Author: Steven Sahiounie

Nguyen Phu Trong stressed that relations between Hanoi and Moscow “are filled with feelings of mutual empathy and camaraderie” Hanoi thinks it is very important to develop relations of comprehensive strategic partnership with Moscow, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong said on Monday at a meeting with visiting Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. “Your visit is very important, it gives us an opportunity to exchange views on the current state of relations between our parties and states, to discuss the current international situation, as well as to build mutual…

According to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, it is inappropriate to discuss the situation in Ukraine either in the G7 or the G20 format Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva considers it necessary to hold a UN summit on the situation in Ukraine before the UN high-level meeting in September. “It is necessary to discuss the war in Ukraine in the UN. During all five months of my presidency, no one invited me to attend a UN meeting to discuss this war. We could reschedule the General Assembly meeting, which usually takes place in September, to June or July…

Alexander Schallenberg emphasized that Vienna continued to communicate with Moscow through informal channels Vienna maintains an informal channel of communication with Moscow and calls for dialogue with Russia despite the Ukrainian conflict, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said. “The West should continue talking with Russia the way the US government is doing,” he pointed out in an interview with Germany’s Die Welt newspaper published on Monday. According to Schallenberg, international platforms such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations should be used for further talks with Russia. Austria’s top diplomat sees it as…

One Palestinian was badly injured after being mauled by a K9 dog unleashed by IOF. A Palestinian youth was injured and three others were arrested by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during a large-scale raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to state-run Palestinian news agency WAFA. An Israeli occupation force infiltrated several neighborhoods of Jenin and deployed snipers on the roofs of a number of houses in Al-Marah and Khallet Al-Sawha neighborhoods in the east of the city. In further detail, IOF raided and ransacked a number of Palestinian homes in Jenin. Simultaneously, the occupation forces arrested three Palestinians:…

Today, Monday, NEOM Green Hydrogen Company announced the completion of the financial closure phase of the project to establish the largest green hydrogen production plant in the world, with an investment of $8.4 billion. This came after signing financial documents with 23 local, regional and international banks and investment companies, and the factory is being built in the city of “Oxagon” within “NEOM”. The company also entered into an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement with Air Products, as the contracting company responsible for carrying out these works and ensuring system integration at the plant level in general. It also…

The Russian Ambassador to the US says every specialist knows there is no infrastructure for operating F-16 aircraft in Ukraine. Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said the United States must understand that Ukrainian strikes on Crimea would be viewed as an attack on any other region of Russia, while the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Kiev raises the question of NATO’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. US President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 summit in Japan that the US, along with its partners, was going to launch a training program for Ukraine’s military pilots…

The US says Al-Aqsa Mosque should not be used for political purposes and calls on all parties to respect its sanctity. “Israel’s” strongest ally, the United States, condemned the storming of Israeli occupation Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Al-Quds, the US State Department said on Sunday. On Sunday, Ben-Gvir stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second time since January 2023. Calling the outright desecration and storming a “visit”, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said Washington was concerned by Ben-Gvir’s “provocative visit” to the Mosque and “the accompanying inflammatory rhetoric.” “This holy space should not…

Israeli occupation forces storm, search, and ransack dozens of homes in the Balata refugee camp. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced at dawn Monday that three Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded by Israeli occupation gunfire during the storming of the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Ministry identified the martyrs as Fathi Jihad Rizq, 30, Abdullah Yousef Abu Hamdan, 24, and Mohammad Bilal Zeitoun, 32. State-run Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the occupation forces stormed, searched, and ransacked dozens of homes in the camp and besieged others, amid violent confrontations with Palestinian…

The current borrowing limit is a constraint on Washington’s ability to make good on obligations coming due, Janet Yellen says America’s chances of paying its bills after June 1 are “quite low,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned on Sunday in an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’. According to Yellen, if Congress fails to reach an agreement on raising the country’s $31.4 trillion borrowing limit by that time, it will be forced to default on “some bills” shortly after. “There’s always uncertainty about tax receipts and spending. And so it’s hard to be absolutely certain about this, but my…

Brussels says the state-owned Russian Agricultural Bank may return to the payment system only after the conflict in Ukraine ends The European Union will not reconnect Russian state agricultural lender Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT payment system in the immediate future, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Monday, citing EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano. The bank facilitates the majority of transactions involving Russian agricultural exports. Stano told the news outlet that Brussels may move to soften or lift restrictions placed on the bank only when the conflict in Ukraine ends. “As for the de-SWIFTing of Russian banks – this is part…