Author: Steven Sahiounie

The US Transportation Department said on Thursday it fined Emirates $1.5 million for operating flights carrying JetBlue Airways’ designator code in prohibited airspace.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unexpectedly dropped a legal case against OpenAI, shortly after he criticized the ChatGPT owner’s recently announced partnership with Apple.

The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) suspended trading in dollars and euros on Wednesday, the move having been prompted by a new sanctions package unveiled by the US Treasury earlier in the day.

The British government has followed Washington’s lead by targeting the country’s energy sector and key financial institutions

The yuan/ruble exchange rate will now set the trajectory for other currency pairs on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), including for the euro and dollar, the Bank of Russia (CBR) announced on Thursday.

Washington’s policies are simply pushing Moscow further along a path it has already embarked on

Steven Sahiounie interviews Dr. Nidal Kabalan, journalist, political analyst, and former Syrian Ambassador to Turkey.

US President Joe Biden says he has discussed a Gaza ceasefire during the G7 summit and that he has not lost hope. Asked if he was confident, Biden said, “No. Hamas has to move.” Previously, Hamas said it has shown “full positivity” in the attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel. However, US Secretary of State Blinken has said some changes to the US-sponsored deal proposed by the Gaza-based group are not workable. Source: alJazeera

The government of Colombia, a fierce critic of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, said Thursday it would receive wounded Palestinian children and provide them with medical care. “We have taken the decision to provide humanitarian support to Palestinian children who will travel with their families to Colombia for rehabilitation,” Deputy Minister of Multilateral Affairs Elizabeth Taylor Jay announced. She was speaking in Stockholm, where she was on a state visit with President Gustavo Petro. Jay did not say how many children would be taken in by Colombia, nor how they would be removed from war-torn Gaza. Israel’s relentless bombardment and…

US and UK forces launched two raids on the al-Salif district in the northwest of the coastal city of Hodeidah on the Red Sea, western Yemen, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent. A few days ago, a US-UK raid targeted the coast of al-Faza in the al-Tuhayat district, south of Hodeidah Governorate. The United States, along with the UK, is waging an aggression on Yemen, affecting various provinces, simultaneously with the continued operations of the Yemeni armed forces in support of Gaza, amidst the Israeli aggression. The leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, emphasized that regardless of the enemies’ conspiracies,…