Author: Steven Sahiounie

The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that the besieged Palestinian territory’s health system is “hours away” from collapse, after fighting has blocked fuel shipments through key crossings.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that more than 1,000 members of the militant Palestinian group Hamas were being treated in hospitals across Turkey, reiterating his stance that Hamas was a “resistance movement.”

Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge on Monday to recapture an area where they claimed to have dismantled Hamas months ago, while in the south tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah.

The US does not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Monday. “We believe Israel can and must do more to ensure the protection and wellbeing of innocent civilians. We do not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide,” Sullivan said. Speaking to reporters, Sullivan said the US wanted to see Hamas defeated, but warned that Palestinian civilians caught in the middle were “in hell.” He also reiterated the Biden administration’s repeated opposition to a major Israeli military operation in Rafah. Sullivan added that the US was concerned about an Israeli…

The US has ramped up fertilizer imports from Russia over the past year despite being at the forefront of the Western sanctions war against Moscow, RIA Novosti analysis of official data showed on Monday.

Russia’s energy revenue saw a massive increase in the first four months of the year, mainly due to rising oil prices, the Finance Ministry has revealed.

US President Joe Biden is set to double, triple and quadruple tariffs on some Chinese goods, Bloomberg has reported. It’s the latest step in the escalating trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies.

Microsoft appears to have unblocked access to major updates for users residing in Russia, according to IT specialists who spoke with Izvestia news outlet in an article published on Monday.  

Solntsevo District Court in Moscow has banned the dissemination online of job advertisements containing phrases such as “only for Slavs” as a precondition for applicants, the press service of the capital’s courts of general jurisdiction announced Monday. 

AL-MUKALLA: The US-led Red Sea marine coalition destroyed four drones fired by Yemen’s Houthis from regions under their control against ships in international waters off Yemen’s shores, the US military said on Sunday morning.