Author: Steven Sahiounie

Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa today discussed with the World Food Program (WFP) Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau the intensification of relief efforts for the Gaza Strip. During a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in the occupied West Bank of Ramallah, Prime Minister Muatafa and Skau, who also serves as the WFP Chief Operating Officer, discussed the intensification of relief efforts and increasing the volume of relief aid allowed into the war-torn Strip in addition to the coordination of joint action in the West Bank and Gaza. Prime Minister Mustafa learned from Skau about the WFP’s efforts aimed at providing…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s pioneering electric vehicle brand, Ceer, has secured a monumental SR8.2 billion ($2.18 billion) agreement with Hyundai Transys, a South Korea-based company, to supply “EV Drive Systems” for its vehicles.

RIYADH: Global growth is expected to stabilize at 2.6 percent in 2024, holding steady for the first time in three years, according to a new World Bank report. The analysis warns that safeguarding trade, supporting green and digital transitions, delivering debt relief, as well as improving food security, are all needed to help deliver robust growth. The report indicates that any stability will come despite geopolitical tensions and high interest rates, the latter being led by Washington – with the US Federal Reserve keeping the benchmark level at a 23-year high to combat inflation. “The global economy is stabilizing, following…

RIYADH: Global oil demand growth is expected to slow in the coming years as the world continues its energy transition journey, according to a new analysis.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has achieved remarkable global leadership in doubling its desalinated water production, signaling its unwavering commitment to meeting daily water demands, stated Abdulrahman Al-Fadley, Saudi minister of environment, water, and agriculture.

The World Bank has raised its growth forecast for the Russian economy based on revised figures published on Tuesday. 

The group’s foreign ministers gathered in Russia this week to discuss economic cooperation and need for a multipolar world order

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On Monday, Hezbollah announced it shot down an Israeli Drone, the Hermes 900, over southern Lebanon. The Lebanese resistance group used air defense weapons to down the drone which fell in the vicinity of al-Rehan mountain in Jezzine District.Hezbollah poses the largest military threat to Israel, according to Israeli and regional security experts. In 2006, Hezbollah successfully defended an all-out assault by Israel and has only grown stronger since then by greatly expanding their weapons and technologies. Hezbollah has said the day fighting in Gaza stops will be the day fighting in southern Lebanon…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Vladimir Putin will receive Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan when he arrives in Moscow later on Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Peskov said after receiving the Turkish foreign minister around 06:00 Moscow time (1500 GMT), Fidan and Putin would hold a meeting. “After 18:00 Moscow time, the President will receive Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan, who is on a working trip. Fidan has contacts at various levels in Moscow these days, (and will hold) negotiations. He will inform the head of state about the outcome of these negotiations,” he said. The…

Leaders of Palestine, Egypt and Jordan today stressed that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the Palestinian state. During a trilateral summit held on the sidelines of the “Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza” conference at the King Hussein bin Talal Convention Center in the Dead Sea area, President Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II stressed the need for the immediate cessation of the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. They also stressed the need for the withdrawal of the occupation forces from…