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⚽World Cup Group E Round-Up:

Japan beats Spain 2-1

Germany beats Costa Rica 4-2

➡️Japan advances to knockout round as the winner of Group E, with Spain as runner-up. Despite its win against Costa Rica, Germany crashes out of second consecutive World Cup.

‼️ US Senate votes to force labor contract for rail workers to avert costly strike, measure now heads to US President Joe Biden

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🔺 "Europe building security not with Russia, but against it": highlights from Russian MFA brief on European security issues
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“The blast threw me away from the door”: A woman describes how the Ukrainian Army shelled a residential building

US Court Rejects Trump Effort to Block DOJ From Using Classified Records in Probe - Filing

A US appeals court terminated a special master review process that former President Donald Trump requested to block federal investigators from using classified records seized from his Florida residence in an active criminal probe, a court filing revealed.

"The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so. Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations. Accordingly, we agree with the government that the district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction, and that dismissal of the entire proceeding is required," the 11th Circuit Appeals Court said in the court document.

📹WATCH: Russian troops equipped with 82mm mortars and large-caliber machine guns eliminate Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups who were trying to raid the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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An F-35B stealth fighter collapsed following a landing gear failure on the runway of a US military base in Japan, reports indicate.

Footage of the incident which was posted to social media Thursday shows the jet wobbling while being towed before face-planting onto the tarmac at the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.

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

Facebook Failed to Detect Death Threat Ads Against US Midterm Election Workers

Facebook* failed to block 75% of ads containing death threats to election workers during the US midterm elections, researchers have found.

The ads were released by the researchers "on the day of or day before the 2022 US midterm elections" to test Facebook, Youtube and Tiktok's moderation capabilities.

*Meta is banned in Russia over extremist activities.

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Idaho College Murders: Investigators Backtrack on Whether Four Students Were Targeted

US police have backtracked their earlier remarks, stating now that it remains unclear whether four University of Idaho students had been targeted in a quadruple homicide in November.

The case, which has enraptured much of the US, has only prompted more questions as investigators have released little information on the murders.

Officials were alerted to the case on November 13 after students and housemates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and fellow student Ethan Chapin were found fatally stabbed after returning from a night out.

UN: Over 300 Million Will Require Humanitarian Assistance in 2023

This year saw the most vulnerable social groups hit the hardest due to an overall economic slowdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions. An estimated 24% more people will require help in 2023, however, in "the biggest humanitarian program” the world has ever seen.

The United Nations’ annual Global Humanitarian Overview released on Thursday estimates that around 339 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance and protection next year.

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🤨A new report has suggested that the European Commission is calling on EU member states to impose a price cap of $60 per barrel for oil imported from Russia.

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Not the Real McCoy, But Still: 'Quantum Wormhole' Created by Scientists

The study in question involved the creation of an entangled quantum system that essentially behaved akin to a gravitational wormhole.

Researchers in the United States have announced that they managed to simulate a phenomenon that has been described in quite a few works of science fiction but has yet to be encountered in real life – a wormhole.

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Scientists Find Out How Kids Become Victims of Cyber Grooming

Researchers from the V.P. Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry and the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (MSUPE) have conducted a large-scale study of the psychological mechanisms of cyber grooming, sexualized violence against children on the Internet.

According to experts, criminal statistics indicate that the number of crimes against children and adolescents has been increasing in recent years. This also applies to sexual abuse committed using the Internet.

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Elon Musk said that rapper Kanye West's Twitter account will be blocked again due to another violation of the rules on incitement to violence

Earlier Kanye West was widely criticized after doubling down on anti-Semitic comments in which the musician praised Adolf Hitler during an appearance on a US program hosted by Alex Jones.

🗣 “Well, I see good things about Hitler also, I love everyone and Jewish people are not going to tell me, ‘You can love us, and you can love what we’re doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we’re pushing with the pornography', but this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I used as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person never did anything good and I’m done with that. I’m done with the classifications. Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler,” said West

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💃 Finnish PM Sauna Martin, who earned the nickname "Party PM", overreacted to an Australian TV host when asked about disagreements over photos and videos of Marin dancing earlier this year and asked her to comment on the "outrage" it had sparked.

🗣 The 37-year-old Finnish PM fired back, saying: “I want to act like my age. I meet my friends, I go dancing, I go out if I have a free time, even though I don't have that much free time,” she said

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📹 The Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a new anti-ballistic missile defense system; it has been introduced to protect against attacks by means of air and space attacks

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❓🐾 Have you ever been envious of animals? Before answering, take a look at these cuties

😴 Jerboas in the Moscow Zoo have fallen asleep for the winter

🛏 They hibernate in refrigerated accommodations, in personal houses covered with foam rubber.

😳 97 of 230 transgender inmates, or about 42% of them, were sentenced to jail due to sex crimes, official Scottish figures show. 44 of them were jailed for rape and 14 forced under-age children to engage in sexual activity. Another 11 people were convicted of sexual assault and seven for possessing or making images of child abuse.

Based on statistics, it is impossible to understand whether these people are biological men or women, but six of them are held in women's prisons.

🗣 Former Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill, commenting on that issue, said that "these statistics show that the fears of women’s rights campaigners are right," adding that there is a need "to consider placing such prisoners in separate facilities.”

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