Author: Steven Sahiounie

A bomb blast near the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has killed at least one person and injured 13 others. An improvised explosive device (IED) that was planted in a motorbike went off on a crowded street in the city’s downtown Saddar area, Asad Raza, a senior police official, told reporters. “Law enforcement and security personnel have reached the spot with rescue teams. Until now 13 people have been moved to the hospital,” a police officer said. An eyewitness said the explosion was so big it shattered windows of nearby apartments, shops, and cars and started a fire. In a…

 Thousands of Tunisians protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied, demanding a return to the normal democratic order and rejecting his replacement of the independent electoral commission with one he named himself. “The people want democracy” and “Saied has led the country to starvation” were two slogans chanted by the protesters who gathered in central Tunis a week after a smaller demonstration in support of the president. “It has become clear that the street supports a return to the democratic path,” said Samira Chaouachi, the deputy leader of the dissolved parliament who like Saied’s other opponents accuses him of a…

Moscow repeatedly warned the Western countries against delivering weapons for Ukraine, arguing that it only perpetuates the conflict and prevents a quick diplomatic resolution. The Kremlin also stated that Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO will prompt a proper response from Russia, which sees such steps as a threat. The leader of Lega, Italian ruling coalition’s party, Matteo Salvini has stood up against the idea of accepting Sweden and Finland in NATO as the former is considering to make this step in the nearest future and the latter have already decided to file a bid to join. “Not now. Everything…

Security units of Luhansk People’s Republic revealed that the Ukrainian army booby-trapped the Zarya chemical factory with 49 tons of explosive materials before withdrawing from it. “The Ukrainian army left behind a warehouse full of explosives and about 49 tons of TNT stored in the warehouse of factory No. 406, warning that these explosives could cause massive destruction and lead to a global catastrophe due to the presence of substances near them that contain in their composition ammonia, nitrogen, sulfur, acids, benzene and other dangerous substances.” RIA Novosti Agency quoted the republic’s security units as saying in a statement. The…

Previously, the country’s president and prime minister backed the idea to join the military bloc, noting, at the same time, that there is no military threat to Finland from Russia. Finnish President Sauli Niinistö announced on Sunday that the Scandinavian nation will apply to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. “Today, the President of the Republic and the Government’s Foreign Policy Committee have jointly agreed that Finland will apply for NATO membership, after consulting parliament. This is a historic day. A new era is opening”, he said. Previously, he said that joining the bloc would undoubtedly “strengthen” Finland’s national security.If…

A gunman opened fire at the Top Markets supermarket on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, the state of New York. According to the Buffalo News, a gunman in a bulletproof vest and with a rifle shot ten people, three more were wounded inside and outside the supermarket. The death of ten people was confirmed by a representative of law enforcement agencies. The shooted was detained. He broadcasted his attack on Twitch and published an extremist manifesto. “In the document, he identified himself as an 18-year—old man and called himself a white supremacist, racist and anti-Semite,” BNO reported. This is not the…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The funeral of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday was one of the largest gatherings of Palestinians in recent memory in Occupied East Jerusalem. Her brother, Anton Abu Akleh, had arrived from the US to oversee her funeral.  He was called into Israeli Occupation police headquarters where they ordered him to not allow any traditional Palestinian funeral customs to be followed, such as: not carrying the coffin on the shoulders of pallbearers and not allowing any Palestinian flags to be displayed.  The Israeli Occupation forces killed Shireen Abu Akleh, and they wanted to…

The US has reportedly removed all digital fire control systems from the M777 155 mm towed howitzers it supplied to Kiev forces. On May 13, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shared photos showing a few of the recently supplied M777 howitzers. Digital fire control systems installed on the A1 and newer versions of the M777 were all removed from the howitzers in the photos. The M777 howitzer has a maximum rate of fire of seven rounds per minute with a range of up to 40 kilometers when firing Excalibur guided rounds. The A1 and 2 versions of the howitzer, which were supposedly…

Ukrainian forces have been waging an eight-year-long campaign in Donbass which has claimed over 13,000 lives. Kiev’s aims to conquer Donetsk and Lugansk were countered by the Russian special military operation launched in February. Ukrainian radicals intended to carry out an offensive to seize multiple settlements in Donbass and reach the Russian border to assault the city of Novoazovsk, a source with the Lugansk Peoples’ Republic has said.A map found by militiamen at an abandoned Azov* battalion base in Mariupol suggests that the offensive was scheduled for 8 March. The plan shows that different units of the neo-Nazi regiment were…

Such a change in the country’s foreign policy course could have a negative effect on Russia-Finland relations, which have been built over the course of many years in the spirit of neighborliness and partnership cooperation and have a mutually beneficial nature Finland’s rejecting the traditional policy of military neutrality would be wrong as there are no threats to the country’s security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a telephone conversation with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto, the press service of the Kremlin reported on Saturday. “The presidents had a sincere exchange of views over the announced decision by Finland’s leadership…