Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli occupation authorities deported today ex-Palestinian prisoner Munir Rajabi, who was released today after 20 years in Israeli prisons, from Haifa–where he lived before his imprisonment–to the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said an Israeli army force accompanied Rajabi in his way from Naqab Prison to Hebron, where he was deported shortly following his release. Rajabi, who holds the resident status of Jerusalem, was arrested in 2003, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. His resident status was revoked by the Israeli occupation authorities in 2019. More than 4,400 Palestinian prisoners…

Beijing says it will take resolute steps to oppose the self-governed island’s push for independence Beijing maintains that Taiwan is part of China’s territory and will continue working towards reunification with the self-governed island through peaceful means, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said. “We should promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and advance the process of China’s peaceful reunification,” Li said in a report to some 3,000 delegates of the National People’s Congress, which kicked off in Beijing on Sunday. The government in Beijing remains committed to the “One China principle,” which states that Taiwan is part of China,…

The ex-US leader claims he is the only candidate that can prevent World War III President Joe Biden is leading the United States “into oblivion,” Donald Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Saturday, promising to stop wasting US taxpayer money on “stupid” foreign wars as he rallies support for a potential political comeback in 2024. “I was the only president in decades that didn’t have a war,” Trump said in his nearly two-hour long speech at the annual conservative gathering at Gaylord National Resort, claiming that if he was in office right now, “Ukraine would have been thriving, there would have been…

The country may not be able to meet its energy needs with its own resources at peak loads in the coming years, a study says Germany could face an electricity shortage in the next two years as its own energy resources become increasingly insufficient and demand rises, Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing a local McKinsey study. According to the findings, by 2025 the country will lack some four gigawatts of power capacity, while by 2030 the deficit will increase to 30 gigawatts, the company said. “So we’re heading toward a significant shortage: 30GW corresponds to the capacity of…

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani, in a sarcastic post on his Twitter account, responded to a tweet from Germany’s foreign minister regarding the recent poisoning incidents in a number of schools in Iran. “Ms. (German foreign) minister, this destructive and anti-security act is under investigation. The Iranian government is very serious about identifying the criminals and eradicating this ill-will. We will not allow anyone to cause insecurity for Iranian girl students with political motivation,” Kanaani said in a tweet on Friday. “But one of the bitter realities that still needs transparency is the chemical poisoning by #German_toxic_gases for which…

The Union of Syrian Students in Tunisia and the Tunisian National Coordination to Break the Siege imposed on Syria organized a solidarity stand in Tunisia, to call for lifting unjust blockade on Syria. During the Stand, the participants condemned the unjust siege imposed on Syria by US imperialism and its allies, and called for its immediate end and the restoration of Arab and international relations with Syria. They demanded to send urgent humanitarian relief aid to those affected by the earthquake in Syria, and continuing to organize solidarity stands with Syria to break the unjust Western siege and support the…

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrated for the ninth week in a row tonight in Tel Aviv and in at least 20 other locations against judicial overhaul plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government that critics say will undermine the judiciary. In Tel Aviv, tens of thousands participated in the central demonstration at Kaplan Street. The demonstrators waved banners, some of which read, “Oh police, where were when they [settlers] burned Huwara?,” in reference to the terrorist pogrom carried out by Israeli settlers last week in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus. Demonstrators also held a banner bearing the images…

The former airborne infantryman pleaded guilty to trying to kill members of his unit in a “jihadist” attack A federal judge in New York has sentenced a former US Army private to 45 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on his airborne infantry unit while it was deployed in Türkiye. Ethan Phelan Melzer, also known as Etil Reggad, was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to murder US service members, providing material support to terrorists, and illegally disclosing national defense information. The 24-year-old native of Louisville, Kentucky shared sensitive information on his unit with an Al-Qaeda…

Washington and Seoul have announced their largest military drills in years despite warnings from Pyongyang The US and South Korean militaries have announced their largest joint exercises in at least five years and their longest on record, defying threats from North Korea that such drills could be considered a “declaration of war” and lead to “unprecedentedly persistent and strong counteractions.” The exercises, including amphibious landings, will run from March 13 to March 23 and will be the largest-scale joint drills held by the two countries since then-President Donald Trump throttled back such training during peace talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The concurrent drills,…

The Eurozone is on the verge of stagflation, renowned US economist Jeffrey Sachs has warned on his YouTube channel. Stagflation refers to a period of stagnant economic growth combined with persistently high inflation and a sharp rise in unemployment. According to Sachs, who was the mastermind behind “shock therapy” reforms in the 1990s in Russia, the recent slowing in headline inflation in the euro area is a temporary occurrence, as it includes highly volatile fresh food and energy prices, which change quickly. However, core inflation, which excludes these readings and therefore gives a clearer picture of underlying pressures within the economy, surged to a…