Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli forces Thursday killed two Palestinians youths identified as Huthayfah Fares and Abd al-Rahman Atta after their vehicle was targeted near the village of Shufa, south of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm. The Ministry of Health said that the General Authority for Civil Affairs confirmed the killing of Atta, 23, and Fares, 27. WAFA correspondent in Tulkarm said that Atta and Fares were killed during confrontations with the occupation in the village of Shufa. The two slain Palestinians are from the Tulkarm camp and live in the suburb of Dhanaba, east of the city. An Israeli special force, supported…

Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan met with his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira in Brasilia on Tuesday. They reviewed bilateral relations and expressed a desire to strengthen the strategic partnership between the UAE and Brazil in areas such as trade, investment, energy, defense, food security, agriculture, science, technology, tourism, culture and space cooperation. They also discussed cooperation to promote sustainable development and to combat climate change, since the UAE and Brazil are hosting UN climate change conferences this year and in 2025 respectively. Brazil has welcomed the UAE’s inclusion in BRICS and reaffirmed the bloc’s commitment to a more…

As Maria Zakharova noted, the European diplomats were unable to agree on the next package of military aid to Ukraine for 2024, amounting to 5 bln euros The Kiev meeting of EU foreign ministers failed to produce any significant results, while Hungary and Poland publicly aired their issues with Ukraine’s policy line, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing. “Budapest and Warsaw have accumulated quite a few grievances with the policy of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky. It turned out that this ‘brainstorm’ by the EU did not lead to any substantial results,” the diplomat said, commenting on the…

Antony Blinken noted that this installation is one of the “guiding stars” of the American leader Since the very outset of the Ukrainian crisis, US President Joe Biden has been trying to avoid a direct conflict with Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “From day one, President Biden had two ‘North Stars’ in mind. One was to make sure that we are doing everything we possibly can to support Ukraine and to bring other countries along to the same thing. But the other is also to avoid being in direct…

The Russian foreign minister also pointed out that Moscow welcomed the desire of its Latin American friends to take the process of resolving issues into their own hands Moscow will continue supporting efforts to strengthen the global role of Latin America and individual countries in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “We are all witnessing tectonic transformations pertaining to the ongoing formation of a fairer multipolar world,” Lavrov noted in a message to participants in the Sixth International Forum titled “Russia and Ibero-America in a Turbulent World: History and Perspectives,” which is being hosted by St. Petersburg State…

Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations office and other international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmad, affirmed that the Israeli occupation’s continued criminal acts, aggressive policies, and continued attacks on Syrian civilian facilities with the support of Western countries require questioning about the stance of countries that claim to be concerned for human rights and those who pretend to defend the principles of international law. Ali Ahmed said during today’s session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the situation of human rights in Palestine and the other occupied Arab territories, within the work of its 54th…

The final meeting of the 37th International Islamic Unity Conference (IIUC – 37th), which was held in the Iranian capital, Tehran, with the participation of Syria, affirmed that the issue of Jerusalem and support for the Palestinians must remain among the priorities of the common values of the Islamic world to achieve Islamic unity. The statement pointed out that normalization with the occupying Zionist entity is not in the interest of the Islamic world at all, because there is no security or stability comes for this deceptive entity. The statement indicated that the Islamic world is witnessing new developments that…

According to the press service, the talks will result in the adoption of a joint statement by the heads of state and the signing of a number of interdepartmental and commercial agreements Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 6 will hold talks in Moscow with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who will be in Russia on an official visit. “There are plans for discussing prospects for the further development of Russian-Uzbek relations of comprehensive strategic partnership and alliance, as well as regional and international problems,” the Kremlin’s press service has said. The Kremlin said that the talks would end with the…

According to Rosstat, the growth in the physical volume of GDP was due to an increase in domestic final demand by 10.1% compared to the second quarter of 2022, with a decrease in net exports MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. Russia’s GDP for the second quarter of 2023 amounted to 39 trillion 392.4 billion rubles ($395 bln) in current prices, accoridng to the first estimate of the country’s GDP by the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat). Earlier, the statistical service confirmed the preliminary estimate of Russian GDP growth in the second quarter of 2023 at 4.9% in annual terms. Compared to the…

It is also reported that since the beginning of October, consumer prices in the country have increased by 0.06% MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. Weekly inflation in Russia was 0.21% from September 26 to October 2, 2023, the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported on Wednesday. A week earlier – from September 19 to 25 – inflation was at 0.28%. Since the beginning of October, consumer prices in the country have increased by 0.06%. Since the beginning of the year, they have surged by 4.54%. In the reporting period, prices for chicken eggs increased by 3.2%. The price hike was 1% for…