🇭🇺🇪🇺 The EU was unable to reach an agreement on an €18 billion aid package for Ukraine after Hungary’s veto on Tuesday.

Earlier, speaking at a conference in Budapest, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said he is not willing to put Ukraine’s interests before those of his own country.

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📹 Vassily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, said he would not listen to the "bilious rhetoric" of the permanent representative of Ukraine, and left the chamber.

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⚽️🇲🇦🇪🇸 World Cup latest: Spain is out, beaten on penalties by Morocco 0-3

On December 10, the Morocco national team will meet in the quarterfinals against the winner of Portugal-Switzerland match.

Indonesia Bans Sex Outside Marriage, Even for Non-Citizens

🚫 In a bid to finally do away with the Dutch-era criminal code, the new law sets a 12-month jail term for adultery or sex outside marriage. At the same time, those found involved in adultery will only be prosecuted if they are reported by a spouse, parents, or their children.

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⚽️🇲🇦🇪🇸 Moroccan fans celebrate in Paris following Morocco’s stunning upset of Spain on penalty shootouts

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‘Peace Not War…Except Ukraine!’ Rep. Greene Rips Neocons, Dems Ahead of Audit Ukraine Hearing’

💬 “The House Foreign Affairs Committee and the GOP House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing of my Audit of Ukraine Resolution, H.Res. 1482. Will they prevent the American people from finding out where their hard-earned tax dollars are going in Ukraine? If so, bad mistake,” Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said.

The congresswoman also took an apparent swipe at the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which has spent years paying lip service to anti-interventionism and a series of liberal causes, but have voted strictly with the rest of their party when it came to money for Ukraine.

💬 “Climate change, peace not war, save the planet, make love not war, rage against the machine…Except Ukraine!” the politician quipped.

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‼️US Senate to hold classified briefing on Ukraine tomorrow - majority leader

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🔺 Next, Dr. Piers Robinson joins us to talk about the fate of journalism as Julian Assange appeals to the European Court of Human Rights
🔺 Also, we discuss the post-Thanksgiving increase in the number of COVID cases

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🇮🇳 India may surpass Japan as the world’s third largest economy by 2030, according to new forecasts

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‼️A three-judge panel sentenced Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Tuesday to serve six years in prison in a corruption trial that has engulfed much of the South American nation.

A lifetime ban from holding public office was also handed down.

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‼️Ukrainian troops fired six rockets on Donetsk - DPR Office in JCCC

‼️Air raid warnings issued in several regions of Ukraine

📹 “I fell down on the ground near the wall”: A resident of Donetsk explains how he survived under Ukrainian shelling

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📹 “We went through a great school of life”: A demobilized student from Donetsk spoke about how his life changed over nine months of war

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Beijing Rips ‘US’s Old Trick of Hyping China Threat’ as DoD Projects Four-Fold Jump in Chinese Nukes

A recent Pentagon report has claimed that China plans to grow its nuclear arsenal to some 1,500 warheads by 2035. China's defense ministry retorted the claims on Tuesday, calling on Washington not to engage in baseless "speculation," and to instead "review and reflect on its own nuclear policy" before "pointing fingers" at the PRC.

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‘We’ll Talk About This Later’: EU’s Borrell Sweeps Aside Security Guarantees for Russia

The EU's top diplomat has given another pearl of a speech, dismissing Russia's demands on security guarantees in Ukraine, and suggesting that Moscow could be taken to the court and be forced to make "reparations" payments to Kiev for its military operation in the country. What are the security guarantees Russia is looking to get?

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How G7 Price Cap Started Disrupting Global Oil Flows While Failing to Slash Russia's Earnings

Demostenes Floros, senior energy economist at CER-Centro Europa Ricerche, said that any increase in oil costs in the EU at a time when it is hurt by inflation and an unfolding recession will have a negative impact on the bloc's economy. Floros explained that "43% of EU inflation is related to energy prices, while only 17% of US inflation is due to energy prices and this is a very big difference between the European Union and the United States."

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‼️Georgia's runoff election called for Democrat candidate Sen. Raphael Warnock

US Imports From Russia Doubled From September to October, Trade Data Shows

Data on the US-Russia trade deficit shows that in September, the US imported $332.1 million worth of goods from Russia, but in October, it imported $732 million in goods - a $400 million increase.

While specific data from October was not yet available, September data showed fertilizer was the largest US import, even greater than that seen in February. Iron and steel, as well as nonferrous metals, have also formed a sizable part of US purchases from Russia.

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The relevant committees of both chambers of Congress have agreed on the proposed US defense budget, which is estimated at $847.3 bln in FY2023.

The draft includes a provision that Washington will seek the "exclusion of the Russian Federation" from a number of international organizations, including the G20.

What else is in the budget bill?

▪️The proposed legislation contains an initiative to impose sanctions for participation in gold and foreign exchange transactions with the Russian Federation

▪️ Allocates over $6 billion for the "containment" of Russia in Europe

▪️ Establishes a permanent ban on the exchange of information with the Russian Federation on missile defense systems

▪️ Requires a reduction of dependence on Russian fuel at all bases in the area of responsibility of the European Command of the US Armed Forces

▪️ extends the ban on military cooperation with Russia for another five years

▪️includes the allocation of an additional $800 million to Ukraine in 2023

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