⚡️ Imran Khan was "misleading" people, he couldn’t tolerate it, says alleged gunman who shot former Pakistani PM

☢️ Did you know that Ukrainian scientists and research institutions have been engaged in nuclear research since the 1920s? Or that Pentagon planners proposed turning much of Ukraine into radioactive soot by using nukes during the Cold War?

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⚡️ Imran Khan has named three people behind the assassination attempt against him today, PTI Secretary-General Asad Umar says.

According to Umar, Khan has information that his assassination was planned by PM Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, and a top army official.

🇪🇹 The Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have signed a statement on the end of hostilities. This is what it entails:

▪️ The representatives of the Government of the Republic of Ethiopia and the TPLF have agreed to announce to the Ethiopian people and the rest of the world that, after 10 days of negotiations, they reached a peace agreement.

▪️ The parties have agreed permanently to silence their guns and end two years of conflict in northern Ethiopia.

▪️ Ethiopia added that it was fundamental that it reaffirm its commitment to safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ethiopia and to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia [...] The two sides have also agreed on a detailed disarmament program, demobilization and reintegration of TPLF combatants, taking into account the security situation on the ground;

▪️Ethiopia and the TPLF agreed that the government will strengthen its collaboration with humanitarian organizations to continue to deliver aid to all those in need;

▪️ The parties agreed to implement transitional measures including the restoration of constitutional order in the Tigray region, a framework for the settlement of political disputes and a policy framework for transitional justice to ensure accountability, truth and justice. reconciliation;

▪️ To begin implementing these commitments without delay, the signatories have agreed to cease all forms of conflict and hostile propaganda. They will only make statements that support the rapid implementation of the agreement;

▪️ The Ethiopian government will continue its efforts to restore public services and rebuild infrastructure in all communities affected by the conflict;

▪️ Both parties are confident that Ethiopia's friends and members of the diplomatic community will support the reconstruction of infrastructure in the affected communities and the economic recovery of the country.

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⚡️ Benjamin Netanyahu secures plurality of votes in election after more than a year in opposition, paving the way for a triumphant return as Israel's prime minister.

▪️Israeli central election commission has completed the vote count, former Prime Minister Netanyahu's bloc has a majority of 64 mandates in 120-seat Knesset.

▪️Outgoing Israeli PM Yair Lapid has called Netanyahu to congratulate him on his victory.

▪️Tuesday’s elections were the fifth in less than four years, and witnessed a voter turnout of 71.3%, according to election officials.

▪️Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu served as the prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021.

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💬 “I think it just tells us that Australia doesn't have a sovereign government as far as foreign policy is concerned. Remember, you mentioned Pine Gap. Well, the last time Australia tried to remove the US base on the listening station on Pine Gap, that was in 1974, and they had their government overthrown. That was Gough Whitlam, who had actually opened relations with China in 1971 and 1972. Since then, Australia has always been an understudy and a subcontractor to US foreign policy,” says K.J. Noh, a scholar, educator, and journalist focusing on political economy and geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific.

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⚡️ Cavusoglu stated the need to solve Russia's security concerns in the framework of the grain deal

⚡️Turkey does not consider that Sweden and Finland have completed the conditions of the agreements reached for their accession to NATO - Cavusoglu

⚡️ Trump intends to run for US president in 2024, plans to launch his campaign after November 8 elections – media

❗️Turkish Foreign Minister: We’ve always said the world needs Russian grain and fertilizers. If they are not delivered, agriculture production will fall by 20% in Africa alone.

🇪🇺 Pavel Katyukha, an associate professor at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, believes that during the next two or three years, Europe will face an energy crisis. According to him, this crisis could end in the collapse of the entire European economy, which was built on cheap Russian energy resources.

💬 "LNG and natural gas from Qatar, Algeria and other countries will not be able to replace cheap Russian gas either in terms of price or volume," the academic noted.

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💬 "Diplomacy has died a silent death over the last few years. Then came the pandemic, which condemned us to some sort of Zoom diplomacy, which has nothing to do with real diplomacy."

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🔺 With Bibi coming back to power, how it may affect Israeli maritime deal with Lebanon?
🔺Also, US Senate Candidate Diane Sare will join us to share her stance on the American military assistance to Ukraine.

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🗳 The UN General Assembly voted on Thursday to condemn the US blockade of Cuba, which has been in place since shortly after a socialist revolution swept the US-backed government out of power in 1959.

In the vote, 185 nations came out against US policy. The only two countries to vote against the resolution were the United States and Israel. Two nations also abstained from the vote: Ukraine, where a US-backed nationalist government has held power since a coup in 2014, and Brazil, where the anti-communist government of Jair Bolsonaro has two months left in power.

A notable change was Colombia, a longtime US ally that has typically abstained from the vote, but which voted against the blockade on Thursday. Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first-ever left-wing president, won the August elections and brought with him significant changes in government policy when he took office

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💬 "The Black Sea is currently a theater of war. We have seen attacks, use of maritime drones recently, there was an attack on the Russian fleet in Sevastopol a few days ago, which triggered this momentum when the Russian leadership said: “we withdraw from the grain deal that had been brokered in July,” because allegedly Ukrainian forces used this humanitarian corridor that had been created for the transport of grain vessels for military purposes. So that was the triggering momentum."

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The Group of 7 and Australia have agreed to set a fixed instead of a floating price for Russian oil upon concluding the price cap deal later in November, while the initial price has not yet been set, the US media reported.

🗣️"The coalition has agreed the price cap will be a fixed price that will be reviewed regularly rather than a discount to an index," Reuters reported on Thursday.

🗣️"This will increase market stability and simplify compliance to minimize the burden on market participants."

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🚀 NASA has confirmed their space mission to the “gold mine asteroid”.

A mission to the massive metal space rock, 16 Psyche – dubbed the "gold mine asteroid" - will go ahead, the space agency has confirmed.

▪️A launch period opening on October 10, 2023, has reportedly been considered by NASA, after the Psyche mission missed its planned 2022 launch period earlier this year due to a plethora of problems that prompted an internal review.

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The Russian Embassy in the United States plans to issue a complaint to the US government over their failure to provide adequate conditions during the meeting with Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik in a prison in California, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov told reporters.

Earlier on Thursday, Antonov visited Vinnik at the prison in San Francisco where he is being detained.

🗣️"I will come to Washington, we will write to the State Department and I will express my negative attitude to my colleagues from the White House. We have a written consent to have a contact with our compatriot, we consider the situation that has happened now simply unacceptable," Antonov said on Thursday

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Numerous states and school districts have introduced rules in recent years barring transgender students from using the public bathrooms for their gender. It’s just one part of a wide-ranging conservative offensive aimed at delegitimizing the identities of transgender people in the US.

American podcaster Joe Rogan has walked back claims he made on his show last month about schools being forced to place litter boxes, normally used by house cats, in their bathrooms to be used by “furry” students who identify as cats.

🗣️“I don't think they actually did it,” he admitted on his show recently.

🗣️ “I think there was discussions about doing it because there was one particularly wacky mother, but there is - it doesn't seem that there's any proof that they put a litter box in there.”

💬 "It might sound a bit strange or bizarre, but we have to my understanding, to my eyes now a much higher degree of freedom of press, freedom of speech also in the Arab Middle East than inside the European Union countries. And I say that as somebody who has been involved in human rights, freedom of press topics for more than half of my life, because I studied here in this region in the mid-1980s, and then the situation was completely in reverse."

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