Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ankara working ‘intensively to ensure that Israel’s human rights abuses and war crimes are not overlooked on the international stage,’ says Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday underlined Türkiye’s strenuous efforts to draw attention worldwide to Israel’s wrongdoing in over four months of the Gaza conflict. “We are making intensive efforts to ensure that Israel’s human rights abuses and war crimes are not overlooked on the international stage,” Erdogan said, addressing the 5th General Assembly of the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum via video message. Underscoring the importance of collective diplomatic action among Islamic countries in response…

Jordan’s King Abdullah set off on Thursday on an international tour during which he will attempt to mobilize international support for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and for efforts to ensure the safety of Palestinian civilians and a mechanism to provide sustainable humanitarian aid to the territory. His trip, which will include visits in tour to the US, Canada, France and Germany, comes as attempts continue by the US and regional powers to broker a ceasefire agreement and secure the release of hostages, with the wider aim of achieving a long-term solution. The king will emphasize the important need to…

US entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk criticized the Senate’s bill that allocates more funds for aid to Ukraine than for protection of US borders from illegal immigrants. “It is insane to keep sending so much money to Ukraine with no accountability and no end game,” Musk wrote on the X social network. The comment was posted as a response to ex-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s tweet, accusing the US Senate of an attempt to allocate funds for Ukraine to the detriment of US border security. “The first ‘border bill’ allocated 3x more money to protect Ukraine’s border than our own. Now…

Donald Trump won Republican presidential nominating caucuses in Nevada and the US Virgin Islands on Thursday, moving closer to becoming his party’s White House standard-bearer and a likely general election rematch with US President Joe Biden in November.Trump, the frontrunner in his party’s nominating race, was the only major candidate competing in Nevada’s caucuses and was set to win the state’s 26 delegates to the party’s nominating convention in July after being projected the winner on Thursday night by Edison Research.Earlier on Thursday, Trump easily won the US Virgin Islands caucuses, adding four to his delegate haul. The former US…

China and Russia will jointly promote “inclusive economic globalization and contribute to developing the global governance system in a fairer and more reasonable direction,” the Chinese leader Xi added Beijing is ready to work jointly with Moscow toward boosting international multilateral cooperation, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said in a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “China actively supports Russia’s work as the BRICS chair in 2024 and is ready to deepen international multilateral cooperation with Russia,” CCTV quoted Xi as saying. According to the Chinese leader, Beijing is resolved to join efforts with Moscow to ensure genuine multipolarity and contribute to…

US President Joe Biden will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington on Monday for talks on resolving the Israel-Hamas conflict, the White House said.The meeting comes as the United States and regional powers try to broker a ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages from Gaza, amid hopes of a longer-term solution.The two leaders will “discuss the ongoing situation in Gaza and efforts to produce an enduring end to the crisis,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday in a statement.They also will talk about the “US effort to support the Palestinian people including through enhanced humanitarian…

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received phone calls from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stephane Sejourne on Thursday. During the call with Blinken, developments in the Gaza Strip and efforts made to deal with the security and humanitarian repercussions of the conflict there were discussed. Blinken left the Middle East on Thursday after wrapping up a four-nation trip to the region. He returned after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war would continue until Israel is completely victorious and appeared to reject outright a response from Hamas…

Iraq says repeated US strikes in the country are pushing the Baghdad government to end the presence of American troops, calling them a cause of instability. Yahya Rasool, military spokesperson for Iraqi Prime Minister Shia’ al-Sudani, said in a statement Thursday that the so-called US coalition “has become a factor for instability and threatens to entangle Iraq in the cycle of conflict”. “This path pushes the Iraqi government more than ever before to end the coalition’s mission which has become a factor of instability for Iraq.” The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq with the express purpose of advising and assisting local forces to prevent a resurgence of Daesh. However,…

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson made it clear that the Philippines should understand that Taiwanese matters are a boundary that should not be crossed, warning of consequences. On Thursday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin warned the Philippines against crossing China’s “red lines” when it comes to the Taiwan matter, stressing that it should not “play with fire”. Wenbin’s remarks followed Filipino Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro’s Wednesday call to fortify the Philippines’ security and military presence in the Mavulis islands, located between the Province of Batanes and Taiwan. “The Taiwan issue is the main one of China’s core interests and a ’red line’ that cannot…

The foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, and Jordan arrived in Riyadh on Thursday, Saudi Press Agency reported. Qatari Foreign Ministers Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi will be attending a consultative ministerial meeting on events in Gaza. The ministers were received at King Khaled International Airport by Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim Al-Khuraiji. Source: Arab News