🇮🇳 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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IATA Head: Western Countries Should Prepare to Resume Flights Over Russia

🛫 Western countries should start preparing for the resumption of air traffic over the territory of Russia, said William Walsh, Director General of the International Air Transport Association.

🗣 "We should be looking to reopen Russian airspace to have it accessible to all airlines to transit through the traditional Siberian flights so that Europe can access Asia in the most efficient way," William Walsh said, as quoted by British media.

The Western powers suspended their flights through Russian airspace following the start of the special operation in Ukraine

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🛢After the EU concluded an agreement to set a ceiling on prices for Russian oil at $60 per barrel, Moscow decided to consider possible options for responding to the introduction of EU and G7 restrictions on prices for Russian oil

What are these options?

Read about it in Sputnik's article

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🇬🇧 The UK must urgently increase its aid to drought-stricken East African countries, former secretaries of state for international development and the heads of the country’s leading humanitarian agencies have said in a joint letter to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

🗣“Although a full-scale famine is yet to be officially declared, what we are seeing on the ground is a famine in all but name. Despite the rapidly mounting death toll, the international response is woefully underfunded and the UK has failed to do its bit,” the letter read.

▪️They stated that over 28 million people need immediate humanitarian aid in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, while more than 7 million children are malnourished across the region. At the same time, British aid to these nations is one-fifth of what the country managed to provide in 2017, when the region was hit by a devastating famine.

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Biden: "They'll construct a second fab here in Phoenix to build chips, 3 nanochips, the 3 nanochip, chips that are 3 nano — any — you know what I'm saying. Nano, nono, I don't know."

- Lays, Doritos, Pringle’s - which of them are nanochips?
- Nano, nono, I don’t know

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⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry on draft US defense budget: attempts to exclude Russia from G20 destined to fail, most countries will not support them

🇨🇳🇷🇺 Trade turnover between China and Russia increased 32% from January to November. In the first eleven months of 2022, it reached a record $172.4 billion, according to a report issued by the General Customs Administration.

China exported to Russia goods worth $67.3 billion in January-November 2022, a 13.4% increase year-on-year, while Russian exports to China jumped by 47.5%, amounting to $105 billion, the data showed

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⚡️Lavrov: 'American globalization' is over as new system emerges free from western whims

📌 Key points of the phone conversation between President Putin and UAE President Mohammed al Nahyan:

▪️The Russian president and his counterpart stated the consistent implementation by all participating states of the agreed-upon decisions within the framework of OPEC+

▪️The Russian president and the UAE president discussed the situation in connection with the West's attempts to impose a ceiling on Russian oil prices that contradict the principles of world trade

▪️Leaders noted the effectiveness of joint work within the framework of OPEC+ to ensure the stability of the global oil market

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📹 Footage of the use of an armored combat train of the Russian army during a special operation (Russian MoD video)

The special train carries a huge supply of weapons:

▪️ A crew with a large variety of small arms: from assault rifles to heavy machine guns.

▪️ An anti-aircraft gun, which can hit both air and ground targets.

▪️ A twin 23mm cannon.

▪️ Sniper positions.

The list of the main tasks of the special train includes technical reconnaissance, demining the and restoration of destroyed railway lines

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