📹The video has emerged showing the aftermath of the explosion in Istiklal street

⚡️Turkish Interior Minister and the Turkish Justice Minister have arrived in Istanbul in connection with the explosion in Istikal street

❗️Turkish authorities consider the Istanbul explosion a terrorist attack - vice president

⚡️The number of injured in the explosion in Istanbul has risen to 81, with two in critical condition, the country's vice president has said.

Sputnik correspondent shares photo from the area of the Taksim square

📹WATCH: Russian T-80 and T-82 tank crews manned by mobilized troops attend their training course in the rear area of the special military operation in Ukraine (video is courtesy of Russia's MoD)

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🏆Russian film "100 Minutes" directed by Gleb Panfilov and based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich won the top prize at the 44th Efebo d'Oro international film festival in the Italian city of Palermo, the festival's organizers told Sputnik on Sunday.

💬"Panfilov is a master of cinema, he filmed only the most necessary. The film based on the story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich contains eternal poetry where suffering, freedom and humanness are intertwined," the jury said also highlighting great acting in the film.

The movie tells the story of a Soviet soldier who was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during the Second World War and sentenced to 10 years in a Soviet forced labor camp.

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⚡️Woman suspected of causing Istanbul explosion, Turkish Justice Ministry says

📹 “The area is shelled every day”: A man came to pick up his elderly mother from a house damaged by Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk

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❗️The US and NATO are trying to militarize the Asia-Pacific region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh on Sunday.

💬Washington and its NATO allies "are trying to lay claim to the Asia-Pacific space that has developed for several decades around ASEAN initiatives, around which an inclusive, open, and equal structure of security and cooperation has been created,” Lavrov said.

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🤔Europe only supports Ukraine because of US pressure, Scholar says

After the US midterms passed, the White House announced another military package for Ukraine. However, the US public seems to be torn on the issue, growing tired of pumping money and weapons into Kiev.

Sputnik discussed Washington's backing of Kiev and any possible policy reversal with Joe Siracusa, a US politics expert and professor of history and diplomacy at Curtin University, Australia.

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📹WATCH: Russian servicemen provide residents of the Zaporozhye region with humanitarian aid (Video is courtesy of Russian Defense Ministry)

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🤔 The US continues “to fan the flames” of the Ukraine conflict by investing heavily in “the war industry,” a US-based expert believes.

🗣 In a nod to the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine, he pointed out that most Americans are “not on board with their government’s strategy of pouring endless weapons into Ukraine’s war with its nuclear-armed neighbor and hoping for the best.”

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13 November tragedy in Istanbul is, unfortunately, far from the only terrorist attack to occur in Turkey.

Have a look at Sputnik's brief overview of probably the most infamous acts of terrorism that have taken place in Istanbul over the past decade

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