Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

Moscow’s response to Finland and Sweden joining NATO won’t be based on emotion but on analyses of security factors – Deputy FM The move by Finland and Sweden to join NATO won’t be left without a Russian response, but it’s premature to talk about it including relocation of nuclear weapons closer to the two Nordic countries, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Alexander Glushko has said. “It’s too early to speak about this,” Glushko told journalists on Friday when asked if NATO membership of Helsinki and Stockholm could prompt Moscow to place its nukes in the Baltic region. Both Finland and Sweden stayed…

Earlier in May, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) argued that the risk of catching monkeypox in the UK is very low, given that the infection is mainly spread by wild animals in parts of west or central Africa. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed on Saturday that two people had been diagnosed with monkeypox in London, a week after the first such case was registered in an area located outside of the British capital. The UKHSA said that one of the latest people to test positive for the disease is being treated at St Mary’s Hospital, based in London,…

​​The Ukrainian authorities are looking for any means to save the Azovstal fighters. The Ukrainian government’s main goal over the last month of the conflict has been to prevent the liquidation of the National Security Forces fighters blockaded at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The group there is no longer militarily important, but it is a key point on the media “front”. The blocked nationalists have created an image of heroes and martyrs, and if the authorities in Kyiv abandon them, it will hurt Ukrainian propaganda. Ukrainian President Zelensky also fears that the foreign mercenaries who reportedly remain in the…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator An American journalist, born in Jerusalem, was killed in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank of Palestine by Israeli Defense Forces on Wednesday.  Shireen Abu Akleh had worked as a reporter for the Arabic-language channel of Al Jazeera for 25 years, and was covering an Israeli raid into Jenin when she was deliberately targeted and killed by an Israeli soldier.  Ali al-Samoudi, of Al-Quds newspaper, was shot in the back, and two other Palestinians were injured and transported to a hospital. Al Samoudi, and all other journalists present reported there were no Palestinian fighters…