Author: Steven Sahiounie

A Turkish official said Saturday that Ankara’s foremost objective is “to bring the massacre in Gaza to an end” and the establishment of a Palestinian state to achieve lasting peace in the region. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli’s comments were in response to Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz’s post on X with a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh that was accompanied by derogatory and defamatory comments. Keceli said efforts by members of the Israeli government to shift the agenda will be fruitless. “It is the Israeli authorities who should be ashamed.…

The number of residential buildings in Russia affected by the spring flood keeps falling, having decreased by 978 over the past 24 hours to 15,280, a source in operative services told TASS. “The trend of the falling number of flooded residential buildings across the country has persisted for the third consecutive day. In the morning of April 21, their number was 15,280 in 187 settlements and 173 allotment associations, having decreased by 978 compared with Saturday morning,” he said. The trend of the falling number of household plots affected by the flood also persists, the source added. “At the moment…

The Palestinian Hamas resistance group has called for a general strike across the occupied West Bank and a day of mourning in condemnation of an Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp that killed at least 14 Palestinians.

The US military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will aggravate the global crises, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “The military aid earmarked by the United States for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will exacerbate the global crises, as the military aid to the Kiev regime is direct financial support of terrorist activity, [the aid] to Taiwan is an interference in China’s domestic affairs and to Israel is a direct path to the unprecedented escalation in the region,” she wrote on her Telegram channel. The $95bln package of bills on military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, on the…

Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that tens of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip have been killed using US weapons, adding that Washington’s veto against the establishment of a Palestinian state at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) effectively provides political protection for Tel Aviv’s actions. “The US position is deceptive, even though it says it does not want civilians to be harmed, this is an attempt at manipulation. All the civilians killed in Gaza, thousands, tens of thousands of martyrs, were killed with US weapons, with US rockets, under US political protection. What does the…

The Israeli military has conducted fresh airstrikes on Rafah, killing at least 16 people, including a pregnant mother, in the densely-populated southern Gaza city.

Adoption of AI will help foster a knowledge-based economy and equip Saudi youth with skills for the digital age

These projects will generate more than 10,000 jobs, according to the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII)

Muscat: The inflation rate in the Sultanate of Oman increased by 0.2 percent in March 2024 compared to the same month in 2023, according to data on consumer price index numbers in the Sultanate of Oman issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

The dams’ filling rate reached 36%, standing at 831 million m3 on April 18, compared with an average of 1,004 million m3 during the same period in the past three years, he indicated at press conference on Friday in Tunis