Author: Steven Sahiounie

As the death toll rises, Sudan’s rival generals are still playing the blame game. Renewed artillery exchanges rocked greater Khartoum early Wednesday as Sudan’s rival generals resumed fighting just minutes after the latest US and Saudi-brokered ceasefire expired. Already on Tuesday evening, an immense blaze had engulfed the intelligence service’s headquarters in the capital Khartoum with each side blaming the other for attacking it in violation of the 72-hour truce. A source within the regular army, led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, accused rival paramilitaries loyal to his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo of targeting the building. Meanwhile, a source within the paramilitary Rapid…

Speaking about the destroyed Western vehicles, the President underscored that these numbers keep growing Ukraine’s troops understand that they don’t stand a chance against heroic and courageous fighters of the Russian Armed Forces, President Vladimir Putin emphasized on Wednesday. “Thanks to the courage and heroism of our fighters, thanks to the commanders’ readiness to repel any aggressive actions against Russia, I believe, the enemy doesn’t stand a chance. They understand that and this is why they have stalled now,” Putin said at the meeting with military college graduates, answering a question from reporter Pavel Zarubin. “Ukrainian forces began [the counteroffensive]…

Maria Zakharova noted that there is a reliable foundation for settling the situation, which remains fully in effect The West is toying with international law in an attempt to create alternative ways to resolve the Kosovo problem, and this may lead the region down a path to calamity, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing Wednesday. The diplomat underscored that the US and the EU continue to turn a blind eye towards Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s subversive actions and deliberately bring the settlement to a deadlock in order to “force the Serbs to surrender their vital…

The two meetings were held separately in Iran’s Embassy in Oman’s capital. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi and lead Yemeni negotiator Mohammad Abdulsalam separately on Wednesday during a trip to Muscat. The meetings took place in the Islamic Republic’s embassy in the Omani capital. Earlier reports suggested that Saudi Arabia has asked Iran to mediate negotiations between Riyadh and Sanaa to reach a peace settlement and end the war on Yemen. The Sultanate of Oman has been increasing its efforts to stop the aggression against Yemen and lift the unlawful siege imposed…

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said that investigators and forensic experts have already examined the scene The Russian Investigative Committee is working to identify Ukrainian officers, who are responsible for the attack on the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP), the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has told TASS in an interview. “A number of forensic examinations are now being carried out. Members of the Ukrainian armed groups, responsible for this crime, are being identified,” he said. In his words, investigators and forensic experts have already examined the scene. “The damage…

The UN has basically acknowledged it can do nothing to fulfill its promises, a Russian deputy FM says Russia intends to exit the deal brokered by the UN and Türkiye allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported via the Black Sea on July 18, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin has said. However, a new round of consultations with the UN on saving the agreement can’t be ruled out, Vershinin told the news agency RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Russia remains in contact with the global body on the issue, but “we’re going to do what we’ve said. We’re gearing up towards July…

The US president’s remarks are “absurd” and amount to “an open political provocation,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said Beijing has pushed back against remarks by US President Joe Biden referring to Chinese leader Xi Jinping as “a dictator,” claiming that the statements are outright offensive. Speaking on Tuesday at a fundraiser in California, Biden addressed the controversy surrounding a Chinese balloon that entered US airspace earlier this year, suggesting that Xi did not know the vessel was even there. “That’s a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn’t know what happened. That [balloon] wasn’t supposed to be going where it was.…

China slams Biden’s remarks as “extremely absurd and irresponsible.” The United States President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator” less than one day after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken ended his trip to Beijing to revive better relations. Blinken’s trip comes in light of heightened tensions between the two global powers. The purpose of this visit was to improve relations that had fallen to all-time lows amid US provocations with regard to Taiwan and the South China Sea. During a speech at a Democratic Party fundraiser in California, Biden claimed that Xi was “upset” because he…

According to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Emmanuel Macron aspires to be the first leader in the West to be invited to a BRICS summit.  According to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, French President Emmanuel Macron aspires to be the first Western leader to be invited to a BRICS summit. France’s Foreign Minister made the comments during a press conference in Pretoria with South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor. Earlier On June 17, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed in an interview with RT that the BRICS nations had initiated efforts to align their positions on accepting new members into the group of emerging economies. The French…

The Cuban President lands in Serbia after visiting Italy. Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the President of Cuba, was welcomed in Serbia today after visiting Italy and the Vatican, his administration announced on Twitter. “After visiting Italy, the president arrived in Serbia, where he has an intensive program on his schedule on Wednesday, June 21. At the Belgrade airport [named after Nikola Tesla], he was met by Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Milos Vucevic,” the administration said on Twitter. Yesterday, the Cuban President met with his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella, in addition to local entrepreneurs to whom he expressed Cuba’s openness…