Author: Steven Sahiounie

It is impossible resolving pressing international issues without Russia’s participation and this is obvious to everyone, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said in an interview with TASS. “We are asked to continue to play an active mediating role in resolving all ‘hot’ international issues. It is obvious to everyone that they cannot be settled without Russia. So we keep telling the truth, propose fair solutions using the opportunities provided by the UN venue,” he said. Meanwhile, Western representatives at such meetings “time and again reiterate the same,” the diplomat asserted. “They really have nothing to say, including…

The Palestinian Presidency has vehemently expressed its rejection and condemnation of the statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding plans to extend the ground Israeli onslaught to the overcrowded province of Rafah, in the farthest south of the Gaza Strip. The Presidency said the move would entail the forcible of Palestinian citizens from the province—already overcrowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people from northern Gaza. It considered the move “a real threat and a dangerous prelude to implementing the rejected Israeli policy aimed at displacing the Palestinian people from their land.” In a press statement, the Palestinian…

An Israeli strike targeted the Damascus countryside, prompting the Syrian air defense forces to repel the attack and successfully intercept some of them. A Syrian military official stated that at 1:05 a.m. on Saturday, the Israeli occupation launched an aerial assault from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The military official highlighted that the aggression targeted various locations in the Damascus countryside, specifying that the air defense forces successfully intercepted some of the missiles. The statement further confirmed that the aggression led to some material damages, with no reported human casualties. Earlier on Friday, SANA reported that the Syrian air defense systems…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes Israel’s bombardments of the Gaza Strip are comparable to the Nazi atrocities committed during World War II. “Before the eyes of the entire world, Israel, its occupational forces are killing Palestinians, mainly women and children. Thousands of our Palestinian brothers have been tortured to death. More than 67,000 innocent Palestinians have been wounded in Israeli strikes targeting the civilian population. Religious sites, schools, hospitals, and the entire civilian infrastructure are targeted by Israeli attacks comparable to Nazi atrocities,” he said in an address to participants in the youth forum of the Organization of Islamic…

Former US president Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race, said on Friday he had firmly protected gun rights while in the White House and vowed if re-elected to undo all restrictions enacted by President Joe Biden. Speaking to thousands of supporters at an event organized by the National Rifle Association (NRA), Trump promised to rescind a rule curbing sales of gun accessories known as pistol braces and other regulations put in place by the Biden administration, Reuters reported. “Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated my very first week back in…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with the leaders of several Palestinian Resistance factions during his visit to Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held during his visit to the Lebanese capital of Beirut a meeting with a delegation representing Palestinian faction leaders, people familiar with the matter told Al Mayadeen.  The Palestinian delegation included Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhalah, Hamas top official Osama Hamdan, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Deputy Secretary-General Jameel Mizhir. The meeting was also attended by Mehdi Shushtari, the Assistant Iranian Foreign Minister for West Asia and North Africa Affairs, and Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Ammani. Sources told Al…

Israeli air strikes pummeled densely crowded Rafah on Saturday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his troops to “prepare to operate” in the southern border city that has become a last refuge for displaced Palestinians.Netanyahu’s planned offensive on Rafah, where an estimated 1.3 million people have fled, has drawn condemnation from rights groups and Washington, while Palestinians have said they have nowhere left to retreat.Witnesses reported new strikes on Rafah early Saturday, after the Israeli military intensified air raids, with fears rising among Palestinians of a coming ground invasion.“We don’t know where to go,” said Mohammad Al-Jarrah, a Palestinian who…

LONDON – Global shares stood their ground on Friday after Wall Street scaled new heights, with looming U.S. inflation data set to help investors update their bets on interest rate cuts and steer the dollar’s direction.

The attacks, targeting a route that accounts for about 15% of the world’s shipping traffic, have pushed several shipping companie

Gold prices were subdued on Friday, hurt by a stronger dollar and higher Treasury yields, while investors looked ahead to next week’s U.S. inflation reading for clues on when the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates.