Author: Steven Sahiounie

On April 16, Poland and Hungary placed a temporary embargo on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products until June 30 The Slovakian government will suspend grain imports from Ukraine, the Pravda newspaper reported on Monday. The cabinet’s office will hold a meeting of an interdepartmental task force on the issue of temporarily restricting import of Ukrainian grain and a number of other product types later in the day, the paper said. “Further on it is necessary to impose stricter policies regulating the supply of goods from Ukraine at the government’s level,” the newspaper quoted the government as saying. On April 16, Poland and…

The Pacific Fleet’s forces “have practiced the issues of the combat sustainability of strategic missile-carrying submarines and their preparedness for employing their weapons, Sergey Shoigu reported The Pacific Fleet’s surprise combat readiness inspection practiced the preparedness of strategic missile-carrying submarines for employing their weapons, Defense Minister Army General Sergey Shoigu reported to Russian President Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin on Monday. The Pacific Fleet’s forces are carrying out the 2nd stage of the drills. The naval task force set up in a distant maritime area is transiting to the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, accomplishing the objectives of combat…

Vladimir Barbin said that Denmark established a special fund worth $1 billion to increase military assistance to Ukraine Danish authorities do not follow any red lines in supplying continuously new armament to Ukraine and do not think of the price of the conflict escalation, Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin said in an interview with the Izvestiya newspaper. “Copenhagen firmly believes that the West is able to deliver a military defeat to Russia in Ukraine. Denmark does not take thought of the fate Ukraine and its nationals will face in case of further conflict escalations. Based on such perceptions, Copenhagen…

A new report highlights that the Israeli occupation keeps 31 Palestinian women and 160 children under the age of 18 behind bars. On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, a new report showed that the Israeli occupation is imprisoning about 4,900 Palestinians, including many women and children, in its prisons. The report highlighted that the Israeli occupation keeps 31 Palestinian women and 160 children under the age of 18 behind bars. It added that there are more than 1,000 administrative prisoners in occupation prisons, including two women and six children. According to the Palestinian Information Center, the report was published by the Palestinian…

Israeli occupation police open live bullets at a Palestinian youth at the entrance to an illegal Israeli settlement in the vicinity of Beit Hanina. A Palestinian was severely injured and taken to the hospital for treatment on Monday by Israeli gunfire, in the northern occupied city of Al-Quds, Palestinian sources reported. The sources said the Israeli occupation police opened fire at dawn today on a Palestinian youth at the entrance to an illegal Israeli settlement in the vicinity of Beit Hanina, north of Al-Quds. The occupation police claimed that the young man attempted to burn a vehicle and damage 10…

Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad meets with Algeria’x President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and stresses the inseparable bond between the two Arab Nations. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad lauded, after a meeting with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algeria’s proactive efforts to back Syria. The Minister praised Algeria for its bold stances when it chaired the Arab Summit. Mekdad described the two countries’ relationship as inseparable, while Tebboune affirmed that his country “will not abandon Syria, whatever the circumstances may be.” The Syrian official emphasized shared efforts between the two Arab countries to achieve Palestinian reunification through the Algiers Agreement, which the Palestinian factions agreed…

Germany has shut all its nuclear power stations amid intention to switch to fully renewable energy by 2035 The German environment ministry on Sunday rejected a request from the country’s south-eastern state of Bavaria to allow it continue use of nuclear power, just hours after the EU nation closed the last three of its nuclear power stations on Saturday. “Until the crisis is over, and the transition to renewables succeeds, we must use every form of energy by the end of the decade,” Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder was quoted as saying on Saturday by the German newspaper Bild. The nuclear…

Adnan is a spirited revolutionary who has long struggled against the occupation. He was arrested 12 times, and spent a total of about 8 years in occupation detention centers. The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced today that striking prisoner Sheikh Khader Adnan has reached a very life-threatening stage of his hunger strike, which has now been ongoing for 71 days, and is at risk of martyrdom at any moment. On its part, the Wa’ed Prisoners Association contended that Sheikh Adnan’s illness and potential martyrdom would be a crime on the hands of the Zionist regime and warned of repercussions.  “The occupation’s…

The embattled Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces agree to a United Nations proposal to open safe humanitarian corridors for a temporary period of time. The clashing Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to open temporary safe humanitarian corridors amidst continuing clashes in Sudan’s capital and other areas in the country. “The Sudanese Armed Forces agreed to a United Nations proposal to open safe corridors for humanitarian cases, for a period of three hours, starting at four o’clock in the afternoon,” the army said in a statement. The statement added that these corridors will not hinder…

Large-scale demonstrations organized by trade unions and local collectives in France are met with a violent crackdown by the Police. After the contentious retirement bill was signed by Macron into law yesterday raising the retirement age to 64, French police have reportedly conducted violent crackdown operations in Rennes to disperse protests. Police violently attacked demonstrators, employing water cannons and tear gas to restrain and detain protestors in an effort to disperse the protests. “Here is a woman who fell and is being dragged. There is a man who comes to defend her and here is how he is thanked… You (the authorities)…