Author: Steven Sahiounie

The BRICS alliance seeks to challenge the dominance of US and European-led global governance structures. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday that the upcoming BRICS summit, which has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin, will be held in person, despite an arrest warrant issued against Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Ramaphosa stated that discussions are underway to finalize the format of the summit, but it will be a “physical” meeting. However, it remains uncertain whether Putin will attend the summit. Additionally, the South African President emphasized the importance of an in-person gathering, stating that they have not held a physical summit…

According to the TRT television channel, Presidents of Turkey and the United States also discussed the situation around the grain deal Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO membership, bilateral relations and purchases of US F-16 fighter jets were among the topics of telephone talks between Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Joe Biden of the United States, the office of the Turkish leader said on Sunday. “The presidents discussed issues of Ukraine and Sweden’s membership in NATO, purchase of F-16 fighter jets, and Turkey’s full-fledged integration into the European Union. The leaders also agreed to meet on the sidelines of the…

The United States allegedly kill an ISIS leader in Eastern Syria through a successful drone strike. A US drone strike successfully eliminated a leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria, CENTCOM claimed on Sunday. The targeted strike resulted in the death of Osama Al-Muhajer, who was a leader of ISIS in eastern Syria. CENCTOM chief Michael Kurilla claimed that the United States “made it clear that we remain committed to the defeat of ISIS throughout the region.” “ISIS remains a threat not only to the region but well beyond,” the US commander added. CENTCOM argued that no civilians…

In his opinion, the same applies to the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, provided the longstanding hostilities and numerous civilian casualties there The government of Ukraine has no practical plans of returning Crimea, all their rhetoric on this issue is a part of Kiev’s ideological media campaign, Crimean State Council Chairman Vladimir Konstantinov has said. “They don’t need Crimea. They will never have Crimea. It is the territory, which they have lost once and for all, the territory that never belonged to them in the first place. It is just a part of a major information campaign. They have…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization must stay true to its name, Paris has insisted Paris has refused to approve a scheme to open a NATO liaison office in Japan, arguing the bloc should not extend itself beyond the North Atlantic, according to an Elysee Palace official cited by Politico. “NATO means North Atlantic Treaty Organization,” the official told journalists on Friday, warning against blurring the lines and emphasizing that even the much-hyped Article 5 of the bloc’s treaty specifically refers to maintaining the “security of the North Atlantic area.” In May, Japanese Ambassador to the US Koji Tomita said that Japan was working towards opening a NATO liaison…

A spokesperson for the UK broadcaster claims that “BBC News Arabic provides impartial independent journalism” and speaks “to people across the political spectrum to establish the facts”. BBC’s accreditation has been canceled in Syria on Saturday due to what the country called “misleading reports”. Syria’s information ministry said in a statement: “Due to the broadcaster’s failure to adhere to professional standards and its insistence on providing biased and misleading reports”, adding that it decided to “cancel the accreditation” of the BBC’s “correspondent and cameraman”. BBC Radio correspondent’s accreditation in Syria was also revoked. A spokesperson for the UK broadcaster claims that “BBC News Arabic provides impartial…

Valentina Matvienko will take part in the eighth meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Commission on Cooperation between the Russian and Chinese Parliaments A delegation of the Federal Assembly headed by Speaker of the Russian parliament’s upper chamber Valentina Matviyenko is heading to China with a visit, the press service of the Federation Council said in a statement on Sunday. “A delegation of the Federal Assembly headed by Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko is heading to the People’s Republic of China with a visit at the invitation of the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of…

By backing membership for Ukraine, the French president is trying to court Eastern European support, the newspaper’s sources say French President Emmanuel Macron realizes that Eastern European states are becoming more influential within NATO, and has shifted his rhetoric on the bloc to match them, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. Macron recently backed a “path” to NATO membership for Ukraine. Before the conflict in Ukraine began, Macron was regarded as one of Europe’s most NATO-skeptic leaders. He proclaimed the bloc “brain dead” in 2019, and spent his first term in office repeatedly calling for the establishment of a “true European army” independent from the US. Even throughout…

Separate areas in the occupied West Bank witness confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces. On late Saturday and dawn Sunday, Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of raids and incursions in separate areas of the occupied West Bank, leading to confrontations with Palestinian citizens in some areas. The occupation forces arrested Hisham Abu Saleh from the city of Nablus after raiding his house and vandalizing it. In Al-Khalil, Israeli occupation forces arrested two children, Taymour Al-Qasrawi and Ishaq Shaheen, from the Tal Rumeida neighborhood, while they were returning to their homes. In the late hours of the night, four…

According to Vasily Golubev, there are no victims The air defense forces in the Rostov Region have shot down a Ukrainian missile in the area between Rostov’s Donetsk and Kamensk, the region’s governor Vasily Golubev reported on Sunday, adding that no casualties were reported. “Our air defense system worked swiftly today around midday. A Ukrainian missile was shot down in the area between Kamensk and Donetsk. No casualties. Fragments partially damaged the roofs of several buildings,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. Earlier, head of the administration of Donetsk in the Rostov Region Roman Kurayev reported via Telegram that brigades would…