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🤨 Newly surfaced reports have indicated that Juventus' entire board of directors - including President Andrea Agnelli - have resigned following an "extraordinary board meeting" on Monday.

Juventus has not yet addressed the reports, and no exact reasoning for the resignations have been detailed.

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A Ukrainian soldier who was taken prisoner near the settlement of Makeevka spoke about the conditions he experienced while he was detained.

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‼️Air raid warnings issued in three regions of Ukraine - ministry

Boeing Offers to Supply Ukraine With High-Precision Ammunition for Missile Systems, Reports Say

Boeing aims to supply Ukraine with high-precision ammunition for ground missile systems that would allow it to strike far beyond the lines of contact, media reported, citing industry sources. According to reports, the Pentagon is studying Boeing's proposal amid declining US and allied military stockpiles as Ukraine faces a growing need for more sophisticated weapons as the conflict drags on. Earlier Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo containing weapons for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia.

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Combat use of Russian mixed battery of "Buk-M3" and "Buk-M2" (video from Russia's MoD)

As a result, attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles, shells of the HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system and Tochka-U ballistic missiles were shot down.

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‼️Italy's Ruling Parties Drafting Resolution to Keep Supplying Arms to Kiev in 2023 - Sources

Representatives of the parties of Italy's ruling majority - Brothers of Italy, League and Forward, Italy - are working on a draft joint parliamentary resolution to continue comprehensive, including military, assistance to Ukraine in 2023, sources in the Italian parliament told Sputnik.

The resolution is to be presented on Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies, where the issue will be discussed.

Earlier, the opposition forces - the Five Star Movement, the association of the centrist Action and Living Italy parties, as well as the Greens and Left Alliance submitted three separate resolutions on the issue to the lower house.

Simultaneously, lawmakers of the Brothers of Italy and League presented in the Senate an amendment to the decree discussed there on a number of issues not related to Ukraine, which stipulates the continuation of arms supplies to Kiev next year.

The Tgcom24 news channel reported Monday evening that there is a proposal to make the following addition to the decree: “The permission to transfer military equipment and materials in favor of the government authorities of Ukraine has been extended until December 31.”

Special forces of the DPR discovered the crew of an easel anti-tank grenade launcher SPG-9 during night reconnaissance using a thermal imager, and destroyed it. (video by DPR People's Militia)

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Three Reasons Why Washington's Alliances the Weakest They've Ever Been

The White House sounded triumphalist on Sunday, claiming on Twitter that under US President Joe Biden, Washington's alliances and partnerships are the strongest they've ever been.

Is that really the case?

Watch: Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Volcano Erupts for First Time in Nearly 40 Years

Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began to erupt on Sunday for the first time since 1984, scientists monitoring the volcano said.

According to scientists at the US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in Hilo, the eruption began just before midnight on Sunday.

Webcams mounted on the summit caldera of Mokuaweoweo showed a vast fissure had opened in the crater, from which fountains of lava were pouring forth.

NASA Shares Stunning 'Earth Eclipse' Photo as Orion Sets Distance Record

The US space agency NASA said on Monday that Orion had reached a distance of 268,554 miles from Earth, or roughly 40,000 miles beyond the moon’s orbit.

As it neared the acme, Orion’s camera snapped a never-before-seen image of the moon eclipsing the Earth - typically, we see the opposite here on Earth, as the moon eclipses the sun in a solar eclipse or the Earth eclipses the moon in a lunar eclipse.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Names 'Gaslighting' Word of the Year

The term "gaslighting," invented in 1944 to describe the process of manipulating people into questioning their own sanity is the "term of the Year," the Merriam-Webster Dictionary announced on Monday.

"'Gaslighting' is our 2022 Word of the Year," Merriam-Webster said in a Twitter message.

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Washington Claims US Does Not Foresee Much Oil From Venezuela After Chevron Gets Extraction Permit

The United States does not foresee big shipments of oil from Venezuela after the US Treasury Department granted Chevron an extraction permit, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said during a press briefing.

“'l will let Chevron speak for this particular issue of sanctions relief, but our expectation is there won't be a lot of oil coming out of there. It will have to be shipped to the United States,” Kirby said on Monday. “It remains to be seen how much we'll get drilled down there. It'll be up to Chevron to decide that.”

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Western Reaction to Russia's Anti-LGBT Bill ‘Interference in Internal Affairs’ - Envoy

Russia considers the reaction by the collective West to its Decree on Traditional Values to be interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country, Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov said.

Stepanov was summoned to the Canadian Foreign Ministry earlier on Monday in connection with the embassy's lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT)-related tweets, which were posted in response to the statement released by a coalition of Western states on Russia's law banning the promotion of LGBT propaganda.

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Danish Churches Cancel Services Amid Energy Crunch

Churches around Denmark have been forced to cancel services because of the ongoing energy crisis.

In the Diocese of Lolland-Falster, all 108 churches have been given permission to move or cancel services to conserve energy, and many have already made use of this arrangement, especially in the sparsely populated countryside. However, specialists have warned of the risks associated with unheated churches. Denmark has about 1,700 churches which are 500 years old or older, and this raises specific problems.

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📹 Russia successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk spaceport, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

▪️ The previous launch of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from Plesetsk took place on November 2, when another Russian military spacecraft was put into orbit.

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📸 The US space agency NASA said on Monday that Orion had reached a distance of 268,554 miles from Earth, or roughly 40,000 miles beyond the moon’s orbit. As it neared the acme, Orion’s camera snapped a never-before-seen image of the moon eclipsing the Earth - typically, we see the opposite here on Earth, as the moon eclipses the sun in a solar eclipse or the Earth eclipses the moon in a lunar eclipse.

▪️The photo recalls the famous “pale blue dot” photo snapped by Voyager 1 as it passed Neptune’s distant orbit in February 1990, in which the Earth appears as little more than a bright star, indistinguishable from other cosmic specks of light.

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🇮🇳🇷🇺🛢 India bought about 40% of all Russian Urals oil shipped by sea in November, ahead of other states which purchase the oil, reports cited Refinitiv and traders' data as saying.

📍 At the same time, shipments of Urals to Europe, which was previously its largest consumer, in November amounted to slightly less than a quarter.

⛽️ On December 5, the G-7 countries are planning to introduce a price cap for Russian oil; however, according to official statements, India does not plan to join this initiative. Russian President Vladimir Putin previously said that Moscow will not export oil to countries that adopt the price cap.

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Musk: Apple Threatening to Remove Twitter From App Store or Request Changes

When asked by a subscriber, Elon Musk confirmed that Apple is threatening Twitter's presence or demanding changes to the social media platform. "Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why."

Replying to the tweet, users supported Musk. "Boycott Apple! We need another phone", and "Apple doesn’t support free speech." they said.

Musk also announced that “the Twitter Files on free speech suppression” will be published soon on Twitter itself. "This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead." the billionaire stated.

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🥴 A Biden administration official, one of the US federal government’s first gender non-binary workers, has been accused of stealing luggage from the Minneapolis airport back in September.

▪️ Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, was charged with theft after allegedly snatching a Vera Bradley suitcase reportedly worth $2,325 from the baggage claim at the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16, according to the court.

▪️ Brinton, who uses they/them pronouns, was caught on a surveillance video grabbing the luggage and removing the ID tag identifying the owner, the filings state.

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