🇷🇺 Russia is ready to completely replace Ukrainian grain on the world market, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council (upper chamber of the Russian parliament) Konstantin Kosachev said following Moscow’s decision to suspend its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

💬 "At least 50 countries are critically dependent on our grain, including the poorest countries in Africa. Given the huge harvest in the country, Russia is ready to completely replace Ukrainian grain on the world market. Our export potential in the current season is estimated at more than 50 million tonnes," Kosachev said on Telegram.

▪️ According to the senior lawmaker, outside of the Istanbul grain deal, about 10.5 million tonnes of Russian grain have already been sent to countries in Asia and Africa.

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🥴 US President Joe Biden has been mocked online after saying that Democrats “went to 54 states” in 2018 to defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

▪️ The blunder made by the 46th US president at a Philadelphia rally to attract support for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman infuriated a host of Conservatives, including Ryan Fournie, founder of the Students for Trump group, who described POTUS as a “completely senile guy.”

🗣 Republican House candidate Lauren Boebert tweeted, “Biden now says there are 54 states. I guess if you count the states of denial, confusion, delusion and disaster that his Regime has caused he just might be on to something”.

💬 “Cali conservative” Pamela Hensley, for her part, wondered in her Twitter post whether Biden created “4 new states with all the illegals he let in.”

▪️ Similar tone was struck by many netizens, with one noting that they “remember Obama saying there’s 57 states, so it’s a step [by Biden] in the right direction”.

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😡 Former US President Barack Obama shot back at a heckler during a speech he was making on Saturday while campaigning for Democratic candidate and Governor Gretchen Whitmer ahead of the November midterm elections.

▪️ The crowd at a Michigan high school went wild, yelling “Teach him, Barack!” along with various shouts directing the heckler to “get out” after the former president scolded one of the hecklers for his lack of “basic civility” on Saturday evening.

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📹A Ukrainian who participated in the territorial defense of Energodar explains why he voluntarily laid down his arms

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🇨🇩🇷🇼The DRC has given Rwandan ambassador Vincent Karenga 48 hours to leave the country, following accusations of Rwanda’s support for the M23 rebels in the Congo's eastern provinces.

▪️"This is, in part, due to the persistence of country to attack the DRC and to support the M23 terrorist movement,” government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said.

▪️The M23 took the town of Kiwanja in eastern Congo on Saturday, cutting off North Kivu's capital Goma from its upper half.

▪️The March 23 Movement (M23), also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, is a rebel military group based in eastern areas of the DRC, primarily in the province of North Kivu.

▪️It was founded in 2012 with the intention of defending the interests of Congolese Tutsis, a group that shares Rwandan President Paul Kagame's ethnicity.

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🇫🇮 Finland is bracing for rolling blackouts this winter amid an energy crunch.

▪️ According to Arto Pahkin, a network operations manager at Fingrid Oyj, which oversees the country's electricity grid, there would be a national large-scale disruption and “people could die” If the planned outages don’t take place.

▪️ The Nordic county is well known for its extremely low winter temperatures, which makes the upcoming cold weather a serious challenge for the Finns.

▪️ Finland lost its gas supplies from Russia after it refused to comply with Moscow's demand to pay in rubles.

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❗️ The desire of the United States to listen to the concerns of the Russian Federation, including those related to security, could become a platform for conversation between President Putin and Biden, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

📹 President Biden failed to vote in the midterms on his own; he had to call for the help of a volunteer and ask him a few questions.

🥴 Meanwhile, the president's granddaughter did it in less than a minute.

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⚡️ Russia is ready to talk with the West to reduce tensions, but only if there are realistic proposals based on equal approaches, Russia's FM Lavrov says

⚡️ Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of condolences to the President of South Korea in connection with the death of a large number of people in Seoul: Kremlin

🇳🇦🏜 Mystery behind Namibia's 'fairy circles' unraveled

▪️The Namib Desert grasslands are covered with millions of weird circles ranging in size from 2 to 10 meters with no grass or any other vegetation on them.

▪️For nearly half a century, scientists have been puzzled over the origins of these Namibian "fairy circles."

▪️There were originally two major theories about the appearance of these mysterious spots. One theory claimed that the circles were caused by termites, while another suggested that grasses self-organized to maximize water availability.

▪️A new study has revealed that the circles were caused by plant water stress, rather than termites.

▪️“By forming strongly patterned landscapes… the grasses… benefit directly from the water resource provided by the vegetation gaps… [as they have] no other chance to survive,” one of the researchers explained.

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⚡️Kiev, London sabotaged Grain Deal to add food crisis to nuclear blackmail, Moscow says

🤬 Netizens have reacted angrily to UK media reports that former British Prime Minister Liz Truss's personal cell phone “was hacked by agents suspected of working for the Kremlin”.

▪️ Social media users also unanimously berated the shortest-serving British PM for reportedly using a personal mobile for workrelated purposes.

▪️ The British government has yet to confirm the reports, which in particular claimed that the purported hack was detected during the Tory leadership campaign this summer, and that the details were suppressed by then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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