Author: Steven Sahiounie

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will visit Turkiye on Tuesday for talks about the Gaza war and reconciliation efforts between Palestinian factions, the Turkish foreign minister said.The visit comes as intensive diplomacy is underway to pause the fighting in the almost five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas sparked by the Oct. 7 attacks.Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said: “There is a serious desire and effort to reach a ceasefire before Ramadan,” in closing remarks to an annual diplomacy forum in the Mediterranean holiday resort of Antalya.Fidan confirmed that Abbas would visit Ankara on Tuesday at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip…

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated on Sunday Shehbaz Sharif on his reelection as Pakistan’s prime minister, the Turkish Communications Directorate said in a statement. President Erdogan spoke to Premier Sharif over phone and “expressed his belief that relations between Türkiye and Pakistan will deepen and expand during the new period.” The call also addressed Türkiye-Pakistan relations, as well as regional and global issues. President Erdogan also voiced his condemnation of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, and extended his condolences to Pakistanis. Pakistan’s newly formed lower house elected Sharif as prime minister for a second term earlier in the day, three…

A Dubai-based developer, best known for its work on the world’s tallest tower, is splashing out $21 billion (96 billion dirhams) to build two luxury neighborhoods in the city and capitalize on the booming real estate market.

MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. Russia plans to cut its oil production and export by an average of 471,000 barrels a day in the second quarter of 2024 as part of its voluntary commitments under the OPEC+ deal, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a statement.

MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. Several OPEC+ countries, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, have announced the extension of additional voluntary oil production cuts for the second quarter of 2024.

CAIRO: The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday that larger declines in oil prices or extended OPEC+ cuts could weigh on Iraq’s fiscal and external accounts. 

Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre against Palestinian citizens at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, medical sources said on Sunday evening. They said that the occupation forces opened fire on citizens at the Kuwait roundabout while they were waiting for aid trucks loaded with flour, killing and injuring dozens. The sources added that the occupation forces are carrying out systematic genocide crimes targeting hungry stomachs in northern Gaza. Earlier today, occupation warplanes bombed a small truck carrying humanitarian aid in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, killing eight citizens and wounding others. Last Thursday, the occupation forces and…

RIYADH: Saudi students will gain increased access to high-quality higher education as reputable institutes, including Australia’s University of Wollongong, secure licenses for branches within the Kingdom. 

A recently leaked recording of senior German officers discussing a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge leaves no doubt that Berlin is preparing for a military conflict with Moscow, the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, warned on his Telegram channel on Sunday. Medvedev, who is currently deputy head of the Russian Security Council, was commenting on audio that surfaced earlier this week. The story was broken on Friday by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who said she had received the recording from Russian security officials. The 38-minute-long recording, reportedly from February 19, contained a conversation between four officers of the German…

Palestinian factions have called for an official global and popular movement on national, regional, and international levels during the month of Ramadan under the title of “Ramadan Flood”. In a statement released today, the factions announced that this movement is an act of resistance against the Israeli occupation, intended as a form of pressure on the latter to end its genocide against Gaza to thwart the occupation’s vile plans and support the Palestinian cause. They further stressed that this “International Flood” should reinforce boycotting in all its forms, from halting all supplies to the occupation, initiating strikes and protests in public squares,…