Author: Steven Sahiounie

The State Department states that Ambassador Lynne Tracy made it clear to Russia that the US had nothing to do with the situation over the weekend. The US State Department stated on Monday that the US ambassador in Russia contacted the Russian authorities during the weekend to clarify that the US was not involved in the unrest in any way. According to the State Department, Ambassador Lynne Tracy in Moscow, as well as US officials in Washington, who called the Russian embassy, transmitted the message to Russian authorities on Saturday. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday that the…

The Russian president praised soldiers and security officers for their resolve during last week’s mutiny by the Wagner Group Russian military and its law enforcement agencies prevented a major internal armed conflict in the country last week, President Vladimir Putin has said, referring to the aborted rebellion by Wagner Group chief Evgeny Prigozhin. “In fact, you have stopped a civil war, acting precisely and cohesively,” he told a group of service members, who gathered at the Kremlin on Tuesday to receive state decorations for their endeavors last Friday and Saturday. The response of the people, on whom Russia’s security depends, enabled…

Two Palestinian citizens of the refugee camp were wounded by Israeli occupation gunfire amid heavy confrontations with Al-Quds Brigades – Nablus Brigade. A number of Palestinian citizens in the Balata refugee camp in occupied West Bank’s Nablus were wounded after Israeli occupation forces stormed the camp and opened fire on them during the early hours of Tuesday. Defending the camp, fighters from Al-Quds brigades – Nablus brigades – confronted the forces consisting of dozens of military vehicles and troops that broke into residents’ homes looking for Resistance members. Medical sources at the scene said two Palestinians were wounded by IOF…

The clip appears to contradict the former US president’s claim that he was not in possession of classified material after leaving office An audio recording has been released appearing to show Donald Trump disclosing what the former US president refers to as “highly confidential” military secrets to guests at his New Jersey golf club. It is the latest development in the legal battle which has seen Trump deny 37 federal charges related to the mishandling of sensitive documents. The recording, which was aired on Monday night by US broadcaster CNN, suggests that Trump was in possession of classified Pentagon documents which detailed a…

Meanwhile, Wagner’s owner, the Concord company, received 80 bln rubles ($940 mln) from the state in one year for supplying food and providing food services to the army, the Russian leader noted The Russian government fully ensured the financing of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the Defense Ministry’s military personnel. “I want to note and I want everyone to know that the financing of the entire Wagner group was fully ensured by the state,” he said. “We fully financed this group from the Defense Ministry, from the state budget,” Putin added.…

“Every day for nearly 30 years, I have been getting ready for war together with you. Maybe that is why we live under a peaceful sky today,” the Belarusian leader said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said a peaceful life in the country without wars was a result of everyday ‘painstaking work,’ BelTA news agency quoted him as saying. “Contemporary Belarusians were lucky to be born and live under a peaceful sky,” Lukashenko said said at a ceremony of presenting general’s shoulder straps to officers of the republic’s power ministries promoted to these ranks. “Yet, military people like us are well aware that…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The largest migrant boat disaster recently off the coast of Greece involved 750 persons wanting to get to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Though this was the largest tragedy, similar voyages are happening almost daily with loss of life. The US and EU sanctions prevent Syrians from a livelihood at home, and desperate people make deadly choices to feed their families. If sanctions were lifted, Syrians could find a job in the many reconstruction projects and new factories which could open if the sanctions were lifted, which currently prevent any reconstruction projects, or factories…

The international community must help decrease tensions between Washington and Beijing, the French president says Tackling the main problems faced by humanity will be “impossible” without cooperation between the US and China, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. In an interview with CNN on Monday, Macron stressed the need to reduce conflict, to enable countries work together on major challenges. “For me, the top priority of the global agenda is trying to fix the existing crises, fighting against the inequality and poverty, and fixing climate change and biodiversity… I would add to this building a common regulation on AI,” he argued. Those are “the…

According to the top diplomat, like authorities in Ukraine and Western media, Macron was part of a single “machine” working against Moscow French leader Emmanuel Macron saw a chance to realize the threat of dealing Russia a fatal blow in the attempted mutiny on June 24, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with RT. “Emmanuel Macron <…> was right up there with the United States, as he said something like this, `we are certainly watching the situation with caution, and it is evolving fast, but the main thing we saw – the split, the fragility of the…

This comes after the Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausada issued the call for NATO to bolster its eastern flank. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Monday announced that Germany is preparing to send 4,000 troops to Lithuania as part of efforts to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank. “Germany is ready to permanently station a robust brigade in Lithuania,” Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on a visit to Vilnius, conditioned on the “necessary infrastructure” and “compatibility with NATO plans”.  This comes after Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausada issued the call for NATO to bolster its eastern flank after news broke out that the head…