Author: Steven Sahiounie

Trump is to appear before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on August 3 at 4:00 p.m. local time Former US President Donald Trump was summoned to the federal court on August 3, he was charged on four counts, according to court documents. According to the document, the grad jury resolved that the prosecution provided enough evidence to press the following charges: “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States,” “Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding,” “Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding” and “Conspiracy Against Rights.” The document says that on the evening of January…

The decline is attributed, according to Gallup, to the failure of the two most significant military legacies of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the US – the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. A Gallup poll that took place from June 1 to June 22 showed that confidence in the US military was recorded at 60%, the lowest it has been since 1997, and it was lower at 58% in 1988. During the Cold War and threats to US power from the late 1970s to the 1980s, between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military, and it generally improved during…

Bolivia wants to foster ties with emerging economies and move towards sustainable development, its foreign minister has explained The ever-growing list of nations ready to enter the BRICS economic bloc now includes Bolivia, according to Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta. Writing on Twitter (rebranded as ‘X’) on Monday, the minister said his nation would attend the summit of the bloc – which is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – in Johannesburg set for August 22–24, and that Bolivian President Luis Arce will present his vision for the country’s future economic and social development at the meeting.…

According to Leonid Slutsky, Ukraine’s increased “terrorist activity” stems from the failure of its counteroffensive and is geared “towards sowing panic among Russians” The European Union cannot tell Russia how to respond to the drone attacks on Moscow, and its position is janus-faced, a Russian lawmaker and party leader told TASS on Tuesday. This comment was in response to EU foreign affairs spokesperson Nabila Massrali’s statement that Russia should not use the drone attacks on Moscow as a pretext to escalate combat operations in Ukraine. “The European Union’s position is hypocritical. Brussels supports the terrorist regime in Kiev and thus…

According to Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Moscow will follow the peace meeting Saudi Arabia plans to host peace negotiations on Ukraine in early August. Russia has not been invited. TASS has gathered the key takeaways about the preparations for the talks. Previous developments On June 26, Germany’s ARD TV channel reported that an international meeting on Ukraine had taken place in secrecy in the Danish capital of Copenhagen on June 24, gathering Western diplomats along with Brazilian, Indian, Chinese and South African representatives. On July 20, Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office Andrey Yermak said that Ukraine was preparing to hold another…

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned that the repeated desecration of the holy Muslim book in Sweden and Denmark may harm diplomatic relations. After months of anti-Quran rallies in Sweden and Denmark, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called for collective responsibility and worldwide criminalization of the desecration of the Muslim holy book. After a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Monday, he was quoted by Tasnim calling the recent occurrences “bitter events,” as he explained that Islamic countries should exert pressure on European governments “to swiftly put an end to such provocative actions and hold the perpetrators accountable and punish them within the framework…

The UN and the Syrian government are leading joint efforts in order to resolve the Al-Hasakah water crisis, which is affecting tens of thousands of people. Sources in Syria confirmed to Al Mayadeen Net that there are “joint efforts are being carried out by the Syrian government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in cooperation with international organizations operating in the country, to resolve the drinking water problem in Al-Hasakah.” The sources underscored that “meetings are being held with organizations in the province in this regard, all of which are aimed at putting pressure to end the suffering of hundreds of…

President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, described as important the relations between Syria and Iran and the need for developing them in all domains. President Raisi received Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad and the accompanying delegation. The Iranian President appreciated Syria’s resilience in the face of all difficulties and conspiracies hatched against it. “Syria is going ahead on the road of progress and development,” the President said, calling for the withdrawal of all illegitimate foreign powers from Syria in order to restore its sovereignty on all its territory. He affirmed the necessity of a full implementation to the agreements agreed…

Polls conducted by the New York Times and Siena College have shed new light on the status of the presidential primary races in the Democratic and Republican Parties, revealing that despite the wide and diverse field, it’s really only a two-man race. One poll focusing on the Democratic primary found that support for both former US President Donald Trump and current US President Joe Biden in a hypothetical presidential election being held tomorrow was exactly the same, with each candidate capturing 43% of respondents’ votes. It also found that opposition to Biden being the nominee among Democrats declined dramatically over the last…

“The absence of a program won’t prevent the Americans from carrying out their functions, it will simply make the process less convenient for them,” Dmitry Polyansky pointed out Russia has not supported the program proposed by the US for the UN Security Council in August, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky told reporters. The United States chairs the UN Security Council in August. “Russia did not support the program of the US chairmanship this month,” the diplomat said. On August 1, the US became a chair of the UN Security Council for a month. On the…