Author: Steven Sahiounie

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Moscow on August 12-14, he expects to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on August 13, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal told TASS. “The president is arriving on the evening of August 12. On Tuesday, a meeting with President Putin is expected, and before that, Mahmoud Abbas will lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. The president is leaving on August 14. But, of course, there will be a meeting with Arab ambassadors,” he said. According to the diplomat, the main topic of discussion will be the Palestinian-Israeli…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says internataional organizations, especially the UN Security Council, must fulfill their responsibility of protecting regional and world peace and security and preventing crimes against humanity. Pezeshkian on Saturday “strongly condemned” the Israeli regime’s brutal attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the east of the Gaza Strip, which killed more than 100 civilians. The Gaza government media office said more than 100 citizens were killed and dozens injured on Saturday morning after the Israeli occupation forces bombed the al-Tabi’in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City. Pezeshkian said, “With this crime, the Zionist regime once…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty discussed the Gaza war and several areas of ongoing cooperation between Egypt and Belgium, including migration issues and the recovery of smuggled Egyptian antiquities, in a telephone call on Saturday with his Belgian counterpart Hadja Lahbib. During the call, Abdelatty also stressed Egypt’s aspiration to enhance academic collaboration between Egyptian and Belgian universities within the framework of European Union initiatives, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also spotlighted the significant progress in relations between Egypt and the European Union, with ties elevated to strategic partnership level, particularly in political dialogue at the summit level. Furthermore,…

Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, has sent identical letters to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis, and the current President of the UN Security Council, Sierra Leone, condemning the recent massacre committed by Israeli forces in the al-Tabi’in School in Gaza, which housed displaced families. Mansour expressed that the international community cannot remain indifferent to such brutality and inhumanity. He criticized the Security Council for being paralyzed while Israel continues to disregard international law, the UN Charter, and its resolutions. Additionally, Mansour called for the accountability of…

Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty discussed with his Sri Lanka counterpart Ali Sabry boosting trade and investment relations between the two countries and recent developments in the Gaza war at a meeting on Saturday in Cairo. According to the Egyptian foreign ministry, FM Abdelatty praised during the meeting the activation of bilateral cooperation mechanisms in the holding of the second round of political consultations at the level of Assistant Foreign Ministers in Colombo in July 2023. He also welcomed Sri Lanka’s relaunching of the Egyptian-Sri Lankan Parliamentary Friendship Association at the end of last year. FM Abdelatty commended investments by major Sri Lankan companies in the ready-made…

The list of ministers proposed by Masoud Pezeshkian for a vote of confidence to the parliament is as follows: The qualifications of the proposed ministers are supposed to be reviewed by the parliament members and the commissions this week and in the open chamber starting next week. According to the schedule, the examination of the qualifications of the proposed ministers in the commissions will begin in two shifts from next week (August 27). Voting on the proposed ministers will take place in the parliament on Wednesday. Source: Iran Press

The president of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mahdi al-Mashat, appointed on Saturday Ahmad Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi to form the new government in Sanaa. This comes based on the directives of the leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi, who called late last year for radical changes in state institutions. In September 2023, the National Defense Council in the Yemeni government of Sanaa ended the mission of the government headed by Abdulaziz bin Habtoor, in response to Sayyed al-Houthi’s calls for radical changes, assigning it to conduct regular public affairs except for appointment and dismissal. Al-Rahawi, the…

A downed Ukrainian missile fell on a residential building in Russia’s Kursk, causing a fire, acting governor of the region Alexey Smirnov reported. “Today, a downed Ukrainian missile fell on a residential building in the city of Kursk. A fire broke out. All emergency services have arrived at the scene,” he wrote. The mayor of Kursk Igor Kutsak reported that he was at the scene of the incident and that cars were also damaged from the missile. Air defense forces are working in the sky , about 10 explosions can be heard, TASS correspondent reported from the scene. Flashes of…

The Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia announced today, Saturday, the acceptance of three candidates, including the current president, Kais Saied, who is seeking a second term. In a press conference, the head of the authority, Farouk Bouasker, stated that the authority accepted the names of President Saied, the Secretary-General of the People’s Movement, Zouhair Maghzaoui, and the former deputy and head of the Azmoun Movement, Al-Ayachi Zammal. Bouasker added that the authority accepted the three candidates out of 17 applications, while the remaining files were rejected due to a “lack of sufficient endorsement signatures or failure to meet the regional…

Tesla has stopped taking orders for the least expensive version of its Cybertruck, which is priced at $61,000, while making the $100,000 version available for immediate order and delivery as soon as this month, its website showed.