Author: Steven Sahiounie

The war has internally displaced around 3.8 million people, the UN says Nearly five months in, the violence shows no signs of abating WAD MADANI, Sudan: Residents of Khartoum awoke Sunday to artillery and rocket fire, hours after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians including two children, according to Sudanese activists.“The death toll from the aerial bombardment” in southern Khartoum “has risen to 20 civilian fatalities,” according to a statement by the neighborhood’s resistance committee. They are among many volunteer groups that used to organize pro-democracy demonstrations and now provide assistance to families caught…

During the meeting, the ministers reviewed the strong fraternal relations between their countries and ways to strengthen them across various fields Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday met with Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Nabil Ammar in Riyadh. During the meeting, the ministers reviewed the strong fraternal relations between their countries and ways to strengthen them across various fields. They also discussed the most prominent developments in regional and international arenas of mutual concern. After the meeting, the Saudi foreign minister and his Tunisian counterpart chaired the third meeting of the political consultation…

Igor Kolomoisky was detained for two months on charges of fraud, with bail set at $13.5 million Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, whose support is widely believed to have helped Vladimir Zelensky secure the country’s presidency, has been detained pending trial for alleged money laundering. Kolomoisky was brought to Kiev’s Shevchenko district court on Saturday, after the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accused the billionaire of legalizing and transferring abroad more than 500 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($13.5 million) through the “infrastructure of banking institutions controlled by him.” The pretrial detention hearing was held behind closed doors, as requested by Kolomoisky, who reportedly did…

The former Russian president has dismissed the idea of Moscow eventually reconciling with the West as illusionary Washington and its allies in Europe and elsewhere continue to support Kiev despite it acting increasingly like the Nazis during World War II, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed in a Telegram post on Saturday. Moscow should abandon hope of reconciling with the West and see the group of nations for what it is, he believes. The leaders of Ukraine are “increasingly talking about ‘holding all Russians accountable’,” Medvedev said, adding that Kiev sees all Russian citizens as ‘Russians’ regardless of their ethnic background. In a…

NATO membership for Ukraine should be out of the question, the head of the Hungarian prime minister’s office has said A lasting peace following the Ukraine conflict can only be achieved if Russia receives security guarantees from the West, Gergely Gulyas, the minister in charge of the Hungarian prime minister’s office, has said. Speaking at a students’ event on Saturday, Gulyas stated that Kiev has no realistic chance of regaining the territories it claims as its own from Russia. He added that “it is also clear that Russia does not pose a threat to Central Europe” because Moscow has not been able…

Iran’s new ambassador to Saudi Arabia held a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian ahead of his mission to Riyadh. Alireza Enayati, the new ambassador of Iran to Saudi Arabia, met with the Iranian foreign minister on Saturday before leaving Tehran for Riyadh. Enayati gave a report to Amirabdollahian about the plans for bilateral ties between the two Muslim states. For his part, Amirabdollahian underlined the need to expand the policy of neighborliness. He described the issue of bolstering ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia as important, given the opportunities for cooperation in bilateral and multilateral fields, the Foreign Ministry’s website…

Transport Ministry completed the maintenance and rehabilitation of the most damaged sites on roads and bridges destroyed by terrorism in the provinces of Aleppo, Homs, Deir Ezzor, and Daraa, with a cost amounting to about 325 billion Syrian pounds. The Ministry had completed the maintenance and rehabilitation of 36 vital bridges in cities liberated by heroes of the Syrian Arab Army, Minister of Transport, Zouheir Khzeim, said in a statement to SANA reporter. The minister pointed out that the cost of the damage caused to the road network, bridges, and related facilities as a result of terrorism amounted to 1,350…

A change of power in Washington could irreparably fracture the bloc, Professor Phillips Payson O’Brien has argued The return of Donald Trump to the White House could spell the end for US military aid to Ukraine, leaving a divided Europe to foot Kiev’s bills and ultimately ending the NATO pact, academic Phillips Payson O’Brien claimed in The Atlantic on Saturday. Opposition to arming Ukraine is now the position of Trump’s supporter base, who O’Brien estimated account for three quarters of the Republican Party’s electorate. Trump has repeatedly vowed to use military aid as leverage to force Ukraine into peace talks…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today denounced the escalation in attacks and crimes carried out by Israeli forces and settler militias and terrorists against Palestinian civilians, their land, properties, homes, and holy sites. The ministry, in a press statement, condemned the recent attacks carried out by settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including their latest attack against the defenseless Palestinian civilians in the village of Qasra in Nablus, the attacks against shepherds in al-Mughayyir village in Ramallah, and the uprooting of around 74 olive trees in the town of Ni’lin to the west of Ramallah. The…

If voters had to vote between the current US President or his predecessor, statistics gave both candidates an equal outcome with an expected 8% of undecided voters. In a recent poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal, statistics found that around 46% of voters are expected to vote for US President Joe Biden, with an equal share of voters for former US President Donald Trump, if the presidential election candidates were between the current president and his predecessor. Away from the supporters, around 8% voted undecided, according to the survey. If the situation was different and a third-party candidate were to be…