▪️North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Friday toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near its border with South Korea, Seoul's military said. The move will only add to regional tensions, already heightened by the North's recent barrage of weapons tests.

Additionally, Seoul's military said it had scrambled fighter jets when around 10 North Korean military aircraft flew close to the border between the two countries. The development comes less than 24 hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised long-range cruise missile tests.

South Korea scrambled fighter jets after military aircraft from the North flew close to the Special Reconnaissance Line. The North responded to what it deemed "provocative action" from its southern neighbor. Kim described the tests as demonstrating Pyongyang's readiness for "actual war."

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🇬🇧💸The value of sterling fell against the dollar on Wednesday after the Bank of England insisted it would not extend a multibillion-pound package of support drawn up to calm the financial markets. During overnight trading, the sterling dropped by more than 1 cent to below $1.10 for the first time this month.

Andrew Bailey, the central bank's governor, said an emergency 65-billion-pound ($72 billion) bond-buying program, implemented to protect pension funds, will end on Friday.

The government's fiscal plans caused borrowing costs to soar and pushed pension funds close to collapse after they were forced to raise money at short notice and sell bonds. The IMF urged the United Kingdom government this week to change its policy to calm the financial markets and "change the trajectory" of interest rates, The Guardian reported.

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🦈Study proves orcas kill great white sharks. Marine biologists and seafarers have long suspected that orcas feast on great whites, mostly due to unconfirmed eye-witness accounts and some instances of partially-eaten carcasses washing ashore.

This week scientists from Rhodes and Stellenbosch universities in South Africa released extended drone and helicopter footage captured during the summer that provides irrefutable proof that killer whales use their famed pack hunting skills to prey on the largest shark species.

"This behavior has never been witnessed in detail before, and certainly never from the air," said Alison Towner, a shark biologist from Rhodes and lead author of the paper, published in the journal Ecology.

The footage shows three orcas encircling and eventually disemboweling a great white shark. Study authors say the small pod killed at least three sharks during an hour-long hunt.

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🧐 JPMorgan Chase Cuts Off Ye West. According to a screenshot posted by conservative firebrand Candace Owens, Ye West, formerly known as Kanye West, has been banned from using JPMorgan Chase bank and will have to remove his funds held by Yeezy, LLC and its affiliated accounts by November 21.

It is unclear why the bank decided to end its relationship with West and Yeezy, LLC. Another individual was named in the letter, but their identity is unknown because Owens blocked it out to “protect their privacy.”

Ye has been at the center of several political controversies. He ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2020 and has been friendly with Donald Trump recently, often sporting a Make America Great Again hat in photos. More recently, he wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt to the Paris Fashion Week and suggested on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson's show that executives at clothing outlet the Gap may have known about the Uvalde Texas elementary school shooting before it happened.

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📹 "The EU itself is now effectively becoming a fascist entity": A British journalist on how Western authorities are persecuting the Donbass referendum observers.

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⚡️Price cap on Russian energy that G7 countries aim to impose will not work — Iran's deputy oil minister to Sputnik

🕔 Rebellious Tory MPs have given UK Prime Minister Liz Truss 17 days to save her job as she considers making possible new U-turns on the country’s tax-cutting mini-budget, the Daily Mail has reported.

▪️ The lawmakers purportedly “line up” ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt as “a joint ticket”

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⚡️Negotiations between delegations of Turkey and Russia on gas hub will begin next week, venue to be determined, source in Ankara tells Sputnik

🤭 Billionaire Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his $44bn bid to purchase Twitter, the social media company has said in a court filing made public on Thursday.

▪️ While the filing said Musk was under investigation, it did not say what the focus was, or which federal authorities were investigating.

▪️ Twitter, which sued the entrepreneur in July to force him to close the deal, said attorneys for the Tesla CEO had claimed “investigative privilege” when refusing to hand over the documents it had sought.

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📹 The sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), chaired by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, kicked off in Astana.

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⚡️Five people suspected in involvement in the Crimean bridge terrorist act arrested until December 8 — court

❗️ The more the United States is involved in the Ukraine conflict, the higher the risk of provoking a clash between the major nuclear powers, fraught with catastrophic consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has told Sputnik.

💬 "The logic of the current situation is simple: the more the US is involved in supporting the Kiev regime on the battlefield, the more it becomes a party to the military confrontation with Russia, and thus risks provoking a direct armed clash between the largest nuclear powers, fraught with catastrophic consequences," Ryabkov said.

▪️ The deputy minister drew parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the current escalation of tensions between Moscow and Washington, adding that in both cases "we have to talk about the destructive for international security and strategic stability desire of Washington to gain a decisive military and strategic superiority."

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🇳🇱 Netherlands has reportedly frozen patents of Russian oil and gas companies

⚡️ President Putin has called Macron's statements incorrect and unacceptable, adding that Russia always sought to resolve any conflicts, including in Karabakh.

📌 The statement comes as a reaction to the words of the French president, who earlier accused Moscow of using the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to destabilize the South Caucasus.

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🤭 Elon Musk: Paying for satellite Internet for Ukraine is unreasonable.

▪️ The businessman confirmed CNN's information that SpaceX is no longer willing to provide free Starlink services in Ukraine, as it consumes hundreds of times more traffic than ordinary households for each of the thousand devices.

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📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing crews of army aviation helicopters from the Western Military District continuing to carry out missions to destroy the armored vehicles and military infrastructure facilities of the AFU

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📹 The commander of the howitzer artillery battery "Hyacinth-B" speaks about artillery duels with the American M777.

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💬 "It's not worth waiting"

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 Turkey’s Erdogan confirmed that he and President Putin instructed the delegations to quickly start work on the idea of a gas hub

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⚡️Ukraine interested in severing all ties within the CIS region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says when commenting on Kiev's absence from the CIS summit

⚡️ Air raid alerts declared in Odessa, as well as in Nikolaev, Poltava, Sumy and Cherkasy region

❗️ The foreign and defense ministers of Montenegro have been banned from entering Russia in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Podgorica, Russia’s MFA says