Author: Steven Sahiounie

Record-breaking Kenyan distance runner Agnes Tirop was found dead Wednesday with stab wounds to her stomach in a suspected homicide, athletics officials said. Police said they were on the hunt for her husband over the incident at Tirop’s home in the high-altitude training hub of Iten in western Kenya. Tirop, 25, was a fast-rising athlete — a double world 10,000m bronze medallist and 2015 world cross county champion who also finished fourth in the 5,000m at the Tokyo Olympics this year. Only last month, she smashed the women-only 10km world record at the Road to Records Event in Germany, with…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Voters in Iraq went to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections. Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has claimed victory for his nationalist Saeroun movement in Iraq’s election, and seeks an end to US and Iranian influence over Iraq’s domestic affairs, and has promised a government free from foreign meddling. Al-Sadr’s movement has won 73 of the 329 seats in parliament and Sunni Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi’s Taqaddum coalition second with 38. The pro-Iranian Fatah alliance suffered a setback with only 14 seats won. Many Iraqis do not believe that there will be any change…

The Chinese General Customs Administration said that the volume of trade exchange between Russia and China increased in the first three quarters of 2021 by 29.8% compared to the same period last year. The Chinese customs had stated in June that the trade volume between the two countries increased during Q1 and Q2 by 23.6% to $50.65 billion, compared to the same period in 2020. The volume of trade exchange between the two countries amounted to 102.529 billion dollars this year. Chinese exports to Russia during the reported period grew by 32.4% in annual terms and amounted to $47.401 billion,…

A senior member of the political bureau of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says the liberation of the strategic central province of Ma’rib will mark an important “milestone” in the battles to expel the occupiers and retake the country’s energy resources seized by the Saudi-led military coalition and its allied militants. “The liberation of Mari’b will have significant impacts on [efforts to] expel occupation forces and return oil wealth” to the country, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Tuesday night. The official said the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors runs a key command center in Ma’rib, which is tasked…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled in Somalia’s favor in a major territorial row over a tract of sea believed rich in oil and gas, after a years-long dispute with Kenya, which has refused to recognize the decision. In a lengthy 79-page judgement, the UN’s top court ruled largely on the side of Mogadishu on Tuesday, backing most of its claim to a 100,000 square-kilometer (38,000 square-mile) area off the East African coast, which is thought to contain large petroleum reserves. The judges determined there was “no agreed maritime boundary” set in the area, and drew a border line mostly consistent…

A training plane crashed off Lebanon coast into the Mediterranean sea, and two people on board are missing. Reuters cited a statement by the cabinet as saying that rescue workers were searching for the two people on board. Meanwhile, according to “elnashra” news website, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati also made a phone call to the army and called for dispatching a rescue team to search for the missing people.source : en.mehrnews.com

The Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, described the establishment of the AUKUS military alliance as a US adventure that undermines stability in Asia. During the opening ceremony of the 17th conference of the security and intelligence heads of the Commonwealth of Independent StatesPatrushev said that in order to execute the White House’s next adventure (meaning AUKUS), the entire security structure in Asia is being attacked. Moreso, preconditions are being established to undermine the authority of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other regional associations, not to mention the challenges in controlling the spread of…

Daraa The settlement of the situation of the militants and wanted persons was carried out in the town of Sidon and its surroundings in the eastern countryside of Daraa in accordance with the agreement proposed by the state. Yesterday, Tuesday, the concerned authorities continued the process of settling the situation of the gunmen and wanted persons in the town of Sidon and its surroundings in the eastern countryside of Daraa, according to the agreement proposed by the state in the Sidon town council, in the presence of some residents, in order to restore security and safety. Full security for Daraa…

The bill to temporarily raise the US debt ceiling passed in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday and will now be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.The legislation will temporarily raise the debt ceiling by $480 billion, which is projected to last through December 3rd, and prevents the country from defaulting on its debt.The bill passed strictly along party lines in the House, by a 219-206 vote after passing Friday by a vote of 50-48 in the Senate. The bill now heads to President Joe Biden who is expected to sign it later on Tuesday or…

By : F. William Engdahl The price of energy from all sources conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related measures. What we are seeing is a price explosion in key oil, coal and now especially, natural gas energy. What makes this different from the energy shocks of the 1970s is that this time, it is developing as the corporate investment world, using the fraudulent ESG green investment model, is dis-investing in future oil, gas…