Author: Steven Sahiounie

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%

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates reiterated Syria’s unconditional support for the Palestinian people, and its calls to all the people of the world who still believe in international law, human rights and international humanitarian law to stop these massacres committed by the fascist Israeli. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement that the Zionist attack on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip represents a brutal continuation of the genocidal and expansionist policy pursued by the Zionist terrorist government. The Ministry said that the number of Palestinians killed by Zionist criminal…

Members of the bloc can opt out of Brussels’ plan to use the frozen assets to buy weapons for Kiev, the outlet reports

A St. Petersburg-based plant formerly belonging to Japanese automaker Toyota has been handed over to Russian high-end carmaker Aurus, Russia’s acting Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said on Tuesday. The brand is best known for producing limos for the Russian president.

Türkiye is the country that provides the most humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the country’s foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. “Türkiye, which provides 30% of the humanitarian aid reaching Gaza, is the country that provides the most assistance to Palestinians there,” Oncu Keceli wrote on X. Türkiye’s ship carrying 1,908 tons of humanitarian aid departed Tuesday from Mersin Port, said Keceli, adding that another ship carrying 5,066 tons of aid docked at Egypt’s Port of al-Arish. Keceli said total humanitarian aid to Gaza exceeded 52,000 tons. Israel has pounded Gaza in retaliation for an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas…

At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the US has decided to hold up a delivery of weapons and munitions to “Israel” after the latter carried out an offensive on Rafah without Washington’s approval. “We’ve been very clear…from the very beginning that Israel shouldn’t launch a major attack into the Rafah without accounting for and protecting the civilians that are in that battlespace. And again, as we have assessed the situation, we have paused one shipment of high payload weapons,” Austin said. “We’ve not made a final determination on how to proceed with that…

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Growing fragmentation into US-led Western and China-aligned economic blocs threatens trade cooperation and overall global growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.