Author: Steven Sahiounie

In a threatening statement on Beijing’s “destabilizing” military moves that was published on Sunday, the US State Department warned China against even diplomatically and economically pressuring Taiwan in its own interests. In the statement, United States spokesperson and former CIA intelligence officer Ned Price warned China that the US was “very concerned” by its “provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability.” “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure and coercion against Taiwan,” Price wrote Claiming the US had “an abiding interest in peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” Price said it would “continue to…

On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus met near the city of Brest to sign the Belovezha Accords that led to the dissolution of the USSR. The Republic of Belarus was recognized as independent weeks later. Since that meeting, every American government, along with their counterparts in Europe and Russia, have spoken out in defence of Minsk’s independence and sovereignty. Indeed, until recently, the status of Belarus as an independent nation appeared to be a settled matter. Now, though, things are looking less clear. In December 1994, the new US President Bill Clinton co-signed the Budapest…

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh underlined that the Islamic Republic has and will always play a constructive role in the region as an anchor of peace and stability. “In my address before Normandy World Peace Forum and in my meetings with French counterparts, press & think tanks, I emphasized Iran’s commitment to dialogue & diplomacy as the only way forward,” Khatibzadeh tweeted while Referring to his visit to France. “As anchor of peace & stability in our region, Iran will always play constructive role,” he added. In relevant remarks on Saturday, Khatibzadeh who has traveled to Paris to…

PERTH – When the US first shared plans for nuclear-powered submarines with the UK in the 1950s, at a time when nuclear power stations were also being built in both nations, uranium-rich Australia had neither. The ANZUS treaty, forged with New Zealand and the US after World War II, included defense cooperation provisions, but never that level of top-secret exchange. Australia developed conventional submarines and never built nuclear generators because coal was cheap and abundant and coal-fired power stations were infinitely more simple. Yet the idea of developing nuclear power has never quite gone away in Australia. Australia already has…

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Sunday that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) applied double standards over military activities among UN member states, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The UNSC met behind closed doors on Friday upon requests from the United States, Britain and France over Pyongyang’s recent missile launches. The meeting lasted just over an hour and ended without a statement. Jo Chol Su, director of the DPRK Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organizations, said the UNSC meeting means an “open ignorance of and wanton encroachment” on its sovereignty and “serious intolerable provocation.”…

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,…