⚡️Russia’s Federation Council Approves Putin’s Decree on Martial Law in DPR, LPR, Kherson & Zaporozhye Regions

🇨🇳🇺🇸The Biden administration is mulling joint weapon production with Taiwan, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper says.

According to sources familiar with the matter, the US aims to bolster its defense against China in the Pacific region. Washington wants to step up the production capacity of US-made arms and speed up transfer.

The escalating economic and military tensions between China and the US are continuing, and while Washington continues to say that the US is committed to the One China policy, it continues to act as if Taiwan and the mainland are two countries.

Previously, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "in the face of serious provocations by separatist forces calling for Taiwan’s independence, and interference from outside forces," China would "protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity."

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🎥 The moment a burning dome at the Grand Mosque of Jakarta Islamic Center collapses has been caught on video.

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🎥 Vladimir Putin introduces state of martial law in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk People's Republic, and Lugansk People's Republic during Russian Security Council meeting.

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🎥 A video from a CCTV camera has emerged on social media allegedly showing the moment a Ukrainian missile hit the administrative center of Energodar - the city where the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is situated.

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⚡️Suella Braverman Quits as UK Home Secretary

🇬🇧 Suella Braveman has posted her resignation letter on Twitter after reportedly being asked to step down over a security breach.

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💬 Jim Kavanagh, an editor of thepolemicist.net, discusses EU Foreign Affairs representative Josep Borrel’s recent racist commentary: "This little bit that he gave out, which exposes the kind of exceptionalism and supremacism of the European Union and of European social democrats, as well as right-wingers. There's a jungle out there and there's so many things you can’t get into at this point. You know, they're breeding like bunnies and they're going to come here and jump over the walls, and so we got to do something about it. You know, it's really about, as you say, blatant racism of a certain kind, but it's the self-conception of, you know, “Fortress Europe” and “Garden Europe,” “civilized” Europe. But what's really interesting, as you say, is that this is demonstrating that the EU, which is supposed to be an economic and social union, is really an adjunct of NATO. Behind the scenes NATO's going to control what the EU does."

🎧 Listen to more of Jim Kavanagh's analysis on our podcast.

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⚡️Grant Shapps appointed UK's new Home Secretary, PM's Office Says

💫 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the highly detailed landscape of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.”

The pillars are part of the Eagle Nebula, also known as M-16, in the plane of the Milky Way some 6,500 light years from Earth.

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❗️UK Government Chief Whip Wendy Morton and her Deputy Craig Whittaker have resigned from Liz Truss’ government following a brutal fight to contain a parliamentary rebellion on Wednesday, Bloomberg reports.

‼️ Local Media Reports Shots Fired, Explosion Detected on Left Bank of Dnepr in Kiev ➡️ LIVE UPDATES

🚨 Officers Respond to 'Suspicious Vehicle' Near US Capitol Building

The US Capitol Police (USCP) said on Wednesday that its officers responded to a "suspicious vehicle" in the vicinity of the Capitol building.

"Our officers responded to the 100 block of East Capitol Street for a suspicious vehicle. Please stay away from the area," USCP said via Twitter.

A Fox News correspondent said that a police service dog picked up a trace of something in the vehicle, adding that there was a concern about the presence of weapons in the vehicle. The correspondent added that at least two persons are in custody as a result of the ongoing investigation.

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🔺 Trouble in the garden of paradise: Europe is engulfed in cost-of-living unrest amid energy crisis
🔺 Look everybody, the 'peacekeepers' are here! While people take to the streets of Haiti to protest against another military intervention in the country, the US and UN are preparing to do just that
🔺 The Russians did it… and they will do it again! US media can’t stop harping on non-existent election interference

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🇬🇧 UK inflation accelerates to 40-year high as food prices rise

Food prices jumped 14.6% in the year through September, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. That pushed consumer price inflation back to 10.1%, the highest since early 1982 and equal to the level last reached in July.

The figures immediately fueled demands that the government do more to help families and retirees as it struggles to regain credibility after an ill-fated package of tax cuts roiled financial markets. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt ditched the package after he took office last week, but he has warned that this will be a difficult winter and spending reductions also will be needed.

The European Central Bank at its meeting next week is expected to make another big increase to curtail record inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency. The EU’s statistics agency, on Wednesday adjusted eurozone inflation for September down slightly to 9.9%.

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