Author: Steven Sahiounie

Three demonstrators are charged with contempt of a person holding public authority and could be jailed for a year Three protesters from the commune of Selestat, near the German border, face criminal charges after making obscene gestures at French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to the town last Wednesday. The trio have pleaded guilty to contempt of a person holding public authority, prosecutor Catherine Sorita-Minard of the nearby town of Colmar announced on Saturday. For giving their leader “le doigt” – the middle finger – the two men and a woman may be punished with up to a year in prison and €15,000…

A Palestinian young man was shot dead by Israeli gunfire this evening near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health. MoH said in a brief statement that Ahmad Yaaqob Taha, a 39-year-old Palestinian, was shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers at point blank range near Salfit. Videos of the incident circulating on the social media showed an Israeli occupation soldier asking the young man to get out of his car at gunpoint, and as soon as the young man got out of the car, the soldier fired live shots at him, killing…

President Al-Assad had said that he would only meet Erdogan after Turkey pulls its forces from northern Syria. In an interview with the NTV news channel, Turkish defense minister Hulusi Akar said that it’s probable Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would meet his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad once the conditions are right. “We need to make the necessary preparations. It is important for the conditions to be right. There is a path forward. We are making efforts to this effect,” he told the NTV news channel. Erdogan had noted that he won’t be meeting Al-Assad until after the defense, intelligence, and foreign ministers met.…

Former US President Donald Trump rebuts US President Joe Biden’s commentary and accuses Biden of being ‘grossly incompetent’ which led the US toward a “serious decline.” After US President Joe Biden referred to former President Donald Trump as a “danger” to democracy during his presidential candidacy for the 2024 elections, the latter rebutted saying Biden is what poses a threat to US democracy. On his TruthSocial platform, Trump highlighted that “Biden announced his presidential campaign by, get this, a prepackaged video, one that took 7 takes to get it ‘right,’ if right is what you want to call it.” Moreover, he added that in this video,…

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has appointed a new ambassador to Syria, the Tunisian presidency stated in a statement. President Saied supervised the handing over of credentials to Mohamed Al-Mahdhabi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tunisia to the Syrian Arab Republic, in the presence of Tunisian Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar, the statement said on Thursday. Meeting Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Faysal Mikdad last week, President Saied attached great importance to unify the Arab stances to tackle common challenges and adversities. Saied stressed that the Tunisian stance was and still defend the sovereignty and independence of all Arab countries,…

Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian assures his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bou Habib of Iran’s support for any agreement regarding the election of a president. On Thursday Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bou Habib discussed a number of files, the most important of which are the repercussions of the Iranian-Saudi agreement on the region, as well as the current situation in Lebanon. Yesterday, Amir-Abdollahian declared, upon his arrival at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut, that Iran sees Lebanese security as an integral part of the region’s and Iran’s. The Foreign Minister’s words came during a…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Turkiye’s Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project is a key project which allows for the development of economic and neighborly ties between the countries. Turkiye has became a state with nuclear energy, albeit with a delay of 60 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday at the nuclear fuel loading ceremony at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant. Russia and Turkiye have officially agreed on the delivery of nuclear fuel to the first unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant on Thursday when Alexey Likhachev, the head of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom,…

The price of Dogecoin (DOGE) has dived by 4.5% in the past 24 hours, dropping to $0.079495 amid a 1% fall for the wider cryptocurrency market. At $0.079495, DOGE has fallen by 9% in the past week but is up by 8.5% in the last 30 days, while the meme token’s 24-hour trading volume rising close to $1 billion, after having been under $400 million only a couple of days ago. Such an increase in volume suggests that DOGE’s volatility may be on the up, potentially signalling an incoming recovery in its price. And with the Dogecoin community still holding…

A nuclear attack by Pyongyang would “result in the end” of Kim Jong-un’s regime, the US president has warned US President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear attack on his country or South Korea would spell doom for Pyongyang. Under a new agreement between Washington and Seoul, the US would respond to such an attack with nuclear weapons, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol added. “A nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action,” Biden…

The Turkish leader has taken part in a ceremony at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant together with Russian President Vladimir Putin Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made his first public appearance following speculation about his health earlier this week. Erdogan took part in a fuel delivery ceremony at the nation’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant together with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, Erdogan cut short a live interview due to a health problem. The president also cancelled his busy schedule linked to the upcoming presidential election on May 14. The news sparked speculation about the president’s condition, with some…