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The decision comes after Sudanese authorities re-opened the airspace in the eastern sector of the country, after closing the entire airspace since April 15 after war broke out CAIRO: Egyptian national carrier EgyptAir announced it will operate its first direct flight from Cairo to Port Sudan starting Sept. 1, the Egyptian civil aviation ministry said on Tuesday.The decision comes after Sudanese authorities re-opened the airspace in the eastern sector of the country, after closing the entire airspace since April 15 after war broke out.Since then, humanitarian and evacuation flights have operated out of Port Sudan airport on the Red Sea…

The UN human rights office says more than 1,000 people, most of which are youngsters, have been arrested across Ethiopia and in the Amhara region as a result of the ongoing conflict. The UN human rights office announced on Tuesday that at least 183 people have been killed as a result of the ongoing fighting between Ethiopia’s military and insurgents in the Amhara region. The UN statement also noted that over 1,000 people have been arrested across the country, underscoring that the majority are youngsters. “With federal forces reasserting their presence in certain towns and Fano militias reportedly retreating into…

Russia’s embassy in the US condemned the new arms shipment as “the height of hypocrisy” The US government has announced another round of military aid for Ukraine worth $250 million, including artillery shells, air defense munitions and mine-clearing equipment, among other gear. The latest weapons transfer comes as Kiev attempts a wave of attacks on Russian cities as part of its straggling summer offensive. The State Department outlined the new lethal aid on Tuesday, noting that Ukraine would receive additional munitions for the HIMARS rocket system, AIM-9M air defense missiles, Javelin and other anti-tank weapons, as well as 3 million…

Hunter Biden has eyed terminating corruption investigations into Ukrainian energy business Burisma by former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. According to the Daily Mail, Hunter Biden worked with Democratic Party strategists to assist in terminating corruption investigations into Ukrainian energy business Burisma by former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. In June, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged that Burisma, a Ukrainian oil industry holding firm, allegedly paid then-US Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden a total of $10 million to help halt an investigation into the company by former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. The Daily Mail cited emails from Hunter’s laptop…

Moscow has responded to Washington’s accusations in the UN General Assembly President Vladimir Putin had brought up the possibility of Russia resuming nuclear tests as a message to the US, Russian diplomat Dmitry Glukhov told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. “I wish to underscore that the aforementioned statement by the Russian president about the hypothetical possibility of our country resuming nuclear tests, mentioned during his speech to the federal legislature, needs to be understood solely in the context of our response to the destructive actions of the US. It was a preventive signal to Washington,” said Glukhov. “We will resort…

The device fell in the Ruza district The Kiev government attempted to stage another drone attack on Russia, but the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was intercepted above the Moscow Region, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Wednesday. “At around 3:30 a.m. Moscow time today, the Kiev government’s attempt to attack facilities in Russia with a fixed-wing drone was thwarted. The drone was intercepted and crashed on the territory of the Ruzsky municipal district in the Moscow Region [west of the Russian capital],” the ministry said. Source: Tass

Algeria’s Foreign Minister says his country is proposing an initiative to resolve the Niger crisis with a six-month transition period led by a civilian. Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf revealed on Tuesday that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune presented a six-point initiative for a political solution to the crisis in Niger. During a press conference, Attaf, who was on a West African tour in an effort to solve the crisis in neighboring Niger, indicated that Niger has entered a political, constitutional, and institutional crisis. He stressed that a political solution that could end the crisis must be prioritized away from the use of force.…

Governor of the region Mikhail Vedernikov assembled the operational headquarters An airport in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov not far from the border with Estonia was attacked by drones, Pskov Region Governor Mikhail Vedernikov said early on Wednesday. “The defense ministry’s forces are repelling a drone attack on an airport in Pskov,” the governor wrote on Telegram. He added that more detailed information will follow after a crisis response meeting, which he will chair personally. “I arrived at the site at the very start of the incident. According to preliminary information, there have been no casualties. The scope of…

The Ukraine conflict is weakening the bloc, Hungarian FM Szijjarto has said The European Union has grown progressively weaker due to the response of Brussels to the Ukraine crisis, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Bled Strategy Forum in Slovenia, Szijjarto argued that the EU had diminished so much, it now needed former Yugoslav states more than they needed to join the bloc. The EU is “unfortunately, in very bad shape,” Szijjarto admitted, describing the situation as “worse than at any time in the past, in terms of security, economy and energy supply.” The Hungarian official blamed this…

Speaking to IRNA on Tuesday, Ebrahim Ali Molabeigi stated that the minerals discovered in various regions of the country include iron ore, lead and zinc, gold, copper, antimony and coal. He noted that more than $1.580 billion tons of proven reserves of minerals have been discovered in the country and approved by the relevant commission. Molabeigi further pointed out that about 100 million tons of iron ore concentrate were discovered in the country in 2022, adding that about 79 million tons of gold concentrate and about 1.32 billion tons of copper concentrate were also discovered in the country last year. He put…