Author: Steven Sahiounie

India’s opposition Congress urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Saturday to question Foxconn about its hiring practices

A limited fire broke out in a storage area belonging to Kuwait’s al-Zour refinery, but production was not affected, state-owned Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) said on Saturday.

Warren Buffett donated another $5.3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities, his biggest annual donation since he began making them in 2006.

The US Supreme Court ruled that former US President Donald Trump, who is again running for the country’s top public office, has partial immunity from prosecution. “At least with respect to the president’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute,” the ruling said. “As for his remaining official actions, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity.” There is no immunity for unofficial acts, the court determined. The court also overturned a previous ruling by an appeals court that said Trump was not immune from prosecution in the case of alleged illegal attempts to hold on…

Syrian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , Ayman Sousan , met deputy Minister of foreign Affairs,Waleed bin Abdulkarim El-Kheriji. Talks during the meeting dealt with means of boosting bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries. The two sides expressed satisfaction with the steady development of relations between the two countries and the will and desire to strengthen them at all levels. Source: SANA

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation held an international symposium on Jerusalem and the Gaza war at the organization’s headquarters in Jeddah on Monday. Organized in conjunction with the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the symposium was titled: “Jerusalem and the Gaza War: Palestinian Identity and Existence Under Threat of Erasure.” “This meeting is being held at a time when we all feel the danger of the conditions that the occupied city of Jerusalem is enduring, as a result of repeated Israeli attacks on its Islamic and Christian holy sites, its people, and its…

French President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble coalition is running third after the first round of the French parliamentary elections. In anticipation of the decisive second round, Macron called on the people to unite against the election leader – the right-wing National Rally party. The vote counting took place amid rallies held by the left in several French cities. TASS has gathered the essential details on the voting results. Election results The right-wing National Rally party and allied forces lead after the first round of the French parliamentary elections with 33.15% of the vote. The left-wing New Popular Front alliance came in…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says there must be a clear outline for managing Gaza in the aftermath of Israel’s war. Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, Blinken said the war “cannot and must not end with a vacuum in Gaza”. This scenario would lead to three outcomes the US won’t accept, namely an Israeli occupation, the return of Hamas to power, or “chaos”. Speaking of the tensions between Israel and its northern neighbour, Lebanon, the secretary of state said the US is focusing its efforts on avoiding a full-blown conflict. He added fighting between Israel and…

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been re-elected for a second term following Saturday’s presidential elections, the National Independent Electoral Commission announced on Monday morning. Ghazouani won over 56.12% of the two million registered votes as the elections scored a 55.39% turnout, securing victory over the six opposition candidates. “We will not accept these results from the so-called independent electoral commission,” said second-place candidate and human rights activist Biram Dah Abeid, citing the provisional results as an “electoral coup.” “We will use our own electoral commission to proclaim the results,” he said during a news conference on Sunday. Last weekend, opposition candidate…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will chair ministerial debates at the United Nations Security Council on July 16 and 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “Three major events are planned during Russia’s presidency (of the UN Security Council – TASS). Open ministerial-level debates on the topic of multilateral cooperation in the interests of forming a fairer, democratic and sustainable world order will be held on July 16 and open ministerial-level debates on the situation in the Middle East will be held on July 17. <…> These two events will be chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,” it said. The…