❗️ An explosion was reported close to the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning

Initial reports suggest that at least 7 people were injured

Footage from the scene

❗️ Second blast reported in Jerusalem, following explosion at bus stop

📹 First footage from the scene

🗣 Israeli Interior Ministry official statement:

💬 "This morning, explosions occurred at two bus stops at the entrance to Jerusalem. According to the first estimates, we are talking about improvised explosive devices. Twelve victims with injuries of varying severity were delivered to the city hospitals. Details are being specified"

❗️ The number of people injured in explosions in Jerusalem has risen to 18; two are in serious condition, the mayor's office said

▪️ Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz is holding an emergency meeting right now

▪️ At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that more explosions are possible in Jerusalem. Bus stops in the city are currently undergoing extensive checks for explosive devices.

▪️ Police have raised the level of combat readiness in Jerusalem.

⚡️ Putin says Russia ready to expand work on supply of fertilizers to world markets

😡 Ukraine's SBU security forces raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kiev on Tuesday in what they described as efforts to neutralize supposed “subversive activities by Russian special services.”

▪️ The main target of the raids, the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was built in 1051 and is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it wasn’t the only church affected – Kiev regime forces also hit the monastery in Korets on Tuesday, alongside several other Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in the region.

▪️ Vladimir Legoida, a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, denounced the raid by Kiev regime forces as an “act of intimidation.”

💬 "Like many other cases of persecution of believers in Ukraine since 2014, this act of intimidation of believers is almost certain to go unnoticed by those who call themselves the international human rights community," Legoida noted.

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🇲🇱 The German armed forces, or Bundeswehr, which are a part of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA in Mali, will withdraw from the African nation in 2024, said German Cabinet spokesman Steffen Hebestreit

🗣 “The government has decided today to propose to parliament to extend the mandate for the Bundeswehr mission in Mali for the last time for a year in May 2023 in order to end this mission in a structured manner after 10 years,” the spokesman stated.

▪️ This comes as earlier this month, the UK, which is also taking part in MINUSMA, announced it would withdraw its forces from Mali six month earlier than planned.
Sweden and Canada, among other nations, have also decided to leave the West African country.

▪️ The Western countries' decisions to withdraw their forces from Mali take place amid continuing protests demanding that MINUSMA leave the country, with some of protestors reportedly accusing MINUSMA of undermining Mali's sovereignty

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❗️ The IAEA Director General said that he had held talks with the head of Rosatom in Istanbul on the creation of a protective zone around the Zaporozhye NPP

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❗️ UK Supreme Court rules Scotland cannot hold second independence referendum

🇪🇺 Brussels plans to soften the conditions of a price cap on Russian oil, US media reported, citing an internal EU document.

▪️ The EU proposed the introduction of a 45-days transition period before a price cap on Russian oil comes into full force. This “grace period” will be applied to oil loaded before December 5, which is the day the bloc is expected to ban Russian crude imports, and unloaded before January 19. The bloc also suggested a 90-day transition in the event of any potential changes to the level of the price cap.

▪️ The cap would also ban companies from providing shipping and other services like insurance, brokering, and the financial assistance necessary to transport Russian oil anywhere, unless it is sold below the agreed-upon threshold.

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⚡️ Air raid alert announced in Kiev

📹WATCH: Russian rocket artillery batteries training on Belarusian polygons (video courtesy of Russia's MoD)

Grad multiple launch rocket systems used in the special operation can shoot 40 rockets within 20 seconds - enough to destroy the entire enemy subdivision.

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❗️ Russia’s MoD has denied media reports about the alleged conversation between Gerasimov and the chairman of the NATO military committee, Bauer, on the movement of ships in the Black Sea

⚡️An air alert has been declared in all parts of Ukraine

📹 A resident of Mariupol is glad that her daughter can now study at school in Russian

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🇭🇷 🇲🇦 Morocco and Croatia draw 0-0 at World Cup

📹 President Putin has arrived at the CSTO summit

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