💬"They say that both Russia and Iran have growing influence in Iraq and Syria and Middle East and so on. And if that's true and if it's really a bad thing, I mean, who's to blame for that? You know, it's NATO that attacked these countries and, you know, created these conditions. So, you reap what you sow. But I don't think it's necessarily going to change anything in Syria. The irony here is that Russia has a naval base which was created in the early seventies. It's very old and it's in Tartus, which is on the Mediterranean coast. And that base was kind of falling apart when the war started. And because of the war, as we know, which is, led by the West and their Gulf allies and Turkey, it kind of made sure that Russia upgraded this base. And it now is state of the art." Independent journalist covering US politics, the Middle East and international affairs Richard Medhurst said

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🇮🇷The riots in Iran were part of the United States' plan to disrupt negotiations on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the army commander Maj. Gen. Seyyed Abdolrahim Mousavi declared.

💬"The recent unrest in Iran was part of US efforts to disrupt the negotiations in Vienna [on the JCPOA]," Mousavi was quoted as saying by Iranian state media.

Earlier in the day, Iran's special services intercepted a cargo with money and intelligence equipment from Saudi Arabia, which was intended for rioters, Mousavi added.

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🤔Elon Musk has "recommended" voting for Republican congressional candidates in the November 8 midterm elections in the United States.

💬"To independent-minded voters: shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic," Musk said via social media.

▪️Musk said that "hardcore" Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to vote for the other party, prompting him to make the plea to independent voters in particular.

▪️Independent voters are the group who "actually" decide election outcomes, the entrepreneur added.

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❗️Turkey to propose grain deal extension for one year - Defense Ministry

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“There was such a loud bang! I got scared. Then a second one followed.”

📹WATCH: Woman in the LPR describes how a nearby building was damaged as a result of Ukrainian shelling

📈Skyrocketing inflation and cost of living, as well as worsening debt crises will be key threats to business activity in the G20 countries for at least two years, according to the World Economic Forum data, published on Monday.

▪️The Executive Opinion Survey conducted by the WEF's Center for the New Economy and Society asked over 12,000 business leaders from 122 economies around the globe, "which five risks are the most likely to pose the biggest threat to your country in the next two years?"

▪️Among five categories - economic, geopolitical, environmental, societal, and technological - most of the respondents named inflation and debt crises (economic) and cost of living crisis (societal) as the most crucial problems.

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📹Have a look at Sputnik’s video with details on the UN climate change Conference of Parties 27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh

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🇨🇳 🇬🇧 China is urging the United Kingdom to abide by the One-China principle, cease all forms of official contact with Taiwan and stop sending false signals to pro-independence separatist forces on the island, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Monday.

▪️ The UK government said earlier in the day that UK Minister of State for Trade Policy Greg Hands would travel to Taiwan with an official two-day visit on Monday. Hands is scheduled to co-host the 25th annual UK-Taiwan Trade Talks in Taipei, meet with the head of the Taiwanese administration, Tsai Ing-wen, and sign a Memorandum of Understanding to increase collaboration on technology and innovation.

💬 "We have repeatedly stated China's fundamental position on the Taiwan issue. There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is an integral part of China's territory. China strongly opposes any official contact between Taiwan and countries that have diplomatic relations with China," Zhao told a briefing.

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🇨🇳China’s leader Xi Jinping is planning to visit Saudi Arabia before the end of the year, a US outlet has reported, citing sources.

This comes as Beijing and Riyadh plan to deepen ties and advance a vision of a multipolar world where the U.S. no longer dominates the global order.

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“I opened the door and smoke was everywhere”

📹WATCH: Local residents describe how Ukrainian troops shelled a residential building in Donetsk

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Head of US Nuclear Forces Claims Ukraine ‘Just a Warmup’ for ‘Very Long’ Struggle With Russia, China

US Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, recently warned the US would soon face a protracted conflict with China unlike anything it’s faced before.

“We have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation,” Richard said at a Navy symposium last week.

“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” he said. “The ‘big one’ is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested in a long time.”

Richard warned “the ship is slowly sinking” because China is fielding new capabilities faster than the United States, which will soon find itself outnumbered and outclassed on the battlefield.

🚨🚨 Air Raid Warnings Issued in Several Regions of Ukraine - Authorities

Air raid warnings have been issued in the Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk and Nikolayev regions of Ukraine, according to the online air raid alert map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

Air raid sirens also sounded in Kiev-controlled areas of Russia's Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

🇺🇸US Midterms: A look into seven key Senate battlegrounds

With the start of the mid-terms just hours away, Republicans are reportedly poised and ready to try to win control of the evenly divided US Senate.

Here’s a closer look into the seven states which are seen as Senate battlegrounds in the midterm race.

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🌏COP27: Will rich nations walk their 'loss and damage' talk or sweep it under rug again?

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), kicked off on November 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with participants of the event agreeing on Sunday to discuss whether wealthy developed countries should compensate vulnerable states for climate-related disasters.

"Loss and damage" is a general term used by UN climate negotiators to refer to the impact of developed nations that have emitted most of the carbon dioxide historically fuelling climate change, on poorer nations that have not contributed significantly to the problem, but nonetheless suffer from it.

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing 152mm Giatsint towed cannon crews training in the Leningrad region

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South Korea Says It Recovered Wreckage from DPRK Missile Test That Landed in Its Waters

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday that it had recovered pieces of a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) test-fired by the North last week. The weapon allegedly crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a line in the Yellow Sea that is recognized by Seoul, but not by Pyongyang, as the maritime border between the Koreas.

According to media reports, the wreckage was retrieved from the seafloor using a drone submersible.

🇪🇺More than a quarter of Europeans say they are in a "precarious" financial state and half fear they soon will be, according to a new poll.

▪️The six-nation survey by Ipsos for French poverty NGO Secours Populaire (People's Aid) found that 27 percent were in financial dire straits, defined as "one unexpected expenditure could change everything," while 55 percent said they had to be careful with spending to avoid getting into the same position.

▪️It also found that 54 percent of 6,000 people polled in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and the UK had seen the purchasing power of their income fall over the past three years.

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