Author: Steven Sahiounie

Canada joined multiple allies including the United States, Poland and Australia in demanding a full investigation Tuesday after an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed food in the Gaza Strip. The workers, including a dual Canadian-American citizen, were in a convoy leaving a World Central Kitchen warehouse in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Monday night. They had just delivered 100 tons of food shipped in via boat from Cyprus. World Central Kitchen identified the dual Canadian-U.S. citizen as 33-year-old Jacob Flickinger. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it is “absolutely unacceptable” to attack aid workers.…

The aid workers were part of a US-based charity organization called World Central Kitchen and were sent on a mission to deliver food to civilians in the Strip. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed outrage on Tuesday over the killing of seven foreign aid workers in Gaza, who died as a result of a targeted airstrike by Israeli forces. The aid workers were part of a US-based charity organization called World Central Kitchen and were sent on a mission to deliver food to civilians in the Strip. “How many more lives will be lost…

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Taiwan on Wednesday morning, damaging buildings and prompting a tsunami warning. The earthquake hit Hualien county at 7:58 am local time and was felt across the island, including its capital Taipei, officials said. At least seven people have been killed and hundreds are injured, Taiwan’s National Fire Agency said. Local media reported that some people may still be trapped in their homes. Wu Chien-fu, the head of the Central Weather Administration’s Seismological Center, said it was the strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan since 1999. Several tall buildings have partially collapsed. In…

The UAE has strongly condemned Israel for its airstrike on a World Central Kitchen team, killing six international aid workers and their Palestinian driver, Emirates News Agency reported on Tuesday. As the UAE’s partner in the Cypriot-led Amalthea Initiative, the WCK worked to improve the humanitarian aid delivered to civilians in northern Gaza. The UAE said it held Israel fully responsible for this dangerous development and demanded an immediate, independent, and transparent investigation of those who committed this “heinous crime” in violation of international humanitarian law. The Emirati Foreign Ministry expressed its deep sorrow for the loss of life and…

Russia’s goal of demilitarizing Ukraine is still on the agenda as the United States and NATO involved in the conflict see the country as anti-Russian territory under their control, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said in an interview with aif.ru on Tuesday. “The United States and NATO nurture plans to keep Ukraine or at least part of it as anti-Russian territory wholly controlled by them [and] focused on serving the interests of the North Atlantic bloc,” Patrushev said. The North Atlantic alliance “is de-facto a party to the Ukraine conflict,” he said. It is NATO that “makes collective decisions…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Tuesday that its armed forces “unintentionally” killed seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza.“Unfortunately, in the last day there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” he said as he left hospital in Jerusalem after a hernia operation.“It happens in war, we will investigate it right to the end… We are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything so that this thing does not happen again.”The seven victims worked for the US-based World Central Kitchen (WCK), which has been delivering food…

A drone attack killed 12 people and injured 30 on Tuesday in Atbara in northeast Sudan, a city that had until now been spared the country’s brutal warfare, a medic and witnesses told AFP.Much of Sudan has been gripped for nearly a year by a bloody war between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.“A fire broke out after a drone attack during an iftar,” a witness said over the phone, referring to the evening fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The meal, “organized by and at the base of the Islamist Baraa militia,” which fights…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to appoint Admiral Alexander Moiseyev as the Navy commander-in-chief, Vice Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov as the Northern Fleet commander and Vice Admiral Sergey Pinchuk as the Black Sea Fleet commander, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday. “Colleagues, I congratulate you! You assume the huge responsibility that you now shoulder. I hope that you will cope with the tasks you have been assigned by the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces, the Defense Ministry and, of course, the country,” the ministry quoted Shoigu as saying during a conference call with military commanders.…

The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting on Israel’s terrorist attack on the consulate section of the Iranian embassy in Syria. Addressing the event on Tuesday in New York, the US, Iran’s mission to the UN called on the world body to categorically denounce Israel’s violation of international regulations. Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said Israel is seeking to escalate tensions in the region while avoiding full responsibility for its actions. She said the regime defies Security Council resolutions and shows disregard for its international obligations. She added that Monday’s crime also…

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi pledged that the Zionist regime’s crime of conducting Monday’s fatal strike on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus will not go unanswered. In a statement released on Tuesday morning, Raisi said the usurping Zionist regime has brazenly violated international law by committing the terrorist crime of attacking the diplomatic building of Iran in Damascus. Condemning the “inhumane assault in brazen violation of the international regulations”, the president said the Israeli regime has resorted to blind assassination attacks in an attempt at survival after successive defeats and failures in the face of the resistance…