😱A new source of inspiration for horror movies

🔬🐜Close-up pictures of an ant’s face turn out to be an absolute “nightmare”

▪️Eugenijus Kavaliauskas captured photos of an ant, showing its beady eyes, angry expression and what appears to be long, sharp teeth.

▪️He used reflected light with 5X objective lens magnification to take the photo.

▪️The ant’s facial expression made netizens feel terrified, freaking out over what could replace a monster in a horror film.

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📌 WATCH LIVE | Germans rally in Berlin to protest energy crisis measures

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📌 Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev’s latest statements on the international state of affairs:

▪️ Protecting its citizens and state independence is a priority for any country. Moreover, this protection is possible not only in its own territory, but also in that of others, if there are grounds for this. The grounds are quite obvious - terror and the killing of citizens of this country. In other words, each country has the right to use military force to protect its citizens who are being destroyed in foreign territories.

▪️ Peaceful coexistence of different states is possible and necessary.

▪️ There is only one universal tool for settling international disputes in the world. This is the United Nations and the fundamental documents adopted by it. The tool is universal, but not perfect. It is important that the UN retains the basic principle of international relations: the equality of all states and the obligation to listen to the position of each country, and not just a select few.

▪️ The status of the permanent members of the Security Council, the founding members of the UN, should not be subject to revision, including their veto power. The number of permanent members of the UN Security Council can be expanded, but their powers must be inviolable.

▪️ Humanity will be able to live without the UN. For most of history it has been that way. However, the degradation of the system of international law will certainly come, and the world will return to narrow regional and bilateral agreements on security issues.

▪️ The western idea of an "order based on rules" must be resolutely rejected as untenable and extremely harmful to humanity.

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

▪️Russian Forces hit the workshops of the Ukrainian defense enterprise “Kommunar”, destroying the main parts for ‘Neptune” anti-ship missiles production;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 20 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed Ukrainian tanks, armored personnel carrier and three other vehicles in the LPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated about 80 Ukrainian service personnel, as well as destroyed six Ukrainian tanks, four armored combat vehicles and five pick-up trucks near Krasny Liman;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated 25 Ukrainian service personnel, as well as two Ukrainian tanks, three infantry combat vehicles and two other vehicles in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 130 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed two Ukrainian tanks, nine armored combat vehicles and 13 other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces hit three Ukrainian command posts, as well as 72 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions;

▪️Russian Forces destroyed two Ukrainian ammunition depots in the DPR, as well as destroyed a warehouse of material assets of the Ukrainian Army in Zaporozhye and three Ukrainian ammunition depots in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions;

▪️In addition, Russian Forces destroyed Ukrainian fuel storages with 56,000 tons of diesel fuel in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️Russian Air Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mig-29 aircraft in the Nikolayev region;

▪️Russian air defense means destroyed six Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 24 HIMARS, Olkha and Smerch rockets.

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⚡️Two people have been killed in Russia's Belgorod as a result of Ukrainian shelling, city authorities say

📹 “Ukraine is not a country”: A resident of Mariupol explains why he voted for joining Russia

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💬"The success achieved in 100 years is incomparably brilliant. The centennial Chinese Communist Party is at its best and with energy, we are capable of making new and impressive miracles that will surprise the world," Xi Jinping said at the final session of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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📹 Russian intelligence officers captured a Ukrainian militant abandoned by his own. He said that he was left in position during the retreat since there was no place on the armored vehicles.

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📹 A video is circulating on the internet depicting a Ukrainian soldier saying that he will kill civilians in Donbass

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❗️ Boris Johnson has received the support of 100 Conservative MPs, a necessary step to participate in the election to be UK prime minister, report says

🇷🇺 🇪🇺 Russian agency for foreign humanitarian cooperation Rossotrudnichestvo has announced that its representative offices abroad, the so-called Russian Houses, will be open and free for Europeans to come in to warm up and charge their electronic devices.

💬 "With the onset of autumn cold and wet weather in Europe, Russian Houses are starting the 'From Russia with warmth' campaign. Amid temperatures falling outside and, what's more, inside homes, the Russian Houses and cultural centers in European capitals are opening their doors to everyone starting today. For as long as gas and electricity prices keep up, the centers will work as heating hubs," Rossotrudnichestvo said in a statement on Telegram on Friday.

▪️ The centers will offer visitors warm tea and power to recharge their phones and watch movies, or cartoons for children.

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😯 Two French nationals have been detained in Venice for allegedly stealing a gondola.

▪️ The tourists were accused of stealing the gondola from the Accademia station and using it for a joyride along the Grand Canal around 1.30 am on Thursday.

▪️ The gondola's owner, Giorgio Bognolo, said that a cover, cushions, decorations and other items worth several hundred dollars were thrown into the canal, before it was paddled away like a canoe.

▪️ As well as potentially facing criminal charges for aggravated theft, the detainees are also facing a civil case for damages from Bognolo.

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s armor which was eliminated by a unit of Russian Airborne Troops during the special military operation

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🗣 Mayor of Keene providing update on deadly plane crash says 2 people on plane were killed

🥴 🇺🇦 Ukrainian PM Denis Shmygal threatened Europe with a "migration tsunami" if western countries don't deliver air defense systems. In his interview to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Shmygal claimed that Russia wants to create a refugee crisis in Europe.

💬 "Because if there is no electricity, heating or water in Ukraine, this could provoke a new migration tsunami," he said, going on to note that Kiev is eagerly awaiting for ammunition after Germany provided its IRIS-T defense systems.

▪️ According to Kiev, at least eight million people have already left the country since February, although some of them have since returned.

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🇨🇳 The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has approved an amendment to its Charter stipulating the transformation of the country’s People's Liberation Army (PLA) into a world-class advanced military force.

▪️ In a final resolution adopted on the final day on October 22, the CPC stressed that “achieving the goals for the centenary of the People's Liberation Army in 2027 and more quickly elevating our people's armed forces to world-class standards are strategic tasks for building a modern socialist country in all respects.”

▪️ The resolution stressed the necessity of adhering to the One-China principle and the 1992 Consensus [between Beijing and Taipei], as well as implementing the CPC’s “overall policy for resolving the Taiwan question in the new era.”

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😬 What "clearly" appears to be the US' sabotage of the Nord Streams showed that the NATO bloc is "capable of the worst".

🗣 This opinion was expressed by the leader of the French party "Patriots" Florian Philippot on his Twitter.

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