Author: Steven Sahiounie

The US secretary of state underlined that his country reiterated the call for the immediate release of Mohamed Bazoum and his family US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a phone conversation with Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum ousted by mutineers and confirmed commitment to a peaceful settlement of the crisis in the country. “Spoke to Nigerien President Bazoum to express our continued efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the current constitutional crisis. The United States reiterates our call for the immediate release of him and his family,” he wrote on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter). On…

The Iraqi forces announced that their warplanes destroyed hideouts belonging to Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Salah al-Din Governorate, in the center of the country. “The air force aircraft destroyed a tunnel in Hamrin Mountains that was used by Daesh (ISIS) terrorist gangs in their operations,” Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted a statement by the Joint Operations Command as saying. The Joint Operations Command noted that carrying out the air strike was based on accurate intelligence. On Tuesday, the Iraqi forces arrested six Daesh terrorists in Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. Source: SANA

According to Alexey Zaitsev, serious positive dynamics is being observed in agricultural trade between Russia and China MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Russia and China are engaged in active dialogue on the supply of grain from Russia to the Chinese market, Deputy Head of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexey Zaitsev said at a briefing. “An active dialogue is underway on the supply of Russian grain products to the Chinese market,” the diplomat said. He noted that issues of Russian-Chinese agricultural cooperation “are regularly discussed in the course of bilateral contacts at the highest and high…

At the same time, Russia’s canned fish and preserves production reportedly shrunk by 9% year on year to 124,900 metric tons MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Salmon roe production in Russia jumped 28% to 896.6 metric tons in the first half of 2023, the All-Russian Association of Fish Producers (ARAFP) told TASS. “The salmon roe output increased to 896.6 metric tons (up 28%). Caviar production, on the contrary, lost 11%, falling to 23.8 metric tons,” the trade group said. According to official Russian statistics, roe and caviar production in Russia gained 10% in the first half of this year in annual…

According to the report, India imported an average of 1.9 mln barrels of oil per day from Russia last month, while imports from Saudi Arabia totaled 484,000 barrels daily NEW DELHI, August 9. /TASS/. Russia became the top crude oil exporter to India in July ahead of Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the Morning Express newspaper reported. According to the newspaper, India imported an average of 1.9 mln barrels of oil per day from Russia last month, while imports from Saudi Arabia totaled 484,000 barrels daily. Russia has consistently been the top oil supplier to India over the last eighteen months. OPEC said…

It is noted that gas prices in Europe are likely to grow in the long term due to the higher cost of tanker deliveries of energy resources NEW YORK, August 9. /TASS/. Europe has not overcome the energy crisis yet as it is in full-swing amid the Ukrainian conflict and halted supplies of Russian gas, Leonhard Birnbaum, the chief executive officer at E.ON, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The structural change due to the conflict in Ukraine “and the drop out of Russian gas in the supply of Europe is going to stay and therefore the crisis is not…

The average gas price in Europe in July fell by 8% to about $337 per 1,000 cubic meters MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Gas prices in Europe exceeded $420 per 1,000 cubic meters, according to London’s ICE exchange. The price of gas exceeded $430 per 1,000 cubic meters, but then fell slightly to $422 per 1,000 cubic meters. The average gas price in Europe in July fell by 8% to about $337 per 1,000 cubic meters. In the first half of the year, the price of gas fell by half to around $425 per 1,000 cubic meters, amid abnormally warm weather,…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 9, 2023 (WAFA) – Minister of National Economy Khaled Osaily today called on the Spanish Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Hector Jose Hernandez, to take urgent measures against the Spanish companies CAF and GMV, which are involved in the construction and expansion of the light rail project in occupied Jerusalem with the Israeli company Shapir. In a letter addressed to his Spanish counterpart, Osaily demanded that the two companies withdraw and immediately stop their work on this illegal project, which is a flagrant violation of international law and United Nations resolutions, especially UN Security Council Resolution…

With funding for weapons shipments exhausted, the White House claims that it can keep arms shipments flowing thanks to an “accounting error” US President Joe Biden is “pulling an accounting scam to send more money to Ukraine,” Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed on Tuesday. One day earlier, US officials said that the next aid package for Kiev would be financed from a $6.2 billion windfall discovered months previously. The Pentagon announced in May that its accountants had overvalued previous arms shipments to Kiev to the tune of $6.2 billion, and that this money could “go back into the pot” and be…

This year’s production is expected to be higher than earlier estimates, market researcher IKAR has said Russian farmers are projected to reap up to 137 million tons of grain, including 88 million tons of wheat this year, according to the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR). “The forecast for the wheat crop has been increased by 1.5 million (tons) to 88 million tons, while the estimate of gross grain harvest is expected to rise to 137 million tons,” IKAR CEO Dmitry Rylko told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Export capacity assessment has also been raised by IKAR analysts, who predict foreign sales…