Author: Steven Sahiounie

US fatalities from Covid-19 surpassed 700,000 on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to the population of the nation’s capital Washington.The grim threshold comes with an average of well over 1,000 dying each day, in a country where 55.7 percent of the population is now fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After a heavily criticized early response to the pandemic, the United States organized an effective vaccine roll-out — only to see a significant portion of Americans still refusing to get the shots. The United States finds itself having…

Fights break out as panic rises amid the ongoing fuel crisis in Britain. Britain has been suffering from a fuel crisis for over a week. However, the government announced on Friday that about 200 military personnel, including 100 military truck drivers, will be deployed on Monday to help solve the crisis.Activists on social media circulated video clips of panicking and enraged citizens and fights that erupted in some cases among those waiting in long queues. Even motorcyclists have had their share of these quarrels while waiting.Activists also circulated a video clip of the British young man, Gus Lee Dolphin, skipping…

French President Emmanuel Macron asked Saturday whether or not an Algerian nation existed before French colonization, attacking the ‘completely re-written official history’ of Algeria.President Emmanuel Macron of France made several controversial, shocking, and unprecedented statements toward Algeria and its president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, whom he accused of being influenced by those around him despite the good relations Macron said he has with the Algerian president.Macron’s statements came Thursday during a two-hour meeting with 18 young French youths of Algerian origin in the Elysee Palace, whose aim was to ‘freely’ discuss the French ‘conflict’ with Algeria, which saw France murdering and dismembering…

The Turkish and Russian heads of state have discussed establishment of two more nuclear power plants in Turkey in addition to one that is already being built in the country’s south. The conversation arose between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin in the Russian resort city of Sochi on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency as saying on Friday. “Indeed, [this topic] has been discussed,” Peskov said of the conversation. “The construction of new power units has been discussed [at the meeting]. [The leaders] mentioned some specific locations where Turkey would plan to build…

Dubai, SANA – Minster of Economic and Foreign Trade, Dr. Mohammad Samer al-Khalil, Iran’s deputy Minister for Tourism, Ali-Asghar Shalbafian met Saturday on the sidelines of Expo Dubai 2020” to discuss the continued cooperation and coordination in the economic and investment domains between Syria and Iran. Shalbafian affirmed Iran’s readiness to participate in the reconstruction process and restoration the archeological and tourist sites which damage was caused to them due to terrorism in Syria, in addition to investment in tourism through building and equipping new hotel facilities. The two sides agreed to exchange bilateral visits to strengthen aspects of trade,…

Geneva, SANA – Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations’ Office and International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Houssam al-Din Ala, affirmed that Syria calls for the end of the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan and the stop of its crimes and aggression on the Palestinian people. “The violation of international law and UN resolutions, including the resolutions of the Human rights’ Council, is still the most prominent title of the acts of the Israeli occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.” Ambassador Ala said in a statement on Friday at…

On October 1 and 2, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out more than 40 airstrikes on Syria’s central region where ISIS terrorists are waging an insurgency against Syrian government forces.The airstrikes targeted hideouts of the terrorist group’s cells in the Hama-Aleppo-Raqqa triangle, the eastern Homs countryside and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nine terrorists of ISIS were killed and 12 others were wounded as a result of the Russian airstrikes.“Most of them [the terrorists] were killed within the desert of Raqqa and Hama,” the London-based monitoring group said in…

The “Fatehan Kheybar” (Conquerors of Kheybar) war games are underway in northwest Iran as part of a program to assess Iranian forces’ readiness and capabilities.The “Fatehan-e Kheybar” war games kicked off in Iran, on Friday, under the supervision of the Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and provincial officials from the country’s northwest, near Azerbaijan border.According to Iran’s Mehr News Agency, UAVs first made a general identification of the area. Then the information was sent to the command post, and the 25th Rapid Reaction Brigade carried out the…

Although the island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea gained independence from the United Kingdom in the 1960s, it has remained a member of the Commonwealth and is among more than a dozen nations that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their formal head of state. Barbados is on the verge of ending its colonial past as Prime Minister Mia Mottley has proposed the candidacy of Dame Sandra Mason for the post of the country’s president. “We believe [Ms Mason] is a fitting nomination for the post of being the first president of Barbados to be elected by this parliament. I am happy…

“Some will say he sold the party and left the ship, while conspiracy theorists will say they want to make a truce between the Justice and Development Party and the Good Party.” RemoNews website, which covers Turkish affairs quoted Fatih Altayli, a HaberTürk columnist, as saying that Faruk Acar, President of the Andy-Ar Research Company, whom he described as “one of the three most competent names in determining the strategies of the Justice and Development Party,” led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has defected and will now work with Meral Aksener, the founder and leader of the Good Party.…