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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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🇺🇸 Remember those cool scenes from Top Gun: Maverick where Tom Cruise flew that F/A-18E/F Super Hornet like a bat out of hell?

🤷‍♂️ Well, it turns out the Navy's real-life fleet of F/A-18s hasn't been able to maintain basic readiness levels enabling them to perform at least one mission for more than a decade. The same is true for 25 other military aircraft types, according to a US government watchdog report.

👉 For more details click here.

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⚡️ Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, discussed various issues on the bilateral agenda, focusing on bolstering cooperation in political and economic spheres, including transport, during a phone conversation on Saturday, the Kremlin said.

💬 "A number of pressing matters on the bilateral agenda were discussed, with a focus on strengthening further cooperation in political, trade and economic fields, including transport and logistics," the Kremlin said in a statement.

The presidents also agreed to intensify contacts between the relevant Russian and Iranian agencies.

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🛸 Everything from computers to phones and photos were reportedly seized in a joint raid by the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations on the residences of a popular webmaster and ‘UFO’ researcher linked to the notorious Area 51.

👽 Joerg Arnu, whose site, dreamlandresort.сom, claims to offer an in-depth look at the conspiracy theories linked to extraterrestrial life, or UFOs surrounding the US Air Force military installation, was supposedly held at gunpoint by a team of officers at his Las Vegas home. His home in Rachel was similarly raided, according to reports.

👉 FULL STORY HERE

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🫡 Elon Musk has responded to naysayers of his new policy that Twitter employees come into the office instead of working from home, saying office attendance works well in his other companies, and that anyone who doesn’t like it can quit or be fired.

💬 “Let me be crystal clear, if people do not return to the office when they are able to return to the office – they cannot remain at the company,” Musk told staff at a meeting this week, with audio of his remarks leaked to media.

After a rebuttal from one employee, who pointed out that Twitter’s offices are not all in one location, and that workers wouldn’t always be in one given location, Musk countered by comparing the social media company to Tesla, and ordered employees to “maximize the amount of in-person activity.”

💬 “Tesla is not one place either, but you know, it’s basically if you can show up at an office and you do not show up at the office, resignation accepted – end of story,” he said.

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❗️Two unidentified vessels passed close by the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines before the underwater blasts there on 26 September, according to newly revealed analysis of satellite imagery, prompting further speculation regarding what Russia has condemned as an "obvious terrorist attack."

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

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 It appears that Washington has changed rhetoric about the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff urging negotiations before winter sets in and national security advisers holding talks with Moscow behind the scenes.

💭 "For some months now, there has been speculation in the West that the Biden administration would shift its policy somewhat in favor of peaceful negotiations after the midterms were over," David T. Pyne, an EMP Task Force scholar and former US Department of Defense officer, told Sputnik.

📉 "Reportedly, the Biden administration was fearful of engaging in peace negotiations before the US congressional elections earlier this week for fear of appearing weak risking major electoral losses including the loss of both houses of Congress," he continued.

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