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

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❗️🇪🇺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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“Only civilians suffer”

📹WATCH: A doctor from the DPR describes how civilians suffer from Ukrainian shelling

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📌All you need to know about 2022 US Midterm Elections

The latest opinion polls indicate that Republicans will almost surely gain a majority of votes in the House of Representatives in the November 8 midterms.

On Tuesday, the US will vote in midterm elections that will define the makeup of the next Congress. Here’s a closer look into the event.

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🇬🇧 British nurses are on their way to a major strike this winter, according to the press. Reports suggest that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) took the biggest strike ballot in its century-long history, with over 300,000 members participating in it.

▪️ While the vote counting is still on, it is believed that the RCN will support the strike, which is to take place sometime before Christmas, reports added.

▪️ The unions are now campaigning to get the nursing staff a pay raise of 5% above inflation, since their real salary has fallen 20% since 2010 due to budget austerity.

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📹WATCH: Mobilized Russian personnel practices shooting at Baltic Fleet’s training grounds in the Kaliningrad region

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🤔 As the midterm elections are approaching, Republicans believe they have a good chance of taking over the House of Representatives and boosting their position in the Senate and state legislatures across America, while the Democrats hope to prevent the red wave.

▪️ Sputnik discussed the expectations and fears voters have ahead of the Tuesday elections with Adam de Angeli, President of the grassroots campaign Rescue Michigan Coalition on the Republican Super Rally which was held in Michigan before the election.

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📹WATCH: Russian Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft in combat action within the special military operation in Ukraine (the video is courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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🇯🇵 🇬🇧 The United Kingdom plans to sign a new defense agreement with Japan next month, which will enable the two countries to boost cooperation with the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, British newspaper reports citing sources.

▪️ The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) will also aim to enhance deterrence against China and will make joint exercises easier, people familiar with the talks told the newspaper on Saturday.

▪️ Japan is also in the "initial stages" of considering a similar agreement with the Philippines, the newspaper said.

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😯 US tech conglomerate Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc., banned in Russia) plans to initiate major job cuts beginning next week, a US newspaper reports citing people familiar with the matter.

▪️ The upcoming "large-scale layoffs" could become the largest round of tech job cuts and could affect "thousands" of people, the newspaper said on Sunday, without specifying exactly how many of over 87,000 Meta employees could get fired.

▪️ Sources told the newspaper that the announcement of the job cuts is expected on Wednesday and company officials have already told Meta employees to cancel nonessential travel starting next week.

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