Author: Steven Sahiounie

The pro-Russian local administration said the power outage was caused by fires started by Ukrainian shelling Security systems have been activated at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after a power outage, which temporarily left the facility without electricity, members of the Russia-backed administration in the Ukrainian region have claimed. The plant has since been connected to an alternative source of power, according to officials.The blackout is said to have been caused by massive wildfires in the area, which were started by Ukrainian shelling, theу said. Fires, which have engulfed parts of the steppe and woods surrounding the city of Energodar,…

Two Kenyan tribes are taking the UK to the European Court of Human Rights over alleged abuses in the final decades of British colonial rule. The Talai and Kipsigis want £168 billion and an apology for crimes linked to a ‘land grab’ in Kericho, a western area of Kenya which grows tea for some of the world’s biggest producers. British officials are said to have overseen the forced eviction of the clans from fertile ancestral lands to make way for plantations, Metro reported. The Talai claim they were forced to live in a nearby valley infested with mosquitos and tse-tse…

The two countries have successfully established a mechanism for mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, Purnima Anand says Russia and India don’t need the US dollar in trade, having turned to national currencies to conduct mutual settlements, BRICS International Forum President Purnima Anand told reporters on Thursday. “We have implemented the mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, and there is no need for our countries to use the dollar in mutual settlements. And today a similar mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and yuan is being developed by China,” she said. “That means that the BRICS countries are…

Ukraine’s president addressed the UN Security Council via a crackling video-link, in breach of protocol The UN Security Council allowed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to address it by video-link on Wednesday, after an exception was made to the in-person-only rules that Moscow’s envoy alone sought to uphold. After denouncing Russia, Zelensky decided to leave before Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called out his government and its Western backers for being the principal threat to Ukraine’s independence. In his presentation, Zelensky argued that the freedom of the world depended on Ukraine’s independence and accused Russia of threatening a nuclear disaster at the…

Deputy Secretary of Treasury Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo informs Turkey’s Deputy Finance Minister Yunus Elitas that Turkey’s increased cooperation with Russia could result in sanctions against Turkish business, and banks. Turkey’s business community faced, on Wednesday, mounting US pressure to sever its growing ties with Russia or risk crushing sanctions as the US grew more concerned that Russian enterprises and the government are using Turkey to get over banking and trade sanctions imposed by the collective-West against Russian following the Ukraine war. At a conference earlier this month in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep…

“We are extremely disappointed that other members who, when they come to the council, commit themselves to comply with its rules and protect them, have today contributed to the erosion of its foundations and practices,” Vasily Nebenzya emphasized Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya on Wednesday expressed regret that the UN Security Council allowed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to speak by video link in violation of the council’s rules. “We regret that the members of the council spoke out against compliance with the rules of its work,” he said. “We could have understood the logic…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator While the world has sympathy for the plight of Europeans facing a cold winter because of their energy crisis, Syrians have been suffering a lack of energy since 2011. The European energy crisis is based partly on politics, but the Syrian energy crisis is caused exclusively by the US-NATO political attack on Syria for regime change. Syria has a milder climate than Europe; however, Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus have snow on the ground during part of every winter. Syrian residents have almost no electricity, and a shortage of cooking gas, home heating fuel, and…

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman says the country on Wednesday afternoon received the US’s response to Tehran’s proposals aimed at resolving remaining issues during the sanctions removal talks from the EU’s coordinator of the Vienna negotiations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani says the country on Wednesday afternoon received the US’s response to Tehran’s proposals aimed at resolving remaining issues during the sanctions removal talks from the EU’s coordinator of the Vienna negotiations. Kanaani added that the Islamic Republic of Iran had started carefully reviewing the US side’s response. The Foreign Ministry spokesman also said the Islamic Republic of Iran would…

According to the Journal of Infection, this is the first known case in which the three viral diseases concurred in one individual An Italian man has been diagnosed with HIV, Covid-19, and monkeypox simultaneously – the first known case of the concurrence of these three viral diseases, the Journal of Infection has reported. According to an article published by the medical outlet last Friday, the 36-year-old male spent five days in Spain in June this year, developing a fever accompanied by a sore throat, fatigue, and a headache nine days later. A subsequent test yielded a positive result for…

Late on August 23, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) struck facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the northeastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor. The strikes were a response to two attacks which targeted US forces in Syria on August 15. Back then, a number of suicide drone struck a garrison of the US-led coalition in the southeastern area of al-Tanf. A salvo of rockets also hit the coalition’s Green Village base inside al-Omar oil fields in Deir Ezzor. Both attacks were blamed on the IRGC. In a statement, the CENTCOM said that the…