Author: Steven Sahiounie

Passage to Red Square has been blocked after the scaffolding partially collapsed from the Kremlin wall earlier on Friday. According to TASS, passages to the square are currently blocked from all nearby streets. As the security officials which control the perimeter stated, Red Square was closed due to the collapse. There are several people on the Kremlin wall in the area of the Spasskaya Tower near the battlements that were damaged in the accident. One of the elements on the wall is completely missing. Earlier, the Russian Federal Protective Service’s Office of Public Affairs told TASS that the incident occurred…

The Russian Special Envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, announced that the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, suggested holding a new meeting in Geneva on November 22 and in December. Damascus, for its part, has yet to make a decision. Lavrentiev stated that the parties meeting in Geneva expressed their readiness to hold the seventh and eighth sessions of the [Constitutional Committee] in November and December, but no agreement has been reached on a specific date. The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations had said, earlier on Friday, that the parties were unable to determine the date…

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, announced that “in Palestine, there is an oppressed people, an occupied land, and violated sanctities that no human being can be unconcerned with,” adding that the US and some Arab regimes “want to eliminate the heartfelt denial of Israel among our people.” Sayyed Nasrallah gave a televised speech commemorating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, which coincides with Islamic Unity Week, during which he described the normalization conference in Erbil as “testing the waters,” noting that had it not been silenced, similar conferences would have ensued. Regarding Yemen, Sayyed Nasrallah stated that the…

State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a press conference that “the US will ask “Israel” for clarifications on the basis for designating 6 Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as terrorist organizations.” In his press brief, Price indicated that Israeli officials “did not inform us in advance about this,” stressing that “respect for human rights is an important principle.” Democratic Party Representative, Ilhan Omar, wrote on her Twitter account, “There must be immediate consequences from the US and the international community for this brazen act.” On the other hand, the Democratic US House of Representatives member, Mark Buchan, confirmed in a…

Ahmed al-Kizbari, head of the national delegation to the meetings of the Committee of discussing the constitution in Geneva, affirmed that the national delegation discussed, in the 6th round of the Committee meetings, principles that reflect the aspirations of the Syrian people, and came with positive spirit to do everything possible for the success of this round. Al-Kizbari said, in a press conference in the 6th concluding round of the Committee meetings in Geneva “the national delegation was always keen to discuss the constitution among Syrians, far from foreign intervention agendas, has come with a positive spirit to do everything…

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the terrorist organizations deployed in the de-escalation zone of Idleb carried out 13 attacks during the past 24 hours. Rear admiral Vadim Collet, deputy commander of the Russian Coordination Center in Hmemim added in a statement that 13 attacks were monitored from areas in which terrorist organizations affiliated to “Jabhat al-Nusra” organization are deployed , five attacks in Aleppo , five in Idleb, two in Lattakia, and one in Hama.source : sana.sy

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iranian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan said, “Afghanistan is in a complicated and critical situation and the 20 years of American occupation yielded no results but killing, aggression and destruction for the oppressed people of the country.” “Under such circumstances, we witness a new wave of terrorist attacks and the killing of the oppressed people of Afghanistan, which can be seen as a continuation of the American strategy in the region,” he added. Kazemi Qomi also noted, “The escape of US troops from Afghanistan coincided with the ISIL incursion into the country, and the fact that we see a new wave of…

A booster stack, which is the rocket used to accelerate the projectile to hypersonic speeds, failed and the test of the projectile, the hypersonic glide body, could not proceed, the statement said, CNN reported. Because the rocket failed the Pentagon was not able to test the hypersonic glide body, which is the key component needed to develop a hypersonic weapon. Officials have started a review of the test, which took place Thursday at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska, to understand the cause of the booster failure. “Experiments and tests — both successful and unsuccessful — are the backbone of developing highly…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has attached importance to the resistance movement of Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon’s political sphere. “I know very well that different people in different countries take different positions on Hezbollah,” the Russian head of state said on Thursday at the conclusion of a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club held in the Russian resort city of Sochi. “Hezbollah is a significant political force in Lebanon,” he said concerning the Russian standpoint. Putin noted that Russia “practically communicates with all political forces in Lebanon and will continue to do so.” “In Russia, they are completely concerned with finding…

China’s troubled property giant Evergrande has made a key offshore interest payment a day ahead of a weekend deadline, state media said Friday, averting a default and buying the embattled company a reprieve as it struggles under a mountain of debt. The crisis at one of the nation’s biggest property developers has hammered investor sentiment, rattled the key real estate market and fuelled fears of a spillover into the wider economy. Evergrande is reported to have missed at least $150 million in offshore bond payments and while it had a 30-day grace period on some of them, there had been a general expectation it…