Author: Steven Sahiounie

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador emphasized that Mexico was ready to “help find points of convergence” if “both countries” participate Mexico is ready to contribute to the initiatives for settling the conflict in Ukraine only if both Kiev and Moscow participate in them, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. “If both Russia and Ukraine agree to seek a solution to achieve peace, we will participate. If the conflicting parties agree and convene [talks] for that purpose,” he told a news conference. Lopez Obrador emphasized that Mexico was ready to “help find points of convergence” if “both countries” -…

The special representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq lauded the constructive role that Iran plays in the Arab country. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and the UN special representative for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, held a meeting in Tehran on Sunday. The top Iranian diplomat was briefed by Hennis-Plasschaert on the latest situation and developments in Iraq. Hennis-Plasschaert explained her views on the internal and regional developments related to Iraq. She also highlighted the constructive role of Iran in the West Asian country. For his part, Amirabdollahian pointed to the intertwined and solid relationship…

The Islamic State terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack which’s death toll has risen to 54. The death toll from a devastating bombing attack that targeted a political party rally in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has tragically increased to 54, as more victims succumbed to their injuries on Monday, according to reports from local media, citing the police. The number of those wounded amounted to 46 have now risen to 83 people currently undergoing treatment at various hospitals, as reported by Geo TV broadcaster, Inspector General of the Counter-Terrorism Department, Shokat Abbas. The catastrophic explosion occurred…

Israeli settlers Monday set up a new outpost northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, sources confirmed. Ayman Ghraib, an activist, told WAFA that a number of settlers set up a carvan on the al-Maarajat road, and brought their livestock, a portable water tank, aiming to seize Palestinian-owned lands in the area. Source: WAFA

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and current Republican rival of Trump calls out the spending rack-up, which he believes could have gone toward the Democrats. Former US president Donald Trump’s main fundraising team, the Save America leadership PAC, was found to have racked up more than $40 million in legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump, according to sources familiar with a filing of the costs to ABC News. The costs include defending him in an indictment handed up from a federal grand jury via special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his illegal retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.…

America’s arsenal should be removed from Europe, a senior Russian diplomat has said Russia could consider withdrawing its tactical nuclear weapons from Belarus if the US and NATO end their hostile policies toward Moscow and Minsk, a senior Foreign Ministry official has said. In an interview with RIA Novosti published on Monday, Aleksey Polishchuk, who is in charge of the department that handles relations with Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, described Russia’s decision to station nuclear weapons in Belarus as a necessary measure to buttress the security of both Moscow and Minsk. Polishchuk said that Russia sent nuclear weapons to Belarus “in…

Ukraine is not just battling Russia’s greatest defenses, but European incoming weather and the US election politics.  According to Richard Kemp, writing for The Telegraph, Ukraine is not just battling Russia’s greatest defenses but also European incoming weather and US election politics. Last week, Kemp questioned whether Ukraine will ever succeed, as it has had no meaningful breakthrough in its counteroffensive in the last six weeks. He compared the current battle to last year’s victories of Kherson and Kharkov, and emphasized that the Russian forces this time “aren’t going anywhere,” having mobilized their troops and prepared vast defense lines. Kemp wrote in The Telegraph that while…

The defense minister thanked the entire Russian military personnel participating in the special military operation in Ukraine for their service, courage and heroism The Ukrainian military lost over 20,800 troops and more than 2,200 items of military hardware, including 10 Leopard tanks over the past month, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told a conference call with military commanders on Monday. “Over the past month, the enemy’s losses amounted to over 20,800 troops, to be exact, 20,824 personnel, and 2,227 items of various armament, including 10 Leopard tanks, 11 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 40 US-made M777 artillery systems and 50…

“Parties to the conflict are required to take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians and civilian objects and not to conduct attacks that fail to discriminate between combatants and civilians”, the statement reads Civilians should not be deliberately targeted, UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell told TASS in connection with Ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure in Taganrog. She explained that her office had not yet received any correspondence regarding the appeal of Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, who had addressed the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk about Kiev’s shelling of residential infrastructure in…

The airspace closure will exclude “humanitarian aid and evacuation flights,” which will obtain a special permit from the relevant authorities. In a statement issued on Sunday, Khartoum International Airport announced that the Sudanese Civil Aviation Authority had decided to extend the closure of airspace to all air traffic until August 15. The Sudanese civil aviation authorities excluded “humanitarian aid and evacuation flights,” which will obtain a special permit from the relevant authorities. This decision comes against the backdrop of battles that broke out between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15, prompting the relevant authorities to…