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Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
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
Saturday 6 May 2023 12:04:47
First lady Jill Biden Leads US Delegation in London, But President Joe Biden Will Not Be at the Coronation
First lady Jill Biden has arrived at Westminster Abbey, amid a wave of world leaders filing into the historic venue for the coronation.
Dozens of leaders will be heading to the Abbey but US President Joe Biden, leader of one of the UK’s closest allies, is not present.
Instead, the first lady is leading the US delegation. Jill Biden, who is traveling with her granddaughter Finnegan Biden, touched down in England late Thursday evening and takes on a packed schedule of events on the three-day trip. The first lady said it was an "honor to represent the United States for this historic moment and celebrate the special relationship between our countries."
Meanwhile, President Biden spoke on the phone with King Charles III on April 4 to underscore “the strength of relationship between our countries and the friendship between our peoples,” a White House readout of the call said.
That may, on the surface, seem odd given the US-UK special relationship. But actually, it's worth noting that no American president has ever attended a British monarch’s coronation, as US officials noted when reports first emerged of Biden’s absence.
Biden has already “conveyed his desire to meet with the King in the United Kingdom at a future date,” according to the White House readout of the call with King Charles.
Both the president and the first lady traveled to London in September to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years.
Thirteen other presidents sat in the Oval Office during the late Queen’s reign, and she met all of them, except for Lyndon Johnson.
Barack Obama called her “truly one of my favorite people,” while Ronald Reagan bonded with her over country life and Bill Clinton was impressed by her political aptitude.
