Author: Steven Sahiounie

State ownership is a way to solve the problems in the public utilities sector, according to Vyacheslav Volodin

Leader of the Islamic Revolution  Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has hailed the Yemenis’ anti-Israel naval operations in the Red Sea, saying they did a “great job” in defiance of US threats.

Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry recently held talks with Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for the Gaza Strip. During their meeting, they discussed the dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the need to increase the flow of aid to Palestinians while ensuring support for public service, hospital, and relief agency work. Shoukry pledged Egypt’s backing for Kaag in implementing the provisions of UN Security Council resolutions, including the rapid establishment of a UN mechanism for speeding up the delivery of aid. The minister also called for Israel to commit to helping, not obstructing, Kaag…

US and British military strikes will not contain attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea but will risk further regional escalation, said Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdelrahman Al-Thani. Speaking during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Al-Thani urged diplomatic efforts over military resolutions when solving the expanding regional conflicts, noting that the escalation in the Red Sea was the “most dangerous” because it was affecting international trade. Last week on Thursday, the US and UK launched strikes against the Iran-backed militia in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in retaliation to the recent attacks on…

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Tuesday Israel was placing many obstacles to the entry of aid into Gaza, worsening the plight of Palestinians there.Safadi, speaking at a press conference with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong, said the hurdles meant only 10 percent of the total needs of more than two million Gazans under siege were being covered.“The reality now is that Israeli measures are preventing sufficient aid from arriving and only a fraction is being delivered,” he said.Israel, which screens goods going into Gaza and holds back aid it deems to be used for military purposes by its…

The General Assembly of the Arab States Broadcasting Union elected the State of Palestine as Vice-President of the Union, represented by Minister Ahmed Assaf, General Supervisor of Official Palestinian Media. This came during the Arab States Union’s General Assembly at its forty-third session in Tunisia. Minister Assaf thanked the Arab countries for electing the State of Palestine to be part of the presidency of the Union, considering this a tribute to Palestine, its people, and the martyrs of the Palestinian media, who numbered 113 since the start of the recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in all the Palestinian…

Gideon Sa’ar, a former justice minister and current member of Israel’s war cabinet, delivered the statement in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio. Nevertheless, Sa’ar said Israel must remain “committed to its goal” of ousting the Palestinian group. After more than 100 days of devastating war in Gaza, Israel is under intense pressure, including from its backer the US, to scale down military operations. Yesterday, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the army would soon wind down its intense operations and move to “the next phase” of the war. Source: ALJazeera

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called for Israeli settler organisations to be placed on “international terror lists” to prevent them from expanding the occupation of Palestinian lands. “The aim is to link the international and American stance rejecting the terror of settler militias with sanctions to compel Israel to dismantle and disarm them,” it said in a statement. Settler violence against Palestinians was intensifying even before the war, but has significantly expanded since October 7. The ministry previously blamed ultranationalist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar “Ben-Gvir’s terrorist elements” as the main reason behind this.

Scores of armed Israeli colonists attacked after midnight on Monday the vehicle of Palestinian civilians in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to local sources. A group of armed colonists attacked Palestinian vehicles in the town of Sinjil and smashed the windows of several vehicle . Earlier on Monday evening, colonists attacked Palestinian vehicles at the Oyoun al-Haramiyeh crossroad, north of Ramallah. Although common, colonists’ attacks and violence against Palestinians have significantly escalated since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, driven by many Israeli officials’ statements inciting violence and hatred. Source: WAFA

The US imported more than $1 billion worth of Russian uranium from January through November 2023, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, citing data from the US statistics service.