Editor2 (2022-05-26). ALBA-TCP Summit to Take Place in Cuba on Friday. orinocotribune.com The 11th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will take place this Friday in Havana, according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs web page. | At the forum, the nations that make up the alliance "will share common development strategies and analyze the regional political situation," the announcement said. | The meeting will be attended by leaders of Latin American and Caribbean countries that are members of the group, founded in 2004 at the initiative of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, then presidents of Cuba an…

Staff (2022-05-26). President Maduro: Venezuelan Voice will be Present in the Summit of the Americas. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, May 24, during the closing ceremony of the colloquium on the Battle of Pichincha bicentennial, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, rejected the discriminatory nature and exclusion of the United States, whose government decided not to invite Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to the Summit of the Americas scheduled for June in Los Angeles. | "The Summit of the Americas is the summit of the protest against anti-imperialist exclusion. They try to exclude us because they are afraid of the voice of the Bolivarians, they do not want the voice of Bolívar and Chávez to reach them," he denounced at the c…

Staff (2022-05-26). Why Is US Easing Some Sanctions On Venezuela? Economic Blackmail, Oil, & Russia. multipolarista.com The US government has announced that it is lifting a small number of sanctions on Venezuela. A major left-wing newspaper in Turkey, BirGàºn, interviewed Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton about the situation. His comments follow below: 1) What do you think about the reports in the US media which say that the USA will ease a few …

Staff (2022-05-26). Bank of Venezuela Initiates Public Offering in Stock Exchange. orinocotribune.com The measure was taken within the framework of recent actions announced by President Nicolás Maduro to boost and revitalize the economy. | This Wednesday, May 25, the Bank of Venezuela announced the start of its public offer of 5% to 10% of its capital on the Stock Exchange for individuals or organizations, national or international economic actors, who are interested in the development of the country. | The information was shared by the financial institution on its Twitter account, with a statement highlighting that the measure seeks to "boost and revitalize the economy," becoming the first public company to make…

Ann Garrison (2022-05-26). Notes from Ethiopia, Part 4: The TPLF Destruction of Afar. orinocotribune.com By Ann Garrison &#1 ; May 18, 2022 | It's 110 degrees in Ethiopia's desert Afar Region, one of the hottest areas humans inhabit, and I'm thinking about how much damage the U.S. empire does with its proxy wars in even the most remote corners of the planet—like this one—which most Americans have of course never even heard of. | There's a USAID meeting going on in the next room, here at the Hotel Dini in the city of Semara, Afar Region, and this illustrates the typical US modus operandi in Africa. Send in proxy warriors who destroy and cause immeasurable suffering, then send in USAID and the rest of the…

Dave DeCamp (2022-05-25). Biden Made Final Decision to Keep IRGC on Terrorist Blacklist. news.antiwar.com President Biden has made a final decision to keep Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) designated as a "foreign terrorist organization," Politico reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed Western official. The decision means a revival of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, is unlikely. The terrorist blacklist is a sweeping designation that means any …

Peoples' Dispatch (2022-05-25). Colombia: More than 60 activists assassinated this year. greenleft.org.au Paramilitary violence continues to take lives and wreak havoc in Colombia, reports Peoples' Dispatch.

Staff (2022-05-25). Iran, Turkey discuss expansion of ties, multilateral coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mahdi Safari met with Turkey's deputy foreign minister Faruk Kaymakcƒ± and discussed expanding the two countries' bilateral ties.

Staff (2022-05-25). Iran FM to attend Davos summit 2022. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday left Tehran for Swiss to take part in the Davos summit.

Staff (2022-05-25). Mutual trust greatest Iranian-Omani capital: Raeisi. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — In an interview with the Omani National TV, the Iranian President stressed that the greatest Iranian-Omani capital is mutual trust and called on regional and international cooperation between the two countries.

____ (2022-05-25). Front pages of Iran's English dailies on May 25. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Here are the front pages of Iran's English language dailies on Wednesday, May 25.

____ (2022-05-25). Ghalibaf reinstated as Iranian Parliament Speaker. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Members of Iranian parliament with the majority of votes reelected Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf as speaker of Iran's legislative body for the third consecutive year.

____ (2022-05-25). US seizes Iranian crude from Russian tanker: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Russian oil tanker took a new turn on Wednesday as the US Department of Justice seized the oil aboard the vessel and according to reports is in the process of transferring the oil to the United States on a chartered tanker.

Staff (2022-05-25). Iran to leverage capacities to pursue martyr Khodaei's case. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that Iran will leverage its whole capacities to pursue the assassination case of Hassan Sayyad Khodaei.

____ (2022-05-25). Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on May 25. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) — Mehr News agency takes a look at headlines of Iran's Persian-language dailies on Wednesday, May 25.