Author: Steven Sahiounie

Berlin plans to give Kiev Marder infantry fighting vehicles, leopard 1 tanks, and reconnaissance drones, to name a few. According to Der Spiegel, the German government has decided to equip Ukraine with more weaponry worth 2.7 billion euros (almost $3 billion), which will be Berlin’s greatest military support package to Kiev. According to the article, the German Chancellor’s office and other ministries agreed during covert discussions to give Ukraine “additional weapons worth about 2.7 billion euros” in the next weeks and months. The publication revealed that Berlin intends to supply Ukraine with 20 Marder infantry combat vehicles, 30 Leopard 1 tanks,…

Two people died A helicopter has caught on fire and crashed in the Bryansk Region, a source in the emergency services told TASS. “A helicopter has crashed in the city of Klintsy, according to preliminary data due to an inflamed engine,” the source said. “The wreckage of the helicopter has been found by now. As a result of the crash a fire started that was knocked out swiftly,” the source in the taskforce told TASS. According to a source in the emergency services, two people died as a result of a crash of Mi-8 helicopter in the city of Klintsy.…

According to it, the agreement was reached with active mediation by Cairo Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip and Israel agreed on a ceasefire beginning at 10 p.m. local time (same time as Moscow’s), Egypt’s Extra News TV channel reported on Saturday. According to it, the agreement was reached with active mediation by Cairo. Source: Tass

Sanctions were imposed for a term of ten years on 212 legal entities and 37 individuals Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky imposed new sanctions against Russian enterprises on Friday, he wrote in his Telegram channel. “Today brings another round of sanctions. With my decree, I put restrictive measures on the property of Russian companies in Ukraine, as well as the property of Ukrainian economic entities affiliated with them,” he wrote. At the same time, he underlined that the package of sanctions included companies linked to Ukrainian opposition figure Viktor Medvedchuk as well as other sanctioned individuals – “founders, managers, and beneficiaries of…

Hundreds of Palestinians mourned Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Iyad Al-Hassani and his companion, Mohammad Abul Aal, who were assassinated by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Hundreds of Palestinians from across the Gaza Strip gathered to mourn the member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Military Council, and Commander of Al-Quds Brigades Operations Unit, Martyr Iyad al-Hassani, “Abou Anas”, and his companion, Mohammed Abdul Aal, who were assassinated by the Israeli Occupation Forces earlier on Friday. Al-Hasani and his companion were martyred in a cowardly Israeli assassination strike in Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City. The Joint Operations Room of the Resistance Factions, Hamas,…

According to Areda’s poll, 51.3% of respondents will vote for Erdogan on Sunday. According to surveys conducted by the Areda and Asal research organizations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is projected to win the first round of the presidential election by a narrow margin. According to a poll by Areda, 51.3% of respondents plan to vote for Erdogan on Sunday, while 44.2% plan to vote for the major opposition candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Sinan Ogan, the third contender, might earn about 4% of the vote. The presidential and legislative elections in Turkey are scheduled for May 14. The second round, which will be…

The IOF were forced to withdraw from Balata Camp in the West Bank, leaving behind two martyrs, after Resistance fighters from Al-Quds Brigades successfully targeted them and foiled their plan to arrest Resistance personnel. The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) were forced to withdraw from the Balata camp, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, after failing to arrest Resistance fighters. Two young men from the camp were martyred by IOF fire. Confrontations between Palestinians and the IOF erupted following the latter’s incursion into the Balata camp east of Nablus, in the West Bank. Following the incursion, the Al-Quds Brigades declared that their fighters were engaged…

Israeli occupation soldiers prevented ambulances and passersby from reaching the young man and left him bleeding on the ground until he was martyred. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Saturday the martyrdom of Palestinian youth Ahmad Mohammad Atatrah, 33, after he succumbed to the wounds that he sustained due to Israeli occupation gunfire southwest of Jenin. State-run Palestinian news agency WAFA, cited Tareq Qabaha, the mayor of Tura Al-Gharbiya village, as saying that Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at the Rihan military checkpoint, opened gunfire at Atatrah while he was trying to cross the checkpoint on a bike, critically injuring him. According…

Al Mayadeen correspondent reports that the house of martyr Bahaa Abu Al-Ata was massively damaged after being shelled by Israeli jets. The Israeli occupation air force launched air raids on Saturday targeting the house of martyred Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Bahaa Abu Al-Atta in the Shujaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, an Al Mayadeen correspondent reported. The occupation’s warplanes targeted a five-story building where martyr Abu Al-Ata’s home is located, causing severe damage to the residential building. The correspondent said that vast parts of the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood suffered from power outages after the aggression. An explosion was also heard east of the…

In an unexpected twist, Bitcoin and gold have emerged as the high performers of 2023. Jurrien Timmer, Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments, recently took to Twitter to share his intriguing analysis on the matter. Timmer’s tweets raise questions regarding the driving forces behind the ascendance of these assets. He queries whether excessive sentiment is the main catalyst, or if there are more substantial justifications beneath the surface. As per Timmer’s perspective, we could be on the brink of another era reminiscent of the financial repression of eight decades ago, a time when the Federal Reserve’s independence was under…