🤔Why G7's Muddled Plan to Cap Russian Oil Prices is Bursting Apart at the Seams

The EU failed to agree on price caps on Russian seaborne crude oil again on Monday, even though the mechanism is due to enter into force on December 5.

What's behind the controversy, and has the plan been reasonable from the start?

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 US advances to knockout stages after beating Iran in 1-0 match

"The commanders use us as cannon fodder”

📹WATCH: Ukrainian troops complain to their government about the conditions of military service.

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NATO Chief Stoltenberg Claims Constructive Dialogue With Russia Not Working

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the constructive dialogue with Moscow, which, according to him, the alliance had been building for many years to strengthen the NATO-Russia Council, is currently dysfunctional.

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💬“These corporations are set up to deal with logistics and personnel. And the government bases the military, provides a fixed contract with that company and then they wash their hands of the whole situation and say this is between the company and their employees. And typically these bases, like when I was in Iraq in the middle basically of a war zone, we brought foreign nationals in provided by Kellogg, Brown and Root,” Director for Veterans for Peace Garett Reppenhagen said, commenting on media reports that thousands of workers have allegedly been trafficked into jobs on US military bases by private contractors.

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Turkey May Launch Syria Ground Operation at Any Moment, Presidential Spokesman Says

Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin stated in an interview with the national press that Ankara may start a ground operation in Northern Syria and Iraq when it sees a need.

"The time, scale and boundaries of the operations of the Turkish Armed Forces are determined by Ankara... The operation can begin tomorrow, next week, even later, at any time. The situation is being assessed by the Turkish military and intelligence," Kalin said.

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

Russian 3D Digital Twin Modeling Could Improve Oil Production

According to scientists at Volgograd State Technical University (VolgSTU), the developed methodology of digital twins will increase the strength of steel ropes used in oil extraction without the need for expensive preliminary testing.

Russian scientists have used computer modeling to discover a solution to one of the oil industry's principal headaches.

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Traffic Jam: Chinese Academics Find Starlink Satellites Routinely Break Space Safety Rules

Elon Musk has laid out plans to launch tens of thousands of small satellites into orbit to facilitate the Starlink global high-speed internet service, but the proposal has raised eyebrows of many space-faring countries, including the US military.

A study recently published in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Radio Engineering has determined SpaceX routinely disregarded some of the basic rules of orbital safety with its Starlink satellites. If China doesn’t follow suit, it risks being left behind in the rapidly accelerating new space race.

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There is no evidence that Tehran intends to develop nuclear weapons, reviewing its participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Vladimir Yermakov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department, said in an interview with Sputnik.

💬"Iran has been and remains a conscientious participant in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The conclusion of the JCPOA in 2015 helped to finally and irrevocably remove all the questions that the [International Atomic Energy Agency] had to Tehran at that time...After that, for several years Iran remained the most verified state among agency members. No deviations from its obligations were identified...There is no evidence that would indicate Tehran's intention to ever reconsider its participation in the NPT and start developing a nuclear explosive device." Vladimir Yermakov said

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A footage of Russian forces performing combat training in Belarus

The fighters improve their shooting skills by hitting targets that simulate fire points and manpower of a mock enemy.

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⚡️🇵🇰 At least 21 people injured in a blast that targeted a police patrol in Quetta city, Pakistan's province of Balochistan.

According to preliminary data, a suicide bomber set off an improvised explosive device near a polio vaccination site, which was supervised by police.

Firearm-related deaths are the highest they have been in the United States in nearly 30 years, newly released data has revealed

A study released Tuesday by JAMA Network Open has detailed that there were 1,110,421 deaths caused by firearms between 1990 and 2021, a figure that accounts for intentional and accidental deaths as well as suicides and homicides.

According to the study, gun deaths in the United States reached a low of 10 per 100,000 people in 2004, but by 2021 that number had risen more than 45% to 14.7 deaths per 100,000 people. The study showed a 40% increase in homicides and a 17% increase in suicides compared to 2004 levels.

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“My father was on the way to my house, but he didn’t make it”: A DPR resident describes how he lost his family as a result of Ukrainian shelling

🔭A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals never before seen on Earth in a 15-ton meteorite found two years ago in Somalia.

▪️The minerals were detected from a tiny piece of that meteorite, barely 70 grams, which was sent to the University of Alberta (Canada) for research.

▪️It is believed that there is a possibility of finding even more minerals if enough samples are obtained, said Chris Herd, a professor at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and curator of the Meteorite Collection.

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Satellites Used Against Russia in Ukraine May Become Legitimate Targets

Quasi-civilian satellites used by Western countries to support the Ukrainian military throughout the conflict may become legitimate targets for Russia, Vladimir Ermakov, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's non-proliferation and arms control department, has told Sputnik.

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📹WATCH: Russian Grad MLRS carrying out combat tasks in the LPR (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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⚡️Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin dies aged 96 - reports

Washington's Approach Could Destroy Ukrainian State, Ex-Pentagon Adviser Macgregor Says

Col. Douglas MacGregor, a former senior adviser to then-US Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, thinks that Washington's approach to the conflict in Ukraine can destroy the Ukrainian state. In addition, he said: "It will also demolish the last vestiges of the postwar liberal order and produce a dramatic shift in power and influence across Europe, especially in Berlin, away from Washington to Moscow and, to a limited extent, to Beijing."

MacGregor also believes that the US actions will lead to an increase in Russian military power after the end of the conflict in Ukraine - the opposite result from what Washington expected.

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Beijing Warns US Against Interference in Sino-India Ties

🇮🇳🇨🇳 The report suggests that Beijing has been careful in handling the Ladakh border standoff, in a bid to prevent the crisis from “harming other areas of its bilateral relationship” with New Delhi.

A total de-escalation of the situation in the eastern Ladakh region has yet to be achieved, however.

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