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🌍🗺 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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📹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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🧐 Russia plans to test exoskeletons that can help military crews to handle artillery shells, said Maksim Skokov, general director of Exo Solutions, a Russian company that develops this type of equipment.

💬 "...we were approached by representatives not even of the Ministry of Defense, but of other special structures… Artillery teams are interested in exoskeletons that can facilitate the loading of shells," Skokov told Sputnik.

▪️ According to him, the company intends to conduct an experiment in November or December at a proving ground, during which a "potential customer" will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the company's products.

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😯 📹 Biden says there will be 'no more drilling' as he almost falls off a stage during a NY rally for Governor Hochul - just a day after he was blasted by Sen. Manchin (D-NY), for 'ignoring severe economic pain' with vow to close a coal plant

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📹 "I saw absolutely nothing’": Donetsk resident struck by ‘petal’ mine recounts how the tragedy occurred

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🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Trade between Russia and China went up 33% in the first ten months of this year, as compared to the same period last year, reaching a record $153.938 billion, the Chinese General Administration of Customs informs.

▪️ China’s export to Russia in that period increased by 12.8% year on year and amounted to $59.596 billion, while Russia’s export to China in the first ten months of 2022 went up 49.9% and amounted to $94.342 billion.

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🤔 There's a very good chance Republicans will gain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in this year's midterm elections in light of the current state of the American economy under Democratic leadership, Republican congressional candidate Wesley Hallman told Sputnik.

🇺🇸 US voters head to the polls for midterm elections on November 8 to determine who controls Congress, with Republicans poised to seize the House from the Democrats while the Senate struggle is expected to come down to the wire.

🗣 "I think the midterm is looking better than it did over the summer, so I would say very, very good chance," Hallman said about the chances Republicans will take control of Congress in the midterms. "It looks like a very, very strong chance on the House side and a good chance on the Senate side."

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🇩🇪 Half of the Germans believe that the measures adopted by the federal government to combat the energy crisis will not protect their finances during winter, a survey conducted by the Institute for New Social Answers (INSA) for the German media found on Monday.

📊 The poll showed that 50% of respondents think that the government's anti-crisis measures "will not help them make through the winter in terms of finances." Only slightly more than one-third (36%) believe otherwise.

▪️ While 58% said they would be able to pay the bills this winter, 28% said they would not. Among those who earn less than 1,000 euros ($994) only 36% said they had enough money to pay the bills. German media said this showed that the energy crisis was an "existential crisis" for many.

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💰 💸 US spending ‘$2.5 million an hour’ to aid Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, Trump's former national security adviser, said in an interview to an American TV channel.

😯 According to Keith Kellogg, the US has already invested $18 billion in the Ukraine conflict, including economic, humanitarian and military aid. 

🗣 "Those are big numbers. But let's break them down by the hourly rate. That means we're spending $2.5 million an hour in Ukraine. That's American taxpayer money and without any accountability", former national security advise added.

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❗️Finland will not deploy nuclear weapons on its territory, the Finnish president says

❗️The Zaporozhye region will abandon the Ukrainian grivna (Ukrainian national currency) from January 1, 2023, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia", told Sputnik.

▪️He stressed that the Russian ruble will remain the only official currency.

▪️Now there is a dual currency zone in the region.

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