Author: Steven Sahiounie

Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin noted that these states do not want to take risks Some Central Asian countries are signaling that they could join Western sanctions on Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said on Tuesday. He made the statement at the third Central Asian Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club in Tomsk. “Even as we share the view that unilateral economic restrictions are unacceptable and illegitimate, some Central Asian countries nevertheless do not want to take risks and indicate they are prepared to comply with Western restrictive measures,” the deputy minister said. According to Galuzin, Russia does…

Denis Pushilin pointed out that the situation on the flanks is not easy, as active combat operations continue due to Ukraine’s redeployment of reserves The situation in Artyomovsk (Ukrainian name: Bakhmut) remains tense, but Russian forces continue to advance after redeploying reinforcements, Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said on Tuesday. “As for Artyomovsk, we see that the situation remains tense. However, there are fewer and fewer high-rises controlled by the Ukrainian units,” he said during a Soloviev Live TV broadcast. Pushilin pointed out that the situation on the flanks is not easy, as active combat operations continue due…

Since being flown from Kabul to the UK in August 2021, Afghan refugee families are once again forced to uproot their lives in Yorkshire and relocate away. Afghan refugee families, who were forced by the Home Office to uproot their lives in London and relocate 200 miles away earlier this year, have been issued with eviction notices in the name of Suella Braverman. Since being flown from Kabul to the UK in August 2021, some of the families have been forced to relocate four times, often leaving behind employment and educational institutions. Originally, they were invited to the UK as…

Following the raid, Jenin Brigade announces that it targeted occupation forces with heavy gunfire. Jenin Brigade announced that it targeted Israeli occupation forces that stormed the vicinity of the Jenin camp with heavy gunfire. The Brigade said in a statement today, Tuesday, that its fighters targeted the IOF vehicles with a number of explosive devices in the vicinity of the camp. Israeli occupation forces had stormed the vicinity of the camp and surrounded a house, which led to the outbreak of confrontations. The Ministry of Health reported three injuries among the Palestinians by Israeli occupation gunfire, including one in the…

A month into Sudan’s brutal war, around 1,000 people have been killed and more than 700,000 people have been internally displaced. One month since Sudan’s conflict erupted, residents of the capital, Khartoum, have endured desperate food shortages, power blackouts, communications outages, and increasing inflation. Violence also renewed in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, leaving hundreds killed and the health system in “total collapse”, medics said. Fighting continued on Monday, with loud explosions heard across Khartoum and thick smoke in the sky while warplanes drew anti-aircraft fire, according to witnesses. “The situation is becoming worse by the day,”…

Confrontations erupt between Palestinian Resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces after the latter stormed the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Areeha. The Israeli occupation forces launched on Tuesday a series of raids in the occupied West Bank, including the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, the Dheisheh camp in Beit Lahm, and the Aqabat Jaber camp in Areeha, where they arrested six members of one family. Confrontations erupted between Palestinian Resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces after the latter stormed the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of Areeha, east of the West Bank, and besieged a house, injuring a citizen…

The cost-of-living crisis has impacted the finances of more than a third of households, a survey shows More than a third of Italian families have seen their living standards drop over the past year due to rising inflation, the National Consumer Union (UNC) reported this week. The UNC said that 35.1% of Italian households experienced worsening financial conditions last year, compared to 30.5% in 2021. They attributed the results to soaring bills driven by spikes in the prices of energy and goods and services. “These are alarming but much expected results,” UNC President Massimiliano Donna said. Prices for electricity, which is…

Russia’s largest lender, Sber, opened its second branch in Crimea on Monday in the port city of Simferopol, the bank has announced. This comes a week after it opened its first location on the peninsula in Yalta. The new branch will serve both individuals and legal entities, and has a 24-hour ATM zone. Another Sevastopol branch servicing legal entities exclusively will open in July. “We felt the demand for Sber services on the peninsula. During the first days of the work of the office in Yalta, despite the holidays, there were more than 1,500 transactions,” Anatoly Pesennikov, the head of…

Türkiye’s markets plunged on Monday as investors braced for a runoff in the presidential election. Neither the country’s long-standing leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, nor his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, managed to win outright in the first round of voting. The benchmark stock index, the BIST 100, was down by as much as 6.7% during morning trading, triggering a market-wide circuit breaker, before recouping some of the losses later in the day. As of 14:10 GMT, the index was down 4.5%. The country’s main banking index, XBANK, also fell, losing more than 9%. The Turkish lira slumped and was trading near a…

The currency recovers some of its losses but remains at risk of further devaluation after the elections. The Turkish Lira dipped on Sunday to a two-month low as the country’s citizens made their way to voting centers to choose Turkey’s next president. Before rebounding to 19.66 and making up some of the losses, the currency dropped to 19.70 during the day, not far from the post-earthquake rate of 19.80 recorded in early March. After a strong vote count rally that put President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of his main presidential rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the latest updates suggest that the competing…