Author: Steven Sahiounie

A Lebanese prosecutor has issued a travel ban against Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, who is among the top Lebanese officials widely blamed for an unprecedented financial crisis in Lebanon. Judge Ghada Aoun on Tuesday issued the travel ban against Salameh, who has been at the center of investigations at home and abroad into his conduct launched after Lebanon plunged into a deep financial crisis. Aoun said she had imposed the ban as part of a Lebanese investigation she is leading into the conduct of Salameh, whose tenure as the country’s central bank governor has come under scrutiny since the…

Today, Monday, the Security Media Cell announced that it had thwarted a suicide attack by a motorcycle in Al-Anbar. The Cell revealed in a statement that “a qualitative pre-emptive operation was carried out according to accurate intelligence information of the Intelligence Division of the Fifth Division, in which it indicated the presence of a booby-trapped motorcycle that was hidden inside the Rutba desert, the northern side in the Wadi Houran region, with a large number of explosives.” It revealed that the terrorists were planning to seize the opportunity and release the bombs at the crowded Rutba District market and detonate…

Foreign ministers from oil-rich Gulf states arrived in Beijing on Monday for a five-day visit, amid concerns about China’s energy security due to unrest in neighboring Kazakhstan. According to the Foreign Ministry, officials from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, as well as the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajrah, will be in China until Friday. Recent unrest in Kazakhstan’s oil and the gas-rich region has alarmed China, which has long invested heavily in its central Asian neighbor’s energy industry. The visit comes after a flurry of diplomatic activity by China’s Foreign Minister, including a tour of Africa…

Member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi, commented on the Saudi-led coalition’s claims regarding Yemen’s ballistic missiles, saying that the fabricated images of the missiles that were evidently extracted taken from an American movie are proof that the aggression forces continue to market their lies against Yemen after 7 years. The head of Sanaa’s negotiating delegation Mohammad Abdul Salam considered that the Saudi-led coalition states are moving from one scandal to another and from one bankruptcy to another by showcasing what they claim is a missiles site at Al-Hudaydah port. Abdul Salam also shared the video,…

According to state news agency SANA, the US and Kurdish armed groups have begun construction of an oil refinery in Al-Hasakah governorate in northeastern Syria. The new plant at Rmelan fields in Al-Hasakah’s northeast is expected to have a capacity of 3,000 barrels per day, according to the Syrian agency. Rmelan is home to one of Syria’s largest oil resources. The US forces illegally occupy territories in the northern and northeastern parts of Syria, where the country’s major oil and gas fields are located. Damascus has decried the US presence there as occupation and pillaging. US occupation base in Syria targeted…

The United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, called for the timetable stipulated in the roadmap of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to be respected. In a series of Tweets, Williams expressed that she had discussed challenges facing the electoral process following the High National Elections Commission (HNEC)’s declaration of force majeure, “recalled the timeline laid out in the LPDF roadmap,” and “stressed the need to respect the will of the 2.5 million Libyans who collected their voter registrations cards and called for urgent and serious efforts to address the crisis of legitimacy facing Libya’s national institutions.” Two…

As Iranian knowledge-based people, despite their ability to supply, face sales problems, It is necessary to design specialized plans with the participation of the private and public sectors and to facilitate government agencies, Meysam Abbasi tells Bazaar in an exclusive interview. He also says that due to our economy is essentially based on the sale of oil and gas and raw materials, there is a need to move towards a knowledge-based economy rather than just a basic oil economy. Meysam Abbasi, is the head of the Institute of Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence , and the director of the Innovation Department of Iran…

Some of those creme de la creme in the world of wealth, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, for example, have been worth $100 billion for quite some time: Gates first made it in 1999, while Bezos did so in 2017. The majority of the others, on the other hand, are basically newcomers to the 12-digit club.According to the newest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the world’s top ten wealthiest people are all worth more than $100 billion by the end of 2021.The 10 wealthiest billionaires increased their net worth by $402.17 billion in 2021. They were led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who…

Russia and the United States have begun talks on security guarantees in Geneva,. The meeting is being held in a closed format on the territory of the US Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva. The central issue of the talks is expected to be Russia’s security suggestions for NATO and Washington, which include, in particular, provisions on the mutual non-deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles, non-expansion of NATO eastward and reduction of military exercises.The Russian delegation is headed by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. The US delegation is led by Deputy…

Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in a protest in support of Nasser Abu Hamid, a cancer patient held in Israeli jails, amid a serious deterioration in his health condition. Palestinian sources said that clashes erupted between young protesters and Israeli troops near the entrance to the town of Beita, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on Sunday evening as Palestinians gathered to voice solidarity with Abu Hamid. The protesters chanted slogans such as “Nasser, Go! Go! We are behind you until your liberation.” Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs,…