Author: Steven Sahiounie

Jacques Delors headed the European Commission from 1985 to 1995 and served as France’s finance minister

The US currency is used to undermine the competitive rights of other countries, Russia’s foreign minister says

Nine Israeli troops were reportedly wounded as they tried to evacuate an injured civilian from the religious site

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stressed the need to break the “vicious cycle of violence” that generations of Palestinians have suffered from and called for an end to the “ injustice ”. “It is both unacceptable to justify – let alone encourage – terror attacks, and to respond to them via methods of collective punishment in gross violation of international humanitarian law,” the minister said in an interview for Russian state news agency TASS. “It is necessary to cut the vicious cycle of violence, to remove the injustice that several generations of Palestinians have been suffering from,” he said. “This…

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) condemned today’s Israeli occupation bombing near the Society’s Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 10 people and the injury of at least 21 others, which comes after the occupation army yesterday bombed in front of the hospital, which led to the death of 31 people and the injury of 25 others, the majority of them are displaced people taking shelter in the PRCS headquarters and the hospital, which houses about 14,000 displaced persons who took refuge in it as a safe haven…

Steven Sahiounie , journalist and political commentator On December 5, Harvard University’s Claudine Gay, the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sally Kornbluth appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The US Congress held televised hearings in which the three US college presidents were grilled about their campus policies governing student safety and hate speech.  The three were all females and Claudine Gay was the only woman of color. House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik repeatedly questioned the three educators, asking if their campus policy allows for calling for the genocide of…

Syria has called on the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council to assume responsibility for ending the Israeli aggressive policies that threaten to ignite the region and drive it towards a comprehensive escalation that threatens regional and international peace and security. That came in two identical letters addressed by the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry to both the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council about the aggression launched by the Israeli occupation forces on Damascus vicinity on December 25. “At 16:20 pm last Monday evening, the Israeli occupation forces carried out an act of aggression…

DPRK leader Kim Jong Un addresses the policy directions for the upcoming year in a crucial meeting of the country’s ruling party. DPRK leader Kim Jong Un has instructed the military, munitions industry, and nuclear weapons sector to expedite preparations for war in response to what he termed as unprecedented confrontational actions by the United States, as reported by state media on Thursday. While addressing the policy directions for the upcoming year in a crucial meeting of the country’s ruling party on Wednesday, Kim also expressed the intention to enhance strategic cooperation with “anti-imperialist independent” nations, according to Pyongyang’s official Korean…

Dozens of Palestinians were killed, including two journalists, and many others were injured this morning in Israeli airstrikes on different areas in the Gaza Strip on the 83rd day of the aggression. More than 30 people were killed in the bombing of a residential square in the Beit Lahia project, north of the Gaza Strip, targeting buildings belonging to Khair al-Din, al-Kurd, and al-Qadi families. Journalists Mohammad Khair al-Din and cameraman Ahmad Maher Khair al-Din were killed in the Israeli bombing that targeted their family homes in the Beit Lahia project. The Red Crescent Society said that 10 people were also…

French President Emmanuel Macron demanded a “lasting ceasefire” in Gaza during a call with Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, his office said. “France will work in the coming days in cooperation with Jordan to carry out humanitarian operations in Gaza,” the French presidency mentioned in a statement. Macron, an ally of Netanyahu since the start of the aggression on Gaza on October 7, told the Israeli premier of his “deepest concern” about civilian deaths and the humanitarian emergency in Gaza. He also insisted on the importance of measures to end violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians…