🇺🇳🇸🇩 🌍 African nations are at risk of starvation because of the effects of climate change, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said.

🗯 "If drastic measures are not taken urgently, hunger will increase as climate change is felt everywhere, most intensely in vulnerable areas, such as Sudan," Zitouni Ould-Dada, deputy director of the FAO, said.

▪️ He also called for Africa to become self-sufficient in food production, adding that fighting poverty and hunger globally “takes political will”.

▪️ According to the UN, the Horn of Africa is facing the "longest and most severe drought in recent history". The World Food Program reported that around 15Mln people in Sudan would be in need of aid next year, which is the highest number for more than 10 years.

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⚡️Grain deal will be extended for 120 days, sources told Sputnik

⚡️Explosions in Poland were due to one or two Ukrainian S-300 missiles that 'veered off course' - media reported

⚡️President Erdogan announces extension of grain deal by 120 days.

The decision was made following the results of quadrilateral negotiations with the participation of Russia, Ukraine, UN and Turkey, Erdogan said

Ukraine's president Zelensky - who previously maintained that the fallen missiles in Poland were Russian - has done a quick U-turn, saying he is no longer 100 percent certain.

🗣"I do not know what happened this time, we do not know 100 percent. We cannot say what type of rocket it was whose wreckage fell on the territory of Poland"

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⚡️Erdogan thanks Putin for his 'will and contribution' to extension of grain deal

❗️The latest statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

▪️After contact between Russia and the US, Ankara has received information received information from intelligence that the sides will refrain from using nuclear weapons;

▪️The Turkish president hopes meetings between the heads of the Russian and US intelligence services will continue;

▪️Erdogan is discussing with Putin the creation of a nuclear power plant similar to Akkuyu in Sinop, Turkey;

▪️On the possibility of a meeting with Assad brokered by Russia: we can evaluate it when the time comes.

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❗️Stockholm’s arbitration court has ordered Finland’s state-run energy company Gasum to pay Gazprom Export more than $311 million in debt, and recognized the legitimacy of the Russian president’s decree concerning payment for gas in rubles.

▪️The court also obliged the parties to continue negotiations on the contract to resolve the situation with further gas supplies, Gazprom said.

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⚡️Russia allows technical prolongation of grain deal without any changes in terms and scope, Russian Foreign Ministry says:

▪️All issues related to the removal of the restrictions on export of Russian food and fertilizers must be resolved within 120 days;

▪️Any attempts to use the Black Sea humanitarian corridor for military provocations will be stopped.

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⚡️ Moscow does not want to sever diplomatic relations with US, but if Washington makes the decision, this will happen, Russian Deputy FM says

▪️The preconditions put forward by Kiev to start negotiations with Moscow are unacceptable, Russia's position on the protection of its territorial integrity is unchanged, the diplomat added.

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⚡️UK Chancellor Hunt announces new budget “to tackle the cost of living crisis and rebuild our economy”

▪️The British chancellor of the exchequer has announced a swathe of tax rises to fill a £54 billion "black hole" in the government budget.

🌎 The 21-member APEC forum starts on November 18 in the group's first in-person meeting in four years.

Who is attending, and what is on the agenda?

👉 Here’s what to expect

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Kiev clearly does not want any negotiations, the goals of the special military operation in Ukraine must be achieved;

▪️Moscow is open to negotiations with Ukraine, this position is well known to Kiev;

▪️The Kremlin on the change in Washington's rhetoric: The US can do a lot, including make Kiev more compliant in negotiations;

▪️On the extension of the grain deal: Moscow has received assurances from the UN that the work on export of Russian goods, including fertilizers, will be finalized;

▪️No discussions about prolonging the deal indefinitely.

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

▪️Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian fuel and rocket engines workshops in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen and two armored vehicles in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Russian forces eliminated and wounded up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction.

▪️Russian troops took under control the road between Pavlovka and Nikolsk in the DPR.

▪️In order to intimidate and better “motivate” the personnel of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, neo-Nazi battalion militants shot five Ukrainian servicemen in front of the formation.

▪️The Russian Army destroyed two Ukrainian Uragan MLRS in the Kharkov region.

▪️Russian forces destroyed two US-made AN/TPQ-50 radars in the DPR.

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⚡️ Unknown assailants made two attempts to attack Russia’s Embassy in Poland on November 12, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

⚡️ Hague court rules that MH17 plane shot down by Buk air defense system from Pervomaysky. The MH17 case deals with non-international armed conflict in Ukraine, judge said.

The Hague court calls the Almaz-Antey group competent in the MH17 case, but stated that its connection with Russian authorities questions its credibility.

⚡️Russia will study Dutch court's verdict on MH17 case - Foreign Ministry

⚡️The Hague court believes that all intercepted negotiations involving the defendants in the MH17 case were conducted, they are reliable - judge

🗯 "Planned to nuke 1 of his own cities & blame Russia for it": Zelensky's denial of being responsible for the missile strike in Poland did not go over well with the Indian part of Twitter.

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😧 Charlize Theron makes netizens angry over claiming that Afrikaans is a “dying” and “not very helpful” language

🗣 "There's about 44 people still speaking it. It's definitely a dying language; it's not a very helpful language,” Theron, a South African-American actress said in a recent SmartLess podcast.

The claim provoked a storm of reactions on social media, with users pointing out in comments, hundreds of which were written in…surprise, surprise…Afrikaans, how the actress couldn’t have been more wrong in saying this.

While some netizens were shocked that Theron was “spreading false information,” others were quick to stand up for the language.

“Afrikaans is nowhere near dying. It's such a vibrant an beautiful language...” one user wrote.

Another netizen appeared to have a bit of advice for the actress: “Ai Charlize, I'm a fan but best you stick to a noscript when you go public. You lose credibility when you make up facts about Afrikaans, meisie.”

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❗️The Hague court said it’s unclear as to who gave the command to launch the Buk missile, but claimed that it was delivered from Russia to Ukraine, and then taken back to Russia. The judge said in that the defendants in the MH17 case were not a single group, as prosecutors claimed, but were related to the use of the Buk air defense system.

▪️In 2016, the Dutch-led Joint Investigative Team (JIT) claimed that a Russian-made Buk 9M83 surface-to-air missile was used to shoot down the airliner, alleging that the missile system was actually brought to Donetsk from a Russian military base on the same day the aircraft was destroyed.

▪️The accusations prompted the Russian military and Buk missile system maker Almaz-Antey to carry out their own comprehensive probes, with the Russian weapons manufacturer examining forensic evidence, declassifying top secret information about its military hardware, and carrying out a complex recreation of the events leading to the plane’s destruction involving ballistics, flight trajectory and other pertinent information. In September 2016, Almaz-Antey released its findings, concluding that the Buk missile used to destroy the Malaysian airliner was an older variant built in the 1980s, and which had been phased out of Russia’s arsenals in a modernization campaign - while the same variant was pretty much widespread in the Ukrainian military.

▪️Moscow attempted to provide these findings to the JIT, which ignored them and continued to rely on its own "extensive comparative research," including the "expert opinion" of Bellingcat, a western intelligence front posing as an "open source intelligence research" service.

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