⚡️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.

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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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⚡️ The Hague court recognized Russian Pulatov, accused in the MH17 case, innocent and rejected prosecution's demand to place him in prison, judge says

⚡️Dutch court issues guilty verdict to three accused, acquits fourth in MH17 trial

While Russian Oleg Pulatov was acquitted, with the court rejecting the prosecutor office's appeal to put him in jail, two others, Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky, as well as Ukrainian national Leonid Kharchenko were found guilty by the Hague District Court in the downing of the MH17.

The verdict comes after years of controversial trials held in the Netherlands. Dutch judicial authorities willfully excluded the Russian side from investigations into the plane crash and consistently ignored evidence presented by Moscow.

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⚡️ Zelensky requested a phone conversation with Biden after the incident of a missile hit in Poland, but the conversation did not take place, US media says.

⚡️Girkin, Dubinsky and Kharchenko have been sentenced to life in Dutch MH17 trial

A Dutch-led Joint Investigative Team (JIT) formed in August 2014 to investigate the crash immediately accused Moscow of being behind the downing. Russia was not allowed to take part in the criminal probe, and any evidence provided by the country was ignored by the JIT.

⚡️ House Republicans announce Hunter Biden probe

🗣“The verdict of the Dutch tribunal [in the MH17 case] is what was expected - the conclusion of a farce masquerading as a trial,” Christopher C. Black, international criminal lawyer with 20 years of experience in war crimes and international relations, and a commentator on international affairs, tells Sputnik

“The investigating body never followed up the data provided by the Russian government as
well as other technical information establishing that neither Donbass nor Russian forces were involved either deliberately or accidentally. Since the plane was downed in the Donbass territory of Donetsk, it would seem logical that the Donetsk Republic would have charge of the investigation… But the Donetsk Republic was denied that role by the Kiev regime which claimed it took place in Ukraine territory and so assumed the role of investigator and then, under NATO, and especially American pressure, delegated the investigation to NATO, in the guise of the Dutch Safety Board, on the justification that the majority of the passengers were Dutch,” Black says. “Since then, what should have been an open, international and objective investigation has descended into a burlesque of deception, fraud, and cover up of mass murder by the NATO powers.”

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❗️House Republicans have announced a formal probe into the activities of Hunter Biden, citing possible criminal activities.

💬 "Today we're going to provide you with something that you all aren't used to with respect to congressional investigations, and that's evidence," James Comer said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday alongside Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans.

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💬 “…what Iran is going to end up doing is they are going to have to coordinate now their efforts with Russia to build some nuclear power plant inside Iran. And there is a conversation going on right now between Iran and China regarding some nuclear technology as well. I'm not talking about the transfer of the nuclear weapons technology. That is not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is the beginning of the establishment of a nuclear power plants that are being supported by Russia and China. What led me to this is the recent development that's taking place. Basically, when it comes down to this trio - Russia, China and Iran, because they are now coordinating their efforts on both sides on this strategic side of the geopolitical areas and also on the energy aspect of it. That's what led me to believe for the Iranians now JCPOA doesn't matter,” says Dr. David Oualaalou, a geopolitical consultant and former international security analyst.

🎧 Listen to more of Dr. Oualaalou's analysis in our podcast: Trump Announces 2024 Run, Missile in Poland, G20 Joint Statement

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