⚡️JUST IN: Elon Musk updated his Twitter biography to "Chief Twit" ahead of the reported closing deal on the acquisition of the social media company later this week. He posted a video showing himself entering Twitter’s main office in San Francisco, California, holding an object that looked like a sink.

‼️Syria's Air Defense System Repelling Missile Attack Near Damascus - State Media. The outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus was attacked with missiles on Wednesday night, Syrian state-run broadcaster Al-Ikhbariya reported.

According to the report, the country's air defense systems are repelling the attack near Damascus.

☀️💨🌧A new survey shows Americans want more climate change action. The poll, released by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on Tuesday, found that 62 percent or about 6 in 10 adults in the US say the federal government is doing too little to reduce climate change.

Only 19 percent of Americans say the federal government is doing something to fight climate change, driven mainly by 43 percent of Republicans, who agreed with that statement.

In August, President Joe Biden signed legislation to fight climate change as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. But 61 percent of American adults said they have heard nothing or only knew a little about the law, according to the AP-NORC poll. And about 49 percent of Americans say the legislation won't make much of a difference on climate change.

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🇪🇺More international financial institutions have sounded alarm over the imminent economic recession facing the 19-member eurozone. S&P Global Market Intelligence said in a report on Monday that the eurozone economy had slipped into a steeper downturn at the start of the fourth quarter, the rate of decline being the fastest since April 2013 except for pandemic lockdowns.

Manufacturing sectors, particularly energy-intensive sectors, saw the greatest output loss. Still, services activity also continued to fall at an accelerated rate amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and broad-based economic uncertainty, the report said.

Chris Williamson, the chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said, "The eurozone economy looks set to contract in the fourth quarter given the steeping loss of output and deteriorated demand adding to speculation that a recession is looking increasingly inevitable."

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▪️A young gay couple jumped to their deaths from a bridge in Armenia after sharing a kiss in a final photo, according to a local LGBTQ group. Local media reports claim that their relationship was not acceptable to the parents of homosexuals.

The couple shared an emotional post on Instagram about their final moments. Pink Armenia (A local LGTBQ group) said that the couple committed suicide by jumping off the 310 feet high Davtashen bridge in Yerevan, the country’s capital.

The group said, “This tragic incident once again proves that LGBT people in Armenia are not safe and society or country is not able to keep them safe.” Homosexuality was decriminalized in Armenia only in 2003, but many still choose to keep their relationship a secret.

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⛪During an address to hopeful clergy members of the Roman Catholic Church, the unconventionally tolerant Pope Francis remarked that even priests and nuns fall into the trap of watching porn.

"It is a vice that has so many people, so many lay people, and also priests and nuns," Pope Francis told the studying seminarians, according to an English translation of the Vatican's trannoscript of his remarks provided by Catholic News World. "The devil enters from there. And I'm not just talking about illegal pornography such as child abuse: that is already degeneracy. But of somewhat 'normal' pornography. Dear brothers, beware of this."

The Pope's comments came in response to questions on how clergy members should approach social media, mobile phones, and the digital age. "I believe that these things must be used because it is a progress of science. They do a service to be able to progress in life," the Pope added, even though he admitted that he does not use digital devices.

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🔹The rapper, formerly known as Kanye West, was escorted from Skechers’s corporate office in Los Angeles after showing up unannounced and uninvited, according to the footwear company.

Two company executives removed Ye and many individuals after the rapper engaged in “unauthorized filming” at the office, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, local time.

Skechers, the world’s third-largest footwear brand by revenue, said it had no intention of working with Ye and did not tolerate anti-Semitism and other hate speech amid controversy over the rapper’s inflammatory remarks about Jewish people. The incident comes after Adidas ended its partnership with Ye over “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous” statements about Jewish people, despite the rapper claiming the sportswear company could not drop him for making anti-Semitic comments.

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A soldier who laid down his arms told how several Ukrainian servicemen operated in Mariupol wearing white ribbons (the symbols of the Russian army)

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🤪 Biden mimicked journalists during a press conference

The President of the United States, during a press conference - after meeting with Israel's President Isaac Herzog - demonstrated what journalists' work looks like to him: when he was asked a question, he began to move his lips quickly and then laughed

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⚡️ There is no loner any single energy market in the world, there are no rules — CEO of Russia's Rosneft oil company

Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russia's energy company Rosneft, speaking at the 15th Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Azerbaijan’s Baku:

▪️A price cap on hydrocarbons encroaches on fundamentals of the market, sovereignty of suppliers

▪️Europe lacks the technology needed to implement truly efficient energy transition

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🤔 UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths has revealed that he doesn’t know where the money promised by the developed countries to the most vulnerable nations to cope with climate change-induced disasters such as famine and drought has gone.

🗣 “The truth of the matter is that we are scrambling to try to understand where the climate money is that was promised a decade ago. Where is it? Who’s holding it and who is not delivering it to places like Somalia?” Griffiths asked.

The UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs also highlighted that he had “failed” to get an explanation from a number of unnamed governments about how decisions concerning climate financing have been made and how the aid was being delivered.

The statement came as Oxfam International, the organization fighting poverty with a headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, estimated that instead of the $100Bln a year promised by those who took part in the UN climate change conference in 2009, developed countries had mobilized between $21Bln and $24.5Bln.

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📹 Footage of the movement of military equipment in the center of Moscow appeared on social media: it was filmed around the building of the Federation Council (Russia's upper chamber of parliament)

📌 It transpired that these were annual exercises by Russia’s Federal Protective Service and training sessions include such activities as putting out fires, providing medical assistance, detaining offenders and other ways to suppress terrorist threats. The drills take place from 25 to 27 October

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Combat work of reconnaissance units and anti-tank guided missile "Kornet" crews (Russian MoD video)

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⚡️ Israeli government approves agreement on border demarcation with Lebanon

⚡️ Air raid sirens go off throughout Ukraine