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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💬 American rapper Kanye West claims that George Floyd died not because Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had knelt on his neck, but because of fentanyl

The Crown has been accused of fabricating a "hurtful" smear against King Charles III, the Mail on Sunday has reported

An episode of the forthcoming fifth season has been denounced as "malicious nonsense" by sources close to the monarch, with calls for the Netflix TV series about the royal family to be boycotted. Due to be released on 9 November, it portrays Charles, then Prince of Wales, trying to draw then-Prime Minister John Major into what appears to be a plot to get the Queen to abdicate.

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🇷🇺 A rare phenomenon occurred in Russia’s Far East: A killer whale with two cubs swam into the Amur River from the Sea of Okhotsk. Officials and local residents joined internet users in publicizing the event - some thought that animals had gone go astray whereas others suggested that the whales were simply looking for fish in the river.

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A California bakery has created a two-meter Han Solo out of bread dough with a painstaking amount of detail. His expression of agony, with his hands reaching out in desperation, is part of the display outside the One House Bakery in Bernicia, California.

The mother and daughter duo behind the creation called him “Pan Solo.” The two bakers describe themselves as science-fiction nerds, who apparently went above and beyond when it comes to this installation. The daughter served as a model for the body, which was placed on plywood and then layered with dough.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's latest statements:

▪️NATO is a de facto participant in the Ukrainian conflict, but this does not affect Russia's goals, and the special operation will be brought to an end;

▪️NATO's intervention in the Ukrainian conflict complicates Russia's actions, but its potential allows the special operation to continue;

▪️The consequences of setting a price ceiling for Russian gas in the EU is another price European citizens will pay

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❗️Gazprom CEO says possible to redirect via Turkish hub all Nord Stream gas volumes

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Negotiations between Russia and UN representatives on grain deal have started in Moscow, Sputnik correspondent reports

❗️Russia’s MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian forces carried out strikes on Ukrainian military command and energy system objects, eliminating all the assigned targets.

▪️Russian forces thwarted an attempt to attack by Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade, eliminating up to 50 soldiers in the Kupyansk direction.

▪️Russian troops eliminated three US-made M777 howitzers near the village of Zagryzovo, Kharkov region.

▪️Russian forces destroyed a crossing over the Oskol River built by Ukrainian troops for the advance of reserves and the supply of ammunition in the Kharkov region.

▪️The Russian military thwarted attempts by Ukrainian troops to cross the Zherebets River in the direction of Kirovsk, eliminating more than 20 Ukrainian military personnel in the Krasny Liman direction.

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▪️Russian troops seized high ground in the Neskuchny area, DPR, eliminating more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers.

▪️Russian forces thwarted an attack by three Ukrainian battalions, including one tank battalion, and held their positions near Koshary and Pyatikhatkok, eliminating more than 250 Ukrainian service personnel and 11 tanks.

▪️The Russian military performed drone strikes, destroying four Ukrainian "Zoopark" reconnaissance radar stations and a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery combat station.

▪️Russian forces eliminated over 350 Ukrainian military personnel, 11 tanks, and 18 armored fighting vehicles in the direction of Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog.

▪️Russian forces destroyed Five Ukrainian ammunition depots in the Kherson region, DPR, and at a shipyard in the city of Zaporozhye.

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🇺🇸 Ithaca College in New York has been slammed for segregating faculty and staff by "racial affinity groups," having them meet on different days throughout the year-long course

The "Antiracism Institute" is an optional weekly event, taking place during the 2022-2023 academic year. Faculty and staff members are given the option to attend Monday sessions for those "who identify as people of color" or Thursday sessions for "faculty and staff who identify as white."

Many on social media have called the approach “backwards” and antithetical to defeating racism.

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🔎 Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls, understands why Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton “can no longer consider me as a friend”, the Mail on Sunday reported.

The former British socialite, serving 20 years at a jail in Tallahassee, Florida, is said to be “feeling so bad” for the disgraced royal who was “paying such a price” for the association with the late pedophile.

As she gave her first two interviews for CBS and Paramount Plus since being found guilty of sex trafficking, the tycoon’s former “pimp” also reportedly reminisced about her close “special” friendships with former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

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📹 Activists from Just Stop Oil have sprayed orange paint over an Aston Martin car showroom in central London.

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🇫🇷🇪🇺 French opposition leader Marine Le Pen has knocked EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell over comments he made this week threatening to “annihilate” Russia’s army if Moscow used nukes in Ukraine.

Urging everyone to stick to diplomacy, Le Pen suggested that France would already be at war with Russia if someone like Borrell was in charge of Paris’ foreign and defense policy.

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📹 Benjamin Netanyahu laughed when asked by HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher whether Israel would “retaliate” against rapper Kanye West’s allegedly anti-Semitic Twitter rant.

The 45-year-old rapper and fashion mogul, now going by the name of “Ye,” wrote he was going to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” in a post that has since been taken down. The former Israeli prime minister said anti-Semitism was “the longest hatred in history.”

“We’ve dealt with bigger problems than these stupidities. Do you have a problem? Blame the Jews,” he said, adding it was “old stuff” that “shouldn’t have any place in civilized discourse.”

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❗️The tied-up body of a 12-year-old girl has been found in a suitcase in Paris. The victim was found with her wrists and feet bound and her throat slashed several times. According to French broadcaster BFMTV, the numbers 1 and 0 were found on the corpse. A police source said the figures “were placed” on her by a device. The mystery remains unsolved.

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