Author: Steven Sahiounie

Rafael Grossi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg in October 2022 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi may visit Russia in the coming days, as the official himself said in an interview with the Associated Press published on Tuesday. In particular, Grossi stated that he would most probably head to Russia in the nearest future. Grossi has repeatedly visited Russia. The IAEA chief met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg in October 2022. He held talks with Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, in Moscow on March 9.…

Black-clad demonstrators hurled rocks at police, who responded by baton-charging the crowds A pension reform protest in Paris degenerated into violence on Tuesday, as groups of masked rioters clashed with heavily-armored riot police. Authorities say nearly 100,000 people marched in the French capital, as public anger over the government’s pension reform plan refuses to subside. The march started out peacefully, but as the crowd neared its destination of Place de la Nation in the east of the city center, activists dressed in black set fire to a storefront, prompting police to charge the crowd with batons drawn. Demonstrators were clubbed…

The country has found buyers for all of the supplies at risk of being stranded due to sanctions Moscow has completely redirected all of its oil exports from ‘unfriendly states’ to new markets, Energy Minister Nikolay Shulginov stated on Tuesday. According to the minister, supplies are now destined to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. “Already we can state that we have managed to fully redirect the entire volume of exports which initially fell out due to sanctions. There is no decrease in sales,” Shulginov stated. Earlier on Tuesday, the deputy prime minister and former energy minister, Aleksandr…

Some analysts say the exchange’s recent move to include other stablecoins in its zero-fee trading program could have contributed to lessening dependence on BUSD. Binance USD (BUSD), a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, endured over $500 million in outflows in the roughly 24 hours since a U.S. lawsuit was filed against Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, data from CryptoQuant shows. This rush to the exits is quite a bit smaller than that seen following the February crackdown on New York-based BUSD issuer Paxos by the New York Department of Financial Services and a Wells Notice of potential action from…

13,000 officers will be deployed to counter nationwide protests, the interior minister has announced French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has ordered 13,000 police officers into the streets of France’s major cities as protests against the government’s controversial pension reforms continue. Darmanin said that he is expecting “radical activists” from abroad to instigate violence at the demonstrations. Darmanin announced the deployment on Monday night, adding that 5,000 of the mobilized officers would be stationed in Paris ahead of marches on Tuesday. “Our services anticipate that there will be significant disruption to public order,” he said, warning that “more than 1,000 radical activists, some arriving from…

Mass protest rallies against France’s new pension reform are being held across the entire country on Tuesday A tenth protest rally with students and trade unions participating kicked off in Lyon on Tuesday where thousands of people gathered to protest against the overhaul of France’s pension system. The protesters will march from the university campus to the city’s central square. From 22,000 to 55,000 people, according to various estimates, participated in the previous protest rally held on March 23. Mass protest rallies against France’s new pension reform are being held across the entire country on Tuesday. Source: Tass

One of the crucial reasons as to why he is considered an irrational actor in terms of foreign policy is because his irrational decisions will eventually impact the US’ image and its decisions – especially threatening the normalization accords. In international relations, Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now considered the epitome of an irrational actor, amid the chaos he has caused in “Israel”, according to the New York Times. A rational actor is one who can be depended and relied on to make rational and sound decisions – one that apparently Netanyahu is not. His defense minister, Yoav Gallant,…

Low liquidity means a wave of buy or sell orders can have an outsized impact on bitcoin’s market price. Poor liquidity, a problem plaguing crypto markets since the collapse of the FTX exchange in November, could worsen, breeding price volatility as regulators go after dominant exchange Binance. On Monday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued Binance for running an alleged “illegal exchange” and a “sham” compliance program. The regulator, which is responsible for oversight of commodities and derivatives markets, including the derivatives tied to bitcoin (BTC), sued Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and former top compliance executive Samuel Lim, alleging “willful evasion” of…

Yet another Palestinian is martyred at the hands of the occupation. A young Palestinian has succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained more than a month ago during an Israeli army raid on the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus. Medical officials and family sources announced the death of Omair Loulah on Tuesday, adding that he was severely wounded when eleven Palestinians, including a 16-year-old, were killed and more than 80 were wounded by Israeli gunshots on February 21, as Israeli occupation forces raided the occupied West Bank. At the time, widespread confrontations broke out soon after the occupation forces stormed…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accuses XRP of being an unregistered security in a court case that’s expected to be completed soon. XRP tokens surged 8% over the past 24 hours to buck a market-wide decline following a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filing against prominent crypto exchange Binance. XRP traded just under 50 cents in Asian morning hours on Tuesday, reaching a five-month high. Its XRP Ledger network has seen fundamental upgrades in the past few months that may have contributed to the rise. However, a part of the bullish outlook came as some in the community said…