⚡️Lavrov to head Russia's delegation at G20 summit - Russian embassy in Indonesia told Sputnik

⚡️Putin could take part in G20 summit via video format, this issue is under consideration - Russian embassy in Indonesia to Sputnik

🇹🇷 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's latest statements:

▪️President Erdogan plans to continue telephone talks with President Putin;

▪️Ankara's mediation efforts in Ukraine are ongoing, there are no deadlines;

▪️ Erdogan has declared a high level of trust which he established with Putin

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The almost 80-year-old President Joe Biden recently announced that he intends to seek re-election in 2024. However, a grassroots organization which claims to be non-partisan is hoping to discourage Biden from attempting a second term.

RootsAction. org, an online platform which describes itself as "dedicated to galvanizing people who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights for all, civil liberties, environmental protection - and defunding endless wars", launched a petition 'Don't Run, Joe' on 9 November.

The platform chose significantly to launch its petition in New Hampshire - the state that usually holds the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections every four years online:

🗣“It’s clear that Joe Biden should not be the party’s presidential nominee in 2024,” RootsAction. org said in a press release just a day after the country's mid-term elections

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⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed to Sputnik that Lavrov will head Russia's delegation at G20 summit in Indonesia

⚠️ Hurricane Nicole makes landfall in US state of Florida, National Hurricane Center says

📹 Russia's MoD has published footage of the combat action of Orlan-10 drones during the special operation. What tasks can the Orlan-10 accomplish?

▪️Conducting radio reconnaissance, intercepting enemy negotiations, videotaping areas where Ukrainian militants are deployed;

▪️ Sending SMS messages to mobile operator subscribers with instructions to lay down their arms.

▪️When radio signals are detected and negotiations are intercepted, a drone with video equipment is sent to the specified area, transmits the coordinates of the military infrastructure to artillery units which, in turn, fire at the enemy

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❗️US is going to open new visa slots for Indians

🗯 “India is the number one priority for Washington right now. We're opening visa slots in mid-November. By 2023 summer, we'll be able to take many cases. US has opened 100,000 slots for applicants of H&L worker visas to cut down the wait time,” Senior US Embassy official in Delhi said.

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry says summoned Latvian ambassador, expressed protest over dismantling of Soviet monuments

❗️The Swedish foreign minister claims responsible for explosions at Nord Streams remain unknown, and there will be no "speculation" on the topic.

▪️After a month-long investigation, the Russian Ministry of Defense has revealed that Britain’s Royal Navy took part in the planning, organization and carrying out of the Nord Stream attack.

▪️Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia wants answers regarding the mysterious “It’s done” iPhone message allegedly sent by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss to the US secretary of state moments after the sabotage attacks against the Nord Stream network in late September.

▪️The incident along the pipeline occurred in late September, when a series of powerful explosions rocked the Baltic Sea. The operator reported massive leaks of fuel and said that the damage to the network was unprecedented.

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

▪️Russian troops are carrying out a planned relocation to the left bank of the Dnepr River;

▪️Russian Forces repelled an attack by the Ukrainian Army and foreign mercenaries in the Kupyansk direction, eliminating over 90 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian troops thwarted an attempted attack by two reinforced Ukrainian platoons in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️The Russian Air Force shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 jet in the Nikolaev direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed three US-made AN/TPQ-37 radars in the DPR, Nikolaev, and Kherson regions;

▪️Russian troops destroyed two Ukrainian command posts;

▪️The Russian Air Force shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Zaporozhye region.

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📌 The latest statements from Russia's foreign ministry:

▪️Russia will announce at the G20 that it is expanding gas cooperation with Turkey, supply of large quantities of grain, fertilizers;

▪️Russia is to confirm its readiness to remain a supplier of food, energy resources to other countries at G20 summit;

▪️Lavrov will hold a series of meetings on sidelines of G20 summit in Indonesia

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🍗🙅‍♂️ “Hideous marketing blunder”: German KFC tells customers to mark Kristallnacht by “treating yourself.”

💬“It's memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!” a push notification message to customers on the anniversary of Kristallnacht reportedly read.

▪️The Nazis’ Kristallnacht took place on November 10, 1938, and is often regarded as the start of the Holocaust. At the time, mobs of Germans and Austrians looted and torched Jewish businesses, houses, and synagogues, leaving over 90 Jews dead.

▪️The fast food chain rushed to apologize, with its eagerness to undo the damage reflected in an all-caps message stating, “SORRY WE MADE A MISTAKE.” Deflecting the blame, the company faulted “a bug in our system” for the marketing debacle.

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❗️US annual consumer inflation slows to 7.7% in October - Department of Labor

🛢 🇳🇦 🇧🇼 🇨🇦 The recently retired Anglican Bishop of Namibia said that an African oil project by Canadian firm Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) represents a "new wave of colonialism''

▪️ The Right Reverend Luke Pato believes that a resolution against "companies that are drilling outside of their own countries" should be proposed at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).

▪️ The spiritual leader said that the project, which is to take place near several protected natural sites on the Namibia-Botswana border, is threatening the region’s nature, which he views as "a sin, and a serious one".

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❗️“Tough decisions have to be made, but justice will be restored, we will defend our land,” says acting Kherson Governor Vladimir Saldo, commenting on the planned relocation to the left bank of the Dnepr River.

▪️On Wednesday, General Sergei Surovikin said the relocation of troops was the most rational option in light of intelligence that the Kiev regime was planning to destroy the Kakhovskaya Dam, prompting the decision on November 9 to partially withdraw from Kherson. Commenting on the matter, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu added that the lives and health of Russian servicemen are always a priority.

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🇨🇬 The Congolese Foreign Minister has damned as 'hypocrisy' the diversion of grain supplies to Europe from Africa

"We have found out that... the majority of ships transporting Ukrainian wheat have been heading to European ports, and not to the ports of countries where, as they have said, a catastrophe will happen... There is a lot of hypocrisy in our world," Jean-Claude Gakosso told Sputnik.

❗️At the same time, talks about the fact Africans will die of starvation is an example of propaganda, the Congolese foreign minister emphasized.

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❗️Iran has agreed to an IAEA visit in November that will allow the agency to obtain answers regarding the origin of uranium particles at three undeclared sites, an IAEA report cited by British media said.

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⚡️ US authorizes transactions necessary to official business of Russian diplomatic or consular missions - Treasury