Author: Steven Sahiounie

Tokyo is reviewing its decision to suspend funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the Japanese foreign minister said. “You mentioned several countries already starting refunding of UNRWA, and I understand that each country has their own situation and considerations,” Yoko Kamikawa told reporters at UN headquarters in New York on Monday. “Japan is also discussing and reviewing our response to the situation with a great sense of urgency,” she added, Anadolu Agency reported. Israeli authorities have accused some of UNRWA’s employees in Gaza of taking part in the Palestinian resistance forces’ Oct. 7 attack on occupied Palestinian…

Contracts with domestic energy firms are aimed at boosting daily production in major fields of the sanctions-hit country

Saudi Arabia has urged UNESCO to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The appeal was made by Fahd bin Mayouf Al-Ruwaili, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to France and the Principality of Monaco and permanent representative of the Kingdom to UNESCO. Al-Ruwaili led the Kingdom’s delegation at the 219th session of UNESCO’s executive board meeting in Paris, which ends on March 27, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The Kingdom’s delegation took part in the opening session, with the Saudi National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, and other national bodies participating. In his speech, Al-Ruwaili highlighted Saudi Arabia’s ongoing…

Crude prices soared to $86 per barrel on Monday, hitting a four-month high, with industry experts attributing the surge to China’s strong economic data and Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian oil refineries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country’s stance on the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip is identical with that of Iran, expressing Moscow’s readiness for cooperation with Tehran to settle that crisis. Russia and Iran have common views about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Russian leader said in a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday, who contacted Putin to congratulate him on his election win. Putin voiced Russia’s readiness for closer and more effective cooperation with Iran regarding the Gaza crisis. He also expressed gratitude to the Iranian president for his congratulatory message. Pointing to…

The company’s stock has slumped in recent months as it loses ground to its rivals in technology development

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi congratulated Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Tuesday on his landslide re-election, his spokesman said.El-Sisi “extended his sincere congratulations” to Putin, whose election for a fifth term with 87.28 percent of the vote “reflects the confidence of the Russian people,” according to the presidency’s statement.El-Sisi “wished him success and the Russian people further progress and prosperity.”Putin had run effectively unchallenged in the election, with only loyalist candidates allowed on the ballot in a process that Washington dismissed as “incredibly undemocratic.”El-Sisi had himself won a third term with 89.6 percent of the vote in a December election in…

Poland’s prime minister previously called for an end to preferential trade rules granted to Kiev due to the conflict with Moscow

The European Union is preparing to impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus under pressure from protesting farmers and some bloc members, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

TransContainer is a Russian intermodal container operator, which is wholly owned by the Delo group of companies