Author: Steven Sahiounie

The chief of the Arab League has called on warring parties in Sudan to reach a ceasefire agreement ahead of Ramadan.Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in an appeal to the Sudanese people on Wednesday, warned of “the shedding of precious blood and enduring wounds from a year-long war.”He said: “Ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, beginning in a few days, Sudan continues to witness the shedding of precious blood and enduring wounds from a year-long war, jeopardizing the dreams and legitimate hopes of millions for a safe and stable life in their homeland.“As Ramadan approaches, I urge my Sudanese brothers…

Prime Minister of the Caretaker Government Mohammed Shtayyeh discussed during a meeting in Ramallah today with the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. They also discussed the necessity of putting an end to the ongoing Israeli aggression and introducing adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza. Shtayyeh accused Israel of using starvation and preventing aid entry as a strategic weapon against the Palestinian people. He affirmed that the world must not accept being a hostage to Israeli manipulation, “but must put strong pressure to open all crossings into Gaza and allow aid to…

Ruling out any link between efforts to end the Israeli war on Gaza and the fate of the enclave, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said the Palestinian groups have democratic ideas for governing the enclave. In a meeting with his Sierra Leonean counterpart on the sidelines of an OIC ministerial meeting in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah on Wednesday, Amirabdollahian said the Palestinian resistance groups have come up with progressive and democratic ideas for governing the Gaza Strip. He decried attempts by some parties to link the fate of the Zionist regime’s war on Gaza with the governance of the enclave. Amirabdollahian also…

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said he discussed the security situation in Ukraine with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov and Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky. “Today I had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Alexander Syrsky, on their initiative, who briefed me on the security situation in Ukraine,” Nikos Dendias said on X. A Greek delegation is now visiting Ukraine. The delegation is led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Earlier, the Greece newspaper Proto Thema reported that Ukrainian President Vladimir…

Britain will warn Israel on Wednesday that its patience is running thin over the “dreadful suffering” in Gaza, where a lack of aid is leading people to die of hunger, foreign minister David Cameron said. Cameron, who is due to meet Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz on Wednesday, told parliament late on Tuesday that Israel’s handling of aid for Gaza, as the occupying power, raised questions over its compliance with international law. “We are facing a situation of dreadful suffering in Gaza,” Cameron told the upper House of Lords. “I spoke some weeks ago about the danger of this tipping…

The Algerian Foreign Minister condemned the occupation’s ‘day after’ plan and called for an ‘independent Palestinian state.’ Algeria has called for a resolution to sanction the Israeli occupation by annulling its membership in the United Nations. As per the statement released by the Algerian Foreign Ministry, during the 161st ministerial level session of the Arab League Council in Cairo, the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmad Attaf, has called today for a movement in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations to pressure the latter on revoking “Israel’s” membership. Attaf stated that this action will be “inspired by the…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, continued his meetings with a number of his counterparts participating in the meeting of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level in Cairo. Minister Mikdad discussed with Sameh Shukri, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Abdullah Bou Habib, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in Lebanon, and Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State in the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Nabil Ammar, Tunisia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, bilateral relations and ways to enhance them, and developments in the situation on the regional and international arenas. The discussions took place…

Russia continues to proactively cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and remains among global leaders in the nuclear energy area, President Vladimir Putin said at the meeting with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. “We continue very active cooperation with IAEA; Russia continues cooperating in plenty of areas. We remain among indisputable leaders in this sphere globally,” the head of state said. “We do not merely operate but also actively develop the nuclear energy sector and consider it to be the environmentally pure kind of energy. We are doing everything to increase security at nuclear power facilities,” the President…

Ukraine is willing to accept trade restrictions with the EU to end its disputes with Poland but is urging the bloc to ban Russian food imports, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

US State Department spokesperson states that the US has made it absolutely clear that it does not want to see any civilians dead. US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated today that the United States condemns the Israeli argument that the murder of more than 30,000 Palestinians, including women and children, is a “fair price” in the occupation’s alleged attempts to “eliminate Hamas.” When asked if it is a “fair price” during a press briefing, he answered “No, and we do not want to see any civilians killed. We made that absolutely clear.” ….But Biden says In an interview for The New Yorker published…