Author: Steven Sahiounie

This week Türkiye will submit a petition to join the world court genocide case against Israel, the nation’s president announced on Monday. “Our parliamentary legal team will submit our petition to join the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague” on Wednesday, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Türkiye is doing everything in its power to end as soon as possible the “barbarism” that has claimed the lives of 40,000 innocents in Gaza over the past 10 months, he said after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara. “No matter what atrocities this bloodthirsty genocide network…

The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression has condemned Israel’s killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi in Gaza, urging that their deaths be prosecuted as a war crime. “I strongly denounce the deliberate targeting by Israel of two journalists in Gaza, which adds to an already appalling toll of reporters and media workers killed in this war,” Irene Khan said in a statement. The two men were killed in a July 31 air strike by the Israeli military, which said al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative who took part in the…

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned against the “real and present danger” of nuclear weapons, as Japan marks the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing on the city of Hiroshima that massacred nearly 140,000 people and for which Washington has never offered an apology. “Nuclear weapons, and the threat of their use, are not confined to history books. They have once again appeared in the daily rhetoric of international relations,” Guterres said in a message on Tuesday. “They represent a real and present danger that remains with us today,” he noted. On August 6, 1945, during World War II…

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, in a telephone call with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, emphasized Iran’s right to take countermeasures against the Zionist regime. Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says it is imperative to put an end to the Israeli regime’s vicious scheme to expand the scale of war in the region. In a phone conversation with Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani on Monday, Bagheri Kani said the Israeli regime continues its atrocities and crimes against the innocent people of Palestine, particularly women and children. Pointing to Israel’s insolent…

Presidential spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, affirmed that Israel’s continuing genocide, destruction and starvation in the Gaza Strip, and its escalated measures in the West Bank are a crossing of all red lines, holding the American administration that supports this occupation and its crimes fully responsible. The presidential spokesman stressed that Israel’s aggression and genocide in Gaza and the killings and incursions of cities and camps in the West Bank; the most recent of which was the military incursions into Tubas, Aqaba and Jenin city and its camp which left dozens of casualties, in addition to the torture inflicted on detainees in Israeli…

The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was intended to prolong the conflict in Gaza and will complicate talks on resolving the crisis, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA state news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.“There is no doubt that the purpose of Mr. Haniyeh’s assassination is to prolong the war and expand its scope,” RIA cited Abbas as saying.“It will have a negative impact on the ongoing negotiations to end the aggression and withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza.”Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran last week, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday accused TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp of “cyber fascism” and hate-mongering against the country in the aftermath of the election. Maduro declared that he accuses the platforms of “spreading hatred aimed at dividing the Venezuelan people, inciting massacre and division in Venezuela and spreading fascism in Venezuela,” describing the attempt as a “criminal coup d’etat.” During a visit to Venezuela’s national military headquarters, Maduro informed top army personnel that the country’s opponents aimed to destroy the force from within, sowing division, demoralization, and destabilization. Maduro stated, “This is why there is a cyberbullying campaign underway on WhatsApp – calls, messages.…

Iran’s acting foreign minister Bagheri Kani says the Israeli regime should be rendered incapable of intensifying its acts of aggression in the region. Ali Bagheri Kani made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Monday. Bagheri was addressing the recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which took place in the Iranian capital Tehran. Iran has blamed the Israeli regime for the assassination, with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warning of a “harsh response,” and reaffirming the Islamic Republic’s duty to avenge the…

Egypt is developing a national employment strategy aimed at creating new jobs and equipping its workforce with the skills needed for the future

The Egyptian government is planning to increase the country’s daily natural gas production to around 5 billion cubic feet by the end of 2024