Author: Steven Sahiounie

During the court trial in April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records and conspiracy.  CNN reported that Trump is scheduled for a trial before the court on March 25th, 2024 under the charges of falsifying business records. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge warned Trump that he would be liable to sanctions if he violates the court order prohibiting him from publicizing any evidence related to the case. Back in March, a New York grand jury indicted former US President Donald Trump as part of the Manhattan district attorney office’s investigation into hush money payments made to Stormy…

For the US to default on its debt, it would have a tremendous impact on the global markets.  The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden currently has no plans to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent a US debt default, thus ruling out a constitutional solution that would have solved the current debt issue. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters today that invoking the 14th Amendment, which would technically enable the US Treasury to ignore the debt limit, “is not going to fix the current problem we have right now.” On Monday, US House Speaker and…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is confident that the incumbent president will win another term, given the voter turnout during the first round and Sinan Ogan’s recent announcement both fall in Erdogan’s favor. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu expects that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will gain more than 56% of the votes during the run-off elections, after outrunning opposition candidate Kemal KIlicdaroglu, during the first round. “In the first round, 49.5% is a figure that every leader in the world cannot even dream of. As a result, the people showed their goodwill, but in the second round, as you…

Dozens of fanatic Israeli settlers Wednesday morning broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy protection from the Israeli police, Islamic Waqf confirmed. The Waqf said that settlers, divded into groups, raided the holy Islamic Mosque from al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its compounds. It added that the extremist settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern part of the Mosque. This comes at a time as Israeli forces intensify measures against Palestinians coming from Jerusalem to enter the Mosque, inspecting their IDs and briefly detaining them. Source: WAFA

Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier invited Russian President to visit China The timeframe of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China is currently being coordinated by the sides, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told TASS. “There is an invitation, its timeframe and other details will be agreed upon later,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Chinese President Xi Jinping said earlier that he had invited President Putin to visit China later in the year at a time convenient for him because, this year, China will host the third international Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRFIC). The Russian head of state…

Vyacheslav Gladkov reported that no one was injured  An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has dropped an explosive device on a car road in southwestern Russia’s Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel on Wednesday. “An UAV has dropped an explosive device on a car road in Belgorod. According to initial information, no one was injured,” he wrote. The governor added that one car was damaged as a result of the incident. A bomb squad and first responders are working at the scene. Later, Gladkov wrote in a separate post that a drone was shot down in the region’s airspace.…

Moscow has refused to provide Europe with its resources for a bargain, the president of Republika Srpska has said  Russia has fallen out of grace with the West because it wouldn’t play ball with Europe any longer when it comes to supplying the continent with cheap gas, the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said in an interview released on Monday ahead of a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Speaking to Russia’s NTV channel, Dodik, who heads one of the regions within Bosnia and Herzegovina that is predominantly populated by Serbs, offered his take on the ongoing Ukraine conflict. He…

Officials from Iran and the United Nations on Monday held virtual talks on the situation in Yemen and ways to end the crisis in the Arab country. Within the framework of the consultations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to solve the crisis in Yemen and achieve sustainable peace in this country, Ali Asghar Khaji, a senior assistant to the minister of foreign affairs of the Islamic Republic for special political affairs, spoke with Hans Grundberg, the UN Special Representative for Yemeni Affairs, via video-link. In this conversation, the two sides discussed the latest developments related to Yemen…

Iranian lawmakers elected Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf as the speaker of the Iranian Parliament for the fourth year in a row. During an open session of the parliament on Tuesday morning, the legislators voted to choose members of the parliament’s presiding board. Qalibaf remained in the post by garnering the most votes, beating Elyas Naderan and Fereydoon Abbasi. Abdolreza Mesri and Mojtaba Zonnour were also elected as the vice speakers of the Parliament. The Iranian Parliament currently has 290 representatives, changed from the previous 272 seats since the February 18, 2000 election. The last parliamentary polls were held in February 2019.…

“Russia is going through difficult times now; things have never been easy, but, still, today we are seeing a moment of our common consolidation,” the Russian leader said Russia is coming together as a country at this important moment in history, and national pride is on the rise, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “Yes, Russia is going through difficult times now; things have never been easy, but, still, today we are seeing a moment of our common consolidation, with our national pride being sharpened, when we are striving at all costs to strengthen the foundations of our spirituality,…