📹 "Our roof is ruined": a resident from Donetsk shows what is left of her home after a Ukrainian shelling

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🌎 The world's population is headed for another milestone - 8 billion people. Neo-Malthusians from the Club of Rome to the World Economic Forum have spent decades warning that drastic measures are necessary to curb population growth.

But are their fears justified? Or is it all just a ploy to keep developing countries down?

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🇷🇺 Ex Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik that his inspection group of military advisers in the zone of the Russian military operation in Ukraine had been working with military developers to create light attack drones for troops of the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, incorporated into Russia in October.

▪️ These tests could be conducted right at the test sites of the republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, he added.

▪️According to Rogozin, the group is in close contact with over 10 Russian military developers from different cities that could initiate serial production of military drones.

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🇸🇾 The US and its allies have reportedly looted another 94 truckloads filled to the brim with Syrian oil and food, with at least three separate convoys leaving the country for Iraq.

▪️America's control of the northeastern third of Syria deprives the country of 90 percent of its oil riches and much of its most fertile lands, and helps Washington prevent Damascus from rebuilding after a brutal foreign-backed conflict.

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📹 "The blast wave knocked out the glass - everything flew out": the Ukrainian military fired at a residential building in Makeyevka

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😬 Democrats have managed to maintain control of the Senate, narrowly, following a tight midterm race.

▪️ On Saturday Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada managed to win her race for reelection which was challenged by Republican Adam Laxalt, securing 50 seats and therefore an effective majority, for the party.

👉 On Saturday the United States Democratic Party was able to keep control of the Senate while defeating Republicans in the midterm elections. The win is not only surprising considering the favorability challenges the party faced amongst voters such as inflation, fearful perceptions of rising crime, and the threat of an economic recession..

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🇷🇺 📸 Russia’s FM Lavrov has arrived to the sidelines of the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Phnom Penh

😐 US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk says Twitter's monthly subnoscription service is coming back and new sign-ups could be possible as soon as next week.

😨 Twitter users have been experiencing problems with signing up for the Twitter Blue service.

🗣 Asked by a Twitter user when the subnoscription service is coming back, Musk tweeted on Saturday "Probably end of next week."

▪️ The Twitter Blue paid monthly subnoscription service adds a blue checkmark to a user’s account and offers early access to select new features.

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📹 “The blast wave knocked out the glass - everything flew out”: The Ukrainian military fired at a residential building in Makeyevka

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📌 WATCH LIVE: Russian FM Lavrov Holds Press Conference Following East Asia Summit in Cambodia

🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took the stage at the East Asia Summit, where the audience in attendance included a US delegation led by President Joe Biden.

📸 The official spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, posted on her Telegram channel a photo from Lavrov's speech at the summit. The image shows the American delegation, including Biden, present in the hall during the speech of the Russian foreign minister.

▪️ Earlier, Zakharova wrote that the meeting itself had to start late, as "they were waiting for President Biden."

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⚡️An air alert has been declared in all regions of Ukraine

✈️ 💥 Two planes crashed into each other mid-air Saturday during a Dallas air show that was packed with families marking Veterans Day weekend, with both planes plummeting to the ground in a fiery explosion.

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🛢 The oil row over last month’s decision by the alliance between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-cartel producers (OPEC+) to slash oil production indicates that countries are ready “to push back against or question US influence,” even if it contradicts their “immediate” economic aspirations, an American media outlet has suggested.

💬 It quoted unnamed European diplomats as saying that the US should not perceive the oil cartel’s move as defiance of Washington, which should admit that Saudi Arabia “is looking after its own interests.”

▪️ The diplomats added that America “had become accustomed to having acquiescent allies in the Gulf Arab region and that has changed."

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❗️ Kiev tested nasal analgesic drugs developed by the West for NATO, at multiple labs on the Ukrainian-occupied territories in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), a source tells Sputnik.

💬 "A scheme was uncovered in the Lugansk region, where Western pharmaceutical companies were conducting blind tests of the latest drug-containing nasal anesthetic" for the needs of Ukraine and its NATO allies, the source said.

▪️ According to the source, after the tests, the drugs were used by Ukrainian troops.

▪️ Meanwhile, a lecturer at the Lugansk Medical University, the chief sanitary doctor of the LPR, who participated in various medical tests before 2014, told Sputnik that the West has been carrying out lab tests in Ukraine in order to cut costs on volunteers and medical specialists.

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Biden said the US will compete with China, but in a way that competition does not escalate into conflict

▪️ Earlier, Washington published a new national security strategy, which called China "the main geopolitical challenge" for the United States.

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🇺🇸Biden’s Customs and Border Protection commissioner has resigned after being pressured by Homeland Security amid a record number of migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border.

💬“The president has accepted the resignation of Christopher Magnus, the commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection,” a White House spokeswoman declared.

▪️Joe Biden nominated Magnus in April 2021, and he was the first Senate-confirmed leader of the agency since 2019.

▪️Over the past fiscal year, Customs and Border Protection has seen a record 2.7 billion border apprehensions, leading some Republicans and the union representing border patrol agents to criticize Magnus’ tenure.

💬“I am submitting my resignation effective immediately but wish you and your administration the very best going forward,” Magnus wrote in a letter to the US president, offering no reason for the decision

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⚡️ Israeli president instructs Netanyahu to form a government, reports say