Author: Steven Sahiounie

Former President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Tokyo’s proposed oil price cap could push crude above $400 a barrel Tokyo’s proposal to place a cap on Russian oil prices would lead to significantly less oil on the market and could drastically push oil prices higher, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday. Responding to the idea put forward by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday, Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel that Japan “would have neither oil nor gas from Russia, as well as no participation in the Sakhalin-2 LNG project” if Tokyo decided to go through with the proposal.…

US Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrived in South Korea on Tuesday on their first publicly announced visit since 2017 as the allies and nuclear-armed North Korean engage in an escalating cycle of displays of weapons. Joint military drills had been publicly scaled back in recent years, first in 2018 because of efforts to engage diplomatically with North Korea and later because of the COVID-19 pandemic. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has sought to increase public displays of allied military power, including exercises, to counter a record number of missile tests conducted by North Korea…

The region is located in southern Ukraine and borders Crimea A new government has been formed in the Kherson region, the regional military-civilian administration said in a statement on Telegram on Monday. “Having studied the experience of Russian regional government agencies, Head of the Kherson region’s military-civilian administration Vladimir Saldo decided to form a new government in the Kherson region, recruiting the best people not only from the Kherson region’s residents but also from Russian experts and managers,” the statement reads. Sergey Yeliseyev, who earlier served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia’s Kaliningrad region, will head the cabinet. There…

The Prime Minister of Palestine’s National Authority (PNA) reported that Israel uses the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs in its laboratories. Muhammad Ashtiyeh, the Prime Minister of Palestine’s National Authority (PNA), said in the weekly meeting of the Palestinian government held in Ramallah that the Israeli regime’s terrorist nature was endless. According to Rai al-Youm, Ashtiyeh said the Israeli regime’s authorities took the Palestinian martyrs’ bodies as hostages and used them in their medical laboratories. Since the beginning of the current year, the number of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces has reached 78, 15 of whom were minors.…

At least five people have been killed during a Fourth of July event in Highland Park, Illinois Five people have been killed and 16 more wounded in a shooting that hit an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, the local media reported on Monday, citing authorities. The shooting took place about 10 minutes after the parade began at 10am local time in the Chicago suburb. Police urged people to disperse and were seen patrolling the area with rifles in search of the shooter. A video has surfaced online, showing people running in panic as they hear shots being fired…

Two civilians were martyred during an airdrop by US occupation forces in al-Zir village, Deir Ezzor northeastern countryside. “US occupation’s helicopters carried out, on Monday at dawn, an airdrop in al-Zir village in Deir Ezzor northeastern countryside, supported by a group of SDF militiamen, causing the death of two civilians,” local sources told SANA reporter. The sources noted that the airdrop operation was accompanied by intensive firing, as part of the US occupation policy to harass locals in the areas which it occupies in the Syrian al-Jazeera region. Source: SANA

Intelligence Online reports on Egypt’s opposition to Syria’s return to the Arab League, all for the sake of aligning itself with Saudi Arabia in this aspect. Intelligence Online cited sources saying that Egypt is now opposed to Syria’s return to the Arab League, which is to hold its next summit in November. The site added that this constitutes a major shift in Cairo’s position, especially that it was the head of Egyptian intelligence, Abbas Kamel, who led the Arab efforts to bring Damascus back to the Arab League since 2020. Egypt aligns itself with Saudi Arabia, which strongly opposes the return…

Originally published by ZeroHedge Amid community protests over Akron police officers’ fatal shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker on June 27, the Akron Police Department on Sunday released officer body-camera video of the incident, which started with an alleged traffic violation and ended in a huge eruption of fire from eight officers who were chasing him on foot. While unarmed at the moment of the shooting, police say Walker fired a shot from his vehicle during the car chase that preceded the foot pursuit. They also say they found a pistol in his car and a shell casing near the site of Walker’s alleged…

On July 4, the Russian National Guard reported that it found documents of the OSCE which testified to the cooperation of the OSCE international monitoring organization with the Ukrainian special services and the special services of NATO countries. The documents were found by the Special Forces of the Russian National Guard in the house of Ukrainian General Vyacheskav Savchenko, former head of the regional department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in the city of Kherson. The fashionable mansion of the Ukrainian general located on Budyonny Street was stormed during a security mission of the Russian Special Forces. The…

The July 4 weekend in Chicago, Illinois, witnessed a series of shooting incidents in which at least 37 people were injured and 7 killed in gun shootings, local media reported. This is a new string of horrific shootings that took place in the United States where the latest is the killing of a 30-year-old man who was shot dead on Saturday morning (local time) in Chicago. The shooting incident took place in the 9000 block of Escanaba at about 12:19 a.m. when the victim was shot in the head by an unknown person, police said. The victim was taken to…