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New Delhi is pursuing a balanced and independent foreign policy, Denis Alipov says Efforts by the US and its allies to pressure India into joining their campaign against Russia have been in vain, Moscow’s ambassador to New Delhi, Denis Alipov, has said. “The Western pressure on India continues. The policy in this regard is being openly formulated by the US – it’s about tearing it [India] away from Russia,” Alipov told the Izvestia newspaper in an interview published on Monday. The Russian diplomat added that “maintaining friendly relations with our country is in the national interests of India. I believe that it…

After the president fell on stage, Ronny Jackson insisted that Joe Biden is “not fit mentally or physically” to lead the country The White House is guilty of “malpractice” for allowing President Joe Biden to seek re-election while in such a state of physical and mental decline, former White House physician and Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson has told Fox News. Biden tripped and fell while leaving the stage after a commencement ceremony at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday. Although the White House said Biden was “fine,” and had been surprised by a sandbag on stage, video footage showed the president…

Syria and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Friendship Committee at the People’s Assembly discussed on Monday with Chargé d’ Affaires of DPRK Embassy in Damascus, Kim Hye Ryong, means of enhancing and developing parliamentary relations between the two countries. During the meeting, Chairman and members of the committee described relations between Syria and DPRK as deeply-rooted, affirming and the need to develop them in a way that meets the higher interest of the two friendly peoples. They called for increasing the exchange of visits and experiences, particularly in the parliamentary, economic, educational, and agricultural domains, hailing the stances of…

The 47th session of the General Assembly of the Arab Red Cross and Red Crescent Organization (Arco) kicked off Monday in Doha, Qatar with the participation of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent President Khaled Hboubati and the Secretary-General of the Organization, Khaled Arsousi. Participants in the session will discuss the response of Arco and its members to the devastating earthquake that struck the region last February in addition to discussing the humanitarian situation in the Arab countries that have been affected by disasters. The two-day conference is attended by heads and secretaries of the Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross…

Sergey Lavrov’s previous visit to Dushanbe took place in May 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Tajikistan on a two-day official visit, a TASS correspondent reported on Monday. While in Dushanbe, the top Russian diplomat will meet with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon and his Tajik counterpart, Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, as well as visit the 201st Russian military base. Apart from that, he is expected to speak at the Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University and take part in the presentation of the book collection “Russian Classic Authors and Orthodoxy.” Lavrov’s previous visit to Dushanbe took place in May 2022, when he…

Sergey Vershinin also recalled that the Russian side proceeds from the fact that “the concluded and existing agreements must be implemented in full” Russia sees no prospects for extending the grain deal again, but consultations with UN representatives on existing agreements continue, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin told reporters on Monday. When asked by TASS about the chances of extending the grain deal he replied: “We do not see them, but we continue, of course, consultations with UN representatives on both parts of those package agreements that, as you know, were signed in July last year.” The diplomat stressed that…

Palestinians marked today the 56th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of what was left of Palestine, that is the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, stressing that the resistance and struggle will continue until liberation. Israel launched a surprise war against Jordan, Syria and Egypt on June 5, 1967, during which it occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai from Egypt. Despite United Nations resolutions calling for ending the occupation since then, Israel instead entrenched it with its settlement activities in the West Bank, East Jerusalem,…

“Some countries say they are free and open to maintain peace and prosperity in the region, but in reality they are constantly chipping away at various military blocs and trying to push NATO into the Asia-Pacific region,” Wang Wenbin said Most countries of the Asia-Pacific region are against bloc confrontation and NATO expansion in the region, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a briefing on Monday. Commenting on statements by representatives of Indonesia, Singapore and several other countries that they do not want to see a new Cold War and do not want to be forced to choose…

Nobody was injured, governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said A power facility in the Belgorod Region has caught fire, governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram channel. “One of power installations is on fire,” Gladkov wrote. “Nobody was injured. Consumers were not disconnected. Rapid response functions are working on site,” the governor said. An explosive dropped from a drone is a preliminary cause of fire outbreak, Gladkov noted. Source: Tass

Heavy gunfire and explosions have rocked Khartoum and the western region of Darfur for over seven weeks now Clashes between Sudan’s warring generals escalated after the collapse of ceasefire talks. Meanwhile, residents and activists reported that at least 40 people had died in a recent wave of violence in the state of North Darfur. Fighting between army leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and his former deputy RSF commander Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo has gripped Khartoum and the western region of Darfur for over seven weeks now, despite numerous attempts to broker a humanitarian truce. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan’s army entered a…