Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinian young men Thursday morning in Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, in the West Bank. ‘The occupation troops stormed the town, deployed snipers on the rooftops, and opened fire on a car with three young men on board, killing them’, Wafa News Agency said. On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation committed a massacre in Jenin camp in the West Bank, claiming the lives of six people. with the death of the three young men today, the number of Palestinians who have been killed in occupation forces’ fire since the beginning of this year has reached…

JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) is suing former top executive Jes Staley over his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Wall Street giant alleges Mr Staley failed to disclose potentially damaging ties to the late sex trafficker. A lawyer for Mr Staley declined to comment when contacted by the BBC. JPMC is facing lawsuits from the US Virgin Islands and an unnamed woman alleging that it aided Epstein’s sex trafficking by allowing him to remain as one of its clients. The bank is attempting to make Mr Staley liable for any penalties it might face if it is found to…

The leader of the Moldovan breakaway republic was the target of an assassination attempt, media reports claim Security officials in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria have claimed that they foiled “a terrorist attack” targeting prominent figures that was allegedly planned by neighboring Ukraine. The suspects are being interrogated, the region’s State Security Ministry (MGB) said on Thursday. Transnistria borders Ukraine from the southwest. RIA Novosti cited a source as saying that the culprits wanted to rig a vehicle with explosives and bomb the motorcade of Transnistrian President Vadim Krasnoselsky. Anatoly Guretsky, Transnistria’s top prosecutor, was quoted by the media as saying that…

A “plane-type” unmanned aircraft was intercepted in Bryansk Region, its top official has reported The Russian military has shot down a drone in Bryansk Region, which borders Ukraine, its governor, Aleksandr Bogomaz, has said. There were no casualties or damage on the ground, according to a brief statement he posted on social media on Thursday. The unmanned aircraft was destroyed by Russian air defenses near the village of Navlya, some 45km south of the regional capital city of Bryansk, and was a “plane-type” drone, the governor explained. In a separate incident, Ukrainian forces shelled the border village of Rakovka, damaging a resident’s…

The disappearance last month of technology industry dealmaker Bao Fan has rekindled interest in a recent Chinese phenomenon – vanishing billionaires. The founder of China Renaissance Holdings – with a client list that has included internet giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu – is seen as a titan in the country’s tech sector. Mr Bao’s case has followed a well-trodden path: he went missing for days before his company announced that he was “co-operating in an investigation being carried out by certain authorities in the People’s Republic of China”. As has also become customary, there has been no word yet on…

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini concluded an official visit to Cairo on 7-8 March to meet with Egyptian and Arab League officials and renewed his call to support the Agency. In his address at the opening session of the 159th meeting of the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers at the League of Arab States, where he reiterated that the rights and well-being of Palestine refugees were a collective responsibility, until there is a fair and lasting solution to their plight. He called on member states, especially those with a long tradition of…

The Dutch government says before the summer it will put restrictions on the country’s “most advanced” chip exports to protect its national security, following a similar move by the US. It will include technology produced by computer chip equipment maker ASML. ASML is one of the most important firms in the global microchip supply chain. Semiconductors, which power everything from mobile phones to military hardware, are at the centre of a bitter dispute between the US and China. “This is a real step forward, a real victory for the US and also very bad news for China. US-China relations are…

Ukrainian agencies and mayors report explosions across multiple Ukrainian cities at 3:00 am. Russia launched a large-scale raid on Thursday morning, targeting the Black Sea port of Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev, and the Dnipro region, causing power cuts in several areas Maksym Marchenko, governor of the Odessa region, wrote on Telegram that a mass missile attack targeted a power plant in the city, which resulted in power cuts, however, no casualties have been reported yet. “As a result of a mass missile strike, an energy infrastructure site was hit in the region as well as residences,” Marchenko said on Telegram, as reported by The Guardian,…

US President Joe Biden plans to hold bilateral talks with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on March 13, 2023. AUKUS heads of State are scheduled to meet next week to discuss the Australian bid to purchase nuclear-powered submarines. Australia is set to choose whether to purchase British-made Astute-class nuclear-powered submarines or American-designed Virginia-class submarines. According to the White House, all three leaders are scheduled to meet in San Diego, California, on Monday to discuss the deal and regional security matters. US President Joe Biden will hold bilateral talks with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian…

The US is facing an economic downturn that could start in the third quarter of 2023 and continue into the first quarter of 2024, Bank of America’s (BoA) chief executive, Brian Moynihan, has warned. Speaking at the Financial Review’s Business Summit on Tuesday, he said that the downturn would not be deep, and projected interest rates to start falling in the second quarter of next year. “It’s a very slight recession in the scheme of things. I don’t think you’ll see a deep recession,” Moynihan was quoted as saying by Reuters. “It will be more of a technical recession than it will…