This Is Beirut 31/03 10:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkish voters headed to the polls on Sunday in municipal elections, with all eyes on Istanbul, the national "jewel" that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to pry away from the opposition. As soon as he clinched re-election as president last May -- he has been head of state since 2014 -- Erdogan launched the campaign to reclaim the city of 16 ...
This Is Beirut 30/03 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Argentine government has suspended plans to transfer its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as reported by Argentine and Israeli media. However, it has decided on the immediate appointment of a new ambassador, Axel Wahnish, after days of negotiations, approved on Tuesday evening by the Senate Agreements Committee. Mr. Wahnish's proposal to ...
This Is Beirut 30/03 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States announced on Friday that it was «taking steps» to put fresh visa curbs on Hong Kong officials responsible for cracking down on rights in the Chinese city, days after a new national security law came into force. In a statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that over the past year, Beijing has "continued to take ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 22:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian security services claimed on Friday to have arrested three "nationals of a Central Asian country" who were planning a bomb attack in southwest Russia, a week after the attack on a concert hall near Moscow that left at least 144 people dead. Russia's security services said Friday that they had arrested three people from "a Central Asian ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 19:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iraq announced on Friday that a power line would soon bring electricity from Jordan, as the authorities seek to diversify energy sources to alleviate the country's chronic blackouts and reduce its dependence on Iran. Iraq said Friday a power line would soon bring electricity from Jordan to the border area as authorities aim to diversify energy ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 12:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The rupture of a key oil pipeline that carries oil from South Sudan to Port Sudan may cause severe turmoil in the poverty stricken South Sudan, potentially delaying its first ever election. Experts warned that oil-dependent South Sudan is at risk of economic and political turmoil over the shutdown of a key pipeline in its war-torn ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 12:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Biden raised a record $25 million for his re-election bid in a star-studded event in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, as Trump attends the wake for a killed NYPD officer. US President Joe Biden was joined in New York on Thursday by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at a blockbuster fundraising event where he collected $25 million to go towards his ...
This Is Beirut 29/03 10:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia blocked on Thursday the renewal of a panel of UN experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, weeks after the body said that it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang. The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by South Korea's Foreign Ministry, which said that Russia had made an ...
This Is Beirut 28/03 20:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia on Thursday accused Armenia of trying to rupture increasingly strained ties between the two ex-Soviet countries, as Yerevan voices mounting criticism of Moscow's role as regional security guarantor. The small Caucasus nation has been in a decades-long standoff with its neighbour and rival Azerbaijan, and has repeatedly accused Moscow of ...
28/03 19:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France has announced that it will provide 30 million euros to UNRWA, so long as it "completes its mission ... devoid of any call to hatred or violence." France will provide 30 million euros ($32 million) for the embattled UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA if it commits to neutrality, the foreign ministry said Thursday, without giving a timeline ...
This Is Beirut 28/03 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia claimed, on Thursday, that it has evidence that Ukrainian nationalists were linked to last week's Moscow attack. The US has dismissed these claims as absurd. Russia said Thursday it had evidence the perpetrators of last week's massacre at a concert hall outside Moscow were linked to "Ukrainian nationalists", a claim that the United States ...
This Is Beirut 28/03 16:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French authorities are to deploy members of the security forces in front of all Catholic and Protestant churches for the upcoming Easter weekend, further bolstering security in the aftermath of the Moscow attack, according to a memo seen on Thursday. France has raised its security alert to the highest level after the Moscow concert hall attack ...