Author: Steven Sahiounie

One of the victims remains hospitalized after the police vehicle ran into her alongside her brother and friend last month during Ramadan while on their way home back from praying at a mosque.  Paris has once again witnessed a massive protest in its streets against the ongoing police brutality in the country, in light of the recent incident of three Muslim teens being run over by a police car, which seriously wounded them. The attack was labeled by their attorney as an “assassination attempt.” The family and friends of the three victims took part in the protests alongside many of the country’s…

The first general report of the Planning and Budget Committee of the House of Representatives in Egypt revealed that the government’s public debt exceeded 6.3 trillion pounds, an increase of 13.7% over the previous year. The document revealed the value of government public debt after clarifying the internal public debt and the external public debt, as the net final debt on 6/30/2022 amounted to about 6,308,555.7 million pounds, compared to about 5,547,453.8 million pounds, an increase of about 761,101.9 million pounds, an increase of 13.7%, compared to about 3,974,970.8 million pounds in the previous year. 6/30/2018, an increase over the…

The major global economies are shifting and the clues are there for those who know where to look De-dollarization is increasingly making headlines and you don’t have to look too hard to find examples. New sources of non-dollar finance are emerging. There are new bilateral agreements to trade and lend in currencies other than the US dollar. Even more importantly, major oil trade buyers and sellers – Moscow and Riyadh as much as Beijing and New Delhi – are agreeing to trade it in non-dollar currencies. These deals are destroying one of the main pillars of dollar dominance since OPEC…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that Russia strongly condemns such statements Statements by the Ukrainian authorities about their readiness to “kill Russians around the world” indicate that Kiev has become not just a sponsor, but an immediate organizer of terrorist acts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. He was commenting on the corresponding statement of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov. “This is a truly monstrous statement. This statement, and what Mr. Budanov said, is a direct confirmation that the Kiev regime is not just sponsoring terrorist activity,…

A Bloomberg report says the Arab League’s decision to disregard US reservations reflects America’s waning influence in the region. A report published by Tarek El-Tablawy and Abdel Latif Wahba on Bloomberg considered the Arab League states’ decision to reinstate Syria to the bloc comes “in defiance of US warnings.” The report cited Hossam Zaki, the Arab League’s Assistant Secretary-General, as saying that the decision was unanimous. It suggested that “the Arab League decision to disregard US reservations reflects America’s waning influence in the oil-exporting region and a growing willingness among allies to forge their own political path and build stronger strategic ties with US…

The global supply of natural gas will remain tight this year amid a wide range of uncertainties, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Thursday. For now, the pressure on global gas markets has eased, as there was a reduced need for storage withdrawals in Europe and the US due to the mild winter, the IEA wrote in its latest Gas Market Report. In the first quarter of the year, spot prices for liquefied natural gas (LNG), which has served as a replacement for the Russian pipeline gas, fell below the levels seen in the summer of 2021, though they…

Mahathir Mohamad noted that Russia also needs to find friendly countries that will support it The US authorities push humanity towards a world war by contributing to emergence of two hostile blocs, says Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad. “The US will try to get other countries to join in the action against Russia, and Russia will also have to find friendly countries which will support it,” Mahathir, 97, said in an interview for the Global Times. “There will be confrontation between the Eastern bloc and Western bloc. And this will escalate and become a world war.” The expert…

According to the writer, the explosion occurred under the passenger seat Writer Zakhar Prilepin said that during the explosion that destroyed his vehicle he was behind the wheel while the source of the blast was under the front passenger seat. “There was some confusion in the media. Sasha (Alexander Shubin who accompanied Prilepin and was killed in the blast – TASS) was on the right, riding in a passenger seat. I was behind the wheel. The explosion was under his wheel,” Prilepin wrote on his Telegram channel on Sunday. According to the writer, he lost consciousness for several minutes following the blast…

Pakistan is likely to pay for shipments of crude oil from Russia in Chinese yuan, local media reported on Saturday, citing government sources. The first cargo of 750,000 barrels is expected to dock as soon as in June. An unnamed official from the Ministry of Energy told The News International that the transaction would be facilitated by the Bank of China. The sources haven’t provided details about the mode of payment or the exact discount that Pakistan will receive, saying that making the information public is not in the interest of either buyer or seller. “Russia will provide URAL crude…

China has welcomed Syria’s return to the Arab League, stressing that this step will contribute to strengthening unity and self-reliance in the Arab world and peace and stability in the Middle East. “China welcomes and congratulates Syria on its return to the Arab League, and believes that this will help the Arab countries enhance unity, self-reliance, accelerate development, revitalize the Arab world, and promote peace and stability in the Middle East, in line with the long-term interests of the Arab countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a press conference on Monday. The spokesman stressed that China, as…