Author: Steven Sahiounie

Palestine’s UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the international community to intervene to stop Israel’s planned invasion of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warns that the continuation of Israel’s acts of terror and genocide in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip will lead to another human disaster in the region.

China’s imports of natural gas jumped by nearly 21% in the first four months of this year compared to the same period in 2023, according to customs data released on Thursday. This comes as part of an overall increase in the country’s exports and imports in April after a contraction the previous month.

The United Nations General Assembly is set to vote tomorrow on a resolution demanding the recognition of Palestine as a full member state, akin to other nations worldwide. The vote on the resolution will take place in the 193-member UN General Assembly tomorrow at 10 a.m. New York time, serving as a global survey of support for Palestine’s full membership request in the international organization. Assistant Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Nations and its specialized agencies, Omar Awadallah, told WAFA that Palestine meets the conditions for acceptance of membership outlined in Article 4 of the UN Charter.…

Saudi Arabia on Thursday condemned the Israeli settler attack on the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees headquarters in occupied Jerusalem. The Kingdom said it holds the “Israeli occupation” responsible for the recurring crimes against innocent civilians and aid workers, according to a statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry. It urged the international community to take serious action in halting Israel’s human rights violations. “The occupation must be held accountable for its ongoing crimes that violate international law,” the statement said. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini earlier said that a group of Israeli protesters had attacked the agency’s…

Moscow did not send out invitations to the Victory Day parade to ambassadors and officials of unfriendly countries, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. When asked whether ambassadors of unfriendly countries were invited to the Victory Day parade, she answered in the negative. “No, unfriendly countries will not be invited to the parade for a third straight year. They have not been invited since 2022 because the regimes in these countries are pursuing – let’s formulate it as an unfriendly policy; this is a term that was introduced – but in fact they are pursuing an aggressive policy toward…

The Western elites’ policy of instigating new conflicts are an element of revanchism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square on Thursday. “Revanchism, the mockery of history and the striving to justify current followers of Nazism are part of the Western elites’ general policy of instigating ever new regional conflicts, interethnic and inter-religious strife and containing sovereign, independent centers of world development,” the Russian leader said. Russia will do everything to prevent a global clash, says Putin. Putin calls revanchism part of Western elites’ policy of stirring up new conflicts. Russia does not allow anyone…

The army air defenses repelled on Thursday at dawn an Israeli missile aggression that targeted a building in Damascus countryside and shot down some missile. A military source stated in a statement to SANA that “at approximately 03:20 a.m. on Thursday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a building in the Damascus countryside.” The source added: “Our air defenses repelled the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them.” The source noted that the aggression caused only material losses. Source: SANA

The US president warns in an interview with CNN that Washington will stop supplying the Israeli occupation with artillery shells and bombs if it launches a “wide” invasion of Rafah. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation has killed civilians in Gaza using bombs supplied by the United States, marking the first instance of such an admission by any US official since the genocidal war on the Strip began last October. His remarks came during an interview with CNN, where he also commented on the recent Israeli invasion of Rafah. Earlier this week, the US administration paused a shipment of more than…

The central bank said it had raised the repo rate, which it uses to inject money into the banking system, by 50 basis points to 8.50%