Author: Steven Sahiounie

Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for six drone and missile attacks against Israel, as well as US and UK military and commercial ships, in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said on Tuesday that their naval and missile forces fired missiles at the Maersk Saratoga, APL Detroit, Huang Pu, and Pretty Lady ships while cruising in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden over the last 72 hours, claiming that the first and second ships were American and the third and fourth British.Sarea also claimed to have launched drones at two US Navy warships in…

Budapest has no intentions of cutting off high-level contacts with Moscow and all means of communications must remain open, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told TASS in an interview. “It’s obvious and goes without saying that we that we keep in touch with the Russian leaders,” Szijarto said. “I myself, keep in touch with my colleagues, the [Russian] Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov], the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy [Alexander Novak], the Deputy Prime Minister for Industry and Trade [Denis Manturov].” “We do believe that the channels of communication must be kept open, because if we cut the channels of communication,…

Presidential Advisor for Diplomatic Affairs, Magdi Al-Khalidi, received today German Minister of State for Economic Cooperation and Development, Niels Annen. During a meeting in Ramallah, al-Khalidi briefed the German Minister on Palestine’s positions calling for stopping the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, immediately introducing aid into the entire Gaza Strip, the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Strip, preventing displacement and accelerating the implementation of a political solution based on international legitimacy resolutions to end the occupation and embody the establishment of a state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The President’s Advisor appreciated the positions of Federal…

The US has again urged Israel to abandon plans for a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are hemmed in after months of fighting in Gaza. “We share Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas,” US ambassador Robert Wood told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, “but a major military ground operation in Rafah is not the way to do it. “It risks killing more civilians, it risks wreaking greater havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance. “And so our advice to Israel is, there is a better way.” Wood also said Washington is working to…

Russia has requested to hold a UN Security Council meeting on NATO’s 1999 aggression against Yugoslavia, but Russian diplomats are still waiting for a response from the Japanese presidency of the Council, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said. “Yesterday [on March 25], Russia sent an official letter to the Japanese presidency, requesting to hold as soon as possible a UN Security Council meeting, devoted to the 25th anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia,” he said. “This letter was sent to Security Council members, and we are waiting for an official response from the Japanese presidency.”…

The number of those injured in the Crocus City Hall attack has risen to 360, the center for disaster medicine told TASS. “As of Wednesday morning, 360 people, including 11 children, have been injured in the terrorist attack,” a health emergency official said. As many as 92 people injured in the attack have been hospitalized, while 63 people have been already discharged, with 205 others receiving outpatient treatment, the official added. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova told reporters on Tuesday that the number of people hurt in the attack had been growing as people recovered from the initial shock.…

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will attend an Easter service at the chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday, Buckingham Palace officials said Tuesday, in the first major appearance for the 75-year-old king since he was diagnosed with cancer in February.Officials said Charles and Camilla will be accompanied by members of the royal family at St. George’s Chapel. The event is expected to be smaller than usual. Prince William and Kate, the Princess of Wales, who announced last week that she is also undergoing cancer treatment, are not expected to attend.The king is undergoing treatment and has suspended almost all…

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry warns against rendering the UNSC resolution void of content, while the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine responds to the US delegate’s claim that the resolution is not binding for “Israel”. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned against any attempts to dilute the content of the United Nations Security Council resolution adopted yesterday, emphasizing the necessary immediate implementation of the resolution and the adoption of binding mechanisms fully consistent with its text. The ministry viewed the international resolution as suitable basis for achieving a permanent ceasefire and ending the war through political and diplomatic…

The United States, Britain and Ukraine are behind the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the chief of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has told the media. “We believe that this is true. In any case, we are now talking about the factual information we have. This is general information, but they have a long record of this sort,” he said after participating in an enlarged meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office board, when asked whether the US, Britain and Ukraine were behind the terrorist attack. Bortnikov believes that Ukraine has been trying to prove it is capable…

Egypt has welcomed the UN Security Council’s adoption of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, while stressing the continuation of its efforts toward stopping the war. Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “The Arab Republic of Egypt welcomes the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the month of Ramadan, for the first time since the beginning of the crisis and following the Security Council’s repeated inability to reach a resolution demanding a permanent ceasefire. “Egypt considers that the adoption of this decision, after more than five months of Israeli military…