Author: Steven Sahiounie

His father, US President Joe Biden insisted that he had never profited from Hunter’s business affairs abroad. He also expressed confidence that his son did not violate any laws, as Hunter faced an FBI probe. A new trove of documents from Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell”, published by the Daily Mail, suggests that US President Joe Biden relied heavily on financial assistance from his son during his term as vice president and afterwards. As such, Hunter paid $190-a-month AT&T phone bills in 2010 for the then-vice president and over $5,750 for repairs at Biden’s house in Wilmington, Delaware, the emails between Hunter…

Russia calls on the United Kingdom to stop provocations after the incident with the warship HMS Defender, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, adding that the Black Sea is not a place for “such games”. “You need to speak as directly as possible with provocateurs, substantively explaining on your fingers that next time they should leave their provocations aside and not meddle in here … And the risks of conflict as a result of this may increase even more. The Black Sea is not the place where such games are permissible”, Ryabkov said in an interview with the magazine Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn,…

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has warned diplomats that the country is days away from a “social explosion” and called for help from the international community, as the nation tries to avert catastrophe. Speaking after a meeting with ambassadors and diplomats in Beirut, Hassan Diab told officials that Lebanon was facing a “painful and dark reality,” due to the social and economic impact of its financial crisis. During his address, Diab declared that the combined challenges meant “the country [was] a short distance from social explosion,” adding, “I call on the world to save Lebanon.” He paired his plea with a request not to punish his people…

An individual was injured during a knife attack outside Dusseldorf airport’s departures terminal on Tuesday, and the assailant is on the run, according to the country’s police force. The stabbing occurred at a ticket machine in the car park of Dusseldorf’s airport, according to Andre Hartwich, a spokesperson for the city’s police. The victim is being transported to hospital for treatment. Authorities haven’t yet identified the assailant’s motive but believe it could be due to a territorial dispute between homeless individuals, stating that “the names of both people are known to us.” Seeking to reassure the public, Hartwich stated that the…

Tajikistan’s National Security Committee said today, Monday, that more than a thousand Afghan soldiers crossed the borders into the country, after battles with “Taliban”. The Committee added in its statement, “In the course of shootouts with the Taliban, 1,037 military servicemen of Afghan government troops retreated through the border areas of Tajikistan in order to save the lives of military personnel.” The statement indicated that, based on the principle of good neighborliness, soldiers of the Afghan army were allowed to move to Tajik territory. The Committee stressed that “currently, the situation in these border areas is under the control of…

Reports say the United States’ biggest military base in Syria has been hit by a number of “massive” explosions. The blasts rocked the outpost located in Syria’s al-Omar Oilfield in the Arab country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, the reports said on Sunday. Yemen’s al-Masirah television network cited Syrian sources as describing the blasts as “successive” explosions. ‘Base targeted by two rockets’ The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based so-called monitor, also told Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV that the oilfield had been hit by a number of rockets. RT Arabic quoted Farhad Shami, head of the Office of Media and…

Iraq’s Joint Operations Command has announced the formation of a joint force between the Iraqi army, police and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) to protect the country’s power lines from repeated attacks by the Daesh terrorist group. “There are around 45 transmission lines that have been targeted by terrorists in the past few days,” Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), adding that most of the targeted power lines have been repaired. According to al-Khafaji, Daesh seeks to throw the Iraqi population into panic by targeting electricity pylons. He added that an…

An inspection from the UN’s nuclear watchdog is set to approve security measures taken by Belarus to protect its first nuclear power plant. The facility has been blasted by Baltic states as a major threat to their safety. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is currently inspecting the Ostrovets (Astravets) nuclear power plant, which is being constructed by Russian nuclear monopoly Rosatom. The monitors from the IAEA’s International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) were invited to check the safety of the materials and installations. According to the Belarusian Energy Ministry, delegation members liked what they saw. “I have been impressed…

US President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration for Florida, as the state is expected to be affected by Tropical Storm Elsa starting Monday, the White House said. “Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the State of Florida and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Elsa beginning on July 4, 2021, and continuing,” the White House said on Sunday. The emergency declaration authorizes the US Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate all disaster relief…

The United States has already handed over to the Afghans most of the weapons it was planning to give, and they are using them to defend the people and territorial integrity of the country, the Afghan president’s national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, told Sputnik. “So, they will be handing over some equipment, but most of it has already happened. And we’re using it as we speak and defending the Afghan people and Afghanistan’s territorial integrity”, Mohib said when asked if the US would transfer the remaining military equipment to Afghan government forces after leaving the country. Most of the US…