Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Solomon Islands and China ink nine deals as Prime Minister Sogavre visits Beijing to deepen ties between the two countries. The Solomon Islands signed a new deal with China on police cooperation, which will deepen the bilateral relations between the two countries. The “implementation plan” on policing will take effect as of 2025 and comes as part of nine documents signed by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavre and China’s Premier Li Qiang ain’t Beijing’s Great Hall of People following their meeting on Monday. The Solomon Islands cut off its relations with Taiwan 4 years ago, and since then, it has deepened its…

Christoph Heusgen has claimed accepting Kiev would mean dragging the military bloc “directly” into the conflict with Russia Ukraine cannot join NATO while its conflict with Russia continues, Munich Security Conference chairman Christoph Heusgen has argued. He added, however, that security guarantees should be created for Kiev, with the prospect of full membership further down the road. In an interview with Germany’s Rheinische Post newspaper published on Monday, Heusgen claimed that “Ukraine must and will become a member of NATO – as soon as the conditions allow this.” However, granting Kiev membership “in the current phase of the conflict” is…

The meeting with Evgeny Prigozhin took place on June 29, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the head of the Wagner private military company, Evgeny Prigozhin, several days after the group aborted a mutiny as part of a Belarus-mediated deal, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Speaking to journalists, Peskov confirmed a report by French newspaper Liberation, which claimed that the Russian leader had met with the Wagner chief. “The president had such a meeting. Thirty-five people were invited to it – all unit commanders and the company’s management, including Prigozhin himself,” he said. According to…

Palestinian factions are invited to join the Cairo summit alongside the state of Palestine. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had received an official Egyptian invitation to participate in the meeting of the general secretaries of the factions scheduled to be held in Cairo, a source familiar with the matter told Al Mayadeen on Sunday. Sources close to the Palestinian factions told Al Mayadeen that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has issued similar official invitations to the factions’ general secretaries to participate in the upcoming meeting on July 30. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,…

The future of the grain deal hangs in the balance as talks regarding its extension offer little optimism. The future of the grain deal remains uncertain, raising concerns among stakeholders. A source familiar with the matter informed Sputnik that the current situation offers little optimism for a prospective extension of the grain deal beyond its scheduled deadline of July 17. However, the anticipated discussions between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are viewed as the sole glimmer of hope. Following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last Friday, President Erdogan said he intends to discuss the grain deal…

The Chinese leader stated that his country was ready to continue developing the comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation with Russia Beijing is ready to join efforts with Moscow to contribute to building a prosperous, stable and just world order, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Monday. “China is ready to continue working with Russia <…> in order to contribute to developing and reviving both countries as well as to build a prosperous, stable and just world order,” China’s CCTV quoted Xi as saying at a meeting with Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko in Beijing. Xi said that, in the new era,…

The Florida governor has faced some serious challenges in his presidential campaign, with some arguing he has been using “desperate” measures to catch up with Trump. At a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, Donald Trump said Republican rival Ron DeSantis was getting “killed” in the elections campaign and has “no personality”. While also repeating that the 2020 election results were fraudulent, Trump said he was responsible for the Flordia governor’s career, noting that DeSantis had asked for an endorsement from Trump when he ran for governor in 2018. “I said, listen Ron, you’re so dead that if Abraham Lincoln…

Israeli occupation soldiers shoot and detain a Palestinian woman, alleging that she was going to carry out a stabbing operation. The Israeli occupation forces on Sunday opened fire on a Palestinian woman near the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Palestine under the pretext that she was bound to execute a stabbing operation. After being shot, the woman was detained before she was taken to an unknown destination. The woman who was shot sustained mild injuries in her lower body, local sources supported in the wake of the incident. Later, the prisoners’ media reported that “the woman who was shot by…

The war has already claimed the lives of approximately 3,000 individuals, with survivors reporting incidents of sexual violence and witnesses recounting ethnically targeted killings. Egypt has announced that it will host a summit on July 13 to address the 12-week-long clashes between rival Sudanese military factions, which has resulted in a major humanitarian crisis. Previous diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been unsuccessful, leading to confusion about how to bring the warring parties to the negotiating table. The upcoming summit aims to develop effective mechanisms in collaboration with neighboring states to achieve…

Russian Foreign Minister and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, have reiterated the importance of strengthening trust in relations between their countries Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, that the course toward continuing weapons supplies to Kiev is destructive, the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday after their telephone conversation. “Ankara’s attention was drawn to the destructiveness of the course toward continuing weapons supplies to the Kiev regime. It was stressed that such steps could only lead to negative consequences,” the ministry said. The return of commanders of Ukraine’s Azov nationalist battalion (outlawed in Russia…