadowed the events in Sudan, including the armed conflict that has been raging since April 2023. This is happening amidst international and Arab indifference towards resolving the rift between the two warring military factions: the official Sudanese army and the ...
This Is Beirut 26/06 00:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 90 prisoners of war each in the biggest swap between the two warring sides in almost five months, officials said Tuesday. Moscow and Kyiv have carried out over 50 prisoner exchanges since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, despite ongoing hostilities and both sides accusing each other of derailing ...
This Is Beirut 25/06 18:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States unveiled sweeping sanctions Tuesday against almost 50 individuals and companies it says were part of a "shadow banking" network that moved billions of dollars for Iran's military. The sanctions target a network of Iranian exchange houses and foreign firms that enabled Iran's defense ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
This Is Beirut 25/06 13:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called for "high participation" in Friday's presidential election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died last month in a helicopter crash. "We emphasise the importance of high participation (in the election) because it is the pride of the Islamic Republic," Khamenei declared in a televised ...
This Is Beirut 25/06 10:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed on US soil on Wednesday to face a final court hearing under a plea deal expected to end years of legal drama and allow him to return to his native Australia as a free man. AFP reporters saw a private jet carrying the 52-year-old touch down in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Pacific US territory ...
This Is Beirut 25/06 10:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
European Union Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
The European Union formally launches accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday, setting the fragile ex-Soviet states off on a long path towards membership that Russia has tried to block. The landmark move is aimed in particular at sending a vote of confidence in Ukraine's future as Moscow has momentum on the battlefield almost ...