Author: Steven Sahiounie

President Ebrahim Raeisi thanks the Iranian nation for their maximal presence in International Quds Day rallies across the country, saying worldwide momentum against the Israeli regime’s atrocities is sure to culminate in the regime’s annihilation. The pro-Palestinian event is held on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan every year based on a call by the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini. On Friday, millions of people in Iran and across the world rallied to mark the occasion amid the regime’s October-present genocidal war against the Gaza Strip that has so far claimed the lives of…

Turkish authorities have arrested a Turkish private detective and his wife under charges of operating with Israeli intelligence. Turkey arrested two suspected Israeli spies on Friday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya revealed. On his X account, Yerlikaya said that a total of eight suspects were caught carrying out espionage activities for the Israeli Mossad in Turkey. Two were arrested, while the remaining six were released on parole. “We will never allow espionage activities that are intended to be carried out against our national unity and solidarity within the borders of our country,” he said. According to the Minister’s statement, it was found that the suspects…

American businessman Elon Musk believes that Ukraine’s accession to NATO may lead to nuclear apocalypse. “This is literally how the nuclear apocalypse movie starts,” he wrote on his X page under a post with a video of a speech by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, during which the top US diplomat said that Ukraine “will become a NATO member.” Musk dubbed his comment with a link to a clip from the 1983 feature film “The Day After”, which features footage of a fictional nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States.…

The number of terrorist attacks being committed by the Kiev regime is in direct correlation with the defeats Ukrainian militants suffer on the battlefield, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special ambassador, Rodion Miroshnik, has told a news briefing. “The facts that we have cited show a clear and direct correlation between the defeats of Ukrainian militants on the battlefield and the growing use of prohibited forms and methods of warfare, as well as the Western countries’ outright disregard of the Kiev regime’s violations of the norms and principles of international humanitarian law,” he said. As Miroshnik noted, the West turns a…

Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ramesh Rajasingham, said the events of the last week alone are evidence of the unconscionable brutality of the conflict in Gaza, which so far has led to the killing of more than 32,000 civilians and the wounding of over 75,000 others. He said addressing the UNSC that the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers who were killed despite informing the Israeli army of their movements and after having just unloaded more than 100 tons of much-needed lifesaving humanitarian supplies from the second World Central Kitchen maritime aid shipment to…

Poland said on Friday that the Israeli Ambassador apologized for the Israeli air strike on the World Central Kitchen that killed the Polish aid worker, Damian Sobol, in addition to six others in Gaza this week. Sobol was among the seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen who were all killed by “Israel”. During a press conference, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna said, “I handed over a note of protest to the ambassador. The ambassador apologized for this event, which has no precedent in the history of the civilized world.” However, he confirmed that the…

RIYADH: Maritime connectivity between Saudi and African ports is set to improve with the introduction of a new shipping service by German container transportation firm Hapag-Lloyd. 

RIYADH: Bonds and sukuk maturing for Qatar’s government during 2024 have amounted to 20.3 billion riyals ($5.5 billion), according to the central bank.

RIYADH: The Kingdom’s leading mobile wallet, stc pay, has received approval from the Saudi Central Bank to proceed with its transformation into STC Bank.

RIYADH: China has become the top greenfield foreign direct investor in Saudi Arabia with investments amounting to $16.8 billion in 2023, a 1,020 percent rise from the previous year.