Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ukraine received $1.34 billion under the World Bank’s public expenditures for administrative capacity endurance in Ukraine, the Ukrainian finance ministry said on Monday.

Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), has been killed on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, by an Israeli air strike, according to Tasnim News Agency. Reuters news agency, quoting three security sources, also confirmed his death adding the adviser had been responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran. Mousavi had close ties to former top Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a US drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2020. Soleimani was commander of the Quds Force of the IRGC and a main architect of Iran’s regional influence…

Food products security and stability of markets is one of the shared priorities between India and the United Arab Emirates

The number of Gaza residents killed since tensions escalated on October 7 has increased to 20,674, the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

By Hind Khoudary at the Maghazi refugee camp People are desperately searching for survivors after overnight attacks by Israeli forces. One man said five of his family members were trapped under the rubble, including his two-month-old child. He said there had been no ambulances or members of the civil defence present since Sunday so he had resorted to digging with his hands. It smells like blood, we see shattered bodies, and we just saw them remove a little baby from under the rubble. Now, people are attempting to pull out part of the body of someone who was trapped between…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the killing of at least 70 people, including pregnant women, in an Israeli strike on Gaza, urging action to halt the “ongoing ethnic cleansing.” CAIR denounced the recent attack in Gaza, emphasizing the magnitude of casualties, including the deaths of pregnant women, and referred to the incident as the latest “Israeli war crime of the day.” Reports from the Associated Press and Al Jazeera highlighted the devastation, stating that at least 70 people were killed, a figure likely to rise, while eyewitnesses described harrowing scenes, including the targeting of women waving white flags…

On behalf of Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Abdulmajeed Al-Samary, undersecretary of protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Sunday met with Ambassador of Syria to the Kingdom Ayman Soussan in Riyadh. Al-Samary received a copy of the recently appointed ambassador’s credentials. Meanwhile, Syria’s Minister of Awqaf Mohammed Abdul-Sattar Al-Sayyed recently visited the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur’an in Madinah. He praised the efforts of the Saudi authorities to help print, publish and educate people on the Holy Qur’an. Source: Arab News

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) , said on Tuesday that ‘the decimation of the Gaza health system is a tragedy. The WHO Director-General took to his official page on X, formerly Twitter, to say that doctors in Gaza continue to save lives in the face of insecurity. “But in the face of constant insecurity and inflows of wounded patients, we see doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and more continue striving to save lives,” he said. “WHO and our health partners will continue working side by side with you, delivering supplies, supporting the provision of care, and transferring…

Spain says it will not join a US-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping from attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is in the process of putting together a coalition and needs the support of the radical left party Sumar, which opposes US foreign policy. The Houthis welcomed Spain’s stance with Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein al-Ezzi saying, “We highly appreciate Spain’s refusal to be drawn into American and British lies on the issue of maritime navigation.” On Thursday, the Pentagon said 20 countries have joined the US-led coalition to protect the key shipping lane. Source: AlJazeera

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said today that the Palestinian people are subjected to an unprecedented war of genocide and massacres, targeting the entire Palestinian presence, in Gaza and the West Bank, including Jerusalem. Abu Rudeina made the remarks during a speech at the meeting of the Executive Council of Arab Information Ministers held in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. During his speech, Abu Rudeina called for a serious Arab and international stance to stop this aggression. He affirmed that the priority now for President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership is to immediately stop the…