❗️Investigative Committee of Russia investigates the Ukrainian shelling of a civilian crossing in Kherson, Sputnik correspondent reports

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🇬🇧The leader of the House of Commons, Penny Mordaunt, has announced that she is putting forward her candidacy for the post of UK Prime Minister

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⚡️Ex-Trump adviser Bannon given four months in prison and fine for contempt of Congress, reports say

📊52% of UK citizens do not want to see Boris Johnson in power again, with only 27% claiming they do, YouGov data shows.

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🥴 At a time when it seemed to be better to laugh than cry over what was happening, another joke contrasted the tenure of Liz Truss with the shelf life of a head of lettuce. The lettuce won when Truss didn’t last the week, announcing her resignation as prime minister yesterday after 44 days in power.

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❗️Pentagon says US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin initiated a phone call to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

📹The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage showing combat of ‘Osa’ air defense system within the special military operation in Ukraine.

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“The United States creates an enemy, creates a possible war, creates a possible battle that is coming on the horizon, creates the scenario and says, 'Okay, how we can counter that? Okay! So now let's start arming Japan and creating a strong base in Japan where we can deter China if they attack Taiwan'," veteran war journalist Elijah Mangier said.

💬“Now, who said China is going to attack Taiwan? The Chinese waited for 75 years and they can wait for another 100 years. And if they want to attack Taiwan, Taiwan is part of China, it is recognized in the United Nations. The US said we agree that China is one, and one country, and Taiwan is part of China."

🎧Listen to more of Mangier’s analysis in our podcast: Truss Out, Mississippi Drying Up, Turkey and Greece Lock Horns

📌Have a look at Sputnik’s infographic showing data of US-made F-35 crashes around the world.

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📹WATCH: Russian airborne troops’ signal units set up field command posts and communication centers (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD).

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🇫🇷French President Emmanuel Macron has criticized the US for double standards over gas prices. Gas is sold three to four times more expensive to Europeans than on the domestic US market.

💬“The North American economy is making choices for the sake of attractiveness, which I respect, but they create a double standard” with lower energy prices domestically while selling natural gas to Europe at record prices, the French President said at a news conference in Brussels following a meeting of European Union leaders.

In addition, he commented that, "It is about sincerity in transatlantic trade," and announced his intention “to raise this issue” during his visit to the US in December.

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📹The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage showing how Russian Ka-52 helicopters fire missiles at Ukrainian Army objectives.

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❗️The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol formally issued its extraordinary subpoena to Donald Trump on Friday.

The committee demands testimony from the former President who lawmakers say "personally orchestrated'' a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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‼️ Nebenzia: UN Secretariat Has No Mandate to Probe Claims of Iran Providing Drones to Russia ➡️ LIVE UPDATES

🇬🇧 New UK leader to face highest government debt in 60 years

British government debt rose to the highest level in almost 60 years last month and retail sales slumped, underscoring the scale of the economic challenges facing whoever replaces Prime Minister Liz Truss after her administration imploded under the weight of its failed financial plan.

Public borrowing rose to 98% of economic output in September as rampant inflation increased interest payments on what the government owed, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. That’s higher than at any point since 1963, when Britain was still paying off debts accumulated during World War II.

Britain has begun the process of picking its third prime minister in less than four months after Truss was forced to resign Thursday following weeks of turmoil sparked by her economic plans.

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⚡️Another Attack on Civilian Crossing in Kherson Region Repelled - Spokesperson

Ukrainian troops have once again attempted to launch a missile strike targeting a civilian crossing near the Antonovsky bridge in the Kherson region; the attack was repelled by air defense, a regional emergencies representative told journalists.

"Armed formations of the Kiev regime have again tried to shell the Antonovsky bridge area in Kherson, the attack was repelled by air defense," a spokesperson of the Kherson regional emergencies services said on Friday.

Late on Thursday night, Ukrainian forces launched an attack against the same civilian crossing on the Dnepr river using the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).

According to regional authorities, at least four people were killed and over a dozen were injured in the attack.

📉 Deficit figures set up competing visions from Biden and GOP

The budget figures released Friday by the Treasury Department reveal dueling visions about what it means to be financially responsible: Biden can rightly claim that the budget deficit for fiscal 2022 plunged $1.4 trillion from the prior year; critics can use the same report to say that forgiving education loans pushed up the federal debt by roughly $400 billion as the government booked the full expense.

Republicans counter that Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan that helped fuel those job gains also helped to trigger high inflation, a key concern of voters going into the midterms. They also want to reverse his recent 15% minimum tax on corporations and expanded funding for the IRS, even though both could reduce forecasted deficits.

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🇷🇺 Cuban Pilot Lands Small 1960 Russian-Made Plane at South Florida Airport

Federal agents are investigating how a pilot managed to fly from Cuba to Florida on Friday morning in a single-engine biplane. A witness fishing in the Florida Straits shared a video showing the Soviet-era biplane flying low over the water.

The pilot was a 29-year-old man and he was flying alone, according to Rachel Torres, a spokeswoman for US Customs and Border Protection. He landed the Antonov AN-2 at about 11:30 a.m., at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.

The US Department of Homeland Security is investigating the flight and its passenger. The journey would have taken around 269 miles from the Cuban municipality to Miami.

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