🤔 Two unidentified vessels passed within the vicinity of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines prior to the underwater blasts there on September 26, according to newly-revealed satellite imagery analysis, prompting further speculation regarding what Russia has blasted as "obvious terrorist attack."

👉Here is what we know about the two ships so far

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🗣 Entrepreneur billionaire Elon Musk said that the major media will try to do everything possible to prevent his social network from developing citizen journalism.

💬 "As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, the media elite will try everything to stop that from happening," Musk tweeted.

▪️ Musk also said that the mainstream media will flourish, but will witness the "destruction" of its stranglehold on the supply of information because of increased competition from citizens.

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🇨🇳 China successfully launched Tianzhou-5 unmanned cargo spacecraft, which is expected to dock with Tiangong space station and conduct a resupply mission, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Saturday.

💬 "The Long March-7 Y6 rocket, carrying Tianzhou-5, was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site at 10:03 p.m. Beijing time [02:03 GMT]. Ten minutes later, unmanned cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-5 successfully separated from the rocket and entered a designated orbit," the message read.

▪️ The CMSA noted that the launch was successful as Tianzhou-5 would soon dock with Tiangong space station.

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing Russian servicemen continuing their intensive preparatory course at the Belarusian Armed Forces' training grounds

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🦖🌍 The unique activist raptor dinosaur Frankie charms delegates and other visitors to the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt

The dinosaur representing the UN Development Program, urges conference goers: "Don't choose extinction."

Earlier, the prehistoric eco-activist managed to chat with Achim Steiner, the UN's global development chief, who was photographed with the local scaly celebrity.

The dinosaur's purpose is to reinforce the need for urgent action in tackling climate change, its creator Boaz Paldi explained

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🇹🇷🇮🇱 Turkish President Erdogan signed a decree appointing Sakir Ozkan Torunlar as Turkish Ambassador to Israel after the restoration of diplomatic relations between the countries.

In late August, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said that Turkey had decided to appoint an ambassador to Israel and restore diplomatic relations between the two states. Torunlar previously served as ambassador to Palestine.

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📹 Russia's MoD has revealed footage showing Airborne Troops' mobilised personnel finishing their combat training and unit cohesion courses in rear area of the special military operation

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❗️A briefing from Russia's MoD on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian troops repelled attacks by the Ukrainian Army in the Krasny-Liman direction, eliminating over 190 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️The Russian Army thwarted attacks in the LPR and in the Kharkov regions, eliminating more than 160 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian Forces eliminated more than 85 mercenaries in the South Donetsk direction;

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

▪️Russian troops destroyed an ammunition depot in the Zaporozhye region and a weapons and military equipment depot in the Kharkov region.

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❗️ Air raid alert announced in Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Poltava regions

⚡️ Air raid warnings have been issued in Kiev

❗️Up to 280,000 tons of Russian mineral fertilizers remain arrested in European ports, Moscow says.

▪️Moscow is dissatisfied how the agreement with UN on fertilizers is being implemented, saying that it is necessary to provide access to the product for the word markets, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Vershinin said in a statement.

▪️Russia has yet to make a decision the grain deal extension, and while deciding on the matter, Russia will take into consideration the implementation of the Russia-UN memorandum on mutual understanding in the field of Russian agricultural exports, Vershinin added.

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🔺 What are three main reasons for the Russian withdrawal from the parts of Kherson?

🔺 What will Ukraine win and lose from occupying the right side of the Kherson region?

🔺 Can Ukraine really keep up with this reliance on rapid advances? Where may it lead?

👉 Discover the answers to the questions above and much more on the topic when you read Sputnik's interview with Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense

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🇧🇾 The Ukrainian military continues to mine territories along the Belarus-Ukraine border, the State Border Committee of Belarus has revealed. The latest incident was recorded November 9.

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🎭 Milan's La Scala opera house has refused to cancel a performance of the Russian opera "Boris Godunov" next month despite a request to do so from the head of the local Ukrainian consulate.

💭 Riccardo Chailly, La Scala's music director, expressed dissatisfaction with the request, saying there was a lack of objectivity with respect to art. He added that the opera house will also perform Tchaikovsky in January, and later, a concert dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the death of Prokofiev, a famous Soviet-Russian composer.

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📍Sergey Lavrov was spotted wearing a Cambodian national green shirt as he headed to the ASEAN gala dinner. Along the way, he spoke with the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong.

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🇨🇴 “I want to thank the prime minister for Colombia's leadership as ASEAN chair."

President Biden has now twice referred to ASEAN summit host Cambodia as Colombia. The first time, he told the press he was “heading over to Colombia.”

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