👉 🌍🏭 November 20 is Africa Industrialization Day. Sputnik asked several African and Russian experts to share their views on recent achievements within the continent’s development process, its challenges, as well as prospects

🗣 What Africa needs for industrialization and economic growth is infrastructure. This is the "reason why the African Union has 16 flagship projects it hopes will catapult Africa into a healthy rate of growth and development," said Mikatekiso Kubayi, a researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue at the University of South Africa

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🇯🇵 Japan's former prime minister Yoshiro Mori commented on the Ukraine crisis during a political gathering in Tokyo earlier this week, saying that "Ukraine's President Zelensky [is making] a large number of Ukrainians suffer."

Mori also lashed out at Japanese news outlets, saying their “one-sided” reporting on the war in Ukraine gives him the impression they “only rely on reports from Europe and the United States".

🗣“Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is leaning one-sidedly toward the United States,” Mori said. The veteran politician believes that “the one who could play a role of helping settle the current situation would have been former prime minister Shinzo Abe”. Abe was fatally shot during a campaign event in July.

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⚡️Kiev continues its provocations in order to create a threat of a man-made disaster at the nuclear power plant, 11 shells were fired on the territory of the station on November 19

⚡️ IAEA head calls to immediately stop shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP – statement

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

▪️Russian troops eliminated a Ukrainian artillery battalion in the Kharkov region that fired at residential areas of the Belgorod region; four US-made M777 systems were destroyed;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed a Motor Sich workshop for aircraft engines in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian troops thwarted an attack of the Ukrainian Army in the South Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian forces eliminated more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️The Russian Army thwarted an attack of Ukrainian troops in the direction of three settlements in the LPR;

▪️The Russian Air Force destroyed two HIMARS MLRS in the DPR.

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🐈✂️ "This is a barber shop I would work in for free!" Cat-grooming video goes viral on social media.

🐱 Netizens around the world were entranced by a white kitten sitting quietly with its eyes closed as a barber styles its fur. Yes, that's right - instead of hissing and spitting and climbing the wall, this is a moggie that genuinely loves to be pampered.

📍Some netizens were a bit worried about damage to the cat's whiskers, correctly pointing out that they are vital for the animal's coordination. But don't worry: a closer look shows the hairdresser "cutting the air" around the whiskers.

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👉 🌍🏭 November 20 is Africa Industrialization Day. Sputnik asked several African and Russian experts to share their views on recent achievements within the continent’s development process, its challenges, as well as prospects

🗣 What Africa needs for industrialization and economic growth is infrastructure. This is the "reason why the African Union has 16 flagship projects it hopes will catapult Africa into a healthy rate of growth and development," said Mikatekiso Kubayi, a researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue at the University of South Africa

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📹 Arabian horses take part in the reception of high-ranking guests ahead of the Qatar World Cup opening ceremony at the Al Beyt Stadium in Doha, Sputnik correspondent reports

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump has said he sees “no reason” to return to Twitter after Elon Musk reactivated the ex-POTUS' account.

💬 “They have a lot of problems at Twitter, you see what’s going on. It may make it, it may not make it,” he added.

Earlier, Musk published a Twitter poll asking netizens whether he should reverse Trump’s ban or not. With more than 15 million votes cast, 51.8% of the votes were in favor of reinstatement.

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❗️Authorities identified the suspect in the deadly Colorado club shooting as a 22-year-old male, and found "at least two firearms", US media reports

🌎⚽️ The 2022 World Cup has kicked off in Qatar with an impressive opening ceremony at the Al-Bayt Stadium:

▪️Qatar's Sheikh Tamim bin Hammad Al Thani welcomed the world in Arabic;

▪️Morgan Freeman, Robbie Williams, and BTS' Jung Kook headlined the World Cup opening ceremony.

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