Author: Steven Sahiounie

The death toll from the terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall music venue has climbed to 137, the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee told TASS. “The identification of those dead continues. As of now, as many as 137 bodies have been found. Three of them are children. The survey of the site continues. By now, sixty-two bodies have been identified,” it said. It also said that in the course of the crime site survey, no minded bodies or other traces of mining have been found. Apart from that, according to the press service, “four combat gear sets,…

A British-funded field hospital in Gaza has been established and will soon open to provide much-needed healthcare services to the enclave’s population, it was reported on Saturday. The tented hospital, set up by British non-governmental organization UK-Med, left Manchester and arrived in the Palestinian territory earlier this week. It has a capacity for 250 patients a day, a report in The Telegraph said. It will replace a temporary medical facility previously set up by UK-Med, which could handle 100 patients, as well as its mobile health clinics set up on sites north of Rafah, where half of Gaza’s population has…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Türkiye is aware of those supporting Israel and will not yield to the lobbies backing Tel Aviv. “We’re aware of who supports Israel and the lobbies behind them. We haven’t yield to these lobbies until now, and we won’t in the future,” said Erdogan during an iftar program in Istanbul. “Except for Türkiye and a few other countries, there is hardly any actor raising voice against Israel and its Western supporters,” he stressed. Alongside the Palestinian people, all the innocent people around the world have been witness to Türkiye’s efforts, he…

A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent was killed early this morning after being shot by Israeli occupation forces at Al-Amal Hospital, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources confirmed the death of Amir Subhi Abu Eisha, an emergency operations room staff member at the Palestinian Red Crescent, killed by Israeli gunfire while on duty at Al-Amal Hospital. This tragic incident marks the killing of 364 medical workers, including doctors, nurses, and paramedics, since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th, now entering its 170th day. The targeting of medical…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi strongly denounced the siege on al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, calling for immediate international intervention to prevent further atrocities. The two top diplomats spoke by phone on Sunday afternoon on bilateral relations and the current situation in the Gaza Strip. Both ministers emphasized the developing relationship between their countries and expressed their mutual willingness to maintain and strengthen bilateral relations, as well as regional and international collaboration. They strongly condemned the ongoing atrocities of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, particularly the regime’s violent aggression in besieging al-Shifa Hospital and the resulting loss of life among patients and medical…

Jordan and the UAE have ramped up their efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza during the holy month. The UAE announced on Sunday that it had carried out its 13th airdrop over inaccessible areas in the northern Gaza Strip containing 24 tonnes of food and relief supplies, the Emirates News Agency reported. In addition, the third Emirati aid ship set sail for the Egyptian city of Al-Arish, carrying 4,630 tonnes of humanitarian supplies bound for Gaza. Meanwhile, also on Sunday, the Jordanian army initiated six humanitarian and food aid airdrops in the northern Gaza Strip, the Jordan News Agency…

Leaders in the emerging Western nuclear fusion industry are convening in Washington, D.C. this week seeking ways to attract more money for research to avoid falling far behind China in the race to develop and build commercially viable reactors.

Shares of social media company Reddit soared nearly 50 percent on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday in a buoyant market debut that raised hopes about the IPO market.

Fitch upgraded its credit rating for UK government debt from “negative” to “stable” Friday, citing easing economic policy risks, while reaffirming the country’s AA- rating.

Apple Inc. has discussed using Baidu Inc.’s generative artificial intelligence in iPhones and other devices within China, the Wall Street Journal reported, a potentially big win for the domestic search leader.