Just days after being sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake says he’ll soon resume negotiations with the International Monetary Fund. The leftist president wants to make austerity...
Tributes paid to Dame Maggie Smith | BBC News
Tributes are being paid to Dame Maggie Smith who has died at the age of 89. A legend of British stage and screen, Dame Maggie won two Oscars during her career – for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1970 and...
Israel PM Netanyahu addresses UN amid increased regional violence • FRANCE 24 English
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the UN Friday to press his country’s offensive against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, dashing hopes for a 21-day truce proposed by France and the United States this...
Israel military says strikes Hezbollah HQ in Beirut suburb • FRANCE 24 English
Israel carried out air strikes on the south of Lebanon’s capital Beirut that it said targeted Hezbollah’s headquarters, moments after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep fighting the militant...
Maggie Smith, scene-stealing actor famed for Harry Potter and ‘Downton Abbey,’ dies at 89
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ Downton Abbey” and...
Lebanon before and after Israeli blasts
Satellite images reveal destroyed buildings in Baalbek, Lebanon, highlighting the scale of damage caused by Israeli air strikes on Lebanon in the last few days. Subscribe: Livestream: Facebook: X (Twitter): Instagram:...
Watch live: Multiple blasts heard in Beirut
Thick clouds of smoke can be seen rising from the Lebanese capital after multiple explosions were heard, according to witnesses from Reuters news agency. At least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in...