Author: Steven Sahiounie

The cause for sanctions was “deportation of Ukrainian children from regions under temporary Russian control,” attributed by Canberra to Moscow

China International Development Cooperation Agency on Saturday expressed high concerns over the Gaza situation and said Beijing is preparing to send its third aid shipment to the region. In response to Western media hype of China “standing by” a humanitarian disaster in Gaza, the aid agency said Beijing has already delivered two shipments of emergency aid to the region. “China strongly urges the international community to make active efforts to ensure the aid is delivered safely and smoothly to the people of Gaza,” the state-run daily Global Times citing the aid agency said. On Thursday, China’s representative to the International…

Syria affirmed that the aggressive practices of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians and its repeated attacks on Syria and Lebanon constitute the clearest reflection of the failure of the international community to stop Israeli crimes , stressing that all the occupation’s acts must be ended. ​ Head of the Permanent Mission of Syria to the EU in Brussels, Ammar al-Arsan, in Syria statement before the ICJ in The Hague said that acts of “Israel” are the clearest reflection of the failure of the international community to prevent the occupation crimes and ensure the implementation of relevant international decisions. Syria…

The 13th package comes a day before the second anniversary of the start of Moscow’s military operation against Ukraine

An arbitration court in Russia has ruled that assets of German company Linde be confiscated over its refusal to honor contract obligations to build a gas processing plant in the country in 2022.

The list of individuals and entities includes executives, officials, and people allegedly involved in the jailing of Alexey Navalny

The European Union has placed tighter trade restrictions on Chinese companies that it claims are supporting Russia, the European Council said in a press release on Friday.

Reuters news agency has reported that talks are under way in Paris in what appears to be the most serious push in weeks to halt the fighting in Gaza. The news agency cites a source briefed on the talks who said that discussion had started with Israel’s head of Mossad intelligence service meeting separately with each negotiating party – Qatar, Egypt and the US – on Friday. Two Egyptian security sources earlier confirmed to Reuters that Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel would travel to Paris on Friday for the talks with the Israelis, after wrapping up talks with Hamas leader…

Russia’s permanent envoy to the United Nations rejected accusations that Russia is occupying Ukrainian territory, stressing that they are “Russian regions” after the regions in question voted in favor of joining the federation. A UN General Assembly session on the war marking its second year saw Kiev and its Western allies condemning Russia’s “occupation” of Ukrainian lands. Addressing the attendees, Vassily Nebenzia said: “In reality, there is no such thing as temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. They are Russian regions.” Nebenzia added that Crimea, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye became part of…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has denounced the US for “brazenly vetoing” a UN Security Council resolution to stop the ongoing Israeli genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip. The third US veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza revealed “the lies of Western civilization’s claims about human rights and the hypocrisy of Westerners in the Gaza issue”, the Leader said Saturday. “The Westerners, who make noise and uproar for the execution of a criminal, have turned a blind eye to the killing of 30,000 innocent people in Gaza, and the US has brazenly…