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❗️UK to weigh sending jets to Ukraine in 'long-term,' UK media reports. The Ministry of Defense will make an assessment of what planes London in theory could supply to Kiev, the report says.

❗️Russian Foreign Ministry on Seymour Hersh's investigative report of explosions on Nord Stream: Moscow said this many times.

Later, a Pentagon spokesperson told Sputnik that the US was not involved in Nord Stream explosion.

Coincidence or Just Trolling? Russia Develops Heavy Drone Called TrUMP

The drone, known as the ‘Transport Aviation Multifunctional Platform’, or its Russian-language acronym ‘TrUMP’, has a cruising speed of 195 km per hour, and a flight ceiling of 3,000 meters. It features a 2,650 liter cargo compartment, and can drop loads via parachute if necessary to the mission.

Sputnik’s source did not clarify whether the decision to name the drone the ‘TrUMP’ has anything to do with the former US president. However, Russian commentators online had a field day over the name.

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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting on the Afghanistan issue with security representatives from a number of countries. Here are the key statements:

▪️The terrorist threat has intensified after the US pullout from Afghanistan;

▪️4 million people in Afghanistan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance;

▪️Contacts have been established with the leadership of Afghanistan in Kabul, there are good plans for economic projects.

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Watch footage of a campsite filmed by Sputnik correspondent in Antakya, Turkiye, where local authorities have organized the provision of emergency shelter and food assistance

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Video released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense shows a woman being rescued from a collapsed building in Adiyaman

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Pink Floyd Singer Roger Waters Says Russia Military Operation in Ukraine ‘Not Unprovoked’

Waters addressed the five permanent members of the Security Council and asked whether their goal in Ukraine was to secure profits for the war industry, maintain global power or obtain a bigger share of the "world cake."

He also noted that wars that are not approved by the majority of the citizens in the world and are destroying the planet and people oppose conflict precisely because they do not raise their sons and daughters to become cannon fodder.

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Video released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense shows UAVs working in the earthquake-hit areas. The drones are collecting information for the search and rescue operations.

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National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden recalled the Bay of Pigs Invasion following the revelation by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about US involvement in the Nord Stream bombings

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❗️China is increasing its intelligence gathering activity in Europe, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claims.

💬 "The Chinese balloon over the United States confirms a pattern of Chinese behavior," Stoltenberg said during a press conference in Washington. "We have also seen increased Chinese intelligence activities in Europe, again, different platforms. They use satellites, they use cyber, and as we’ve seen over the United States, also balloons."

The statement comes after a Chinese balloon transited the continental United States last week, culminating in the US shooting down the airship off its eastern coast. The US alleges the balloon was conducting surveillance, while China claims it was engaged in scientific research.

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Microsoft, OpenAI Team Up to Add High-Powered ChatGPT to Search Engine, Web Browser

“It’s a new paradigm for search, rapid innovation is going to come,” Nadella told reporters. “In fact, a race starts today … Every day we want to bring out new things, and most importantly, we want to have a lot of fun innovating in search because it’s high time.” “This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category that we know,” he added.

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A 13-year-old boy and his pet parrot were rescued after being trapped for 55 hours under the rubble in Kahramanmarash, Turkiye

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Sanctions, Theft, Pressure: West Refuses to Stop Tormenting Syrians Despite Quake & War Damage

"What people need to understand is a lot of these buildings in these towns are made of concrete, to make concrete is a very energy demanding thing, and one of the things Syria doesn't have now because of the sanctions and because of the US occupation of one third of Syria. While it's an oil rich country, the United States controls 80% of Syria's oil because of its occupation. And the US is actually stealing billions of dollars of Syrian oil, which is a war crime. They are plundering Syria of its oil," said Dan Kovalik, an adjunct professor of international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law told Sputnik.

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Senior Chinese Diplomat: ‘No Point’ to Blinken Visit After Seeming US Reversal on Balloon Reaction

“The United States is exaggerating in this matter,” Lu Shaye, the Chinese ambassador to France, told French news on Monday, adding, “it is a civilian balloon used for meteorological research.”

“Indeed, what happened between China and the United States in the past few years has reduced the mutual trust between the two countries,” he added.

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Church of England Drop 'Our Father' From Prayers to Appease Trans and Non-Binary Churchgoers

"After some dialogue between the two commissions in this area, a new joint project on gendered language will begin this spring," said the Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave. "In common with other potential changes to authorized liturgical provision, changing the wording and number of authorized forms of absolution would require a full synodical process for approval."

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‼️ Apartment block collapses in Russia's Novosibirsk city following gas explosion, governor details

➡️Preliminary findings have noted at least one person has died and another four individuals sustained injuries

Ukraine May Have Already Reacquired Nuclear Weapons, Polish General Says

“I do not rule out Ukraine having nuclear weapons, because the Ukrainians have nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories and knowhow. In other words, everything they need to possess such a weapon. In fact, today no one is in a position to prohibit the Ukrainians from having it,” Skrzypczak, the former commander of Poland’s Land Forces, said in an interview with Polish media.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 House Armed Services Committee lawmakers warned in a hearing Tuesday that China had "leapfrogged" the United States on hypersonic weapons technology and was on course to "outpacing" Washington "on new battlefields as well."

How do the armed forces of the world's economic superpowers stack up, and does the US really have cause for alarm?

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