❗️Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin described the G7 plan for a price cap on Russian oil as "ridiculous."

💬 The idea was "not only not feasible, I think it's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard," said Mnuchin during a panel at the Milken Institute's Middle East and Africa Summit.

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💬 “The greatest responsibility for people in the US is to oppose our own government, the source of the misery of the world. You only have to put a list, list down all the people who have died in US direct wars or proxy wars that the US armed and funded from Vietnam to Korea to even something most people don't even know about, the killing of a million communists in Indonesia and what took place after that. The repression, the million people who were like choking the rivers with their bodies. It was so intense. Or Central America. Or Libya. The disaster for African peoples by that war under a Democrat. So, long story short, we have to understand that the greatest threat to peace in the world, as Martin Luther King said, is our own government,” says Gloria La Riva, a coordinator of the Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee and co-founder of the Hatuey Project.

🎧 Listen to more of La Riva's analysis in our podcast: Zelensky Pushes For Escalation as Support for Peace in Ukraine Grows

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⚡️ Russian ombudswoman says demanded Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR top official condemn execution of Russian prisoners by Ukrainian forces

⚡️ US agrees with Russia that nuclear war cannot be won and it should not be started - White House

⚡️ Russia’s Foreign Ministry has demanded that international organizations condemn the execution of Russian PoWs by Ukrainian forces and conduct a thorough investigation, adding that by ignoring such crimes, the West becomes an accomplice.

▪️The ministry also vowed that the atrocities will not go unpunished.

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📹 Another missile regiment in the Orenburg region is being equipped with the Avangard strategic missile system, featuring a hypersonic glide vehicle.

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🚢 🇷🇺 🌍 The first ship carrying Russian fertilizers blocked in European ports will leave for Africa from the Netherlands on November 21, Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Rebeca Grynspan announced

The first country to receive Russian fertilizers will be Malawi, which will get it via Mozambique.

The UNCTAD head stated that shipments of these fertilizers would soon be expanded to other African nations in need, adding that there were over 300,000 tons of fertilizers blocked in EU ports.

👉 West Africa is next in line to receive Russian fertilizers, according to Grynspan.

The grain deal, originally scheduled to expire on November 19, was renewed for another 120 days on Wednesday. It is part of a UN- and Turkey-brokered package agreement that unblocks exports of Ukrainian and Russian grain and fertilizers via the Black Sea.

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‼️ US AG Merrick Garland has appointed career prosector Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee investigations into the January 6 events and the storage of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Garland noted during a Friday presser that the appointment was made in light of former US President Donald Trump's decision to run in the 2024 election, as well as US President Joe Biden's "intention to be a candidate."

Biden has yet to officially declare his bid for the next presidential cycle.

"I have concluded it's in the public interest to appoint a special counsel," Garland declared. "I am confident that this appointment will not slow the completion of these investigations."

Smith previously served as an acting US attorney in Tennessee and public integrity chief with the Justice Department. Since 2018, he served as a Hague war crimes prosecutor.

🇦🇫 The Pentagon has struggled for years with accurately accounting for the equipment it provided to Afghanistan and the ANDSF, according to a new report.

💭 The report states that the US Department of Defense “did not meet its own oversight requirements for sensitive equipment transferred to the Afghan government and ANDSF, and had not inventoried 60% of defense articles with enhanced monitoring requirements - those containing sensitive technology - between May 2019 and April 2020 due to security constraints and travel limitations.”

🤷‍♂️ In other words, the US government doesn’t really know which equipment, or how much of it, was left behind in Afghanistan, but it was at least $7.1 billion worth.

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👀Trump Responds to Garland's Special Counsel Appointment, Vows He 'Won't Partake'

Shortly after news broke on the development, Trump slammed Garland's decision, stressing he would not "partake" in the "unfair" twin probes.

"I have been going through this for six years — for six years I have been going through this, and I am not going to go through it anymore," Trump said in an exclusive Fox News Digital interview. "And I hope the Republicans have the courage to fight this."

"It is not even believable that they’re allowed to do this. This is the worst politicization of justice in our country."

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‼️Explosions reported in Ukraine-controlled Zaporozhye

👫 The force of human superstition coupled with the desire to spice up one’s sex life has put sea turtles inhabiting a Panama peninsula on the brink of extinction.

🐢 Eggs of the species, marked as “vulnerable” on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, are being illegally harvested.

Convinced that the eggs possess powerful aphrodisiac qualities, poachers snatch them up straight from the beach to sell in town. One egg could go for anything from 75 cents to a dollar.

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‼️Founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud

A jury convicted Holmes in January on four charges that she had misrepresented the firm's finances, business endeavors and technology to investors