“We lived in safety before the war. And now, after eight months, when you haven’t seen your home for so long, you return to it, and it’s in ruins — my home, my toys, all are destroyed," Palestinian boy Musa Arafat shared his story with Sputnik.

“This system will enable us to replace traditional banking organizations while simultaneously facilitating a mechanism for transmitting financial messages,” Siluanov explained.

Siluanov earlier stated that BRICS Clear would operate on the basis of distributed ledger-related technologies. According to him, the system is needed for accounting and trading of securities, as well as for investment activity. BRICS Clear will only be available to the group’s members.

This service will facilitate payments using Mastercard and Visa cards within Russia, while the Mir card will soon be accepted for payments abroad.

“We were told that we needed to leave [our homes] urgently, and we only had an hour to pack. The strikes began. We were walking while explosions were thundering around us. We were moving from house to house while bombs were falling everywhere. It was very hard to walk. Explosions were booming right behind us and many people were killed or injured," Hala Abu Taimah shared her experience of fleeing from war with Sputnik.

“Their long-term goals are to turn the EU into a federal state like the USA,” Valtersson tells Sputnik, referring to the EU institutions. “There are both federalist and antifederalist forces fighting about the future of the EU within the organization. Those that want a more federal EU use every pretext they can find to strengthen and create new federal institutions.”

“Presently this mainly concerns Hungary and Slovakia, but several other countries might soon also be governed by like-minded governments. These countries want to diminish the federal aspect of the EU, both are also often in open conflict with the EU,” he elaborates. “Sharing sensitive intelligence with a European intelligence agency, seen as a potential enemy of your own country, could nearly be as bad as sharing intelligence with an enemy in a real conflict.”

“In the case of an unlikely, but successful establishment of a European intelligence agency, such an entity would also in the long run, become a powerful competitor to US intelligence agencies. Nothing that the US would appreciate. The US establishment prefers a divided and subservient Europe that follows the US lead,” Valtersson says.

"With regard to the accusations against the DPRK, they are nothing but dirty maneuvers of the US and its followers to disguise their crimes, to instigate the protraction of the Ukraine crisis by supplying Ukraine with all kinds of lethal weapons prohibited by international law, including cluster bombs," the diplomat emphasized at an informal UN Security Council meeting.

“Islamic Resistance fighters launched a rocket attack on a site where enemy manpower is concentrated in the settlement of Kiryat Shmona,” the movement's press office stated in a recent statement on Friday.

“In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel – right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” the statement read.