State and defence departments wanted military aid restored, but the Greenland issue ‘took up a lot of energy’, new testimony reveals After the White House cut off military aid to Ukraine, Donald Trump’s top officials scrambled to get it restored but were unable to organise a meeting with the ... Read More »
Experts warn of dangerous consequences as nuclear deal continues to unravel Iran has announced a tenfold increase in enriched uranium production as Tehran backs away from its nuclear deal with the west. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s atomic energy organisation, said enriched uranium production was now at ... Read More »
President Michel Aoun said any new government’s first task will be to follow up on combating corruption, during a meeting Monday with United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis. “The investigation will include all officials in all levels of public administrations,” Aoun said, according to a statement from the ... Read More »
Lebanese banks opened on Friday for the first time in two weeks following a wave of protests that prompted the prime minister’s resignation, with lines building at some branches where customers encountered new curbs on transfers abroad. An hour after doors opened, lines of several dozen people had formed ... Read More »
Hard confrontations between protesters and the police have returned to central Barcelona over the weekend. At least three were detained and 44 injured during the pro-independence protests in the city in the Catalonia region of northeast Spain, according to local securities. Although the situation was calmer than last weekend’s riots, ... Read More »
Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced on Tuesday that he would submit his resignation to President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace. “I am going to Baabda Palace to submit the resignation of this government, in response to the Lebanese who took to the streets,” Hariri said, addressing the Lebanese. “To all ... Read More »
The Army Command – Orientation Directorate – issued the following statement: “Further to the previous statements issued by the Army Command, and thirteen days after the start of the protests and popular demonstrations and expression of demands, and the worsening clashes between citizens as a result of cutting vital roads ... Read More »
A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Thursday after more than three months, marine data showed. The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, was speeding away from Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone towards ... Read More »
Protests and violence in Chile have spilled over into a new day and left at least seven people dead despite the president cancelling a subway fare increase that prompted the violent demonstrations. Santiago and other Chilean cities have been engulfed by several days of riots, along with peaceful protests, after ... Read More »
Civilians form human shield between protesters and police to deter further skirmishes after plea from city’s mayor Spain’s government has rejected calls for negotiations from Catalonia’s president on the grounds that he had not sufficiently condemned the violence of protests that have gripped Barcelona for six straight days. Despite the city’s ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information