Author: Steven Sahiounie

Former federal judge Michael Luttig predicts that the court will rule sooner rather than later, and most certainly before the first primaries’. According to former federal judge Michael Luttig on Sunday, the US Supreme Court will soon decide if former President Donald Trump is eligible to run for the presidency in 2024. Legal experts believe that Trump might be disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits someone from holding office if they have “previously taken an oath … to support the constitution” and subsequently “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” Luttig and other notable conservative…

The United Nations Security Council will be convening for talks on the referendum held in territories formerly recognized as Ukrainian. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold Friday a meeting on the referenda held in territories previously recognized as Ukrainian for their reunification with Russia, a UNSC source told Russian news agency Sputnik. The official account of Albania’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations on X posted earlier about a meeting on Ukraine scheduled for Thursday. Albania is presiding over the Security Council during September after the United States chaired the body in August. “The US and Albania requested an SC meeting…

Dmitry Peskov made this statement, commenting on the information that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken may announce the allocation of additional financial aid to Kiev Washington is pushing Kiev to wage the war to the last Ukrainian and spares no expense in doing so, but this cannot affect the course of the special military operation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Commenting on the information that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken may announce the allocation of additional financial aid to Ukraine during his visit to Kiev, the spokesman said: “We have repeatedly heard statements that they [the US]…

Five people died on Tuesday in flash floods from torrential rains that turned the streets of Istanbul and parts of northwestern Turkiye into rushing rivers, officials said.The nighttime storm partially flooded an Istanbul subway station and forced the evacuation of dozens of people from a city library, media reports said.Television and social media images showed rushing waters sweeping away cars and city market stalls.The Istanbul governor’s office said two people died.The rains followed a particularly dry summer that saw the water reservoirs of the city of 16 million people fall to nine-year lows.Turkiye’s emergency service said three people also died…

In an Israeli army raid of Jenin refugee camp today, soldiers detained a 41-year-old former prisoner who served 12 years in jail for resisting the occupation, after surrounding the house he was in, according to witnesses. He was one of eight Palestinians detained by the army in various areas of the occupied territories. In the Hebron governorate in the south of the West Bank, soldiers detained three Palestinians, two of them from the town Surif and the third from Sair, according to Palestinian security and local sources. Soldiers also detained one person from the town of Beit Rima, northwest of…

Maria Zakharova also pointed out that “Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s gala dinner, which will be attended by all the heads of delegations that have arrived to participate in the East Asia Summit,” is scheduled for Wednesday evening Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Laotian Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith and several other officials on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Jakarta, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. According to the diplomat, “the minister’s program is more than full.” “More and more bilateral meetings are being planned. The first bilateral meeting…

It was reported earlier that Sergey Lavrov would hold a series of meetings with regional partners and officials from multilateral organizations during his visit Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Wednesday to participate in the East Asia Summit, a TASS correspondent reported. Lavrov’s plane landed at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said earlier that Lavrov would hold a series of meetings with regional partners and officials from multilateral organizations during his visit. Source: TASS

Antony Blinken last visited Ukraine in September 2022 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Kiev, Ukrainian media reported. According to European Pravda, Blinken is in the Ukrainian capital already, while Klimenko Time said that all traffic was halted in central Kiev. However, there has been no official confirmation of these reports yet. Earlier, State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel refused to confirm the top US diplomat’s visit to Kiev on September 6 in a comment to Ukraine’s Dzerkalo Tyzhnia online publication. Blinken last visited Ukraine in September 2022. Source: TASS

The Chinese yuan gained 0.26%, reaching 13.414 rubles MOSCOW, September 6. /TASS/. The US dollar traded above 98 rubles on Moscow Exchange on Wednesday for the first time since August 15, according to trading data. As of 7:00 a.m. Moscow time, US dollar has grown by 0.2%, reaching 98.1 rubles. By 07:17 a.m. Moscow time, the dollar further accelerated its growth, trading at 98.24 rubles (+0.34%). Meanwhile, the euro gained 0.53%, selling at 105.47 rubles. The Chinese yuan gained 0.28%, reaching 13.417 rubles.

As of 9:49 a.m., the dollar was down by 0.4% at 97.51 rubles, the euro was down by 0.23% at 104.67 rubles MOSCOW, September 6. /TASS/. The Russian currency went up slightly against the dollar and the euro during foreign exchange trading on Moscow Exchange as the dollar was down at 97.5 rubles, while the euro was down at 104.54 rubles, according to trading data. As of 9:42 a.m. Moscow time, the dollar was down by 0.51% at 97.4 rubles, the euro was down by 0.36% at 104.54 rubles, while the yuan was down by 0.49% at 13.313 rubles. As of…