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Montevideo, April 18th 2026 - 23:25 UTC

Tag: Lebanon

  • Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 13:37 UTC

    Brazil to airlift nationals out of Lebanon as Israeli forces march on

    The date of the mission is yet to be decided after a throrough assessment of the safety conditions

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ordered a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) aircraft sent to rescue nationals of the South American country from war-torn Lebanon as Israeli forces launched Monday a land invasion following days of shelling and air strikes killing high-ranking leaders of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, Agencia Brasil reported citing an announcement from the Itamaraty Palace.

  • Tuesday, September 24th 2024 - 09:59 UTC

    Brazil condemns Israel's onslaught against Hezbollah in Lebanon

    The Brazilian Embassy in Beirut continues to provide assistance and guidance to the local Brazilian community, Itamaraty underlined

    Brazil's Foreign Ministry condemned “in the strongest terms” Israel's deployment into parts of Lebanese territory Monday which left 492 people dead and 1,645 wounded. Itamaraty also deplored Tel Aviv's declarations in favor of the military operations urging “Lebanese civilians to evacuate their homes in those regions” as people fleeing southern Lebanon caused traffic jams.

  • Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Exploding pagers, what do we know what really happened

    To maximize the damage, Mossad reportedly sent a message alert to the pagers less than a minute before the actual “explode” command

    By Gwynne Dyer

    The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2 800 others in Lebanon and adjacent places on Tuesday were mostly just a new wrinkle on the exploding cell-phones that Israel has used to assassinate its opponents in the past, but there was one major innovation.

  • Monday, August 26th 2024 - 22:56 UTC

    Brazilians advised to leave war-torn Lebanon

    The Israeli forces are upping their defensive deployments targeting Hezbollah targets within Lebanon

    Brazil's Embassy in Beirut Sunday advised the some 21,000 nationals of the South American country living in Lebanon to leave as soon as possible or avoid all travel to the war-torn region after tension with Israel escalated over the weekend, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, June 24th 2024 - 09:40 UTC

    Lebanon should not become “another Gaza,” Guterres warns

    Any false move could trigger a conflict of unimaginable consequences, the UN Chief predicted

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world “cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.” He made those remarks as tension and gunfire mounted between the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization and Israel. Guterres spoke of a “bellicose rhetoric” between both parties and insisted that one false move could trigger a catastrophe for the whole region and beyond.

  • Monday, June 10th 2024 - 21:52 UTC

    Blinken starts Middle East tour to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

    “Deal or no deal, it remains absolutely essential that we get more aid to Palestinians who need it,” Blinken said

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday kicked off his new Middle East tour in Cairo. He is believed to be seeking a ceasefire in Gaza eight months into the conflict triggered by the terrorist group Hamas' invasion of Israel killing over a thousand people and taking some 250 others hostage, of whom about 50% have been either rescued or handed back over to their land. It is yet to be known how many of them are still alive. Blinken reportedly plans to broker their release.

  • Saturday, August 8th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

    UN has received no official requests to investigate the Beirut port deadly explosion

    Dozens are still missing after Tuesday’s blast in the Lebanese capital that killed at least 154 people, injured 5,000 and left up to 250,000 without habitable homes

    The United Nations has not received any requests to investigate the deadly explosion in Beirut’s port, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday after French President Emmanuel Macron called for an international inquiry.

  • Friday, August 7th 2020 - 08:27 UTC

    Macron pledges aid to Lebanon conditioned to anti-corruption reforms

    Speaking at a news conference at the end of a dramatic visit to Beirut, Macron called for an international inquiry into the devastating explosion

    French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised aid to Lebanon but reassured angry citizens reeling from a lethal blast that killed at least 145 people that no blank checks will be given to its leaders unless they enact reforms and end rife corruption.

  • Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

    Destruction of Beirut port silos leaves Lebanon with only a month of wheat

    Grain reserves in Lebanon’s remaining silos stood at “a bit less than a month” but the destroyed silos had only held 15,000 tons of the grain at the time

    Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast, leaving the nation with less than a month’s reserves of the grain but enough flour to avoid a crisis, the economy minister said on Wednesday.

  • Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

    Beirut blast point to years on inaction and negligence over storage of explosives

    The head of Beirut port and of Customs both said that several letters were sent to the judiciary asking for the dangerous material removal, but no action was taken

    Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion that killed more than 150 people, injured thousands and left 300,000 homeless, an official source revealed