Author: Steven Sahiounie

Berlin has curbed spending, having limited some funds for businesses that were already struggling with higher energy costs

Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest foreign lender in Russia, risks “being cut off from the US financial system” if it is found to have helped fund Russia’s military, according to the US Treasury  Department, as cited by Reuters.

Pope Francis believes that Ukraine should enter into peace talks, thus showing courage and not considering it a disgrace. “He who cares about the people, who has the courage to raise the white flag and start negotiations is really strong,” the Pope said in an interview with the Swiss broadcaster RSI, when asked whether it could be considered a show of courage on the part of Ukraine to “raise the white flag” or if it would be “legitimization of the stronger one.” At the same time, the Pope added that when someone is aware of one’s defeat, that something has…

A spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence has criticised the move by several countries to airdrop aid over people in the Gaza Strip, saying it has caused casualties instead. “The method of using the dropping of aid via international relief planes has not limited the famine crisis suffered by our people in the Gaza Strip, but has increased the number of victims looking for a living,” Mahmoud Basal said in a statement. “The continuation of this method of providing relief to citizens has caused a number of victims and injuries among citizens. “Therefore, we affirm the need to search for radical…

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in the South of Lebanon reported an Israeli raid on the village of Khirbet Selem, killing several civilians and injuring others. The National News Agency announced that the raid killed five martyrs: A father, his two children, his wife, and one individual. Nine civilians, who had previously escaped the recurrent Israeli attacks on Blida and took refuge in Khirbet Selem, were reportedly injured in “Israel’s” attack on the residential complex and transported to the nearby Tibnine Hospital. The town of Khirbet Silm is almost 10 km away from the Blue Line separating Lebanon and occupied Palestine. ‘Israel’ kills paramedics…

By: Steven Sahiounie, Journalist and political commentator Hamas wants an end to the war, but the U.S. is looking only for a 6-week pause, and Israel is willing to allow a pause but resume the genocide afterward. The Hamas delegation left Cairo on Thursday and will resume negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza next week. Time is running out before the Holy month of Ramadan begins. Hamas wants an end to the war, but the U.S. is looking only for a 6-week pause, and Israel is willing to allow a pause but resume the genocide afterward. UN experts, many world leaders, humanitarian…

Türkiye and the US agreed on the significance of finding a way to end the conflict in Gaza, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday after the seventh meeting of the US-Türkiye Strategic Mechanism in Washington. “Türkiye, US in joint statement emphasize the importance of finding a way to end the conflict in Gaza, and to immediately overcome the humanitarian crisis,” the ministry said in the statement released after the meeting between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his US counterpart Antony Blinken. The statement also added that the countries relaunched the Türkiye-US Counterterrorism Consultations to “expand…

The Western countries are building up their military potential and pursuing a policy of total militarization in an attempt to defeat Russia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said. “What is happening now is madness. They all thought that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin would be easily defeat. Now they see that this is not so,” Vucic said. “The current trend is toward total militarization and a five-fold build-up in all respects,” he told the media while visiting the Belgrade Military Technical Institute and inspecting armaments on display. The Serbian leader together with Defense Minister Milos Vucevic inspected new weapons of the…

A US charity says it is loading aid for Gaza onto a boat in Cyprus, preparing for the first shipment to the war-ravaged territory along the new maritime corridor the EU hopes will open this weekend. The Spanish-flagged vessel Open Arms docked three weeks ago in the port of Larnaca in Cyprus, the closest EU member state to the enclave. “World Central Kitchen teams are in Cyprus loading pallets of humanitarian aid onto a boat headed to northern Gaza,” the charity said. “We have been preparing for weeks alongside our trusted NGO partner Open Arms for the opening of a…

Donald Trump will be able to stop the conflict between Russia and Ukraine if he wins the election in November and returns to the White House, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. Orban, who has a good long-standing relationship with Trump, made the comment in a video message on his Facebook page on Saturday dedicated to his meeting with the 45th US president at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida the previous day. While he was in office between 2017 and 2021, Trump was “the president of peace, he enjoyed respect all over the world and thus created the conditions for…