MADRID: Spain plans to send two military aircraft to evacuate as many as 350 citizens from Lebanon as early as Thursday, Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said on Wednesday.
“The Spanish airplanes are ready, the staff are ready, as always with the professionalism of the Spanish army,” she said in an interview with Antena 3 TV station.
A group of 350 Spanish citizens present in Lebanon have asked to go to Spain, Robles said in the interview.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares had said earlier this week around 1,000 Spaniards were in Lebanon.
Israel was hit on Tuesday evening by rockets launched from Iran following a ground incursion of the Israeli armed forces into south Lebanon where they clashed with the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
The operation followed intense air strikes that have devastated Hezbollah’s leadership, including longtime chief Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in Beirut last week.
Beside the 1,000 Spanish residents in Lebanon, Spain has commanded the United Nations’ Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and deployed 650 troops along the southern Lebanese border with Israel, since 2022.
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Spain to evacuate citizens from Lebanon, Defense Minister says
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Spain to evacuate citizens from Lebanon, Defense Minister says
- A group of 350 Spanish citizens present in Lebanon have asked to go to Spain
Bangladesh will hold the first national elections since 2024 mass uprising in February
- The country’s last elections were held in January 2024, when Hasina returned to office for the fourth consecutive time
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s next national elections would be held on Feb. 12, eighteen months after former Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina was ousted through a mass uprising following weeks of violence that left hundreds dead and thousands injured, the chief election commissioner said Thursday.
A.M.M. Nasir Uddin confirmed the date in a televised address to the nation.
The country’s last elections were held in January 2024, when Hasina returned to office for the fourth consecutive time. The 2024 elections were controversial and boycotted by major rivals of Hasina who accused her administration of rigging the vote.
Hasina fled the country to India on Aug. 5 in the wake of huge protests last summer, and she has been in exile since.
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been running the country since Aug. 8, 2024. The Yunus-led administration has banned all activities of Hasina’s Awami League party, which means the former ruling party would not be able to join the race.
The new elections would be the 13th since the country gained independence from Pakistan through a bloody war in 1971.
A.M.M. Nasir Uddin confirmed the date in a televised address to the nation.
The country’s last elections were held in January 2024, when Hasina returned to office for the fourth consecutive time. The 2024 elections were controversial and boycotted by major rivals of Hasina who accused her administration of rigging the vote.
Hasina fled the country to India on Aug. 5 in the wake of huge protests last summer, and she has been in exile since.
An interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has been running the country since Aug. 8, 2024. The Yunus-led administration has banned all activities of Hasina’s Awami League party, which means the former ruling party would not be able to join the race.
The new elections would be the 13th since the country gained independence from Pakistan through a bloody war in 1971.
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