Author: Steven Sahiounie

By: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Ambassador Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the UN, and now director of USAID, an office of the US State Department, traveled to Armenia on July 10 to strong-arm Prime MInister Nikol Pashinyan into buying gas from Azerbaijan, instead of Russia. Armenia currently imports almost all of its hydrocarbons from Russia and Iran via gas pipeline. The President Joe Biden administration supports the war in Ukraine by providing billions of dollars of weapons to Ukraine to fight Russia. Prior to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline being destroyed, Biden had made a speech promising…

Gazprom supplies gas for Europe through Ukraine in the volume of 42.4 mln cubic meters per day via the Sudzha gas pumping station in Russia’s Kursk Region, a Gazprom representative told reporters, adding that the request for pumping via the Sokhranovka gas pumping station has been rejected by the Ukrainian side.

The threat remains of wheat imports to the country by gray schemes and its reexport by motor transport from border regions of the Russian Federation

The Justice Department late Friday filed its response to TikTok’s civil suit aimed at derailing a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban.

G20 nations have agreed to work together to make the super-rich pay their taxes, but stopped short of a more substantial deal, according to a declaration adopted Friday after a meeting of finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro.

A jury on Friday found that Abbott Laboratories’ specialized formula for premature infants caused an Illinois girl to develop a dangerous bowel disease, ordering the healthcare company to pay $95 million in compensatory damages.

Britain’s government declared the country was “broke and broken” ahead of an assessment of the public finances on Monday

Malaysia has sent an application for BRICS membership to Russia, which is currently holding BRICS presidency, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. “Malaysia has sent a letter of application to join the (BRICS) organization to Russia as the BRICS chairman, besides expressing openness to participate as a member country or strategic partner,” the BERNAMA news agency quoted him as saying. Earlier on Sunday, Anwar Ibrahim met with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. According to the Malaysian prime minister, the conversation focused on Malaysia’s application to join BRICS, which, in his words, will have a considerable potential for both sides.…

Egypt warns about the risk of the escalation between Israel and Lebanon, which may entail a large-scale war in the region, the Egyptian foreign ministry said. “Egypt warns about the risks stemming from the opening a new front in Lebanon amid the latest developments in the town of Majdal Shams on the Syrian occupied Golan Heights,” it said, adding that “this may plunge the Middle East into a full-scale regional war.” The ministry called on the international community to “interfere immediately to spare the peoples of the region of catastrophic consequences of the expanding [Middle East] conflict, which pose a…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has formally endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran’s new president. At a ceremony broadcast live on state television on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei gave his official approval for Pezeshkian, who emerged victorious in the second round of the presidential vote on July 5. Iranian state and military officials, seminary and university professors, representatives of various guilds, a group of families of martyrs, and foreign ambassadors in Tehran attended the ceremony. The Leader’s decree, endorsing the mandate of President Pezeshkian, was read out at the event by the head of the leader’s office. In the decree,…