Source: Reuters
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
Tuesday 5 September 2023 13:46:20
Kremlin Says Unable to Confirm Summit Between Putin, North Korea’s Kim
The Kremlin on Tuesday declined to confirm a possible summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which US officials have said they expect.
US officials and media have said they believe Kim will make a rare trip abroad to neighboring Russia to meet Putin.
“No, we cannot” confirm this, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when he was asked if Kim would meet Putin soon. “We have nothing to say on this.”
Washington has accused Pyongyang with supplying weapons to Moscow for its Ukraine offensive.
Russia is one of a handful of countries that has friendly relations with the secretive state.
As its Ukraine offensive drags on, it has in recent months worked for even closer ties with Pyongyang.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who in July visited North Korea, on Monday said Moscow was considering joint military drills with North Korea.
“Why not? They are our neighbors,” Shoigu was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency, when asked about the possible exercises.
Shoigu became Kim’s first known foreign guest since the COVID-19 pandemic when he visited Pyongyang on July 27.
He was shown Pyongyang’s nuclear missiles in a personal tour by the North Korean leader.
Russia shares a short border with North Korea on its Pacific coast.
If Kim does visit, he is expected to cross the border by armored train, as he did in 2019 when he met Putin in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok.
