Author: Steven Sahiounie

At least three Palestinians were killed this morning in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential homes in the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Media sources reported that two civilians were killed in an Israeli shelling on a house in the vicinity of Rabaa School in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Local sources also reported that 5 injuries, including children, arrived at Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah as a result of the Israeli shelling of the Barkat family’s house in the Salam neighborhood of the city. Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes launched…

Elvira Nabiullina noted that during the meeting on the key rate, different opinions were voiced regarding inflation

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that if he does not “get elected in the November presidential elections, “it’s going to be a bloodbath” in the United States. Trump made the remarks on Saturday at the campaign rally in Ohio. The rally was held to get out the vote for Trump-endorsed Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday. Trump raised the possibility of an increasing trade war with China over auto manufacturing. “If you’re listening, President Xi [Jinping]— and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has extended his congratulations to the government of Pakistan on the country’s National Day. In a post on his X account on Saturday, Amir-Abdollahian felicitated Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and all the people of Pakistan on this auspicious day. In a phone call with the Pakistani prime minister earlier in March, Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi said Tehran is prepared to expand all-out relations with Islamabad. Over two months ago, Iran-Pakistan relations soured following an escalation of cross-border tensions over counter-terrorism operations. Soon afterwards, however, the…

UN Woman Executive Director Sima Bahous on Sunday highlighted the difficulties experienced by women in Gaza, stressing the urgent need for a cease-fire in the region. “Women in Gaza give birth without water. They have no food, no tents, no toilets. They are living the unimaginable,” Bahous said on X. “What woman in Gaza need right now is a ceasefire and relief,” she added. Since Oct. 7, 2023, more than 9,000 women have lost their lives, and over 23,000 women have been injured in the ongoing attacks by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip. The fate of over 2,000…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday lit a candle in memory of those killed in the atrocious terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall music venue in a church located in the territory of the presidential residence inn Novo-Ogaryovo, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. A video released by the Kremlin press service features the president lighting a candle before the crucifix and crossing himself three times. On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the Crocus City Hall music venue in the city of Krasnogorsk near Moscow. According to the latest data, the death toll is 137,…

The head of the United Nations has praised Egypt for its efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and its commitment to keeping the Rafah border crossing open since the start of the conflict. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was received by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Sunday. The pair discussed a range of international and regional issues, with an emphasis on developments in the Gaza Strip. They agreed that a two-state solution was the only path to achieving justice, security and stability and highlighted the need to create conditions conducive to its implementation, a presidential…

In comments issued to the media by his spokesperson, Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant says that he will meet the US secretary of defence, the secretary of state, the director of the CIA and the White House’s national security adviser. Gallant is travelling to Washington today at the invitation of the US government, with which ties have become strained over Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza and its blocking of humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip. “This visit will focus on preserving the qualitative military edge of the State of Israel, our ability to obtain platforms and munitions,…

The transit line through Ukraine remains the only route to supply Russian gas to western and central European countries

Prime Minister Hussein Arnous offered condolences to his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin over the victims of the terrorist attacks targeted the Crocus City Hall mall in Moscow. “On behalf of the Cabinet at the Syrian Arab Republic, I express the full solidarity with the Russian government and offer condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted the Crocus City Hall mall in the outskirts of Moscow” the Premier said in a cable on Saturday. Arnous said that the Syrian government strongly condemns this cowardly terrorist act, and it calls for holding its perpetrators, planners and supporters accountable, stressing…