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With the participation of a number of Syrian youth, activities of the Arab Youth Solidarity Initiative with Lebanon were kicked on Saturday, organized by the Arab National Forum in Lebanon. 40 youth graduates from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Bahrain and Kuwait take part in the four-day initiative. In a speech by the Revolution Youth Union, Solina Hamadeh, affirmed the importance of the Syrian participation to renew solidarity with brotherly Lebanon, with both countries face an unjust economic blockade that affected people’s livelihoods because they defended their territory and rejected all forms of occupation.source : sana.sy

Meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, his US counterpart, Joe Biden apologized for the announcement of a submarine deal with the UK and Australia, calling it “clumsy” and France an “extremely valued partner.” “What we did was clumsy, it was not done with a lot of grace,” Biden said on Friday. I was under the impression certain things had happened that hadn’t happened. “I want to make it clear, France is an extremely, extremely valued partner,” he added. France is a power in its own right, and “we have the same value system.” “For me, it’s the future we need to look at,” the…

Iran and Russia have underlined that any new negotiations with the remaining members of the 2015 nuclear deal would succeed only if they lead to the removal of anti-Iran sanctions and the full implementation of the deal by all parties. On Friday, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri-Kani met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Ryabkov, during his visit to Moscow. Baqeri-Kani arrived in Moscow on Thursday evening to continue talks he started in Brussels on how to remove the United States’ unlawful sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic. “The new talks will only be successful if they lead to the…

Iran says the US Treasury Department’s latest move to impose a fresh round of sanctions on Iranian natural and legal persons contradicts Washington’s claim of seeking to return to the nuclear deal of 2015 and proves the White House is by no means reliable. “The imposition of new sanctions exposes the quite contradictory behavior of the White House,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Friday. He added that an administration that speaks about its intention to return to the JCPOA – the nuclear deal officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – and continues the same…

Israeli media agencies quoted former senior officials in the Israeli occupation’s security establishment as ‘concerned’ about the exposure of their secret bases via satellite. “Anyone who knows how to decipher satellite images can obtain information about valuable strategic or military targets in Israel and anywhere in the world,” Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) newspaper reported. The newspaper noted that “former senior officials in the security establishment are concerned about allowing US companies to increase the accuracy of satellite images on map sites, and thus erase secret bases and sites.” The newspaper added that the former head of the National Security Council of the occupation,…

EU Spokesperson Peter Stano said on Friday that there are attempts between Iran and other signatories of the JCPOA to fix a concrete date as early as possible to reconvene in Vienna.” Stano also added, in the regular briefing, that the October 27 meeting in Brussels was “useful” and “helped to define a way forward to resume negotiations in Vienna”. Earlier today, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Ali Bagheri Kani, said that Tehran strives to achieve tangible results for the Iranian people in the new Vienna talks to lift the unjust sanctions, stressing that Russia and China also…

Saudi Arabia summoned its ambassador in Lebanon for consultations today, while it requested the ambassador of Lebanon to leave the kingdom within 48 hours and decided to stop all Lebanese imports to the kingdom. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that “the Kingdom’s government regrets the outcome of the relations with the Lebanese Republic due to the Lebanese authorities’ ignoring of the facts and their continued failure to take corrective measures that ensure observance of the relations.” “The Kingdom has long been keen on maintaining relations based on what it holds for the dear Lebanese people,” the…

Russia has registered 39,849 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours with the total number of infections reaching 8,432,546 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday. According to the crisis center, the relative increase of new infections is at the level of 0.47%. In the past 24-hour period, 3,452 new cases were uncovered in St. Petersburg, along with 2,556 new infections in the Moscow Region. Also, during this timeframe, 1,389 new cases were discovered in the Samara Region, 806 cases – in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and 776 new cases were detected in the Voronezh Region.…

The court announced the first verdict in the case over a fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall in Kemerovo where on March 25, 2018, some 60 people were killed, including 37 children. Eight defendants were sentenced to actual jail terms. Among the convicted are the mall’s general director Nadezhda Suddenok, head of the Sistemnyi Integrator company Igor Polozinenko and Alexander Nikitin, engineer of a fire-protection system at this company, an employee of a private security enterprise Sergei Antiushin, watch commander of fire and rescue unit No.2 Sergei Genin, technical director of the Kemerovo confectionery factory Georgy Sobolev,…

-Head of the Joint Ministerial Committee , Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Rostam Ghasemi, discussed with Syria’s Ambassador to Iran Shafiq Dayoub means of boosting strategic cooperation between the two countries in the domains of economy, commerce, investment, agriculture, roads ,transportation and power, in a way that serves the requirement of the current and future period in the interests of the two states and peoples. Ghasemi stressed that the new Iranian government is keen to enhance the cooperation with Syria in all domains in a way that fulfills the aspirations and interests of the two friendly peoples. In…