Author: Steven Sahiounie

Investors are pushing for an EU-wide debt program that would bring them healthy profits while helping the bloc to increase military spending, Bloomberg has reported.

Trump convened with Orban on March 8 at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to discuss several topics of mutual interest concerning Hungary and the US. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday said that former US President Donald Trump vowed not to provide financial assistance to Ukraine if elected this fall, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. Trump convened with Orban on March 8 at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to discuss several topics of mutual interest concerning Hungary and the US. “If the Americans do not give weapons and money, and the Europeans follow them, then the war will…

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has agreed with investor David Sacks’ view that Washington’s attempts to weaken Russia have “come true in reverse” and in reality only made it stronger. Sharing his opinion on the Ukraine conflict in an interview posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Sacks called it “Biden’s big backfire.” “We’ve made the Russian military stronger, it’s larger than it was before, it produces far more weapons, the industrial base is ramped up. Plus it’s now battle-tested and battle-hardened, especially against Western weapons,” he said. Musk appeared to agree with Sacks, commenting on the post on…

In the past six months, Syria has experienced the worst surge of violence since 2020, the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said on Monday.During that time, it added, various forces have targeted civilians and essential infrastructure across several battlefronts, committing acts that could amount to war crimes.“Since October, Syria has seen the largest escalation in fighting in four years,” said the chair of the commission, Paulo Pinheiro, as he called for more intensive international efforts to halt the fighting. “Syria, too, desperately needs a ceasefire.”Syrians cannot endure any further escalation of fighting as they…

A young Palestinian man, identified as Mohammad Jaafar Mustafa Jabr, was shot dead by undercover Israeli military units on Monday night near the town of Attil, located north of the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. The incident occurred when an undercover Israeli special force, operating from a civilian vehicle, opened a hail of gunfire at two young men inside a commercial shop located at the junction near the town of Attil. The deliberate shooting resulted in both individuals sustaining critical gunshot wounds. The same sources revealed that Israeli forces prevented ambulance vehicles from…

NATO must continue to support Kiev so it can negotiate with Moscow about becoming an independent state, the US-led bloc’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday. Speaking at the ceremony to admit Sweden into NATO, Stoltenberg repeated the bloc’s talking points about supporting Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, but chose to frame the very hypothetical peace talks in terms of independence and sovereignty. “We must continue to strengthen Ukraine to show [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin that he will not get what he wants on the battlefield but must sit down and negotiate a solution where Ukraine is recognized and…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad said that Prime Minister of Israeli occupation entity, Benjamin Netanyahu destroyed Gaza Strip and killed more than 12,000 children and more than 8,000 women there, as the total number of victims killed in cold blood reached up to 31,000, calling this a genocide. “European Union strategists’ repeated statements about building a rules-based world have faded”, Mikdad said on the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry’s X account. He added that the murderer Netanyahu eft no rule unbroken, including the international law, the international humanitarian law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Charter, children’s…

Congratulating the Muslim world on the occasion of Ramadan, Iran calls on Muslim countries to unite against the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on the occasion of the arrival of the holy fasting month. “I cordially congratulate the honorable Iranian nation, the entire Muslims of the world, and my counterparts in Muslim countries on the occasion of the emergence of the blessed month of Ramadan,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. “Gaza’s developments showed that, as the common ideal of [all] Muslims, the issue of Palestine rests at…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has joined the chorus of European leaders expressing support for Palestinian statehood, saying he will seek legislative approval to officially recognize the sovereignty of Israel’s neighbor. “I will propose granting Spain’s recognition to the Palestinian state,” Sanchez said on Saturday at a conference in Bilbao, Spain. “I do this out of moral conviction, for a just cause, and because it is the only way that the two states – Israel and Palestine – can live together in peace.” Sanchez has been one of Europe’s most vocal critics of the Israeli bombardment in Gaza, accusing West Jerusalem of “indiscriminate killing of innocent…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday spoke on the phone with his counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, wishing him a happy birthday. During his phone conversation with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Erdogan also extended his congratulations on the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to a post on X by Türkiye’s Communications Directorate. Erdogan invited Al Nahyan to Türkiye for the first meeting of the High Level Strategic Council established between the two countries. The directorate shared no further information on the two leaders’ conversation. Source: Anadolu Agency