😧 “Don't worry, we're gonna free Iran," US President Joe Biden said during a campaign rally for Democratic Representative Mike Levin, held in California in the run-up to the mid-term elections. The president made the comments as people in the crowd held up phones displaying the message "free Iran”.

🗣 “They're gonna free themselves pretty soon.” said Biden without elaborating

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Quite a friendly atmosphere at the talks between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and his UAE colleague Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. According to Russian foreign ministry, peace in Middle East and North Africa, situation in Yemen, Libya, Syria was on top of the agenda at the meeting. Mutual trade between Russia and the UAE is growing, it's at more than $3 billion this year, with a steady annual increase since 2020 - that was another topic for discussion. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik

📹 Russia's MoD has published footage of Su-25 attack aircrafts destroying Ukrainian disguised fortified field positions and armored vehicles

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🔺 The Ethiopia peace plan
🔺 Formation of Israel's new government
🔺 President Biden’ speech against political violence

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⚡️Putin says those who live in Kherson should be removed from combat zone, civilians should not suffer

❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian forces eliminated more than 110 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Russian artillery and aviation eliminated more than 95 Ukrainian servicemen and 10 armored vehicles in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed a rocket engine manufacturing workshop in Pavlograd and three other workshops in Kharkov;

▪️Russian troops repelled all attacks by the Ukrainian Army in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating 90 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian forces destroyed the headquarters of a unit of foreign mercenaries in the Nikolaev region.

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🇬🇧 🛢Glencore Bribery Case Sentence Is a 'Miscarriage of Justice', African Energy Chamber Head Says

Commenting on the ruling by a UK court in the bribery case of giant commodities trader Glencore, NJ Ayuk, chairman of South African energy legal group, the African Energy Chamber, told Sputnik in an interview that the $310Mln fine imposed on Glencore could be considered insufficient for the five-year crime that was perpetrated.

🗣"The decision is totally unfair. Glencore executives should be in jail. It is a miscarriage of Justice that the Glencore executives who engaged in illegal behavior will not face any repercussions. If it were an African company they would all be in jail in a moment," he said.

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has responded to Biden's promises to "free Iran":

🗣“I was informed a few hours ago that the president of the United States had made some distracted remarks. He said [the US was] aiming to ‘free Iran’,” Raisi said in a speech in Tehran on Friday marking the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy, which the Islamic Republic observes as the ‘National Day of the Fight Against Global Arrogance.’

🗣“Iran was freed 43 years ago and is determined not to be occupied by [the US]. And we will never be [America's] milk cows,” Raisi said, referring to the Iranian Revolution which overthrew the country's US-backed dictator, the Shah

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⚡️Air raid alert sounds in Kiev, local authorities say

❗️Key points of President Putin's speech at a meeting on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Russian Military-Historical Society:

▪️Russia's efforts on historical justice irritate the West, and attempts to pull the rug from under Russia's feet continue;

▪️Russia treats the Ukrainian people with respect;

▪️A clash with neo-Nazis was inevitable, and was brought to the stage when the situation became lethal for Russia;

▪️Foreign mercenaries are ruthless towards the citizens of Ukraine, and the actions of the regime there have nothing to do with the interests of the Ukrainian people;

▪️The people of Novorossiya should not be left without support, heat, and shelter, and the Russian authorities will do everything possible to help.

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❗️Following Twitter takeover, Elon Musk says activist groups are trying to "destroy free speech"

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⚡️ Imran Khan says Pakistan PM Sharif and Interior Minister Sanaullah were involved in plot to kill him

⚡️ US announces new $400 million military assistance package for Ukraine - Pentagon

▪️The new package includes 45 T-72 tanks, 250 M1117 armored personnel carriers, 40 armored boats, 1100 Phoenix Ghost drones.

▪️Pentagon is establishing security assistance group for Ukraine to maintain security aid level.

🇿🇦 South Africa has been granted $497 million by the World Bank for the conversion of one of its old coal-fired power plants, according to a Friday statement by the bank

▪️ The institution said the financing is intended “to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in South Africa and support a just transition.”

▪️ The country’s green transition goals secured $8.5 billion in loans and grants last year. Ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, negotiations on the utilization of the money are planned.

❗️ South Africa’s industry, which is the biggest on the continent, gets 80% of its electricity from coal

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🤔 Ukraine aid will drop to zero if GOP takes Сongress, Marjorie Taylor Greene says.

💬 “Democrats have ripped our border wide open. But the only border they care about is Ukraine, not America’s southern border. Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine. Our country comes first,” Greene said at a ‘Save America’ Trump rally in Sioux City, Iowa on Friday.

▪️The congresswoman accused President Biden and the Democrats of ignoring domestic problems, including the economy, inflation, crime, and the fentanyl crisis, of “putting America last” and “destroying every single thread of democracy in the process.”

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💬 "For two years, the TPLF has been backed by Western governments, led by the United States, and they've been enabled to do what they've been doing, including the media kind of taking their side. And that is what has really prolonged the war for this long. But as you know, there's been a massive resistance from the Ethiopian people, a Pan-African movement called No More, saying "No more intervention". And what we had witnessed is a humanitarian imperialism where, a humanitarian issue was being weaponized for this unwelcome intrusion into African affairs," says Nebiyu Asfaw, a co-founder of the Ethiopian American Development Council

🎧 Listen to more of Nebiyu Asfaw's analysis on our podcast.

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National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has posted a picture mocking those who blame "Russian bots" for political failures.

▪️Earlier, Snowden said that censorship on Twitter and other social media had become excessive, depriving users of the right to make their own decisions regarding content.

▪️Edward Snowden sparked a major international scandal after he leaked classified US and UK intelligence information about extensive surveillance programs to US media.

▪️Forced to leave the United States for Hong Kong and then Moscow, Snowden was later granted a three-year Russian residency. He was granted Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin earlier this year.

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