Top Hungarian Diplomat Slams European Parliament for Politicizing Rule-of-Law Row

The European Commission proposed in September that the Council of the EU freeze 7.5 billion euro ($7.8 billion) in EU budget funding for Hungary, citing corruption, after the EU executive triggered the rule-of-law conditionality mechanism against it in April.

The European Parliament voted 416-124 on Thursday in favor of keeping the freeze on, arguing that 17 remedial actions agreed by Brussels and Budapest were not sufficient to address "the existing risks to the EU’s financial interests," even if implemented fully. The Council has until December 19 to make a decision.

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China’s Xi Pledges to Shore Up Ties With DPRK to Promote ‘Regional and Global Peace’

Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed Beijing’s intention to continue to strengthen relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “Changes in the world, the times, and history are now taking place in an unprecedented manner,” Xi told North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in a telegram in response to a letter sent by latter in October congratulating Xi on his reelection as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

The message highlighted the “common understanding” between Beijing and Pyongyang on important issues, including “the course of political settlement” on the Korean Peninsula and the need to safeguard “peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world.”

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Iran’s Jews Condemn Anti-Government Protests

Despite its back-and-forth exchanges of acrimony with its arch-enemy, Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran is also home to the second-largest community of Jews in the Middle East. The Tehran Central Jewish Committee – an umbrella group representing Iran’s Jewish organizations, has issued a statement condemning recent anti-government violence and unrest and expressing its support for the government.

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Federation of German Industries Fears Corporate Exodus Due to Energy Сrisis

“The German business model is under enormous stress," CEO of Federation of German Industries (BDI) Tanja Gonner told German media on Saturday, adding that "one in four German companies are thinking of relocating production abroad."

Such sentiments are fueled by soaring prices, disruptions in supply chains, aftershocks of coronavirus-triggered lockdowns in China and the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark US federal law that unlocks billions of dollars in subsidies for new technologies and sustainable growth of the US economy. BDI views the initiative as a grave risk to Germany's industries.

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Rats Can Vibe to Music, New Study Reveals

Did you think only humans can bop their heads to the rhythm and feel those beats? A new study reveals that rats are actually able to vibe to music, particularly Mozart, Lady Gaga, and Queen.

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📹 Russia's MoD releases footage of a BTR-82A in action as part of the special military operation.

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🗳 Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which supports Taiwanese independence, lost the local elections, according to official results from the island's Central Election Commission.

The Chinese Nationalist Party gained control of 13 cities and counties. Earlier, Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as head of the DPP after the major defeat, Taiwanese media reported

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👉 Follow our LIVE UPDATES on the Ukrainian crisis

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👮‍♂️Shooting in Atlanta, Georgia: One killed, five wounded.

The incident occurred in the US city of Atlanta, Georgia. The shooting was the culmination of a dispute which had started after security officers and off-duty policemen ushered a group of young people out of the Atlantic Station shopping mall.

🗣 "We have one deceased on scene, and, as of right now, we have five victims shot, at area hospitals," police spokesman Lt Germain Dearlove said

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The United States and its NATO allies have persisted in collecting and sending an increasing amount of weapons to arm the Kiev regime, while emptying their own arsenals, according to sources cited by a US media report.

👉 What other problems does the western coalition face because of providing weapons to Ukraine?

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🌌 Trying to solve the fundamental mystery of dark matter, a group of researchers chose an old gold mine in Lida, South Dakota, burrowing underground to a depth of almost a mile, or 1.6 kilometers, to block out all background noise.

The most important element of the Stanford underground research complex is liquid xenon, located inside two titanium tanks equipped with detectors capable of detecting tiny bursts of energy potentially emanating from a dark matter particle colliding with a xenon atom.

🗣 "Our job is to get some chunk of matter, which is very clean and very quiet from a particle perspective, and in which we can instrument and be able to detect when there was a particle interaction," Aaron Manalaysay, the project's physics coordinator, told media

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WATCH LIVE | Football fans gather at Al Thumama Stadium in Qatar for Morocco vs Belgium match

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🇹🇿🇰🇷 Tanzania and South Korea have agreed to forge a partnership that will merge the countries' start-up ecosystems

▪️ The Tanzania Start-up Association (TSA) and the Korean Start-up Forum (KSF) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to promote a mutually beneficial partnership between both bodies.

🗣 “This kind of collaboration with the KSF will pave the way to foreign direct investment, technological and knowledge transfer, and create a space for Tanzanian start-ups to learn, grow, and find market opportunities for their products and services in South Korea,” said TSA chief executive officer Zahoro Muhaji.

▪️Both nations have trade well with each other over the past 25 years. Recently, however, there has been a significant increase in exports from Tanzania to South Korea with an annual rate of 13.4 percent.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The young generation of Western politicians sometimes chases public reaction, but professionalism will eventually prevail anyway, priority will be given to serious people;

▪️Peskov on European Parliament resolution on Russia: there is overflowing Russophobia and hatred of Russia, but it is not legally binding;

▪️Russia has noticed the lack of professionalism in the European Parliament, maybe Russophobic sentiments will be replaced by something else, or perhaps an epiphany will come;

▪️The European Parliament bases its work on emotions, Russia has not taken its decisions to heart;

▪️Russia and Turkey have disagreements on the situation in Syria, but the level of relations between the countries allows these to be settled through negotiations;

▪️Russia's position is not to trade in oil and gas with countries that introduce a price ceiling

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

▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 100 foreign mercenaries in the DPR;

▪️Russian forces repelled a counterattack by the Ukrainian Army in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Russian troops destroyed a HIMARS ammunition depot near Dnepropetrovsk;

▪️The Russian Army thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian troops to attack in the LPR, eliminating up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️The Ukrainian Army made unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in the area of Ploshchanka and Chervonopopovka in the Krasny Liman direction;

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted an Excalibur missile in the Sumy region; Russian forces destroyed four Ukrainian weapons depots in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian troops eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed six Ukrainian command posts the Kherson and Kharkov regions and in the DPR.

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