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“I think that we are not yet there, and it’s why it is so important to take measures to reduce the dramatic negative impacts <…> in relation to the world,” Antonio Guterres noted There is no sign of the Ukrainian conflict ending currently in sight, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. “Hope never ends, but I would of course be lying if I would say that I believe we are seeing in the immediate horizon a possibility of peace in Ukraine,” he noted. “I think that we are not yet there, and it’s why it is so important to…

According to The Washington Post, the White House is asking Congress for funds in order to avert another potential shutdown of the Federal Government. According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration has requested the US Congress to pass a short-term bill to finance the federal government and avoid a potential shutdown. Earlier in the day, the White House asked Congress to take up the subject and requested that lawmakers approve financing for a number of “cash-strapped” projects. According to the post, this includes an additional $1.4 billion to avert a potential disruption in nutritional help for low-income families. A spokesperson for the Office…

Earlier, a group of high-ranking officers in the Gabonese armed forces announced on state television that they had taken power in the country The military officers who took power in Gabon have named Republican Guard head General Brice Oligui Nguema as transitional leader, Reuters reported, citing a statement one of the rebels read out on national television. The French newspaper Le Monde reported earlier that the rebels planned to choose a transitional leader at a meeting of generals on Wednesday. Earlier, a group of high-ranking officers in the Gabonese armed forces announced on state television that they had taken power in the country. The…

The top Russian diplomat also recalled the position voiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the conditions for resuming the deal Russia has made it clear to the Turkish side what the West needs to do in order for the grain deal to be resurrected, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference following talks with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. “Of course, we talked about the problem that arose after the termination of the Black Sea Initiative for the export grain from Ukrainian ports on July 18. We conveyed to our Turkish partners our vision for what needs…

Prime Minister Hussein Arnous and the Chargé d’Affairs of the Indian Embassy in Damascus, Vijay Pandey discussed Thursday means of boosting the Syrian-Indian relations in all fields. During the meeting, both sides underlined the importance of activating the work of joint government committees and strengthening trade exchange and commodity swap based on the deep-rooted historical relations between the two brotherly countries. Arnous stressed that plundering Syria’s resources of oil and wheat by the occupation and its affiliated militias in the Syrian al-Jazeera region and the imposition of unjust economic embargo have negatively affected meeting the citizens’ basic needs, which the…

According to Viktor Orban, the North Atlantic Alliance should “forget about” Ukraine’s integration into NATO and agree on a new security architecture with Moscow Western countries can no longer afford to integrate Ukraine into NATO, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with Tucker Carlson. In the interview, which was published on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, the Hungarian premier told the former Fox News host that there was a real chance to integrate Ukraine into the North Atlantic Alliance at the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008. But “there was no agreement among the big…

“China calls on the UK Parliament to adhere to the ‘one China’ principle and the general legal norms of international relations,” Wang Wenbin stated Statements on Taiwan’s independence that appeared in a document published by the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee do not correspond to reality, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters. “The [British] report mentioning Taiwan’s independence contradicts the facts. China calls on the UK Parliament to adhere to the ‘One China’ principle and the general legal norms of international relations,” the diplomat said in commenting on the Foreign Affairs Committee report, the publication of which…

Syria and Iraq discussed bilateral relations in the military and security fields and means to enhance them in a way that serve the two brotherly countries. This came during a meeting between Iraqi Defense Minister, Thabit Muhammad Al-Abassi and Syrian Ambassador to Baghdad, Sattam Jadaan al-Dandah, on Wednesday at the minister’s office, according to a statement by the Iraqi Defense Ministry. Both sides discussed the issues of common interests of the two countries. ‘The meeting dealt with uplifting the level of coordination in the field of security, combating terrorism, exchanging information, pursuing terrorist cells, controlling borders between both countries, in…

RIYADH: Affirming its economic diversification journey, the UAE achieved an all-time high of 1.13 trillion dirhams ($337.6 billion) in non-oil foreign trade during the first half of 2023, representing a 14.4 percent growth compared to the same period a year ago. The robust performance in the first half was driven by record non-oil exports, which reached 205 billion dirhams in the first half of 2023, up 11.9 percent compared to the same period in 2022, news agency WAM reported, citing figures released by the Ministry of Economy. According to the report, non-oil exports in the first six months of 2023…

Earlier, the opposition alleged that the authorities had violated the law during the elections and refused to accept the results A group of senior officers in Gabon’s armed forces has declared that it had seized power and canceled the just-announced results of the presidential and parliamentary elections, Reuters reported, citing a national TV broadcast. According to the news agency, the rebels are representatives of the security services, the national and the presidential guard, the army, the police. The coup came almost immediately after Gabon’s state election commission announced that the country’s incumbent president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, had been re-elected for a third…