Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

Medhat al-Saleh, a liberated Syrian prisoner, was martyred after being targeted by the Israeli occupation, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent. Our correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation targeted al-Saleh in Ain al-Tineh, facing the town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. In his last interview with Al Mayadeen, the martyr affirmed that the Golan Heights is an Arab Syrian land, and the occupation has no right to establish any project on it. He also stressed that the people of the occupied Golan Heights are determined to confront the occupation’s plans, no matter what it takes. Al-Saleh, from the village of…

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The White House on Friday will lift COVID-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international visitors starting Nov. 8, ending historic restrictions that had barred much of the world from entering the United States for as long as 21 months. The unprecedented travel restrictions kept millions of visitors out of the United States from China, Canada, Mexico, India, Brazil, much of Europe and elsewhere; shrunk U.S. tourism; and hurt border community economies. They prevented many loved ones and foreign workers from reuniting with families. “Oh how I’ve missed Christmas in NY,” Alexandros Koronakis, an executive with…

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz took a step closer to succeeding Angela Merkel as chancellor, as his Social Democrats, the ecologist Greens and liberal FDP on Friday announced a preliminary deal to form a new government. The three parties have been holding talks since Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) won the general elections on September 26 with Merkel’s conservatives in second place as she prepares to leave politics. “Overall, we can sense here that a new beginning is possible, brought about by the three parties that have come together here,” Scholz told reporters. “We have agreed on a text from the…

Iran has condemned as an anti-human crime a terrorist attack by Takfiri groups at a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, underlining the need for unity among Shia and Sunni Muslims to counter divisive plots by enemies. In a statement on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry warned against enemy schemes for the Muslim world and called for reinforcing unity and integrity among Muslims and avoiding violence and extremism in the name of Islam. More than 60 people were killed in three back-to-back explosions that hit the Bibi Fatima mosque during Friday prayers, one of the biggest blasts in Kandahar…

The Cypriot government announced on Friday that it has decided to formally strip passports from 39 people who obtained citizenship under a disgraced investment scheme, as well as six of their dependents. The Council of Ministers has decided to remove “Cypriot citizenship for 39 investors and 6 members of their families,” government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said, although he didn’t specify the names of the individuals impacted. The government is also investigating a further six cases, and has put another 47 “under continuous monitoring… on the basis of the procedures provided.” Cyprus agreed in October last year to end its Golden Visa scheme on…