Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Pentagon underlines that the US military pier in Gaza will begin to operate by early May amid international condemnations. Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder confirmed that preparations for the utmost suspicious and allegedly temporary US military pier, which Washington claims is for the delivery of aid, are progressing as planned. Referred to as the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) capability, this initiative is set to commence operations by early May, Ryder said Thursday. “We are expecting JLOTS to be online by the end of the month, early May,” Ryder affirmed, indicating significant progress toward the establishment of the aid delivery…

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has left more than 60 percent of homes in the besieged strip either damaged or destroyed. “The ongoing conflict has damaged or destroyed approximately 62 percent of all homes in Gaza,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on Thursday, citing a joint Interim Damage Assessment summary released by the United Nations, World Bank and European Union. According to the UNRWA statement, the report used satellite imagery to assess damage. The report also found that the war left…

Saudi Aramco set the OSP for Asian buyers at a $2.00 premium to the Oman/Dubai average, up by 30 cents from the April price

The leader of the Labour Party in Scotland has joined the mayor of London in calling for the UK to halt arms sales to Israel, The Guardian newspaper reported on Friday. Anas Sarwar is the latest senior member of the party to call for an immediate ban on weapon sales to Israel after Sadiq Khan urged the same on Thursday. Ministers in the Conservative government are under pressure to reveal legal advice they have received regarding the sales to Israel during its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, which could mean the UK is found to be breaking international law. Foreign…

Gold prices were headed for their third straight week of gains on Friday ahead of the much-awaited U.S. non-farm payrolls data, supported by strong safe-haven inflows and prospects for lower U.S. interest rates this year.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has sent a letter to the United States warning it not to get dragged into Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trap saying ‘Stay away so you won’t get hurt’, according to a presidential official. “In a written message, the Islamic Republic of Iran warns US leadership not to get dragged in Netanyahu’s trap for US: Stay away so you won’t get hurt. In response US asked Iran not to target American facilities,” Mohammad Jamshidi, the deputy chief of staff for political affairs to the Iranian president, tweeted on Friday. The letter comes after Israel launched a…

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…