Author: Steven Sahiounie

Erling Haaland celebrated his successful return from injury with a pitch-invading fan after scoring two goals in a 3-1 win over Mainz on Saturday to send Borussia Dortmund top of the Bundesliga overnight. Norwegian striker Haaland missed Dortmund’s last four games with a thigh complaint, but returned against Mainz to score his third brace in as many appearances and take his season tally to nine league goals. The 21-year-old then delighted the home crowd even more by celebrating arm-in-arm with a supporter who had somehow made it onto the pitch, and handing him his jersey as a gift. “Erling really…

The Taliban say their forces will be tasked with providing security at Shia mosques in in the southern city of Kandahar, in the wake of a “brutal attack” on Friday prayers, which killed at least 60 worshippers. The head of Kandahar’s police, Maulvi Mehmood, said on Saturday that Shia mosques had so far been guarded by local volunteer forces with special permission to carry weapons. But after the Friday attack on the Bibi Fatima mosque, the Taliban would take charge of its protection. “Unfortunately, they could not protect this area and in future we will assign special security guards for…

The president’s Build Back Better economic plan has faced stonewalling from Republicans, and resistance from conservative Democrats seeking to keep new spending in check. Joe Biden and his allies continue to push the bill notwithstanding a recent close call which nearly saw the federal government default on its $28+ trillion in debt.President Joe Biden has offered a novel, if somewhat confusing defence of his Build Back Better spending package.“My friends on the other side never had any problem printing $2 trillion in tax cuts for the very wealthy,” Biden said, speaking at a child center in Hartford, Connecticut on Friday…

At least three people have been killed and seven others injured after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali just before dawn on Saturday, the country’s search and rescue agency has said. It was mainly felt in the Karangasem and Bangli districts on the east side of the island, causing people to flee their homes in panic. The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the earthquake at 4.8, saying that its epicenter was located 62 kilometers (38.5 miles) northeast of the port town Singaraja at a depth of 10 kilometers. The initial quake was followed by…

The German state of Hesse has become the first to allow businesses to deny the unvaccinated access even to basic necessities, setting a troubling precedent as its neighbors wrestle with protests against vaccination mandates. Hessian supermarkets have been granted permission to deny the unvaccinated the right to buy food and other essentials, the state chancellery confirmed to German magazine BILD on Friday. Under the new policy, stores can decide whether to implement the ‘2G rule’, which means allowing entry only to the vaccinated and recovered (‘geimpft’ and ‘genesen’ in German) or the more lax ‘3G rule’, encompassing those who have…

Speaking to Iranian TV on Saturday, Commander of Iran’s Army Navy Rear Admiral Irani pointed to the confrontation of 78th Naval Fleet of Iran’s Navy Force with pirates in the Gulf of Aden and emphasized that the Iranian naval forces will counter any threat that wants to strain country’s communications route in the region seriously. On Saturday morning, Iran’s naval fleet was escorting two tankers in the Gulf of Aden, which is the communications hub and area of transiting vessels, that five pirate boats, which we originally known as “maritime terrorism”, attacked one of the Iranian tankers, he opined. The pirates…

BELGRADE, October 16. /TASS/. The meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be crucial for the contract on gas supply to Serbia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in an interview aired by the TV Prva channel. “By the end of 2021 we will be purchasing 6.5 mln cubic meters of gas each day, now we already spend over 6.5 mln, for which we pay $270, it is currently the best price in Europe, while in the winter we will spend 11.5 mln. We have 268 mln cubic meters in underground gas storage facilities, the Russians have 170 mln in our…

YEKATERINBURG, October 16. Police have detained two suspects after 18 people died from methanol-tainted liquor in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-biggest city located in the Urals, Valery Gorelykh, the spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry’s branch for the Sverdlovsk Region, told reporters on Saturday. “Police officers from the economic crime and anti-corruption department of the Sverdlovsk Region’s Main Interior Department alongside their colleagues from the Yekaterinburg City Interior Department have identified and promptly apprehended two suspects, local residents born in 1978 and 1967,” he said.source : tass.com

Deir Ezzor, Groups of QSD militia, backed by US occupation Helicopters, raided al-Zar village in Deir Ezzor northeastern countryside. One civilian was martyred in the operation. Local source said that US military helicopters helped groups of QSD militia tighten the noose around al-Zar village in Deir Ezzor northeastern countryside, and then storm it amid heavy firing, QSD militia also kidnapped 10 of the village’s locals and took them to nearby dens.source : sana.sy

From January to August, Ireland imported a total of 4.81 billion euros (about 5.58 billion US dollars) in products from China, making the Asian country Ireland’s fourth-largest trading partner in terms of foreign exchange earnings, according to data released by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Friday. During that time, the three largest suppliers of imported products for Ireland were the United States (10.09 billion euros), the United Kingdom (9.77 billion euros), and France (6.69 billion euros). Germany, which was the fourth greatest contributor during the same time last year, finished fifth this year with 4.71 billion euros. Between January and August, Ireland imported…