🇪🇬 This weekend, Egypt – and the whole world – celebrates the centenary of one of the most significant archaeological discoveries – the finding of Tutankhamun's Tomb, the first known almost intact Ancient Egyptian royal burial. The discovery led to what became known as "Tutmania" and a rise in interest in Egyptology in general.

Sputnik recalls the history of Tutankhamun's Tomb and its treasures.

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Former Reagan Aide Reveals How Congress Could End Ukraine Crisis, ‘Win Nobel Prize’

Congress could strip the Biden White House of its effort to pull the country deeper and deeper into the Ukraine quagmire, and potential nuclear war with Russia, with one move: withdrawing from NATO. Former Reagan administration aide Bruce Fein reveals how.

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Over Half of Japanese Critical of PM Kishida's Cabinet: Poll

A survey showed that the support rate for Kishida’s cabinet dropped to 33.1% in November from 37.6% a month before, while the disapproval rating rose past 50% for the first time since Kishida took in October last year.

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Venezuelan Oil Exports Good News, But Won’t Buy Much Goodwill For US From Caracas: Energy Expert

💬 “The goal is to feed the market with additional supply of crude, given the entry into force of the EU ban on Russian oil and…the G7 oil price cap,” Dr. Gal Luft, who serves as co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, a US-based think tank, told Sputnik in an interview.

At the same time, the energy expert believes that even if Caracas doesn’t end up seeing any substantial economic gain from Chevron’s return (with a US official saying profits earned will “go toward repayment of debt”), renewed production will still serve as an important political victory for the Venezuelan government.

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📹 Ukrainian troops shelled the center of Donetsk on Sunday, with one of the shells hitting a residential building. Sputnik correspondents were at the scene at the time of shelling and helped residents extinguish the fire.

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Kim Jong-un Reveals ‘Ultimate Goal’ of North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Research

North Korea has made dramatic strides in the development of ultra-long-range missile technology and nuclear weapons in recent years in a bid to create a strategic deterrent which can enable the country to defend against its South Korean and US adversaries.

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📹 “They can’t take it for long and just refuse”: A Ukrainian POW on how almost half of the soldiers refused to go into battle.

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Russian Region Bordering Baltics Has Been Repeatedly Probed by NATO Drones, Governor Reveals

💬 “We have never spoken extensively about this, but there have even been attempts to illegally cross our border with military drones and other aircraft. Such ‘peaceful engagement’ was in full bloom even before the start of the special military operation, and clearly the situation has become even more aggravated,” Pskov region governor Mikhail Vedernikov said.

The governor also listed off other acts of "good neighborliness" by the Baltic countries’ governments, including Latvian and Estonian authorities’ “empty statements about territorial claims” against Russia, and the “massive and targeted” issuance of EU passports to residents of areas of the Pskov region near the border.

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Iranian Parliament Backs Membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The Iranian parliament voted on Sunday to back the Islamic Republic's entry to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, state news agency reported. Iran has been seeking to upgrade its observer status to full membership of the Asian security organization, which comprises China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and four Central Asian nations.

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⚡️The European Organization for Nuclear Research has stopped the operation of the Large Hadron Collider prematurely because of the risk of energy shortages

"I survived war against the German Nazis, but haven't see anything like this before": A Donetsk pensioner shows her scars after she was wounded in her bedroom by Ukrainian shelling.

🦭 Experts from the Federal State Budgetary Institution 'Zapovednoe Podlemorye' - with the help of quadrocopters - filmed seals at rest in Chivyrkuysky Bay, Lake Baikal. There are vast areas of ice which have never appeared there before:

🗣 "By the end of the month, the ice shell will grow, and the number of seals will decrease. They will move to open Lake Baikal, preparing for the beginning of the winter ice age of life," the experts explained

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"It's f***g FSB!": Ukrainian neo-Nazis sift the civilian population in search of "FSB agents" denounced by neighbors.

⚡️EU Council approves decision to make sanctions circumvention a criminal offense.

The European Commissioner for Justice previously stated that adding attempts to circumvent sanctions to the list of criminal offenses in the EU opens the way to confiscate assets belonging to Russian businesses.

The Ministry of Finance is considering the possibility of exchanging Russian assets frozen abroad for funds of foreign investors frozen in Russia, and Russia's Minister of Finance has said that the topic is in the initial stages of consideration.

Soon after Russia began its special operation in Ukraine, the western coalition froze $300Bln of Russian assets with the total amount of Russian assets frozen by the EU amounting to $71,3Bln, mostly in Belgium.

Russia has repeatedly denounced the freezing of assets as theft.

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Russian Su-25 attack aircraft destroy Ukrainian camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles (video courtesy of Russia's MoD)

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🗣 Russia and the United States have a channel to discuss the topic of risk management - especially nuclear - at intelligence agency level, at the meeting in Ankara, the Ukrainian settlement was not discussed. If necessary, CIA Director Burns and SVR head Naryshkin can talk again, Elizabeth Rood, US Chargé d'Affaires in Russia, said.

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🇮🇳🏍 How many people can ride a bike?

You might suggest one or two, but this scene from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh proves that as many as five can fit on one!

Warning: this is not safe, so we do not advise you try it.

❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Tokayev's visit to Russia as first destination after his reelection proves the mutual importance of bilateral relations;

▪️Kremlin on reports that Russia allegedly plans to leave Energodar and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant: no need to look for any signs when there are none;

▪️Kremlin on Vatican's idea of mediation between Moscow and Kiev: Russia welcomes such a notion, but such sites cannot be demanded by Ukraine now

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