This Is Beirut 21/05 22:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia announced the start of tactical nuclear weapons exercises near Ukraine on Tuesday, claiming it was reacting to Western "threats," as Ukrainian army claims some success around the Northeastern city of Kharkiv. Russia on Tuesday announced the start of tactical nuclear weapons drills close to Ukraine, in what it said was a response to Western ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 20:04 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Considered a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's death on Sunday has reshaped the succession process. The death in a helicopter crash of president Ebrahim Raisi, seen as a possible successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reshuffled the cards in the succession process and ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 18:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler offered reassuring words on Tuesday about the health of the Gulf kingdom's aging monarch, who has a lung infection, state media said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, first in line to the throne, "reassures everyone about the health of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques," the official Saudi Press Agency said on ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 17:53 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to the Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia in an attempt to resolve a political crisis, Paris said on Tuesday, as tourists were evacuated from the riot-hit territory after over a week of unrest. Macron "will leave as soon as this evening," government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot said, in a bid to ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 14:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 14,000 people have been displaced in recent days from Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, where Russia launched a ground offensive on May 10, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The assault has seen Russian forces achieve their largest territorial gains in Ukraine in the last 18 months. "Over the past two weeks, fighting in ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 13:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Greek court dismissed charges on Tuesday against suspects accused of involvement in a migrant shipwreck that killed over 600 people, amid criticism of the coastguards' role in the tragedy. A court in Greece dismissed on Tuesday the charges against nine suspects in one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks, saying that it did not have ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 12:36 - Reading : less than a minute
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife, Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the president's office said on Tuesday. She will undergo a "specialized treatment protocol" that requires social distancing to avoid infection, the statement said, adding that she will "temporarily withdraw from ...
This Is Beirut 21/05 11:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tens of thousands of Iranians gathered Tuesday to mourn president Ebrahim Raisi and seven members of his entourage who were killed in a helicopter crash on a fog-shrouded mountainside in the northwest. Waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president, mourners set off from a central square in the northwestern city of Tabriz, where Raisi ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 23:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States said on Monday that Iran had asked for its assistance after the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and offered its condolences while deeming that he had "blood on his hands". "The Iranian government has asked us for help," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters, even ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Following the death of Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, in a helicopter crash on Monday, Ali Bagheri Kani has been appointed by the Iranian government as the country's new Foreign Minister. Ali Bagheri Kani can be understood as a continuity candidate, who will likely continue the hardline policies of the now deceased Amir-Abdollahian. Ali ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 13:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A war monitor said at least six pro-Iran fighters were killed on Monday in Israeli strikes in Syria near the Lebanese border, in an area where Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group holds sway. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "Israeli strikes targeted two positions of pro-Iran groups in the Homs region," including "a Hezbollah site in ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 13:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash is a major blow to the Islamic regime, an exiled opposition group said Monday, predicting a succession of crises. The People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and its political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have long detested Raisi, accusing him of involvement ...