📹 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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👮‍♂️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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NATO ‘Running Low’ on Weapons for Ukraine as 20 of its Members Are ‘Pretty Tapped Out’

The alliance of western countries intent on continuing to funnel military and financial assistance to Ukraine is beginning to run low on weapons for this purpose. As Washington and its NATO allies persist in fanning the flames of the Ukraine conflagration, this dogged policy is increasingly devouring the modest stockpiles of artillery, ammunition and air defenses of some of Europe’s more modest armies.

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Russia Determined Not to Sell Energy Resources to Those Who Set Price Caps: Kremlin

"There are so many subtleties that we need to consider. So, following the course set by the president, we can quite confidently say that nobody in our country will shoot themselves in the foot. We have already learned to be reasonable and pursue our own interests only," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.

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Over 60% of Japanese Support Acquiring Counterstrike Capability, Poll Shows

The phone survey, conducted over the weekend, found that 60.8% of respondents endorsed the move, while 35% opposed it. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in early October that Tokyo would consider every option to ensure the protection of its citizens, including the possibility of retaliatory strikes.

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US Has ‘Maneuvered Itself Into Position to Suck Investment Out of Europe,’ Top EU Observer Grumbles

As energy-intensive European industries continue to flee the region (just as Moscow warned they would), a growing number of European officials and media pundits seem to be coming to the realization that US policy has never been about defending them and the Ukrainians, but Washington's eternal strategic competition with Beijing. Read more here.

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Kim Jong-un's Daughter Makes Second Appearance

The North Korean leader and his daughter held a joint photo session with North Korean defense industry workers who are responsible for the development, assembly and launch of the Hwasong-17 ballistic missile.

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