❗️ Nord Stream 2 AG informed Sputnik that it will start surveying the pipeline after the completion of the police investigation on the spot and the removal of the cordon

💬 "The Russians realize that this is an existential war for them. Now they must win. And the Ukrainian side, which is still being propped up by the Western powers, is not ready to settle. I think that's one reason that the Russians have had switched their strategy as they move forward, because at each point where they think it would be reasonable for Kiev to sue for peace, Kiev has been unwilling to do that. And I think that's going to continue until, frankly, there may not be any Ukraine left", Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and senior foreign policy advisor to the Senate Republican leadership, said on Ukraine’s conflict.

🎧Listen to more of Jim’s analysis in our podcast: OPEC Mulls Cuts, Brazil Elections, SCOTUS and Pork, Tepid on Taiwan

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📹 The director of a school in Energodar says “thank you” to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for help in choosing Russia.

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⚡️ Elon Musk has offered to renew the acquisition of Twitter but at a price of $54.20 per share, media reports

⚡️ New batch of US military assistance to Ukraine will include HIMARS rocket launchers, artillery, and armored vehicles - White House

⚡️ Biden told Zelensky that the United States will allocate another batch of military aid to Ukraine worth $625 million on Tuesday - White House

📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the Western Military District's Orlan-10 UAV crews in combat.

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Nord stream AG says cannot survey damaged sections of Nord Stream due to lack of required permits, which have been requested

⚡️ Nord Stream AG's request to inspect damaged Nord Stream gas pipeline could take more than 20 days to process

⚡️ Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi will visit Kiev this week and then travel to Moscow.

▪️ This information was confirmed by the agency itself in a statement published on Twitter on Tuesday.

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📹 A former employee of the Ukrainian pre-trial detention center said that they were forbidden from feeding Russian prisoners of war or providing them with medical care.

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⚡️ US ready to meet with North Korean representatives without preconditions - State Department

🌀 Floridians are now grappling with the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Ian. Those who live in Florida’s Southwest coastline are describing their community as a “war zone”.

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⚡️ White House confirms Biden's intention to run in 2024 presidential election.

▪️ Biden earlier said that he intends to participate in the elections, but that he had not yet made a final decision and is going to do so next year.

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👏 RT won a lawsuit against Google in the Moscow Arbitration Court to unblock its YouTube channels.

▪️ The defendants have 30 days to appeal the court's decision.

▪️ All movable and immovable property of a Google subsidiary in Russia totaling 500 million rubles was seized.

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📌 A Depressing Journey: John Kiriakou shares some disappointing conclusions from his trips to Britain and Israel
📌 People strike back: the US Empire faces worldwide strikes over the cost of living
📌 This state needs a hero? Marvel introduces new Israeli superhero character

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🛰The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to enforce new rules to address the issue of orbital debris, which poses a risk to space exploration.

After earlier recommending that operators of satellites in low-Earth orbit must ensure spacecraft re-enter Earth's atmosphere within 25 years, the FCC has now voted to require them to dispose of low-Earth orbit satellites within five years.

"It will mean more accountability and less risk of collisions that increase orbital debris and the likelihood of space communication failures," said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, as quoted by Reuters. Of the 10,000 satellites deployed since 1957, more than half are no longer working, the U.S. telecommunications regulator noted.

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🎙‼️In a new post on Truth Social, former president Donald Trump cited past instances in which the National Archives had lost information from past White Houses as evidence that documents, which included secrets on another country's nuclear program, were safer being stored at his luxury resort in Florida.

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📲The wild saga of Elon Musk's on-again-off-again purchase of Twitter took a turn toward a conclusion Tuesday after the mercurial Tesla CEO proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion.

Musk proposed in a letter to Twitter that the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Less than two weeks before, a trial between the two parties is scheduled to start in Delaware.

In a statement, Twitter said it intends to close the transaction at $54.20 per share after receiving the letter from Musk.

Trading in Twitter's stock, which had been halted for much of the day pending the release of the news, resumed trading late Tuesday and soared 22% to close at $52.

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🦠New research suggests that "excess death" rates during the pandemic were far higher among registered Republican voters in Ohio and Florida.

A paper published Tuesday by the National Bureau of Economic Research compares the relationship between Republican voter registration and dying of COVID, most likely because lower rates of Republicans got vaccines once they became widely available.

Three Yale University researchers selected Ohio and Florida. They looked at “excess deaths,” i.e., the number of deaths in a given period that is more than the expected number. While no single death in that measure can be attributed to a given cause, it’s safe to assume that a spike in excess deaths is mainly attributable to the disease in a deadly global pandemic.

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🔹Herschel Walker, a Republican candidate for the US Senate who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, has denied a media report that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.

Walker, who aims to unseat Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia, was responding to a report by The Daily Beast on Monday that said the candidate’s then-girlfriend provided a receipt for the procedure, a copy of a check from Walker and a get-well card given to her by the former football star.

The woman, who asked not to be identified by the news outlet, said Walker encouraged her to end the pregnancy, saying that the time was not right for a baby, The Daily Beast reported.

“This is a flat-out lie – and I deny this in the strongest possible terms,” Walker said in a statement late Monday that he would sue the outlet. Matt Fuller, the politics editor for The Daily Beast, tweeted in response, “I can tell you we stand behind every word and feel very solid about the story.”

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