Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed in his video address that an evacuation of national troops from Azovstal steelmaking complex in Mariupol had started. “… we cherish a hope that we will be able to save the lives of our boys,” Zelensky said. “There are severely wounded ones among them and they need medical attendance.” The Ukrainian president said that Kiev hoped to return all of them to their country as soon as possible. “The work is underway to return boys back home, but this work is very delicate and time-consuming,” he added. The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Monday that…

Opponents of the country have “stolen” our money and use Ukrainian proxies to hurt us, the Kremlin spokesman said Western powers opposing Russia in Ukraine could be considered enemies waging a war against the state, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He said economic sanctions, the arming of Ukrainian nationalists and giving them intel to attack Russian troops all amounted to acts of war. “Sure, we are still using the mild term ‘unfriendly states’ when referring to them,” Peskov told an educational forum. But I would say they are hostile states, because what they do is war. He cited the…

A woman was killed and nearly a dozen others were wounded in a bomb blast in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, police said on Monday. An explosion ripped through the Bombay Bazar in Karachi’s Kharadar area on Monday evening, injuring several people, local media reported. The blast occurred in the densely populated Kharadar area of the city, according to eyewitnesses. It appeared to target a police patrol. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but a senior police official said it could have been carried out by the same group that claimed last week’s blast in the nearby…

Several rocket shells targeted US occupation base in al-Shadadi area, Hasaka southern countryside. Local sources told SANA reporter that before midnight on Monday, a rocket hit al-Jibsa residential complexes where the US base is present , and another rocket hit the directorate of al-Jibsa oil fields used by the occupation to manufacture drones for QSD militia. The sources pointed out that the sirens of the ambulances were heard while the occupier’s aircraft flew over the area and there was a mobilization among the armed SDF militia. Source: SANA

Over one million Palestinians have been detained by the Israeli regime since the ‘Nakba’ in 1948, which marked the loss of the Palestinian homeland, a prisoners advocacy group said. The director of the Palestinian Center for Prisoners Studies Riad al-Ashqar said on Sunday the Israel Prison Service (IPS) has been committing brutal crimes against Palestinian prisoners, including women, children, and the elderly. Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe physical and psychological torture during the arrest, at interrogation centers, and in jails, he said. According to the center, nearly 230 Palestinians have been killed as a result of torture and medical…

On the night of May 16, several explosions occurred in the Ukraine’s capital Kiev. The first publications about the explosions appeared at about 1 a.m. local time. At the same time, there were no reports on the Russian missile strikes in the Kiev region. No military facilities are located in the area. There was no air alert in the capital. The explosions took place near the “Epicenter” shopping center in Kiev, which is located in the Obolonsky district of the capital. Local sources reported that there were no alarms. A strong smell of burning could be heard in the area.…

Hundreds of people gathered near Incirlik Air Base in the southern Turkish province of Adana on Sunday to voice their opposition to the military presence of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). About hundreds of meters away from the base, protesters were chanting slogans and holding banners reading “Get out NATO. This land is ours.” Some protesters believe that NATO, being a military alliance, has led to massive numbers of bloodshed in the neighboring areas.”We did not come here to say good words, but to hold (NATO) accountable on behalf of the people of the world. Down with NATO.…

The Russian leader recalled that Russia continues to be the main trade and economic partner of Tajikistan It is necessary to continue developing trade and economic relations between Russia and Tajikistan in the light of the current situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday at a meeting with his counterpart from Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon before the start of the CSTO summit in the Kremlin. The Russian leader recalled that Russia continues to be the main trade and economic partner of Tajikistan. “Last year, our trade grew very strongly, by almost 45%, and this year in the first three months…

Washington intentionally “plays down and keeps a veil of secrecy” over its military biological activity in Ukraine, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said. “The circumstances that have emerged in the course of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine have provided an insight into what is happening in this field (military-biological activity in Ukraine) with the United States pulling the strings,” Ryabkov said at a meeting of the parliamentary commission probing into the US specialists’ role in creating biological laboratories in Ukraine. “Washington intentionally plays down this activity and keeps a veil of secrecy over it, thus denying a chance…

A gunman has opened fire in a southern California church, killing one person and wounding five others before churchgoers detained the suspect and hog-tied him in what officials called an act of “exceptional heroism”. The shooting was reported shortly before 1:30pm on Sunday (20:30 GMT) at the Geneva Presbyterian Church located in the town of Laguna Woods, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Los Angeles, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter, Al Jazeera reported. A man died at the scene and four others were critically wounded, while a fifth injured person suffered minor injuries, officials said. All…