Author: Steven Sahiounie

The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency cautioned ships crossing the Red Sea on Monday to exercise care after a vessel reported an incident around 91 nautical miles southeast of Yemen’s port city of Aden. This came as a UN official said on Monday that attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militia on ships in the Red Sea have quadrupled global shipping costs and cut cargo movement by 30 percent. Oleg Kobyakov, director of the office for liaison with Russia at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, told the Russian news agency TASS that what he called the Houthis’ “blockade” of the Red…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s international technology conference LEAP is set to witness $11.9 billion of investment deals over its three-day duration — eclipsing last year’s figure of $9 billion, according to a senior minister. 

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has stressed the humanitarian and legal responsibility of the UN Security Council to ensure the full implementation of the provisions of Resolution 2720. He made the comments during talks with Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s senior coordinator for humanitarian affairs and reconstruction in Gaza. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said that Shoukry and Kaag discussed in depth the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in areas of the Gaza Strip due to starvation and the targeting of civilians and humanitarian aid convoys by the Israeli military. Shoukry stressed the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza before the…

A 10-yaer-old Palestinian child was shot and killed and two others were injured during an Israeli military incursion this evening into the village of Burin, south of Nablus province, according to local and security sources. Sources said that Amr Muhammad Najjar, 10, has been killed after being seriously injured in the head by occupation live` bullets. Ahmed Jibril, the director of the Emergency and Ambulance Center at the Red Crescent in Nablus, said that the child sustained a gunshot wound in the head earlier this evening and his condition was described as critical. Israeli occupation army further opened gunfire towards another citizen,…

Iran and Algeria signed six cooperation agreements during Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s official visit to Algiers. After a meeting of high-ranking delegations in Algiers on Sunday, co-chaired by the presidents of the two nations, six agreements were signed to promote cooperation in the oil and gas industries, scientific and technological activities, knowledge-based economy, tourism industry, sports, and the media sector. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Algerian counterpart, Raisi hailed Algeria for hosting the 7th summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). “The relations between Iran and Algeria are beyond political relations and stem from deep religious,…

The three Palestinian citizens of Israel have met King Abdullah amid concerns that Israeli authorities will further tighten restrictions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears. Ayman Odeh, the head of the predominantly Arab Hadash-Ta’al alliance; party chairperson Ahmad Tibi; and MK Youssef Atauna travelled to Amman and asked the Jordanian monarch to intervene to ensure freedom of worship at the compound. “His majesty says Jordan will continue to push for an end to the war on Gaza and the provision of humanitarian relief and medical aid by land and air to the strip,”…

Dennis Francis, also Trinidad and Tobago’s UN ambassador, says the situation in the besieged coastal enclave is “unconscionable and shameful”. “I am shocked and horrified at the reported killing and injury of hundreds of people during disbursement of food supplies west of Gaza City last week,” he said while addressing the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Francis warns that an Israeli invasion of Rafah would leave an already fragile humanitarian operation at death’s door. “I, therefore, urgently call for maximum restraint to prevail in order to save innocent civilian lives.” “Let me close with a reminder that this…

President Mahmoud Abbas arrived today in the Republic of Turkey, on an official visit that will last for three days.President was received at the airport by a number of Turkish officials, Arab ambassadors accredited to Turkey, and the staff of the Embassy of the State of Palestine. During his visit, the President is scheduled to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish leadership. The president is accompanied by Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh, Advisor to President for Diplomatic Affairs, Majdi Al-Khalidi, Yasser Abbas, and the Palestinian Ambassador to Turkey, Faed Mustafa. source:…

Several activists have documented their movements in videos posted on social media in condemnation of these supermarkets selling Israeli-produced dates. French activists have been pushing supermarkets to boycott all Israeli occupation products or add a clear sign to label the source of production as Israeli. Several activists have documented their movements in videos posted on social media in condemnation of these supermarkets selling Israeli-produced dates in the Ramadan food aisles. Carrefour One of the activists posted a video on social media in which he verbally clashed with one of the employees working at Carrefour after finding Israeli-produced dates in the Ramadan…

Spain’s foreign affairs minister announced on Monday that Spain will impose unilateral sanctions on about 12 Israeli colonists involved in terrorist attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank. In a speech before the Joint Committee of the Spanish House of Representatives, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez said that the government began imposing sanctions on “a first group of 12 violent colonists.” On the other hand, he said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell accepted Spain’s petition for the bloc to review its association agreement with Israel on the basis of potential violations of international humanitarian law. He called for supporting…