Source: AFP
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Wednesday 12 April 2023 15:31:28
Facing Criminal Charges, Trump Vows To 'Never' Drop Presidential Bid
Former US president Donald Trump, having been criminally charged in New York, pledged Tuesday to "never drop out" of the 2024 race for the White House, and insisted Joe Biden is not fit to run again.
The Republican real estate magnate, who is facing 34 felony counts in New York over alleged hush money paid to an adult film actress, told Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that nothing would prevent him from running -- even a conviction.
"I'd never drop out," he said. "It's not my thing. I wouldn't do it."
Trump, 76, in his first major interview since being arrested and fingerprinted last week, cast doubt on whether Democrat Biden, 80, would be in the 2024 race.
"I don't see how it's possible," he said.
"It's not an age thing... I don't think he can.
"I just don't see Biden doing it from a physical or a mental standpoint. I don't see it."
Trump and other senior Republicans have repeatedly cast doubt on Biden's mental acuity and apparent frailty.
Right wing outlets like Fox News frequently highlight his verbal flubs, and moments where he appears to have lost his train of thought.
Throughout his own presidency, Fox offered an uncritical forum for Trump to air his grievances, with the then-commander-in-chief sometimes calling in unannounced to shows and talking at length to presenters.
The relationship cooled after Trump's defeat to Biden at the ballot box in 2020, but has steadily grown again as the Republican nominating contest heats up.
The interview, part two of which is expected to be broadcast on Wednesday, comes weeks after texts emerged showing Carlson speaking disparagingly about Trump after his election loss.
The messages were uncovered as part of a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the Rupert Murdoch-run Fox News over its coverage of Trump and his allies' unfounded claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait," says one Carlson text message sent two days before a Trump-supporting mob -- inspired by the then-president's false claims of a "stolen election" -- invaded the US Capitol in Washington.
"I hate him passionately," says another.
No mention was broadcast of the texts or of other evidence produced in discovery.
