Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ali Salehabadi was appointed as the new governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) on Wednesday. According to Tasnim news agency, the cabinet of President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi gave a vote of confidence to Salehabadi as the top banker at a meeting today. Salehabadi, 43, has a PhD in financial management. He has 20 years of experience of serving in top managerial posts in the money and capital markets. He is also the founder of the Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran.source : parstoday.com

The “Lawyers for Justice” group has accused the Palestinian Authority of disrupting the trial procedures for the assissnation of political activist Nizar Banat. On Tuesday, the “Lawyers for Justice,” group accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of disrupting the trial procedures for the murderers of political activist Nizar Banat, and influencing witnesses. The human rights group asserted that the arrest of Hussein Banat, the main witness in the Nizar Banat case, as well as ongoing pursuits, arrests, and raids on the homes of Banat’s family in al-Khalil are an intentional disruption of the trial. The group indicated that the shooting that…

by : William Ging Wee Dere .Conservative candidate Kenny Chiu (Steveston-Richmond East) is crying foul over his failure to retain his seat in the September 20, 2021 elections. Reminiscing of the era of McCarthyism, Chiu labels those who opposed him as sympathizers of the Communist Party of China and he attributes his defeat to their influence. He gained a more than willing conduit for his views in the mainstream media in the form of Tom Blackwell, who reports for the National Post. His efforts and those of the media could be seen as attempts to intimidate those who criticize Chiu and…

The secretary general of Iraq’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba resistance group says the country’s next prime minister must terminate all agreements reached under the dictates of the United States and also expel all occupying forces from Iraqi soil. In a statement on Tuesday, Akram al-Kaabi said the US-ordered agreements give Iraq’s resources away to the hegemonic country’s colonial projects and must therefore be canceled. According to al-Kaabi, the next Iraqi prime minister must end the games of the US military base which acts under the name of Washington’s embassy in the Green Zone and prevent it from dominating Iraq’s oil sales.…

by :  John W. Whitehead “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.”—George Carlin You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize our property without a warrant, or search and detain us without probable cause—amount to nothing when the government and its agents are allowed to disregard those prohibitions on government overreach at will. This is the grim reality of life in the American…

The number of migrants and refugees detained in a major crackdown in Western Libya has exceeded 5,000 people, including hundreds of women and children, according to a United Nations tally.Of those detained, 215 are children and more than 540 women, at least 30 of whom were pregnant, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) told The Associated Press on Monday. The UN agency counted 5,152 migrants who have been detained in the raids since Friday, with numbers likely to increase as the crackdown continues in the Western town of Gargaresh, a major hub for migrants in the North African nation, and…

The gas price in Europe at the opening of trade on October 5 once again broke a record and nearly reached $ 1250 per 1,000 cubic meters according to the ICE exchange data released on Tuesday. The price of November futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands reached $ 1247.4 per 1,000 cubic meters during trading or 102.45 euros per MWh (based on the current exchange rate of the euro to the dollar, prices for ICE are presented in euros per MWh), TASS reports. On Monday, after breaking the record price of $ 1200 per 1,000 cubic meters, the…

Economic growth in the United States of America is slowing as the country’s trade deficit rises, reaching a record level last August. The US trade deficit jumped to a record high in August due to an increase in imports as companies rebuild inventories, after recording a slow economic growth in the third quarter of the year. The US Commerce Department said on Tuesday that the trade deficit rose 4.2% to $73.3 billion last month, the highest level since the government began monitoring trade deficit data. Economists had expected the trade gap to widen to $70.5 billion. Goods imports increased 1.1%…

Bureaucratic procedures to supply Lebanon with gas in a few weeks are completed. The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek el-Molla, announced that the necessary procedures to supply Lebanon with Egyptian natural gas are set to be completed within the next few weeks. The Minister also confirmed that he reached an agreement with the Lebanese side on the timeframe to finalize the procedures and to coordinate with Jordan and Syria to allow the passage of natural gas through their territories. According to a statement issued by the Egyptian Petroleum Ministry, the Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water, Walid…

In protest of the harsh conditions of his detention and the punitive measures by the Israeli prisons authority, Palestinian detainee Mohammed al-Arida initiates an open hunger strike. Karim Ajwa, the lawyer of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, stated that prisoner Mohammed al-Arida began an open hunger strike on Monday in protest of the harsh conditions of his detainment. Ajwa pointed out in a statement that the Askalan Prison administration conducted an internal trial for al-Arida last Friday and imposed more penalties on him. The prisoner is detained under harsh isolation conditions in a CCTV-monitored dirty, unventilated cell. Karim Ajwa:…