Author: Steven Sahiounie

Speaker of Russia’s State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin proposed work toward concluding bilateral agreements with friendly countries under which they should agree to mutually refrain from any cooperation with the ICC Speaker of Russia’s State Duma, or lower parliament house, Vyacheslav Volodin proposed on Saturday drafting amendments banning any activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Russia and envisaging a penalty for any assistance to the organization. “It is necessary to develop amendments banning any ICC activity on our soil and envisage penalties for any assistance or support to the ICC,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel. Also, the senior…

US President Joe Biden applauds the wrong country during a parliamentarian address in Canada, leaving many to question his mental competence once again. US President Joe Biden arrived in Canada, on Thursday, as part of the first US presidential visit to the country since 2016. During his Parliament Hill visit in Ottawa, Biden hailed “China” instead of “Canada” in his newest gaffe, as he remarked on a US-Canada deal for diverting asylum seekers as part of a crackdown on the migration surge; a deal which was purportedly reached between the two nations prior to Biden’s formal arrival to Canada. Biden stated…

The Head of Hamas’ media department Ali Al-Amoudi pledges that the Palestinian movement, alongside its fellow resistance groups, will resist Israeli occupation until the complete liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Addressing a rally in support of Resistance fighters, the Head of Hamas’ media department Ali Al-Amoudi pledged that the Palestinian movement, alongside its fellow resistance groups will resist Israeli occupation until the complete liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Commenting on the regular illegal Israeli settlers’ raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque–under the protection of a large number of Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)– Al-Amoudi declared that the Palestinian holy sites in Al-Quds were the…

The US occupation forces continued to steal Syrian oil from al-Jazeera fields, as on Saturday they transferred dozens of tankers loaded with hundreds of tons of stolen oil, in addition to vehicles carrying military equipment towards their bases in Iraq. ‘A convoy comprising 148 vehicles affiliated to the US occupation, among them 80 tankers for transporting stolen crude oil, and 60 vehicles of refrigerators and trucks, accompanied by eight military armored vehicles, headed from the Syrian territory via the illegitimate al-Walid border crossing to northern Iraq’, local sources from AL-Yarubiya area told SANA. On March 4th, the US forces brought…

Hundreds rallied today in the British capital, London, in conjunction with a visit of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to protest the Israeli leader’s policies and the crimes committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people. Members of the Arab and Palestinian communities in the UK, along with pro-Palestinian UK protesters and members of the Neturei Karta, an anti-Zionist Jewish organization, participated in the rally. Protesters carried the Palestinian flag and banners condemning the Israeli occupation’s crimes against the Palestinian people, along with banners that read: ‘Zionism and Judaism are diametrically opposed’ and ‘Judaism rejects the State of Israel…

The town of Maryinka located on the south-western outskirts of Donetsk was completely destroyed by heavy battles. Clashes in the city began in March 2022 and continue to this day. After Russian forces took control of the eastern and central districts, clashes continue in the western part of Maryinka. On March 24, the acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin commented on the ongoing battle for the town, claiming that Ukrainian forces are in control of a small area in the western part of the town. The DPR could claim control of Maryinka as soon as the area is captured…

On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported “unprecedented damage,” which had been inflicted on three lines of the Nord Stream pipelines the previous day US President Joe Biden could have decided to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in order to punish German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for not wanting to provide Ukraine with more weapons, US Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview with China Daily published on Friday. “The President [Joe Biden] then decided in late September to trigger the mines. The war wasn’t going great in Ukraine. The American war that President Biden was…

It would be naive to expect that, without Russia’s participation, the OSCE “with its current anti-Russian frenzy and atmosphere of crisis would cease to exist” Any potential Russian withdrawal from the OSCE would hinder the resolution of security problems in the Euro-Atlantic area, and it is necessary to maintain the country’s presence [within the organization] and not cede the platform to its opponents, even while the prevailing anti-Russian hysteria is “nausea-inducing,” the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s European Cooperation Department, Nikolay Kobrinets, told TASS in an interview. “You may ask: ‘If everything is in such a sorry state in…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky states that Ukraine is currently waiting for its allies to supply it with weaponry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that under present circumstances, Kiev is currently unable to launch a counteroffensive, blaming the situation on weapons shortage. “We can’t start yet. We can’t send our brave soldiers to the front line without tanks, artillery and HIMARS [multiple launch rocket systems],” Zelensky said in an interview with Yomiuri Shimbun daily. He continued, saying that the situation in the country’s east is “unfavorable” and that Ukraine is currently waiting for its allies to supply it with weaponry. This comes shortly after Zelensky beseeched…

Sanctioned businessman Oleg Deripaska says exorbitant government spending will lead to a financial crash The US economy is currently in a very challenging situation, Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska said on his Telegram channel on Friday. He claims the US economy cannot take the weight of the country’s enormous government debt and exorbitant spending. “Reckless militarization, sanctions against everyone, and military adventures around the world have already cost this country almost $33 trillion,” said the billionaire, who was sanctioned by the US last year. However, he provided no details on where this figure came from. Deripaska noted that the US has never…