Author: Steven Sahiounie

Three Palestinians have Thursday been killed by Israeli forces during a military raid in the Old Town of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. According to the Ministry of Health, three Palestinians have so far been confirmed to have been killed by Israeli gunfire during the raid. The three Palestinians were identified as Moath Masri, Ibrahim Jabr and Hasan Qatanani. The Ministry said that the faces of two of the slain Palestinians were completely distorted due to the seriousness of their injury, which made them hard to identify. Israeli undercover forces raided al-Yasmina neighborhood and surrounded a Palestinian house as…

Nine Palestinians have Thursday been injured, while dozens others suffocated, during the confrontations that erupted in the towns of Beit Rima and Nabi Saleh, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. According to WAFA correspondent, large units of Israeli forces raided the said towns late at night, sparking confrontations, which resulted in injuring six Palestinians in the lower body parts. He noted that dozens of Palestinians suffered from suffocation due to inhaling the tear gas bombs fired at them by Israeli soldiers around their houses. Local sources said that the Israeli forces deliberately set a vehicle owned by…

Vladimir Vasilyev said that the attack on the Kremlin, assassination attempts on political leaders, acts of sabotage at railways, electricity transmission lines, and infrastructure facilities, including the explosion of the Crimean Bridge, and gas pipeline blasts, are the facts of terrorist activities of the Kiev regime and its sponsors The drone attack of the Kremlin, acts of sabotage at infrastructure facilities and railways are manifestations of terrorism practiced by the Ukrainian authorities, which require maximal consolidation of Russian society, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Thursday. “The attack on the Kremlin, assassination attempts on political leaders, acts of sabotage at…

The fire consumed an area of about 400 square meters The fire in the reservoir with oil products of the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Territory has been extinguished, the Russian emergencies ministry’s regional department said on Thursday. “The fire was put out at 5:17 a.m.,” it said. Reservoirs with oil products at the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory caught fire at around 3:00 a.m. on Thursday. The fire consumed an area of about 400 square meters. No one was hurt. No threat to the local population was reported. Another oil storage reservoir caught fire in…

Following an attack by an unidentified drone, a fire broke out in the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in the settlement of Ilsky A fire broke out in the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Territory following a drone attack, a spokesman for the local emergencies services said on Thursday. “Following an attack by an unidentified drone, a fire broke out in the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in the settlement of Ilsky,” he said. An oil storage reservoir in the settlement of Volna in the Krasnodar Territory caught fire in the early hours…

The top SCO diplomats will exchange views on issues on the international and regional agenda. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in India’s Goa to take part in a ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a TASS correspondent reported on Thursday. The top SCO diplomats will discuss the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the SCO heads of state due in New Delhi on July 3-4. Apart from that, they will exchange views on issues on the international and regional agenda. Along with the participation in the ministerial meeting, Lavrov is expected to hold a number of…

Deputy Head of the United Russia Party faction in the State Duma Adalbi Shkhagoshev has called for the withdrawal of the US forces from Syria as quickly as possible. “The withdrawal of the Americans from Syria is not linked to their support for terrorist organizations there, or the protection of their interests in the region, and if they do not leave voluntarily, they will be expelled sooner or later,” Shkhagoshev told SANA correspondent in Moscow. He noted that the United States has practiced the worst types of hostilities to fragment Syria and has supported terrorist organizations by promoting the separatist…

Israeli media revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented his security minister from visiting the United States twice for meetings. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented Security Minister Yoav Gallant from going on a trip to the United States twice for official talks, Israeli media reported Wednesday. Gallant’s trip was not supposed to have a certain schedule, as he was simply meant to travel to Washington and New York to fulfill two invitations he had received; however, Netanyahu rebuffed his bids to leave, Israeli Channel 12 reported. The report underlined that Netanyahu prevented the top security official from going on his…

A legal twist allowed the South Korean Treasury to make a large profit on crypto seized by law enforcers in 2018 – and liquidated while Bitcoin (BTC) was trading for just under $40,000. Recently published legal documentation shows that the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office seized coins “worth about $413,000” in 2018. After a long legal struggle, the Treasury succeeded in liquidating the coins in January 2022. The media outlet Newsis reported: “At the time of the sale, the worth of the coins had soared about nine times to around $3.7 million.” The office did not reveal which kind of coins it had seized. But the closing…

“We accepted the Saudi-US ceasefire initiative, but not the mediation in ending the conflict,” Sudan’s FM undersecretary revealed. Sudanese Foreign Ministry undersecretary Dafalla Al-Haj Ali relayed that if contact were to happen between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) representatives face-to-face, it would only occur through mediators. During a press conference by Saudi TV channel Al-Hadath, Ali who serves as Abdel Fattah Burhan’s representative, said: “The second party has not accepted the truce yet. If this humanitarian ceasefire continues, our delegation will not meet with those who the rebels [Rapid Support Forces] will send. We will not meet…