Author: Steven Sahiounie

The XRP price has dropped by 0.5% in the past 24 hours, dipping to $0.425301 amid a similar fall for the cryptocurrency market as a whole. XRP is now down by 7.5% in the past week and by 18.5% in the last 30 days, yet it has risen by 25% since the start of 2023, with the wider market so far enjoying a partial recovery this year. Encouragingly, XRP’s 24-hour trading volume has topped $1 billion in the past few days, and while this has largely been led by selling, the increased liquidity could end up translating to gains in…

A Palestinian youth has Thursday succumbed to the wounds he sustained after he was shot by Israeli soldiers during yesterday’s army raid in the town of Qabatiya, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. Fawaz Hamad, head of al-Razi hospital, told WAFA that Aws Kmeil, 30, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition as he was shot with live bullets in the chest and stomach, noting that all efforts to save his life were unsuccessful. Yesterday, a large army force raided the Qabatiya town and broke into several homes in the western neighborhood, searched them and ransacked…

A report shows that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity has dwindled in the last two years. A couple of days before Turkish voters head to poll stations to practice their right in voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ahead of an intense reelection challenge, analytics company Gallup reported on Thursday. For many years, Erdogan has been an icon in Turkish politics and is regarded as “a serial winner” for the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the company’s website pointed out. He ascended to power in the aftermath of a terrible earthquake in 1999 and is currently…

Two Palestinians were Thursday injured by Israeli gunfire, while four others detained, during an Israeli army raid in the refugee camp of Noor Shams, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm. Intense confrontations broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces who fired bullets and toxic gas bombs, injuring two people, one of whom was shot in the back. The two injured youths were rushed the Thabet Thabet governmental hospital, where their condition was reported to stable. Local sources told WAFA correspondent that the Israeli soldiers raided a number of Palestinian houses, while an Israeli bulldozer caused damages to…

Trump added that he considered Putin to be very smart Former US President Donald Trump said he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, to end the conflict in Ukraine. “I don’t think in terms of winning and losing. I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said during a CNN town hall program. Trump explained that if he was president, he would resolve the conflict within 24 hours. “Russians and Ukrainians, I want them to stop dying,” the politician said. “And I’ll have that done in 24…

The Israeli occupation has shelled residential buildings in Gaza despite the Palestinian resistance warning that such moves would prompt relentless shelling of “Tel Aviv”. Three Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building in Hamad City, northwest of Khan Yunis, the Gaza Strip, an Al Mayadeen correspondent reported on Thursday dawn. Al-Quds Brigades announced the martyrdom of Ali Hassan Ghali, a member of the group’s military council and the head of the brigades’ missile unit, saying he was martyred in an Israeli assassination exacted at Wednesday dawn alongside several other PIJ fighters in the north of Khan Yunis.…

Israeli media say this is the third attempt in almost three years and a half to deter the Resistance, yet the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s capabilities remain intact. The newspaper stated that “those who brag from the Israeli side about changing the equation are invited to go back to where it all started: This is the third time in three and a half years that Israel has tried the same maneuver, which means that the deterrence against the Islamic Jihad is short-lived and needs constant reinforcement.” In the absence of a solution regarding “the Gaza problem (and Palestinian issue in general),…

Al Mayadeen correspondent says successive salvoes of rockets were fired from Gaza, as warning sirens sounded in the illegal settlement of “Kissufim”. The Israeli occupation continues its heinous aggression against the Gaza Strip for the third day in a row, while the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of Palestinians martyred, as a result, has risen to 25, in addition to more than 70 injuries. The Palestinian Resistance renewed its rocket fire toward the occupied Palestinian territories. Al Mayadeen correspondent reported that successive salvoes of rockets were fired from Gaza on Thursday, as warning sirens sounded in the illegal settlement…

Palestinian armed factions have launched at least 507 rockets and mortars from the Gaza Strip since the start of the current confrontation, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 11. The rocket attacks targeted Tel Aviv and the surrounding area in central Israel as well as the southern cities of Sderot, Ashkelon and nearby settlements. The IDF said that at least 368 of the projectiles crossed the separation line, while 110 fell short in Gaza. The Iron Dome and David’s Sling air defense systems intercepted 154 of the rockets, marking a 95 percent interception rate of projectiles heading for…

Moscow has increased the supply of oil products to Latin America in response to Western price caps and embargoes, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing market sources and data from financial analysis platform Refinitiv Eikon. The statistics show that two cargoes loaded in April in Russia’s Baltic port of Primorsk with about 73,000 tons of diesel were heading to the port of Guayacan in Chile. According to Refinitiv, in January-April Russia exported about 1.5 million tons of diesel to Latin American countries, mainly to Brazil. The figure represents a significant rise from 211,000 tons supplied to the region in the whole…