Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Turkish president has slammed a recent EU parliament report accusing his country of abandoning the bloc’s “values” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Ankara could abandon its long-running EU membership process in response to a report from Brussels condemning his country’s “downward spiral in terms of human rights.” “The EU is trying to break away from Türkiye,” Erdogan told reporters on Saturday, adding: “We will make our evaluations against these developments and if necessary, we can part ways with the EU.” Earlier this week, the European Parliament voted to adopt a report censuring Türkiye for measures curtailing “fundamental freedoms, human rights and civil…

A number of Palestinian citizens, including journalists, were injured Sunday evening after the Israeli occupation forces targeted them, east the border fence, east of the Gaza Strip. WAFA correspondent reported that two journalists were directly injured by poisonous tear gas canisters fired by the occupation soldiers east of the town of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, at citizens and journalists, noting that others suffered from suffocation. Hundreds of citizens demonstrated near the border fence east of Gaza City, the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, and Jabalia and east of Bureij Camp in the center of the…

The Ukrainian leader’s participation at the General Assembly will be another pointless show, Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine at the General Assembly next week, the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said. At the same time, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is scheduled to deliver a speech at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday. He is also expected to take part in the Security Council meeting the next day, though this has not been officially confirmed yet. Asked by RIA Novosti about the…

According to preliminary data, there are no casualties A drone crashed in the central Russian city of Oryol, causing no casualties or damage, Oryol Region Governor Andrey Klychkov said. “Friends, this is to say that at about 03:50 today a drone crashed on the territory of the city of Oryol. It fell on a nonresidential structure in the Zheleznodorozhny District. The scene of the incident has been cordoned off, and special services are carrying out the necessary measures. The situation is under full control. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties,” the governor said on Telegram. Source: TASS

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator A Libyan official has said they will investigate to find those responsible for the dead in the recent flooding at Derna, Libya which may be more than 11,000. They don’t need an investigation to know the responsible party is US President Barack Obama, who devised and engineered a US-NATO attack on Libya in 2011 for regime change. “The U.N. Security Council never aimed to topple the Libyan regime,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in April 2011. “All those who are currently using the U.N. resolution for that aim are violating the U.N. mandate.”…

More than 40,000 troops will take part in the drills next year, the head of the NATO Military Committee says NATO will stage a massive military exercise in 2024 involving over 40,000 troops – the biggest since the Cold War – the US-led bloc’s Military Committee chair, Admiral Rob Bauer, said on Saturday. The ‘collective defense’ exercise – Steadfast Defender – will take place in Germany, Poland, and the three Baltic States that border Russia – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – Bauer said. The US-led bloc needs to do “much more” to protect itself against “current threats, but also against reconstituted threats and…

The stoppage had previously sent EU gas prices surging by 12% Australia’s Offshore Alliance union continued the rolling 24-hour stoppages at Chevron’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants in western Australia for a second day, increasing uncertainty over global supply. “Another 24-hour stoppage has been applied across all 3 facilities with 15 percent of Downstream members enacting rolling stoppages/bans after midday today,” an unnamed Offshore Alliance representative told Reuters on Sunday. The strike is expected to run until 8am on Monday (00:00 GMT), the representative said, adding that further decisions regarding full-day strikes will be made at meetings that are held “twice a…

According to Russian Foreign Minister, the US controls the military actions in Ukraine The US controls the military actions in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a commentary for the program called “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” that comes out on the Rossiya-1 television channel, adding that Washington is in fact pursuing a war against Russia by supplying weapons. “No matter what it says, it (the US – TASS) controls this war, it supplies weapons, munition, intelligence information, data from satellites, it is pursuing a war against us,” the minister said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF)…

The UK capital may lose its crown as a top financial center, a poll conducted by Lloyds Bank shows London may surrender its lead as one of the world’s finance capitals, a status it shares with New York, according to a majority of executives at corporate majors polled by Lloyds Bank. The bank’s financial institutions sentiment survey showed that 64% of sector leaders think that the City of London will stagnate as a global hub compared to its rivals, business-focused newspaper City A.M. reported earlier this week. The City of London, widely referred to simply as the City, is a…

It headed to the border check point Khasan North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has left the station Artyom-Primorsky 1 in Russia’s Primorye Region in the direction of the border in the region’s south, a TASS correspondent reports. The North Korean leader’s train headed to the border check point Khasan, around 250 km away from the station Artyom-Primorsky 1. Kim Jong Un arrived in Primorye early on Saturday. He visited the Knevichi airport where he was met by Russian Defense Ministry Sergey Shoigu. They got familiar with modern operational-tactical aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. While in Vladivostok, Kim also…