Author: Steven Sahiounie

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will chair the first meeting of the country’s new government. Late on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed new ministers and deputy prime ministers and held a meeting with the new cabinet at the Kremlin. The cabinet was for the first time formed under a procedure established by the 2020 constitutional amendment. Before being appointed, all candidates were approved by parliament. Meeting’s agenda The meeting’s agenda includes a lot of financial issues. In particular, the government will discuss allocating funds to certain regions for housing resettlement and the restoration of buildings affected by spring floods.…

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Iran has condemned a senior US Republican senator’s “horrible” suggestion that Israel should use nuclear bombs on Gaza. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks in a post on X on Tuesday. Senator Lindsey Graham has said Israel should do “whatever” it deems necessary in the bombing of Gaza, drawing a comparison to when the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. On Sunday, the South Carolina Republican suggested Israel would be right to flatten the besieged Gaza Strip. The US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and killed more than 200,000…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed several more ministers and deputy prime ministers, according to the relevant presidential decrees. This is the first Russian government formed under the new procedure envisaged by the 2020 constitutional amendment. Before being appointed, all the candidates were considered and approved by parliament. Once approved by either of the houses of parliament, the candidates could not be rejected by the president. Along with the prime minister, the new Russian government consists of ten deputy prime ministers and 21 ministers. The number of ministries remained unchanged compared to the previous government. Five ministers, namely the interior,…

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Thousands of Palestinians everywhere in the world today mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948, when nearly 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes in historic Palestine by invading Zionist militias. The word “Nakba” means “catastrophe” in Arabic, and refers to the systematic ethnic cleansing of two-thirds of the Palestinian population at the time by Zionist paramilitaries between 1947-1949 and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society. During the events that led to the establishment of today’s Israel, Zionist forces took more than 78 percent of historic Palestine, ethnically cleansed and destroyed about 530 villages and cities, and…

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A high-ranking member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says it would be “meaningless” to conclude any agreement with the occupying Israeli regime unless Tel Aviv commits itself to a complete ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip. Sami Abu Zuhri, a member of the Hamas movement’s political bureau, further noted on Tuesday that Israeli captives will not see the light of day until the usurping entity complies with the conditions of the Gaza-based resistance groups. He stressed that Israeli authorities must adhere to the conditions of the Palestinian resistance front, the foremost of which is an end to the ongoing…

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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi says the murder of 15,000 children in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces spells the end of the Zionist regime. Raeisi said on Tuesday that the blood of murder Gaza children is so powerful that it would not only end the regime but also lead to an end to global injustices. “We do not doubt that the blood of 15,000 Palestinian children, which was shed on the ground, will end the lives of the Zionists and make the current world order just,” he said. The Iranian president was addressing the 5th International Congress of Imam Reza (AS) held…

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