📹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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❗️South Korea and the United States have completed joint air force drills Vigilant Storm, involving about 240 aircraft, local media reports

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🇩🇪Rolf Mutzenich, chairman of the Bundestag parliamentary faction of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, said that the government of Ukraine put him in its list of terrorists only because he advocated the establishment of a ceasefire and the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine by diplomatic means.

In addition, the politician indicated that he had also received threats against himself.

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📹The Russian MoD has published footage showing how Russian Ka-52 helicopters destroy a Ukrainian Army strongpoint and armored hardware

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📹WATCH: Russian servicemen have provided civilians of Aleppo with more than four tons of prime necessity items (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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⚡️At least 15 people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a military base in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu - report

📹Russian artillery units received aims from military intelligence members and then hit Ukrainian Forces in the Kharkov region, congratulating their comrades on their professional holiday

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🌍 🌱 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg's statements about the ineffectiveness of climate conferences are a viewpoint from "prosperous Sweden," and the upcoming UN’s COP27 climate conference in Egypt is important for the poorer countries, Russian climate scientist Alexey Kokorin has told Sputnik.

🗣 "This is a viewpoint from prosperous Sweden... But suppose you live in some African country. You had ten small rains before, and now you have two heavy rains and nothing else. You have to save water somehow, or else you cannot farm, and you have to relocate. With what money will you dig a reservoir or build irrigation systems that are resistant to this? Only with grants," Kokorin said.

He added that the UN climate conference is extremely important for developing countries, especially in Africa, as it provides them with an opportunity to raise funds to tackle climate change.

On Monday, Thunberg said she would skip the COP27, which begins in Egypt on Sunday, after accusing world leaders of greenwashing.

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❗️Officers of the Russian military intelligence are carrying out the most difficult tasks in the course of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Saturday on the occasion of Military Intelligence Day in the country.

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🇺🇸The US is preparing for the midterm elections on Sunday, with polls forecasting a major red wave.

Republicans are expected to take over the House of Representatives and boost their positions in state legislatures across the country.

However, President Joe Biden said he is optimistic about the prospects of the Democratic Party in the upcoming vote.

Sputnik discussed the situation American voters are facing ahead of the midterms with Lennora Pierrot, who is running for election to the Alabama House of Representatives to represent District 82.

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📹WATCH: Russian mobilized personnel are about to finish a training course in the Moscow region before departure to combat areas (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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'Soros People' Likely helped orchestrate 'Controlled Demolition of America', US activist says

💬“US foreign policy, including the hideous abandonment in Afghanistan and unhinged Ukrainian response, has clearly been coordinated to weaken America and strengthen our enemies,” US national pro-family group MassResistance head Brian Camenker lamented in an article published in a US online magazine, naming Biden’s Administration policy as “a controlled demolition of America”.

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“I was lucky that I skipped over the step”

📹WATCH: A man describes how Ukrainian military set a tripwire with a grenade in an area where civilians were hiding

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🤐🇪🇺European leaders have kept mum on the exact sums that are needed “to rebuild Ukraine” because they are afraid of a possible negative reaction among their countries’ citizens, a US media outlet has reported.

It referred to a recent article written by Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a German newspaper, in which they cited 35 billion euros ($34.6 billion) as the amount that EU members “have so far raised” for Kiev.

The outlet argued that the sum is “a far cry from the 350 bln euro ($345 bln) figure von der Leyen cited at the October 25 meeting, based on the World Bank's current cost estimate for the damage done to Ukraine.”

💬In addition, it outlined that “these world leaders know this, but refuse to say it for fear that citizens of various European nations would decide that Ukraine’s democracy simply isn’t worth forking over hundreds of billions of their hard-earned money for, much less going without heat or other necessities this winter.”

📹 The DPR People's Militia has published footage showing Krasnopol guided projectiles hitting the military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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🗓Less than a month before the September 2, 1945 end of the Second World War, the US dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing at least 130,000 people.

Now let’s look into what was behind Washington’s decision to drop nukes on Japan on August 6 and August 9, 1945.

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📹 “We were driven to the exchange with bags on our heads”: A female POW who returned from Ukrainian captivity describes the conditions of her detention

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👏 💪 Russian ice hockey player and captain of the Washington Capitals team Alexander Ovechkin broke the record for the most goals scored with one franchise in National Hockey League (NHL) history.

😱 Ovechkin, 37, scored his 787th goal in the game against the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday, thus surpassing the legendary Gordie Howe for most goals with a single team.

💬 "Ovechkin passed Gordie Howe, who scored 786 goals in 1,687 games over 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings from 1946-1971. Ovechkin reached the milestone in his 1,287th game with the Capitals, who selected him with the No. 1 pick in the 2004 NHL Draft," NHL said in a Saturday release.

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📌 LIVE UPDATES: Ukrainian troops shell Alchevsk using HIMARS missiles - LPR

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