Author: Steven Sahiounie

Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad said that the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) should carry out its tasks in terms of conveying facts to the UN Security Council, especially the Israeli attacks and the violations of the truce, which threaten peace security in the region. This came during Mikdad’s meeting with Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), Major General Patrick Gauchat and the accompanying delegation on Sunday. Talks dealt with the latest developments in Gaza, with Mikdad stressing that the brutal Israeli crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza should be…

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell called for diplomatic solutions to the crisis in Gaza, highlighting the important role that Iran can play in the resolution of regional crises. In a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Saturday, Borrell stressed the need for an immediate end to the tensions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following weeks of Israeli attacks. Pointing to the EU’s efforts to force the Israeli regime to honor international laws, the EU foreign policy chief said the Islamic Republic of Iran plays a leading…

Israel’s military says it identified a rocket launch from Syria towards its territory and its artillery responded by striking the site. The army gave no further details. In recent weeks, Israeli fighter jets struck rocket launchers in Syria and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah targets in response to earlier rocket fire into Israeli territory. Israel’s military has been engaged in cross-border fighting with Hezbollah and has launched repeated air raids on Syria since beginning its war on Gaza. Source: AlJazeera

The president of Iran suggested that different countries, including Japan, can conduct polls to determine their people’s supports for the Palestinian nation, though the Westerners are afraid of such public opinion polls. In a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida on Saturday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi described the issue of Gaza and the genocidal crimes committed by the Zionist regime as the biggest human disaster in modern history. Raisi suggested that various countries, including Japan, can directly observe the level of support for the rights of the Palestinian nation by holding referendums, although Western countries are very…

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has called on Israel and Hamas to abide by international law, saying his office will ramp up investigations into potential war crimes. “All actors must comply with international humanitarian law. If you do not do so, do not complain when my office is required to act,” said prosecutor Karim Khan, speaking after a four-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank. Khan was also adamant that humanitarian aid must immediately enter the besieged enclave under international law. “Civilians must have access to basic food, water and desperately needed medical supplies, without further…

Israel claimed 18-year-old Mohammed Nazal was healthy when leaving prison, but the evidence suggests otherwise. Israeli officials were displeased when Mohammed Nazal, an 18-year-old Palestinian, described his ordeal in Israeli prisons after being released as part of a truce agreement with Hamas last week. The teenager from the town of Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank told Arab and Western media how he was beaten and denied medical assistance, but this was refuted by Israeli authorities who tried to paint him as a liar. His testimonies and medical records have now been verified by a fact-checking agency, providing further evidence of the…

Tech giant says it has dismantled five China-based networks of fake accounts so far this year. Meta has removed nearly 4,800 fake accounts that were part of a China-based influence campaign aimed at spreading polarising content about United States politics ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the tech giant has announced. The influence operation was one of two China-based campaigns detected by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, in the third quarter of 2023, the tech said in its latest threat adversarial report released on Thursday. “The people behind this activity posted in English about US politics and US-China relations.…

Lula also takes over at a time of bitter internal divisions in the group, legacy of outgoing president Narendra Modi. As Brazil takes over the G20 presidency on December 1 from India, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be challenged to fulfil his promise of holding up the interests of the global south amid two ongoing wars and a slowing global economy. Lula also takes over at a time of bitter internal divisions within the group, the legacy of outgoing president Narendra Modi, whose team, eager to force a joint declaration, ran roughshod over diplomatic niceties in closed-door meetings. Despite these hurdles,…

The energy giant expects production in Australia to decrease, pushing Moscow up in the rankings Russia could become the world’s third biggest producer of liquified natural gas (LNG), according to Gazprom, the country’s biggest state-run energy company. The gas giant expects a significant increase in production of the supper-chilled gas to be recorded in the US, Qatar, and Russia, while Australia is projected to see a relative decrease in LNG output. “As a result, Russia could become one of the three biggest LNG producers in the world,” the company said in a statement. It followed a meeting of the board of…

The UAE’s Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber reportedly says gradual cuts in oil, gas and coal use would ‘take the world back into caves’ The president of the COP28 climate conference, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, has cast great doubt over zero-emissions policies being pushed by the United Nations, claiming there is “no science” to show that stage-by-stage cuts in fossil fuel use would decrease global heating, the Guardian reported on Sunday. The chair of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, now underway in Dubai, claimed that a gradual reduction in fossil fuel consumption would hold back sustainable development and drag humanity back…