🧸 🇬🇧 More than 1,000 Paddington bears and other teddies left in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in London and Windsor will be donated to a children’s charity, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.

Mourners left thousands of tributes, including flowers and teddy bears, outside Buckingham Palace and in royal parks in London and outside Windsor Castle in an outpouring of grief after the U.K.’s longest-reigning monarch died on Sept. 8 at age 96.

The queen became linked to Paddington bear, another British national treasure, after the two appeared together in a short comedy video during Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier this year to mark the monarch’s 70 years on the throne.

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📡 Elon Musk said on Saturday his rocket company SpaceX would continue to fund its Starlink internet service in Ukraine, citing the need for "good deeds," a day after he said it could no longer afford to do so.

Musk said on Friday that SpaceX could not indefinitely fund Starlink in Ukraine. He had made his Friday remarks about funding after a media report that SpaceX had asked the Pentagon to pay for the donations of Starlink.

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🇬🇧🇺🇸US President Joe Biden has suddenly weighed in on the British politics, blasting Liz Truss' tax cut plans as a "mistake".

“I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake,” Biden said. “I think that the idea of cutting taxes on the super-wealthy […] I disagree with the policy, but that’s up to Great Britain.”

🍦The American president offered his opinion on the British policy while speaking to reporters at an Oregon ice-cream shop during a campaign stop for the Democratic candidate for governor.

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🇨🇳 The main points from Xi Jinping’s welcoming speech at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party:

▪️China stands for genuine multilateralism and opposes any kind of hegemony;

▪️China does not abandon the option of using the military to reunite with Taiwan and reserves the right to take any necessary measures;

▪️Settling the Taiwan issue is a private matter for the Chinese people and should be decided by the Chinese themselves;

▪️Beijing will continue military reform to get a world-class military by the 100th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army of China in 2027;

▪️It is necessary for the country to improve its public health system, strengthen the prevention and control of epidemics, and effectively contain the spread of major infectious diseases

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"When will this Zelensky resign?" asks a pensioner from Gorlovka, DPR as Ukrainian shelling continues

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“Our economy is strong as hell”: Joe Biden provides deep analysis as the ice-cream he's holding goes into meltdown

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🇿🇲🇿🇼🇿🇦 Africa’s finance ministers have accused developed western countries and international financial institutions of deliberately sidelining the continent when it comes to issues of global importance.

The finance chiefs of Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa - among others - complained that Africa’s weight at the negotiating table is “very narrow” and the continent remains “marginalized”, while speaking after the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) from 10 to 16 October in Washington DC.

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The Donetsk City Administration building was just taken out by Ukrainian forces with a US-manufactured HIMARS missile. With Kiev’s militants currently on the back foot in the region, an increasingly-desperate Zelensky regime is escalating its attacks on civilian infrastructure today.

My report from the scene:

A closer look at the Kiev regime’s handiwork. Destruction was rained down upon the civil administrative office of Donetsk with US tax money this morning.

The air defense system worked in Russia's Belgorod, at least 16 explosions reported, Sputnik correspondent says

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🇨🇺 The Cuban Missile Crisis - 60 years on
On 16 October 1962, the CIA told President Kennedy that Soviet missiles had been found in Cuba. Sputnik India channel recalled what happened next and how the crisis was resolved.

📌 What experts say: How is the Cuban crisis different from today's tensions?

“Today, the US has missile launch bases in Romania and Poland that can fire first-strike attack nuclear-capable cruise missiles that could hit Russia in minutes. At the same time, US-NATO have their intelligence services and special forces troops inside Ukraine running the war against Russia. Along with the ever-expanding NATO, these realities indicate that this war is much severer than what happened in 1962,” Bruce Gagnon, director of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, told Sputnik.

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, a professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, recollected that “the Soviet Union is not Russia - the Soviet Union had a mission to spread communist philosophy, whereas a capitalist Russia in reality poses no threat to the West beyond the protection of its natural security interests," he said.

“The aggressive force here is the West, salivating for access to Russian natural resources after the putative dismemberment of the federation,” he added.

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⚡️ Air raid alerts declared in almost all regions of Ukraine - local media

A Ukrainian POW said that their commanding officers didn’t listen to their soldiers' complaints and accused them of lying

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