🇦🇴 🛰 Angola opens its first satellite control center

Inaugurated by the country’s President Joao Lourenco, the station’s main task is to monitor the activity of the satellite “ANGOSAT 2,” launched in October 2022 with the help of Russia.

🗣 “With the launch of this satellite and its commissioning, Angola will win in all services, so we will improve our telecommunications and our social communication and will also benefit from this important project,” the president said.

Lourenco pointed out that his government will continue making “further investments to ensure that our telecommunications contribute to the development of the country and the services of our economy.”

The southern African country launched its first satellite “ANGOSAT 1” in December 2017 with the help of a Russian rocket, but the satellite run out of control as soon as it entered orbit.

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📹 Russian MiG-31 crews patrol the skies over the special operation zone (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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🏆 The Chinese Olympic Committee on Saturday expressed its agreement with the stance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to allow, among others, Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in international tournaments under neutral status.

The statement also said that the committee would "actively support the IOC and the OCA's initiatives and decisions" and was ready to establish a platform for the joint protection of all athletes, including professional Russian and Belarusian athletes, to protect Olympic values.

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🤖 Japanese robotics start-up develops spider-like robots to maintain sewer pipes

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Russian Diplomat: US Complicit in Ukrainian HIMARS Attack on Donbass Hospital That Killed 14 People

The Ukrainian troops targeted a hospital in Novoaydar in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) using the US-made multiple rocket launcher system HIMARS, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. As a result, 14 people were killed and 24 others injured.

Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky has blamed the United States for the Ukrainian attack on a hospital in the Donbass, saying that the use of the HIMARS rocket launchers was green-lit by Washington, which made the US "directly complicit."

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💃 Hey, Big Spender: West pops its cork for Ukraine

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Russia Unwilling to Hold Talks With Tokyo on Fishing Near Kuril Islands

Moscow has informed Tokyo that, due to anti-Russian measures taken by the Japanese government, Russia cannot agree on the holding of intergovernmental consultations on marine fishing cooperation in the area of the southern Kuril Islands, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik.

"In the context of the anti-Russian measures taken by the Japanese government, which obviously run counter to the spirit and letter of the 1998 agreement on strengthening and developing good neighborliness, the Russian side has informed Tokyo that it could not agree on holding intergovernmental consultations on the implementation of this agreement," the ministry said in a statement.

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❗️A bus plunged off a bridge and burst into flames, local media has reported.

"The dead bodies... are beyond recognition," Hamza Anjum, a senior official of Lasbela district in Pakistan’s Balochistan province said.

The bus was believed to have been carrying 48 passengers when it hit a pillar on the bridge and fell off.

Group of Pentagon Officials Secretly Lobbying Sending F-16 Jets to Ukraine, Reports Say

According to the newspaper, the campaign for F-16s to Ukraine is gathering momentum in the Pentagon while Kiev is bracing for a planned offensive this spring.

A senior Pentagon official told US media that he did not think the US Department of Defense was opposed to the idea, stressing that there was no final decision on the possible supplies yet. Meanwhile, Ukraine should clearly indicate that F-16 fighter jets are "its top priority," the source said.

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⚡️⚡️UK PM fires Conservative chairman after tax probe

Rishi Sunak let Nadhim Zahawi go over the "serious breach of the Ministerial Code" caused by Zahawi's tax-related hijinks.

Sunak ordered a probe into Zahawi this week after it was discovered that the Tory chairman had been hit with a massive fine for the late payment of millions of pounds in taxes on the transfer of polling and market research firm YouGov to an offshore trust in Gibraltar controlled by his parents.

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📹 Crews of Russian 120 mm mortars and 152 mm Giatsint towed cannons destroyed a group of Ukrainian servicemen in the Avdeyevka direction

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❗️The HIMARS rocket strike on a hospital by the Kiev regime is a war crime, and all those behind the attack will be punished, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The lack of reaction from the West to violations of humanitarian law by Kiev once again confirms its direct involvement in the conflict, the ministry added.

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🇿🇼 🇧🇾 Belarus President Lukashenko to visit Zimbabwe in first trip to Sub-Saharan Africa

Alexander Lukashenko will visit Zimbabwe from 30 January to 1 February 2023. the country's Foreign Affairs ministry spokesman Livit Mugejo announced.

🗣 “The State visit is meant to strengthen the existing excellent relations between Zimbabwe and the Republic of Belarus. The two countries have a history of strong cooperation in political, economic, mining, agriculture and disaster risk management,” Mugejo said.

He said that during the state visit, Lukashenko is scheduled to hold talks with his counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa, and that several deals between the two countries are set to be agreed

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🏆🎾 Novak Djokovic has claimed his 10th Australian Open championship and 22nd Grand Slam noscript overall by beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6:3, 7:6 (7:4), 7:6 (7:5)

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