Author: Steven Sahiounie

Since the start of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, imprisonment has been an unnervingly common experience for Palestinians. Furthermore, thousands of Palestinians have been held in administrative detention without ever being charged nor informed of the “crimes” they are accused of committing. Absolute horror This day, around 4,600 Palestinian prisoners are being held in Israeli jails, including 200 children and 36 women. Of that number, 500 prisoners are in administrative detention, according to the Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer. Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in deplorable conditions and subjected to inhumane treatment. Human rights organizations have documented a variety of physical and psychological abuses, including arbitrary beatings,…

Turkey’s Trade Minister, Mehmet Mus, announced on his Twitter account on Tuesday, that his country’s share in world exports has bypassed 1% of global export for the first time in the country’s history. Mus announced that the number rose from 0.14% in 1980 to 0.43% in 2000. Turkey’s products are now exported to the entire world, he said. Ankara had broken another record earlier, with Turkish exports hitting the $105 billion mark in the first half of the year. Turkey’s 2020 exports were valued at close to $170 billion, with imports reaching $219 billion, according to ITC Trade. Turkey is…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has issued a warning aimed at Washington, calling on the US not to push its own form of democracy on other nations or split the international community by excluding countries from its upcoming summit. Speaking at a regular press briefing on Tuesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that nations around the world should be coming together to strengthen global coordination and cooperation while overcoming the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. He contended that countries should be jointly addressing global challenges and urged world leaders to push back against a new cold-war mentality.Don’t turn democracy…

By Jonny Tickle, If NATO sincerely wishes to improve its relationship with Russia, the US-led bloc must make the first move, because all of Moscow’s attempts at communication have been ignored, and the fault lies entirely with those in Brussels. That’s according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who told the press at the annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on Tuesday that Moscow is not to blame for the ever-worsening relationship between Russia and the military bloc. “We didn’t start the deterioration of relations, either with NATO, or with the European Union, or with any country…

The Saberin News reported Tuesday morning that a US military logistics convoy was targeted in the city of Nasiriyah, southeastern Iraq. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, and no casualties have been reported. Over the past few weeks, a large number of military convoys belonging to the American troops have entered Iraq through cooperation with Iraqi companies through various border crossings. Meanwhile, in recent months, convoys carrying logistics equipment for US troops stationed at various military bases in Iraq have been repeatedly targeted by roadside bombs.source : mehrnews.com

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has held talks with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, over the phone, Qatari official sources reported on Monday evening. According to the report, bilateral cooperation between the two countries and the latest developments in the region have been discussed by the two sides. This telephone conversation coincided with US Special Representative for Iran’s Affairs Robert Malley’s visit to the region.source : mehrnews.com

Russia is looking forward to exchanging views and resuming the dialogue between the parties at the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. “[Moscow expects] the resumption of the dialogue, sharing views, comparing positions [in order to] realize how the situation in Afghanistan will be developing amid all the well-known parameters,” the Kremlin spokesman noted. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that, during the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan, the sides would discuss the prospects for the development of the Afghan military-political situation and the global community’s efforts to prevent a humanitarian crisis. The meeting…

Russia’s COVID-19 daily cases climbed by 33,740 to 8,060,752, the anti-coronavirus crisis center stated on Tuesday. In relative terms, the COVID-19 incidence increased by 0.42% in the past 24 hours. In particular, over the past day, some 3,220 COVID-19 cases were registered in St. Petersburg, as many as 921 cases of the infection were recorded in the Samara Region, 715 – in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 689 – in the Voronezh Region, 664 – in Bashkortostan and 604 – in Crimea. The number of so-called active cases, the patients who are currently receiving treatment, surged to 794,946, the crisis center…

Do you know that the first musical composition in history was discovered in Syria? The first musical composition in history was discovered in the ancient city of Ugarit, Lattakia coastal province. These musical notes were engraved on clay tablets (cuneiform) and they date back to 1400 BC. They were discovered in 1950 and decoded by the writer Richard Dumbrell, author of the book “The Effects of Music Science in the Ancient Near East.” According to the studies carried out, this composition includes a musical collection of 36 songs called “Hurrian Songs”, recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets. Those songs…

The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries of terrorist organizations have renewed the attacks on safe villages and towns in the vicinity of Tal Tamir and Ras al-Ayn areas, Hasaka northwestern countryside. The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries have fired several artillery and rocket shells that fell on al-Dardara village, north of Tal Tamir, Hasaka countryside, causing material damages to the infrastructure and the property, according to local sources. The sources added that some of the areas where the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries are stationed in Hasaka northern countryside have been witnessing the arrival of reinforcements coming from the bases…