🇨🇦 Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister of Canada, could replace Jens Stoltenberg as a NATO secretary general unless his term is extended, American newspaper reported on Friday, citing a US official familiar with the debate.

🧐 According to the official, Freeland is the prime candidate that has surfaced in Washington.

▪️ The United States is unlikely to put forward an American candidate since a US general is traditionally appointed as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the report said.

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🐘 🥺 Drought in Kenya killed 205 elephants and scores of other wildlife between February and October as much of East Africa endures its worst drought in 40 years, according to Kenya’s Tourism Ministry

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📹 “We were trying to save everything we could”: A man from Shakhtyorsk on a blaze caused by a Ukrainian strike on fuel tanks near his village

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🤔 US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kath Hicks will host a classified meeting with chief executives of leading American arms makers, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies and General Dynamics next week to discuss supply chain-related problems, a UK-based news outlet has reported.

▪️ Pentagon spokesperson Eric Pahon told the outlet that the gathering would focus on ways to secure supply chains and shore up the defense industrial base, against the backdrop of “an expected surge in demand for weapons from US allies”, such as Germany and Poland, due to the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine.

▪️ Last week, UK media reported about a possible scenario where the Pentagon’s top four military industry contractors faced persistent shortages of parts and personnel over the next two years.

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⚡️An air alert has been declared in all regions of Ukraine

Most of Sergey Lavrov's negotiations in Jordan and the UAE, including his meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan were held behind closed doors, but judging by the statements at the news conference, Moscow and Amman share same approaches on regional and global issues. Same impression about the UAE - talks with top government figures, positive mood overall. Here's my recap of the three days that I spent on the road with Russia's top diplomat during his Amman-UAE trip.

📹 ‘Who will be selling bread to people otherwise?’ – Donetsk grocery store employees continue working amid Ukrainian shelling

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⚡️ North Korea launched 4 short-range ballistic missiles towards the Yellow Sea, they flew 130 kilometers at a maximum speed of Mach 5 and an altitude of 20 km, a report says

⚡️ Detainees armed with "various weaponry" caused a disturbance at a London immigration removal center during a power outage, according to the Home Office

⚡️Iranian foreign minister addresses use of Iran-made drones in Russian special op in Ukraine

🗣"Our relations with Russia are based on neighborliness and mutual interests. I would like to emphasize here the fuss made by some Western countries that Iran has provided Russia with missiles and drones, claims about the missile part are completely wrong and the drone part is correct" Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said.

▪️In addition, the minister indicated that Iran had 'provided Russia with a small number of drones months before the start' of the conflict in Ukraine.

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😮 US President Joe Biden seems to have acknowledged that Republicans possibly taking over Congress in next week's midterm elections may lead to him being impeached.

🗣 In an address to his supporters in San Diego, Biden said that he was “already being told if they [GOP members] win back the House and Senate, they're gonna [sic] impeach” him.

🗯 "I don't know what the hell they're gonna [sic] impeach me for. I'm not joking. Recently they said 'we should stop talking about that 'til we win’,” he added.

🧐 A number of conservative US lawmakers have repeatedly signaled their readiness to bring articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden if Republicans win back a majority in the House of Representatives in the November 8th midterms.

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📹Russia’s MoD has revealed footage showing Russian reconnaissance units in combat as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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🇫🇷Jordan Bardella has been elected chairman of the French party National Rally (formerly known as National Front), replacing Marine Le Pen

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❗️Evidence has been recovered indicating that the firebombing of an immigration center in Dover was motivated by a terrorist ideology, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Enemy units forming up to 1 battalion tactical group attempted to attack Russian positions towards Kuzemovka near Kupyansk.

▪️ Russian artillery and Army Aviation have neutralised units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️ The attacks of 3 company tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards Stelmakhovka, Ploshchanka and Kremennaya have been repelled near Krasny Liman.

▪️ In South Donetsk DPR, artillery units and assault groups have neutralised the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s units.

▪️ Along the Nikolayev–Krivoy Rog axis in the Kherson region, 2 enemy mechanised infantry companies, supported by tanks, attacked Russian forces.

▪️ Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised five command posts of the enemy, as well as 87 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 179 areas.

▪️ Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 airplane in the Nikolayev region.

▪️ Air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR.

▪️ Some 331 airplanes and 169 helicopters, 2,435 unmanned aerial vehicles, 386 air defence missile systems, 6,335 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 882 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,554 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,048 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🤔Elon Musk defended laying off more than 8,000 Twitter employees, saying ‘unfortunately, there is no choice’

💬"Regarding Twitter's reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4 mln a day…Everyone exited was offered three months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required," the new Twitter owner said.

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⚡️Russian Security Services in cooperation with the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya) detained more then 20 SBU accomplices during a special operation in the LPR, a source told Sputnik

🤔 Earlier this week, Moscow called upon the major nuclear powers to demonstrate their readiness to prevent escalation and reject provocations with weapons of mass destruction. The West has turned a deaf ear to Russia's warnings again, thus encouraging potential provocateurs, Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende told Sputnik.

👉 Read more of Sonja van den Ende’s analysis on the situation

📹WATCH: Parrot steals reporter’s earphone live on air.

🦜A Chilean reporter was talking about a spike in local robberies when a mischievous parrot "decided to complete the reporter’s coverage with illustrative examples" by stealing his earphone.

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🙅‍♂️ San Francisco prosecutors refuse to release police bodycam and surveillance videos from the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where her husband Paul Pelosi survived a vicious attack by a home intruder last month.

🧐 District Attorney Brooke Jenkins did not elaborate further on the reasons behind the decision not to share the footage with the general public.

▪️The husband of the House speaker was attacked with a hammer at his California home last week, and was subsequently hospitalized.

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🌍 Despite the end of classic colonialism, European nations continue to engage in political games in Africa, intended to maintain a "stranglehold on African resources," Dr. Moses Tofa, a pan-Africanist and political analyst, told Sputnik.

"Because these political games tend to be characterized by opaque engagements and transactions between Western states or institutions and African political elites, they have created a crisis of trust in the state and its institutions...This has created a situation in which African citizens believe that 'they are on their own' because state leaders are corrupt, egocentric, and unwilling to protect and promote the wellbeing of society," the analyst explained.

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