Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Yemeni rial reached its lowest value rate ever against the dollar in the exchange market on Saturday in the coastal city of Aden, so much so that the dollar hit the mark of 1100 rials. The rial’s rapid depreciation comes just hours after the Exchangers Association in Aden, southern Yemen, decided to call off the nationwide strike, three days after all exchange companies and shops closed in protest of the currency’s depreciation and the country’s general economic crisis. The fall occurred despite strict measures and restrictions imposed by the Central Bank of Yemen on the foreign exchange industry, which…

Sayyed Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, a member of the supreme political council in Yemen, stated that the United States is always aiming to devalue the Yemeni Rial against the United States dollar. During a speech of his, al-Houthi clarified that following the transfer of the central bank to Aden, the coalition of aggression started deducting the employee’s salaries and obstructed the revenues of all Sana’a ports, giving them to those in power. Al-Houthi said that when half the employees’ salaries were provided to them, the coalition of aggression prevented oil derivatives from entering Al-Hudaydah, which the former UN envoy addressed. “The…

Sudan announced Sunday, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that it recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia for consultations after Ethiopia rejected a Sudanese initiative to mediate a cease-fire in the Tigray region. The statement in which the move was announced also said, “Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s initiative aims at encouraging Ethiopian parties to reach a comprehensive cease-fire and engage in political dialogue to preserve Ethiopia’s integrity and stability.” Addis Ababa announced last week that it lost trust in some Sudanese leaders, accusing the Sudanese army of occupying Ethiopian territory. Billene Seyoum, Press Secretary for PM Abiy Ahmed, said Sudan was…

California authorities announced on Saturday that they are searching for at least five people who went missing in the devastating “Dixie” fire that is currently spreading in the American West and continued Saturday’s massive expansion. The “Dixie”, the third-largest fire in California history, destroyed shops and homes this week in the small town of Greenville and in the town of Canyondam. Since it broke out in mid-July, the fire has affected 180,782 hectares in four provinces so far. The California Fire Department said on its website that the fire was only 21 percent contained. The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office said…

Tech giant Apple will use a new tool, neuralMatch, to scan photo libraries on US iPhones for pre-registered images of child sexual abuse. In a move that has surprised many, Apple will scan all images taken by iPhones and compare them against a database of known child abuse imagery before they are uploaded to the company’s iCloud Photos online storage. If any similarities are found, the image would be automatically flagged, then Apple staff will manually review the image in question. If child abuse is confirmed, Apple will instantly disable the user’s account, and the National Center for Missing and…

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that the Saudi authorities sentenced former Hamas representative Mohammed al-Khodari to 15 years in jail, with a half-suspended sentence. Al-Khodari’s son, Hani, was sentenced to three years in prison, according to their family. The Saudi authorities accuse some 60-70 Palestinian and Jordanian figures residing in the KSA on charges of “supporting the Palestinian resistance and Hamas.” The authorities gathered the detainees in the capital, Riyadh, and they were detained in several prisons in different regions. Commenting on these rulings, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a top Hamas leader, told Al Mayadeen that the Saudi rulings against the detainees were “unexpected.” Apropos…

United States President Joe Biden ordered targeting Taliban militants to suppress the movement’s territorial advances in three main Afghan cities. The bombers have departed the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, according to The Times, and targeted the provinces of Kandahar, Herat, Lashkargah, and Helmand. According to the Daily Mail, the B-52s are operating out of Qatar, while aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is on deployment in the Arabian Sea. The nuclear-powered warship has a fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets. The confrontations escalated between the Afghan government forces and the Taliban as the US Forces and NATO started withdrawing from Afghanistan in…

A month after he died, the Haitian judiciary has been struggling to launch an investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, as no willing judge has been found. Judges fear for their lives if they take on this sensitive case that exacerbated the chaotic situation in the country. “It is a sensitive, political dossier. Before agreeing to investigate it, a judge thinks about his own safety and that of his family,” a Haitian judge told AFP under the condition of anonymity. “For this reason, investigating magistrates are not too enthusiastic about accepting it,” he added. Several magistrates have told…

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, “The most important accomplishment of the 2006 war is achieving deterrence against Israel – this is the most important strategic and historic achievement.” In his speech on the anniversary of the July 2006 victory, Nasrallah stated, “The victory of the July War has entered into a new stage through the heroic confrontations of the Sword of Jerusalem battle,” continuing to say, “The most prominent strategic achievement is striking a balance of deterrence and rules of engagement that protect and guarantee the security and safety of Lebanon.” Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that, “For 15 years…

The US space agency (NASA), announced Friday that the “Perseverance” rover was unsuccessful in its attempt to retrieve a rock sample from Mars. Earlier on Friday, the agency released pictures that depict a mound next to the spacecraft’s shadow with a hole in the center, the first hole dug on Mars. The associate administrator for Nasa’s science mission directorate tweeted “Sample collection has begun! ” However, the data sent back to Earth by the rover indicates that no sample was collected in the first attempt. Zurbuchan stated ” while this is not the ‘hole-in-one we hoped for, there is always…