😨 Former US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he doubted the country could survive the two remaining years of President Joe Biden's term, alluding to the failures of his administration.

💬"This country — I don't know if it's going to live for another two years that's what is happening. So you've got to get out and vote for this man [Republican candidate Mehmet Oz]. He is a good man," Trump said at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

▪️Trump stressed that the US "has never been so bad as it is right now," noting Washington's weakening standing in the world.

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

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 200 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks, nine armored combat vehicles and eight pick-up trucks in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 250 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed four Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, one Ukrainian Grad MLRS, one Ukrainian self-propelled artillery station and twelve other vehicles in the DPR and in the LPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 100 foreign mercenaries and militants from Ukrainian Nazi formations, as well destroyed 10 Ukrainian armored combat vehicles in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed one Ukrainian tank, an infantry combat vehicle, four pick up trucks and two US-made M777 howitzers in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed eight Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, two Ukrainian artillery systems and ten other vehicles in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian Air Forces hit a Ukrainian command post and 67 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions in the DPR;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated a Ukrainian ammunition depot, as well as destroyed a Ukrainian Msta-B howitzer and two other Ukrainian vehicles in the Zaporozhye region

▪️Russian Forces hit a Ukrainian artillery ammunition depot, eliminating up to 120 HIMARS rockets, 250 Smerch rockets and two transport-charging vehicles;

▪️Russian Air Forces shot down one Ukrainian UAV in the Kherson region;

▪️Russian air defense destroyed 16 Ukrainian UAVs, as well as intercepted six HIMARS rockets, two Olkha rockets, one HARM rocket and one Tochka – U ballistic missile.

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British King's Counsel Alper Ali Riza, in an article for a European newspaper, alleges the US and Europe are behind the unleashing of the Ukrainian crisis.

▪️ Riza believes that the EU and Washington could have prevented the conflict before the start of the hostilities.

💬 "A wiser and more pragmatic British government, under strong American leadership, could have deterred Russia from taking decisive steps, instead of unwisely insisting on the sovereign right of every country to join NATO, regardless of Moscow's security concerns", Ali Riza says

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⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with members of Russia’s Security Council next week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says

❗️Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service only has indirect evidence of the connection between Truss’ “It’s done” message sent to Blinken, and the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines - Chief of Russian Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin said

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing how Russian Msta-B artillery units destroy Ukrainian artillery firing positions

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🇷🇸 Serbia has rejected a peaceful settlement plan on Kosovo and Metohija proposed by France and Germany as it implies that the breakaway province will become a UN member without a formal recognition by Belgrade, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Sunday.

🗣 "Its starting point is that the independence of Kosovo is already a done deal, but we do not accept that," Dacic told a Serbian newspaper.

▪️ The initiative suggested that Belgrade would get a fast-track to EU membership in exchange for Kosovo's accession to the UN, the report said.

💬 "The conclusion of National Security Council is that this proposal is unacceptable for us and we all voted 'yes' for this conclusion… And while recognizing it or not in a formal sense, agreeing that Kosovo is a member of the UN is very difficult for us," the foreign minister said.

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⚡️Three people killed in Tanzania plane crash - Fire and Rescue service

⚡️ A train derailed in downtown Seoul, leaving 30 people injured, reports say

First footage from the scene

❗️🇪🇺President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that next week, she will present a 18 billion euro Ukraine aid plan for 2023

Previously, it had been reported by a US media outlet that European leaders fear citizens’ anger over the hefty sums needed ‘to rebuild Ukraine’

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🇲🇩👊More than 50,000 people are reportedly taking part in mass demonstrations organized by Moldova’s opposition Sor Party in Kishinev.

▪️Demonstrators brought Moldovan flags, funeral wreaths and white chrysanthemums, which they threw at the police cordon blocking the capital's central square.

▪️Moldova's opposition has repeatedly accused the government of failing to cope with the economic crisis amid record 33.5% inflation and deteriorating living standards.

▪️The country's leadership has also been criticized for its unwillingness to negotiate better gas prices with Russia and for putting political pressure on opponents.

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⚡️The death toll from the plane crash in Tanzania rises to 19, media reported, citing the country's Prime Minister

📹WATCH: Protesters in the center of Kishinev demand the resignation of the country's Prime Minister Maidu Sandu

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📹WATCH: Protesters in Kishinev approach the presidential palace and the Moldovan Parliament building.

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🕳Astronomers have found the closest black hole to Earth yet discovered, just 1,600 light years away.

🔭Using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth.

▪️This is the first-ever detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way.

▪️Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1,600 light-years away, offers an intriguing target of study to advance scientists' understanding of the evolution of binary systems.

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📹WATCH: A volunteer soldier, who lived in Ukraine until 2014, explains why he decided to take the Russian side

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⚡️An explosion has rocked Odessa, local media reports

🌍🗺 Ahead of the official opening of the COP27 climate summit on Sunday in Egypt, the Executive Director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, Dr. Mithika Mwenda, called for attention to Africa's climate finance needs

▪️African countries, despite being responsible for only 2-3 percent of global anthropomorphic carbon emissions, suffer from its consequences more than others.

▪️Thus, African officials have repeatedly called on the Global North, which produces most of the emissions, to provide financial assistance to Africa to combat climate change's effects.

🗣 “For us as Africans, issues we have highlighted and placed before the UNFCCC Secretariat will mean success or failure of this Climate Summit holding in Egypt,” Mwenda said.

▪️This year, countries in the Horn of Africa are experiencing a severe drought, leading to famine and increasing the risk of waterborne diseases.

▪️COP27 will take pleace on November 6-18

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🇩🇪52% of German companies are convinced that things will get worse for them in the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce.

📊The survey's data shows that only 8% of companies are optimistic about the future, which is the lowest figure ever measured.

▪️The main reason for the pessimism was the high price of electricity and gas due to sanctions against Russia, which also caused the transfer of production centers to other countries.

▪️The latter is also reflected in the fact that German companies operating abroad have much more optimistic prospects than those that produce exclusively in Germany.

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💵Money over Office: BoJo refuses to run for PM not to risk £10 Mln Earnings, report says

🤔According to British media, Johnson decided not to fight for the premiership since it could jeopardize his potential earnings coming from books and speeches.

The report suggested that since his resignation in July, Johnson had been engaged in talks with several talent agencies - including Ari Emanuel's firm Endeavour and the Harry Walker Agency (HWA) - and sales of his memoirs could bring him up to £20 million (over $22 million) per year.

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