Author: Steven Sahiounie

Erdogan sets differences, even murder, aside for Turkey’s economic crisis. Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammad bin Salman, has taken a major step out of international isolation on Wednesday, paying his first visit to Turkey since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in the Kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. The talks come a month before US President Joe Biden visits Riyadh in time for a regional summit, which will focus on the recent exacerbating energy crisis worldwide.   Erdogan’s decision to revive ties with Saudi Arabia was mainly driven by economics and trade, especially since the Turkish people’s living standards have recently plummeted…

Despite the fact that the operation is advancing much more slowly than many analysts and politicians expected, the offensive continues. The goals set for the allied Russian and LDPR forces in the Donbass are gradually being achieved. While in the Donetsk direction, due to the large number of fortified cities, Ukraine still controls quite a large area, in the Luhansk direction, it is actually only the territory of Lysychansk. Severodonetsk was abandoned by the Ukrainian military, which offered little resistance and withdrew to Lysychansk. At this point, the Ukrainians have only the territory of the Azot plant left in the…

The country is prepared to face retaliatory steps by Russia, Gitanas Nauseda has said Vilnius is ready to expand the list of goods banned from transit to Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad should the European Union introduce new sanctions against Moscow, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Wednesday. The country is also ready to face any potential retaliatory measures Russia might introduce, he told Reuters in an interview. “We are ready and we are prepared for unfriendly actions from Russia, such as disconnection from the BRELL [power grid] system, or others,” Nauseda said. The president stressed that the transit restrictions were not…

The unyielding inflation growth in the United States suggests that the Federal Reserve needs to accelerate rate hikes, probably even make them restrictive, to curb price pressures already at 40-year highs, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday. “I think that the most recent inflation indicators, [the] various kinds, suggest to us that we need to accelerate the pace at which we can get up to a level that is neutral,” the Fed chief said in his biannual testimony to the US Senate Banking Committee. “And we know we need to have restrictive policy, and that’s where we’re headed.” “Neutral”…

It was noted that in this situation, Kaliningrad will organize a sea corridor and offer tit-for-tat measures Lithuania’s restrictions on freight transit to Kaliningrad looked like a mistake at first, but it’s now clear that’s deliberate policy, Kaliningrad Region Governor Anton Alikhanov told TASS. “Honestly, I was hoping they would say: ‘We made a mistake, let’s clarify.’ But no. In any case, the rhetoric that’s seen in the media suggests that this is a deliberate policy. ‘Sanctions are sanctions’ – that’s what it is,” he said in an interview. The governor said in this situation, Kaliningrad will organize a sea…

The US Air Force says that an Airman was taken into custody over suspected involvement in the attack that targeted a US military base in Deir-Ezzor. The Pentagon revealed that a US airman is currently in military custody for suspected involvement in an insider attack on a US base in Deir-Ezzor, in northeastern Syria earlier this year, as the suspect is expected to be charged in the coming weeks. US Air Force Spokesperson Ann Stefanek announced the arrest on Tuesday and told CNN that the suspect – who has not been publicly identified – was placed in custody earlier this month. “As part of…

Ukraine has reportedly used Chinese-made commercial drones to attack one of Russia’s largest oil refineries on June 22. Two drones struck the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in the Rostov region, which is located just five kilometers away from the border from Ukraine, at around 9:25 a.m. Moscow time. The refinery is reported to be one of the largest in Russia’s southern region with a capacity of up to 7.5 million tons per year. “As a result of terrorist actions from the western border of the Rostov region, two unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the technical facilities [of the plant],” the Novoshakhtinsk refinery said…

The disease has re-emerged on a farm located in Toledo province, with the site being immediately quarantined by local health authorities. Spain has recorded the first documented case of cholera since 1979 after a child contacted the disease by drinking water on a farm in Toledo province, El Pais reported, citing the local government of Castilla La-Mancha. “This is not a serious case, but the farm has been closed to ensure that there are no more risks for the population,” a government spokesperson said. The girl is said to have been hospitalized and discharged after receiving treatment. Spain recorded its most…

US president has said there’s going to be a second pandemic and that the country needs more money to prepare The US needs more money to plan for “the second pandemic,” President Joe Biden said during a press briefing on Tuesday, as he praised his government’s efforts to ensure children under five can get Covid-19 vaccines. Biden also hailed as “a very historic milestone” that the US has become the first country in the world to offer “safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old.” When asked about how long the administration could keep up the new vaccine campaign, Biden…

Russian media reported that an American mercenary fighting in Ukraine has affirmed that personnel of the British Air Service (SAS) special forces are participating in the battles by the side of the Kyiv regime. RT said that a journalist named Seth Harp had contacted the American mercenary via Twitter and quoted him as saying, “There is mismanagement and coordination by the Ukrainian forces.” The mercenary added: “They are constantly shooting at each other, and a British special forces sniper was killed when he was moving in his position…A Ukrainian troop carrier killed him as its crew were not warned that…