📹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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📢Bolsonaro and Lula supporters sing in polarized elections in Portugal

Voters of Bolsonaro and Lula sang verses in support of their candidates at one of the polling stations in the city of Porto, in Portugal.

The episode is one of many that demonstrate the polarization of voters.

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 250 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian tank, six infantry combat vehicles, four armored carriers and eight vehicles in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian tank, two infantry combat vehicles and one Ukrainian armored carrier in the LPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed Ukrainian tanks, three armored combat vehicles and six pick-up trucks and captured one Ukrainian tank in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 180 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed eleven Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and 21 other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Forces hit 68 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated a MARS -2 multiple rocket launcher system and a warehouse depot with rocket and artillery weapons in the Nikolayev region, as well as destroyed an AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses destroyed ten Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted 32 HIMARS rockets, one Olkha rocket and six HARM rockets.

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❗️An unknown man threw several Molotov cocktails into the building of the British Border Service office in Dover, England, and then he committed suicide - Report