Jordanian Prince Hassan bin Talal is attending an international "Mediterranean dialogues" conference in Rome. I asked him about Russia's possible role in solving the Syrian refugee crisis. "I think this is an issue that we have to discuss in the context of the refugees agencies, and I believe, certainly, that there is a strong feeling of "triple standards" when it comes to the issue of refugees in the case of Russia-Ukraine confrontation and in the context of the 51 million refugees in our region. It's going to be huge pressure on all of us [to increase the attention to it]." - said Prince Hassan bin Talal. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik

⚡️Russia appalled at French Foreign Ministry's remark on creation of 'special tribunal for crimes by Russia' - Foreign Ministry

Gasoline Price Drop: Why It's Too Early for Biden to Pop Open the Champagne

The price of gasoline has fallen to $3.47/gallon ($0.92/liter) nationally, according to the American Automobile Association. Addressing an audience in Bay City, Michigan, President Joe Biden took the credit for low gasoline prices. "This isn’t accidental. We’ve been on this for months," he claimed. Still, it's not Biden's policies that sent gasoline prices down, according to Dr. Gal Luft, co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and a senior adviser to the United States Energy Security Council, who lists four reasons behind the price drop. So is it possible to say that the decline has finally happened, or should we expect something else?

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Observations via the James Webb Space Telescope allowed scientists to discern the presence of clouds in Titan's atmosphere, which seems to confirm the existing predictions about "seasonal weather patterns” there.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now procured a set of images of a planet located somewhat closer to Earth.

The images in question depict Titan, the largest moon orbiting planet Saturn and the only planetary body beside Earth in the Solar System that has seas and rivers (though in Titan’s case, the seas and rivers are comprised of hydrocarbons rather than water, as NASA points out).

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🦎📹 WATCH: This reptile walking on water will definitely blow your mind

🔸 In the video shared by Sushant Nanda of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) on Twitter, a lizard was seen falling into the water from the top of a wooden stick and then coming back up in a truly magical way.

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Can't Deliver by Christmas: UK's Royal Mail Clashes With CWU Union

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the main trade union representing people working for telephone, cable, and digital subscriber lines and postal delivery companies in the United Kingdom.

It has 110,000 members in Royal Mail, as well as more in many other companies.

Britain's post may grind to a halt this Christmas following industrial action by its workforce during its busiest period.

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🤔A bromance or muscle-flexing? Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron shook hands for almost one minute. However, their next greeting caught on camera was pretty different.

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⚡️US President Joe Biden signs bill to avert nationwide rail strike after Congress passes resolution

⚡The EU has reportedly reached a compromise on the introduction of a price cap on Russian oil at $ 60 per barrel.

📹WATCH: Russian troops using an Orlan 10 UAV reveal the ways of transporting ammunition for militants in the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD).

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⚡️Wikileaks founder Julian Paul Assange has reportedly appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to protest his extradition from the UK to the US.

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Schrödinger's Files: Secret Service Has Hunter Biden Gun Docs They Denied Possessing

Secret Service admitted the existence of documents connected to Hunter Biden`s alleged illegal ownership of a gun, even though they previously denied possessing the files.

According to media reports, representatives of the Secret Service approached firearms shop owner where Hunter Biden had illegally bought a gun, and demanded the paperwork connected to this transaction.

The gun shop owner refused to comply, suspecting that the Secret Service officers wanted to hide Hunter’s ownership of the firearm.

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🤔Syrian state media has challenged the US version of events concerning the killing of the leader of the Daesh* group Abu al-Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi on Wednesday.

▪️Damascus argued that it was the Syrian government army that liquidated him and not the Syrian opposition (FSA) alongside the US military, as Washington claimed.

▪️Moreover, according to some Arabic media Abu al-Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurash and Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, known as Saif Baghdad are the same person.

▪️According to the Syrian state media, the latter was eliminated during the security operation carried out by the Syrian Arab Forces, in cooperation with civil groups from Daraa, against Daesh* in the northern neighborhood of Jasim city on October 15, 2022.

*Daesh (IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries.

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Kanye West's Twitter Account Only Lasted One Month — What Happened?

Hip-hop star Ye (formally Kanye West) only had his Twitter suspension lifted in late October before being banned again as early as October.

He posted a claim of malpractice against a Jewish doctor who treated him for mental illness and called out the number of Jewish executives in the entertainment and media industries.

Rapper Ye has been banned from Twitter for the second time in weeks after voicing his admiration for Adolf Hitler.

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💬“There has to be some sort of logic in the whole thing and the definite form of oil embargo on Russian oil, which means that no more oil transport of Russian oil would be ensured, would be financed by any EU related institution which will formally enter into force on December 5th, so early next week. And here we are. So the next days will really be interesting because if they don't reach a compromise on that, a major demand might not materialize,” Dr. Karin Kneissl – former minister of foreign affairs of Austria and an energy analyst said.

🎧Listen to more of Kneissl’s analysis in our podcast: 'Strategic Intimacy': How Europe Got Screwed by the US.

📹WATCH: Newly-mobilized Russian personnel undergo mine detection exercises (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD).

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft in combat action as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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“Once, a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle went out there and fired a shot at my house”: A DPR pensioner describes how the Ukrainian military acts towards civilians.

📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing how Russia's newly mobilized citizens practice their tank-operating combat skills.

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“The European Union has opened, if you want, a two-front conflict or two-front economic war - one is against Russia and the other one is against China, because China has already been declared a rival and not anymore a partner. The Doctrine of Change through trade for nearly a decade and then, as of May 2019, the EU changed its doctrine and ever since has considered China as a systemic rival,” Dr. Karin Kneissl – former minister of foreign affairs of Austria and an energy analyst – said.

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Twitter censored bombshell Hunter Biden laptop scoop back in 2020 in run-up to presidential election

New Twitter boss Elon Musk tweeted on Friday a link to the account of independent journalist Matt Taibbi after the commentator shed light on Twitter’s controversial move to censor the explosive story by posting what appeared to be redacted emails between Twitter staff.

The decision was made “at the highest levels of the company”, Taibbi said, although he added that it was without the involvement of the site's co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey. 

According to Taibbi’s report, Twitter's high-ranking executives deliberately marked the story as hacked as they looked for an excuse to censor it.

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