Author: Steven Sahiounie

The idea of nuclear weapons deployment was inspired by a similar approach by Poland to the US, President Lukashenko said The idea of returning nuclear weapons to Belarus was prompted by Poland’s wish to deploy atomic weapons from the US on its territory, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko explained on Saturday. “This topic with the President of Russia appeared after the Poles turned to the Americans and asked them to bring nuclear weapons to Poland. Then I told President Putin: ‘Why are we pretending that nothing is happening?’” Lukashenko said in his Independence Day speech in Minsk, the nation’s capital. …

The Israeli aggression perpetrated in the early hours on Saturday morning against Hamidieh town, in the south of the Syrian province of Tartous, caused injuries to two civilians and massive material damage to the irrigation and electricity networks, and the citizens’ private properties. SANA’s camera toured the villages affected by the aggression and monitored the extent of the damage caused by it. The director of Water Resources of the province, Muhammad Mahrez, told SANA that the aggression destroyed three irrigation channels irrigating approximately 100 hectares. He revealed that the damage is estimated at about 50 million Syrian pounds. For his…

On July 2, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had intercepted three drones launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah near the disputed Karish naval gas field. In a statement, the IDF said that one of the drones was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force, while the other two were shot down with Barak missiles launched from the Israeli Navy’s Sa’ar 5-class corvette Eilat. The drones were “identified at an early stage and monitored throughout their flight by air control units” and “intercepted at the most appropriate operational point”. According to the IDF, a…

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday gave the bullet that killed the Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to U.S. security coordinator Lt. Gen. Mike Fenzel, senior Israeli officials told Axios. The Palestinian attorney general told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian Authority decided to hand over the bullet to the U.S. in order to do a ballistics test to see if it matches the guns that were used by Israeli soldiers on May 11 in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where Abu Akleh was killed. Israeli officials said they expect the results of the ballistics test will be ready…

According to an officer of the LPR People’s Militia Lisichansk was the last stronghold of the Ukrainian army on territory of the republic The People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) have entered Lisichansk and advanced to the Shakhter stadium, which is located near the city center, Vitaly Kiselev, an aide to the LPR Interior Minister, told TASS on Saturday. “Our units [LPR People’s Militia] have entered Lisichansk in the area of the Shakhter stadium,” Kiselev said, explaining that it is near the city center. Earlier, Commander of the Akhmat unit Apty Alaudinov, an aide to Chechen leader Ramzan…

Voters don’t want President Biden or former President Trump on the ballot in 2024, according to a new Harvard Center for American Political Studies and Harris Poll. A majority of people surveyed in late June spurned the possibility of a Biden and Trump rematch in the next presidential election, but the survey did find that Trump is on stronger footing with his base. Seven in 10 people polled said Biden should not seek a second term. 45% said Biden is a bad president while 30% said he’s too old.A quarter of people said it’s time for a change. Asked whether Biden…

Early on July 2, Malek Ashtar base of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was reportedly hit by at least two explosions. The London-based Iran International shared a video on social media of the reported explosions at the base that is located to the southeast of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Iranian official media and websites affiliated with the IRGC ignored the reports. However, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) claimed responsibility for the alleged explosions. In a statement, the group said that the explosions were orchestrated by what it called “revolutionary cells”. The MEK, which used large-scale violence…

On July 2, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) deployed large reinforcements along the frontline with the town of Tell Rifaat in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo, which is held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Sources in the SNA told the Anadolu Agency that the reinforcements were brought in from the town of Azaz, which is located a few kilometers to the north of Tel Rifaat. The reinforcements included dozens of truck-mounted heavy machine guns, armored vehicles, multiple rocket launchers and hundreds of militants. The Anadolu Agency said that the reinforcements were deployed near Tell Rifaat as…

An industrial support ship operating in the South China Sea has sunk in a storm with the possible loss of more than two dozen crew members, rescue services in Hong Kong said Saturday. Hong Kong and mainland Chinese rescuers have rushed to an area off southern China where a ship with a crew of 30 on board was snapped in two by strong waves created by Typhoon Chaba on July 2, 2022, South China Morning Post reported. The Hong Kong Government Flying Service sent a fixed-wing aircraft and two rescue helicopters to the scene, about 300km (186 miles) southwest of…

Protests were held in many Spanish towns and in Rabat in response to the deaths of 23 African migrants. Protests were organized in many Spanish towns and in Rabat late Friday in response to the deaths of 23 African migrants attempting to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco. The United Nations condemned “excessive force” by police on the Moroccan-Spanish border and urged an inquiry into the deaths of the migrants who crossed the border. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Barcelona, Malaga, Vigo, and San Sebastian, as well as Melilla, to condemn migration policy and “border militarization”. A few dozen Moroccans…