'Willing to Help Me Die, But Won't Help Me Live': Canadian Paralympian 'Offered Assisted Dying'

Retired Army Corporal Christine Gauthier, who sustained severe injuries during a training accident in 1989, had been trying to get the ramp fitted for five years, but to no avail. When the “shocked and in despair" Gauthier offered a detailed account of her worsening condition to a VAC case worker, the person reportedly said, “Well, you know that we can assist you with assisted dying now if you'd like.”

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❗️The alliance with Belarus has taken on a special significance in the face of unprecedented pressure from the West and its undeclared war against the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

▪️Shoigu praised "Belarus' determination to oppose the hostile course of the US and its allies, and Minsk’s readiness to jointly ensure the military security of the Union State."

▪️The minister also added that combat coordination efforts of Russian and Belarusian formations and military units are underway in Belarus.

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Scientists Find First Non-Avian Swimming Dinosaur in Mongolia

An international team of scientists has examined the remains of a dinosaur found in the southern Gobi Desert, at a place called Hermiin Tsav, and identified a number of unique features indicating a semi-aquatic lifestyle and active hunting for fish.

This is the first known non-avian dinosaur with such a body organization. Especially unusual is the fact that this species was not a marine one.

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⚡️ The Russian Embassy sent a note to the Foreign Office in connection with the detention of a Russian citizen, demanding London to explain the reasons for the arrest

⚡️ The G7 and Australia have agreed to implement a $60 per barrel price cap for sea-supplied Russian oil starting December 5, the EU Commission says. EU sources told reporters that the first revision of the price cap in the EU will be held in mid-January 2023.

Brazil Football Icon Pele Moved Into Palliative Care as Chemotherapy No Longer Works For Him

The 80-year-old legend has been undergoing the treatment since September 2021. Following the reports of Pele being moved to an “end-of-life palliative care” ward in the hospital in order to relieve his pain, many football fans, players and celebrities expressed their support for the Brazilian player.

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🇷🇺 🌍 Russia is ready to supply grain to the nations most in need, as well as completely replace Ukrainian products

🗣 “Despite the opposition of European regulators, Russia is ready to responsibly and conscientiously fulfill its obligations under international contracts regarding the export of agricultural products, fertilizers, energy carriers and other critical products,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large and head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, Oleg Ozerov, stated.

Taking into account Russia’s record 2022 harvest of 152.2 million tons of grain, the diplomat added that his country is “ready to provide free-of-charge grain supplies (500 thousand tons) to the countries in most dire need, as well as fully replace the Ukrainian grain, which accounts for only 2 percent of global production, at an affordable price to all interested countries.”

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Eight People Detained Over Theft of Banksy Mural Near Kiev, Police Say

The detained are residents of Kiev and Cherkassy, aged between 27 and 60, a local police chief said, adding that the mural has been transported to a police office in Bucha. Earlier this week, Ukrainian media reported that a Banksy mural was cut off the wall in the city of Gostomel in the Kiev region.

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Bacteria Use Humans to Avoid Antibiotics, New Study Reveals

For the first time ever, scientists have observed a sneaky trick bacteria use in order to bypass antibiotics treatment, and it turns out that the microbes actually use their very human hosts for this purpose.

According to new research led by Dr. Timothy Barnett, head of the Strep A Pathogenesis and Diagnostics team at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, based at the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, this is not least due to the overuse of antibiotics.

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🇲🇽🇺🇸 The Mexico-US border crisis is continuing despite the rollback of the “Remain in Mexico” migration program

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Leaner, Meaner, Costlier: All You Need to Know About the B-21 Raider

It's been over 30 years since the United States rolled out its last cutting edge strategic bomber, the wedge-shaped B-2 Raider. On Friday, Northrop Grumman and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin officially unveiled the B-21 Raider, a sequel of sorts to the B-2, revealing some of its specs and capabilities, as well as its projected price tag. Was it worth the wait?

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Russian MoD Journal Details What Will Happen if NATO Expands Into Nordics

Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership in May. Since then, 29 of the bloc's 30 members have ratified the two countries' entry into the alliance, with Turkey dragging out the process.

Russian officials have repeatedly warned of the security implications of the Nordic nations joining the Western bloc, both for Russia and the applicants themselves. Now, the Russian military's top theoretical journal lays out some of the specific ways Helsinki and Stockholm will be affected by their leaders' decisions.

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Russia's Shoigu Praises Belarus' Resolve to Stand Against Hostile US Politics

💬 "The Republic of Belarus has been and remains our trusted partner. This is especially important today, under unprecedented pressure of the collective West and the undeclared war against our countries," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during negotiations with with his Belarusian counterpart, Viktor Khrenin.

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Germany Reluctant to Surrender to US Pressure on Huawei Ban

According to a strategic paper of Germany's Economy Ministry, cited by US media, the government plans to impose higher requirements on suppliers of next-generation telecommunications equipment. In particular, companies may be banned for making false declarations, not supporting security audits, or failing to report or patch vulnerabilities promptly. It is also proposed to make it possible to prohibit goods made by companies from certain states.

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🇺🇸🇧🇷 US billionaire entrepreneur and the newly minted owner of Twitter Elon Musk said on Saturday that Twitter personnel could have given preference to leftist candidates during the 2022 presidential election in Brazil, without substantiating his claim.

Brazil held the first round of the election on October 2, with the main competition unfolding between outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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📹 The United Aircraft Corporation in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has manufactured and delivered another batch of new Su-35S aircraft to the Russian Ministry of Defense (video courtesy of Rostec).

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Veteran Paleocon Urges Washington Not to Let Kiev Drag US Into Unwanted War With Russia

As chief sponsor to Kiev in the ongoing Ukrainian security crisis, Washington has the right to tell Kiev when enough is enough as far as US arms deliveries are concerned, and that time is right now, says staunch anti-interventionist and veteran paleo-conservative commentator Pat Buchanan.

💬 “The US ought not dictate to Kiev when it should move to the negotiating track to end this war. But we Americans do have, given our indispensable contributions to the Ukrainian war effort, the right to tell Kiev when we believe that the risks of further fighting exceed any potential gain for us; and, if Kiev is determined to fight on, to give notice that Ukraine will be doing so without any more US munitions,” Buchanan wrote in a recent op-ed.

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🇺🇸 Elon Musk has launched a new poll asking Twitter users whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, should be pardoned.

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