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Refinery maintenance and a surge in domestic demand cut into volumes available for export Shipments of Russian seaborne diesel and gasoil dropped by 21% in May in monthly terms due to seasonal maintenance at the country’s refineries and a surge in domestic demand, tracking data from Refinitiv Eikon showed on Friday. In May, about 5 million tons of refinery capacity stood idle, which is more than the 4.5 million tons that had been planned. The reason for the reduced refinery runs is that maintenance at several refineries has taken longer than previously expected, according to Reuters. The EU embargo on…

By:Ahmed Abdu-Almalik, Yemeni journalist and writer Sudden decisions of National Consensus Government in South Yemen for printing new amounts of illegal currency will affect badly in economic growth and destroy the currency price. Printing money by governments or central banks is an economically complex technical process that should be avoided unless there is cash cover in the form of foreign currency, gold, or will be an increase in prices of local products and services, that is implying actual economic growth. So that cash printing is not just as a matter of paperwork, according to cash needs and exported from the…

Seven Palestinians were injured and14 others were arrested on Wednesday, as the occupation forces stormed different areas in the West Bank Wafa news agency reported that the occupation forces stormed Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho and Kafr Dan in Jenin town, amidst shooting and poison gas bombs, injuring seven Palestinians and arresting four others. The occupation forces also raided several neighborhoods in the cities of Nablus, Qalqilya, Tulkarm, Ramallah, and the towns of Qarara and Ni’lin to the west, Silwan in Jerusalem, and Burqin in Jenin, and arrested 10 Palestinians. On Tuesday, the occupation forces arrested 19 Palestinians in the…

According to Maria Zakharova, the restoration of the damaged ammonia pipeline will take one to three months Moscow will make efforts to find out the circumstances of the explosion of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, but it is already obvious that it was never Kiev that was interested in resuming its operation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “We will, of course, make efforts to find out the circumstances of the accident, but we can already say that the only country that was never interested in reviving the pipeline was, of course, [Ukraine and] the Kiev regime,” she said. According…

According to the explanatory note to the bill, a fundamentally new situation emerged when the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions joined Russia because, now, the coasts of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait come under the sole jurisdiction of the Russian Federation Russia’s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, approved a bill denouncing the Russian-Ukrainian treaty on cooperation in the use of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait at its plenary session on Wednesday. The document was introduced to the State Duma by Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 24.…

The Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia reopened at an official ceremony on Tuesday after seven years of closure. The ceremony was held in Riyadh on Tuesday to formally reopen the Iranian embassy in the presence of Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Iranian Expatriates Affairs Alireza Bikdeli, Hassan Zarnegar, the caretaker of the mission, Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Consular Affairs Ali Al-Yousef, and a number of other Foreign Ministry officials as well as ambassadors and diplomats and representatives of regional and international organizations accredited to Riyadh. During the ceremony, Bikdeli said Iran and Saudi Arabia…

British spy agencies are trying to take advantage of public backlash over two school shootings, Republika Srpska’s president has said British intelligence services are fomenting public unrest in Serbia in a bid to oust its leader, Aleksandar Vucic, the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said on Tuesday. In a statement, Dodik, who heads a region within Bosnia and Herzegovina that is predominantly populated by Serbs, claimed that the UK’s spy agencies are attempting to leverage two recent mass shootings in Serbian schools, which triggered large protests, to put pressure on the nation’s government. “I am convinced that the inspirers…

Nearly 1,000 local residents have been evacuated from the flooded zone, Vladimir Leontyev has said At least seven people went missing in the Russian city of Novaya Kakhovka after a local hydroelectric dam was destroyed on Tuesday in what Moscow claims was a Ukrainian strike, local authorities said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Vladimir Leontyev, the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, noted, however, that preliminary information indicates that those people may have been rescued from the islands on the Dnieper River that went underwater. “We are talking about herdsmen there… There were seven people that we know about for sure”, he…

Su-30SM and Su-35S jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Chinese Jian-11B fighters provided support for the air group along the entire flight route An air task force of Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying aircraft and Chinese H-6K strategic bombers conducted a joint aerial patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the western Pacific, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday. “On June 7, 2023, the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Air Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army conducted a new joint aerial patrol in the Asia-Pacific region. The air task force composed of…

The top diplomat said that as Russia and Africa are strengthening their positions “as centers of a multipolar world, additional opportunities are opening up for the development of our ties” Moscow is grateful to its African partners for refusing to join the anti-Russian campaign, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a reception at the Foreign Ministry on the occasion of Africa Day on Wednesday. “I would like to express my gratitude to our African partners who have not let themselves be dragged into the anti-Russian campaign and who have taken a balanced position on the European security crisis,” Lavrov…