Author: Steven Sahiounie

Students at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US, demanding their school to cease doing business with military firms amid Israel’s war on Gaza. Gathering at its College Park campus, they also called for the university to denounce the “genocide” in Gaza and end policing on the campus. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Ahlam, a graduate student of public health, said people in Gaza have been facing violence for the last six months. “We are here to demand that our university divest its holdings in the military companies that are creating the weapons and…

Ukraine is exploited today as a testing ground, which may partly decide the future world order, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said addressing the 7th Belarusian People’s Congress on Wednesday. “Everyone understands that today Ukraine is a testing ground and the developments there will in some ways determine what the world order will look like in the future,” Belarusian BelTA news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying. “The largest nuclear powers, albeit indirectly, are actually fighting on its [Ukrainian] territory. And not indirectly,” the president of Belarus noted. “The [Ukrainian] government has stooped to making a deal with the West, exchanging weapons for the…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s current visit to China is meant to shatter Russian-Chinese ties, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said. “Washington is looking for ways to shatter Russian-Chinese ties as much as possible. We have seriously expanded cooperation with Beijing in many areas in recent time. It fills US politicians and the Biden administration top officials with bile, if not brash,” he noted. “And the visit by the secretary of state should be assessed from the angle of what the United States is ready to do to increase the unabashed and ruthless pressure on China.” “I think…

Lai Ching-te reveals changes including Wellington Koo as defense minister and Joseph Wu as head of National Security Council in reshuffle of Taiwan’s security and diplomacy leadership. Taiwan’s President-elect Lai Ching-te has announced new appointments to his security and diplomacy teams. National Security Council Secretary-General Wellington Koo is set to become defense minister. Current Foreign Minister Joseph Wu will take over as head of the National Security Council. Additionally, Lin Chia-lung, currently serving as secretary-general at the Presidential Office, will assume the role of foreign minister, according to Lai’s statement on Wednesday. Furthermore, the President-elect emphasized that China ought to…

President Joe Biden on Wednesday demanded that new humanitarian aid be allowed to immediately reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as key US ally Israel fights Hamas there.“We’re going to immediately secure that aid and surge it… including food, medical supplies, clean water,” Biden said after signing a massive military aid bill for Israel and Ukraine, which also included $1 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza.“Israel must make sure all this aid reaches the Palestinians in Gaza without delay,” he said.US-Israel relations have been strained by Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan…

The forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced the operations in a statement on Wednesday. Yemen’s Armed Forces have targeted two American vessels and an Israeli one in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are enduring a United States-backed Israeli war of genocide. The first operation saw the forces targeting “the American ship (Maersk Yorktown) in the Gulf of Aden, with a number of suitable naval missiles,” he said, noting that “the hit was accurate.” Subsequently, the forces carried out drone strikes against “an American destroyer” in the same maritime area and “an Israeli ship (MSC Veracruz) in…

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes that the United States has shifted the conflict in Europe onto the shoulders of the EU and NATO in order to weaken Russia and deal with China at the same time. “The goal is to distract, drown Russia in the war with Ukraine, weaken it with war and sanctions. Then Russia will have other things to worry about than a union with China, unity. And in the meantime, to deal with China, to drag into these squabbles, if possible, some ‘interested parties’: AUKUS (defense alliance of Australia, the UK and the US – TASS) -…

An official in the Axis of Resistance tells Al Mayadeen that Iranian military advisors in Syria are present legally and in agreement with the Syrian authorities. The news circulated by international media and Arab websites about Iranians evacuating southern Syria and reducing their numbers is not true, an official in the Axis of Resistance told Al Mayadeen on Wednesday. The official affirmed that there are no Iranian forces in Syria, but rather military advisors who are present legally and in agreement with the Syrian authorities. According to the official, the Iranian military advisors continue to fulfill their duties in Syria in accordance with…

A Palestinian teen was Thursday dawn morning killed after being shot by Israeli occupation forces during a raid into the city of Ramallah, sources confirmed. Local sources confirmed that the teen boy, Khaled Raed Arouq, 16, from Jenin, was killed after being shot by Israeli gunfire in the abdomen, after which he was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex. The same sources indicated that several Israeli military vehicles stormed the city and were stationed in Ramallah Al-Tahta neighborhood, in Al-Tira neighborhood near Al-Sariya roundabout, and in Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood in the city of Al-Bireh, where they raided a house. They said…

The partnership aims to substantially enhance non-oil bilateral trade while fostering increased investment flows between the two nations