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The death toll from the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue near Moscow has climbed to 133 people, the Russian Investigative Committee told TASS. “As the rubble was being removed in the concert hall of the Crocus City Hall, the number of people killed in the terrorist attack has risen to 133. The search operation is underway,” the statement said. Source: TASS
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared March 24 a day of nationwide mourning after the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall mall. “I declare March 24 a day of nationwide mourning,” he said in a televised address to the nation. source: TASS
The UN on Friday announced Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ annual “solidarity trip” to Egypt and Jordan marking the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “In a few hours, the Secretary-General will arrive in Cairo, Egypt. He will embark on his annual Ramadan solidarity trip, which comes this year in turbulent times, with the conflict in Gaza,” deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said at a news conference. Noting that Guterres would be visiting the northern Sinai Peninsula and the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, Haq said the UN chief would meet with humanitarian aid workers. Haq added that Guterres will have a Ramadan…
Poland’s Foreign Minister says that if we go with what is presented in the media, the US knew about the Nord Stream attacks but did nothing to prevent them. The United States knew in advance about the impending attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline but did not step in to prevent them, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski revealed today. In September 2022, Sikorski was not yet foreign minister but was a member of the European Parliament. Back then, he insinuated that Washington was complicit in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Sikorski tweeted a photo from the scene of the accident…
Algeria reiterated the need of respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, and putting an end to the repeated Israeli acts of aggression on the Syrian lands. Algeria Press Service quoted the Algeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ammar Benjameh as saying that “We call for immediate cessation of these actions with emphasize on the respect of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and rejecting any external interference in its affairs.” Benjameh was speaking during a UNSC session about Syria on behalf of the Group A3+ (Algeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Guyana). Benjameh urged effective international coordination to provide…
The Palestinian Presidency has condemned the Israeli government’s decision to seize 8,000 dunams of Palestinian land as part of its efforts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the official spokesperson for President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that “the timing of this decision, coinciding with the arrival of the US Secretary of State to the region, poses a challenge to the American administration and to the international community, which continuously condemns settlements.” He added that “the decisions of this extremist government will not succeed in imposing facts on the ground,” emphasizing that “all settlements are illegitimate. There…
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has been asked by his Labour counterpart to break precedent and publish official advice given to the government on allegations of Israeli breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza.David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, wrote in a letter to Cameron: “Given the gravity of the situation in Gaza, the degree of public and parliamentary interest and the risks to the credibility of the UK’s export controls regime, there is a compelling case to publish the government’s legal advice.”Lammy added that UK export licenses for weapons should not be granted if “there is a clear risk that…
US President Joe Biden will host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani at the White House on April 15, the White House said on Friday.Biden and Sudani will consult on issues including Daesh, Iraqi financial reforms and energy independence, the White House said in a statement. source: Arab News
Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-led draft resolution at the Security Council on Gaza, with Moscow accusing Washington of a “hypocritical spectacle” that does not pressure Israel. The US, Israel’s main ally which has vetoed previous ceasefire calls, put forward the resolution which for the first time would have supported “the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire” and condemned the October 7 attack by Hamas. Russia and China exercised their vetoes, Algeria also voted against and Guyana abstained. The other 11 Security Council members voted in favor, including permanent members France and Britain. Russia’s ambassador, Vasily Nebenzia, said that…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for talks aimed at ensuring more aid flows into Gaza, amid increasingly tense relations between the two allies over the six-month-old war. In Gaza, Israel claimed to have killed or captured hundreds of Hamas fighters in a five-day operation at the Al-Shifa hospital complex, one of the only medical facilities even partially functioning in the north. Hamas and medical staff deny fighters were present there. Blinken, on his sixth trip to the Middle East since the war broke out on Oct. 7, has been engaged in…
