Author: Steven Sahiounie

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday held discussions with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on coordinating aid to Gaza, the State Department announced. During their phone call, Blinken “emphasized the importance of continued close coordination to address the urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza and promote the protection of civilians,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. Miller said Blinken had thanked the UAE for the humanitarian assistance provided to Palestinians and for supporting a maritime corridor that would deliver additional aid to Gaza. The two sides “also discussed efforts to secure a ceasefire…

Canada will halt all arms shipments to Israel, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirmed Wednesday, a decision that has drawn the ire of Israeli leaders facing growing international scrutiny over the war in the Gaza Strip.The besieged Palestinian territory is facing a mounting humanitarian crisis, and months of war have pushed hundreds of thousands of Gazans to the brink of famine.Canada, a key ally of the United States, which provides Israel with billions of dollars a year in military aid, had already reduced its shipments to Israel to only include non-lethal equipment, such as radios, following the October 7 Hamas…

Steven Sahioune, journalist and political commentaor Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Sudani wants American troops to leave Iraq. The US public might think the US-UK war in Iraq is long over, and the dictator is gone because American soldiers gave their lives to give Iraqis their freedom and democracy. The US media may have convinced them of that story, but the truth is far different than the propaganda. The US invaded, destroyed, killed thousands, and left the country in worse shape than before. Instead of an American inspired form of democracy, the invaders from Washington imposed a non-democratic form of…

Nasdaq Inc.’s biggest shareholder, Borse Dubai, is selling roughly one third of its stake — or 27 million shares — in the exchange operator at $59 each, which would raise as much as $1.6 billion.

India is looking to purchase the inaugural shipment for its latest LNG terminal, as the nation aims to rapidly increase consumption of the fuel this decade. Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. released a tender to buy a commissioning cargo for the Chhara terminal for delivery in April, according to traders with knowledge of the matter. The facility in Gujarat state is being developed by Hindustan Petroleum Corp., and will have capacity to import 5 million tons per year of LNG. New Delhi is trying to increase it ability to import LNG to lift the share of natural gas in its energy…

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman will become the head of a newly created consumer AI unit at Microsoft, the scientist and entrepreneur said on Tuesday.

Intel is planning a $100 billion spending spree across four US states to build and expand factories after securing $19.5 billion in federal grants and loans — and it hopes to secure another $25 billion in tax breaks.

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.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is to visit Washington in the coming week, the government said Wednesday, as pressure mounts to call off a planned offensive in Gaza’s Rafah.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also announced that a delegation would visit Washington at “the request of US President Joe Biden” to discuss the planned assault, which the United States opposes.During his first visit to Washington since war erupted in response to Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack, Gallant is due to meet Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin — but no date was announced.They will discuss “developments in the war against the Hamas…

Observers from various countries who oversaw the Russian presidential election did not find any violations during the voting, so the Kremlin has no need to further justify the results to anyone, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the US magazine Newsweek. “All willing observers from other countries came to the election, could monitor the process with their own eyes and obtained all the necessary information. We are not going to justify ourselves in front of anybody,” the presidential spokesman said in a statement. Representatives from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the OSCE European security agency and the Parliamentary…