⚡️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

😂 Elon Musk has trolled a Ukrainian diplomat who told the SpaceX founder to "f*ck off," saying he's "just following the recommendation" amid the news that SpaceX is no longer willing to provide free Starlink services in Ukraine

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🦠Tiny but dangerous

Disastrous earthquakes and tsunamis can be caused by long-dead plankton buried at the bottom of the ocean, scientists from New Zealand have found.

According to the new study, tiny sea dwellers can build up into calcite over millions of years and block border areas between tectonic plates.

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👎 A 66% majority of British people believe that the ruling Conservative Party made a mistake in electing Liz Truss as prime minister, and 50% support her ouster, a YouGov poll conducted for The Times newspaper showed on Friday.

▪️ Truss' appointment satisfies only 9% of those surveyed, and another 24% were undecided, the poll found.

▪️ Meanwhile, 62% of those who voted for the Conservative Party in the last general election consider the Tories made the wrong choice in selecting Truss as prime minister, and only 15% believe the opposite, according to the survey.

▪️ Almost half of those sampled, 43%, said that former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak would do a better job as prime minister than Truss, the survey added.

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❗️ President Putin’s latest statements made at the sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia:

▪️ Russia is ready to assist in the restoration of the unified energy system of Central Asia;

▪️ President Putin has called on Central Asian countries to join Russia's import substitution projects;

▪️ The new format of the summit won’t be useless, as the increasingly unstable situation in the world has pushed for interaction;

▪️ It’s necessary to work with the current Afghan government.

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🤔British bookmakers reportedly taking bets on who will last longer - Liz Truss as a Prime Minister or lettuce, which decomposes in 35 days.

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❗️North Korea fired additional artillery shells into the East and Yellow Seas on Friday, following its firing of a short-range ballistic missile and artillery rounds earlier in the day, the South Korean news agency YONHAP claims