This Is Beirut 12/04 12:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sudan has been brought to its knees by a war between the regular army and rival paramilitaries that has killed thousands of people and displaced 8.5 million more. Here are the main developments in the fighting, which has brought the country of 48 million to the brink of famine. April 2023: Fighting Erupts Explosions rock the capital Khartoum on ...
This Is Beirut 12/04 10:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A court in Argentina called Iran a "terrorist state" on Friday for its role in two deadly terror attacks against the Israeli embassy and Jewish Centre in the 1990s. Over three decades after deadly attacks in Buenos Aires targeted Israel's embassy and a Jewish center, an Argentinian court placed the blame on Thursday on Iran and declared it a ...
This Is Beirut 11/04 23:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that recent airstrikes on Ukraine's energy grid, which have caused huge blackouts, are part of the Kremlin's "demilitarization" of its neighbor. His comments came after Moscow launched a barrage of aerial attacks on Thursday, targeting energy facilities across Ukraine. "We assume that in this way ...
This Is Beirut 11/04 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The UN Fact-Finding Mission to Sudan, on Thursday, called for an immediate ceasefire, the end of attacks on civilians, and full access for humanitarian aid. The Sudanese people have had enough of the devastating conflict raging inside the country, UN investigators said Thursday as the fighting rolls on into a second year. Sudan's warring parties ...
This Is Beirut 11/04 12:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia launched one of the largest missile and drone attacks of the Ukraine war, on Thursday, while the Ukrainian parliament approved a new controversial mobilization bill. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia fired more than 40 missiles and 40 drones at Ukraine overnight, again hitting the city of Kharkiv and ...
This Is Beirut 11/04 11:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The US and Japan announced their biggest upgrade to defense ties, during a Washington state visit, in which the leaders agreed that a Japanese astronaut will be the first non-American to walk on the Moon. US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled their countries' biggest ever upgrade in defense ties Wednesday ...
This Is Beirut 10/04 22:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The EU parliament on Wednesday adopted a contentious reform of Europe's asylum policies that will harden border procedures and force all the bloc's 27 nations to share responsibility. The parliament's main political groups overcame opposition from far-right and far-left parties to pass the new migration and asylum pact -- a sweeping reform nearly ...
This Is Beirut 10/04 16:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden is expected to attend a high-level Ukraine war peace conference, which is expected to be held in Switzerland in mid-June, Swiss media reports said. The conference date has not yet been set, but several media outlets this week suggested June 16–17. Invitations have not been sent, but the NZZ daily newspaper quoted ...
Rami Rayess 10/04 11:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The United Nations defines climate change as "long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns. While these changes can occur naturally, driven by variations in solar activity or major volcanic eruptions, human activities have become their primary driver since the nineteenth century. This is mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels such as ...
This Is Beirut 09/04 21:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia on Tuesday opened a probe into "financing terrorism" that implicates Western countries, saying funds received by US firms in Ukraine, including one that employed Joe Biden's son, were used for "terrorism acts" in Russia. The announcement came with Moscow continuing to blame the West and Ukraine for the attack on a concert hall last month ...
This Is Beirut 09/04 19:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Considered among the world's poorest countries, war-torn Sudan's already fragile infrastructure has pushed the country to the brink of famine, leading to a massive ongoing exodus from the country. One year since the conflict in Sudan erupted, thousands of desperate people are still fleeing the country daily "as if the emergency had started ...
This Is Beirut 09/04 19:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Washington has given Ukraine small arms and ammunition that were seized while being sent from Iranian forces to Tehran-backed insurgents in Yemen, the US military said on Tuesday. The transfer last week came as Ukraine suffers from significant shortages of ammunition and US Republican lawmakers block new aid, but it does not address Kyiv's need ...