Why Hersh's Nord Stream Bombshell May Become Legal Nightmare for Team Biden & Its Nordic Allies

The White House has denounced Seymour Hersh's Nord Stream bombshell as "fiction.” Oslo claimed that the Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist's allegations are "nonsensical." Still, the denials are unlikely to satisfy the public given that EU probes in the attack remain top secret, Sputnik's interlocutors say.

"Many people - including myself - determined at the time that blowing up the pipeline was a US/NATO operation that was being falsely blamed on Russia," Hans Mahncke, a US investigative journalist and lawyer, told Sputnik.

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I, Doctor: AI ChatGPT Almost Passes US Medical Licensing Exam

AI neural network ChatGPT has almost passed the USMLE medical licensing exam used to test the knowledge and skills of physicians and medical students in the United States. It is considered to be an extraordinarily difficult test, usually requiring up to 400 hours of preparation.

The research was published in the prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS Digital Health.

As the authors of the study noted: "We evaluate[d] the performance of ChatGPT, a non-domain specific LLM, on its ability to perform clinical reasoning by testing its performance on questions from the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)."

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Over 100 Charged as Turkiye Investigates Negligence in Wake of Deadly Earthquakes

At least 14 of those charged with negligence, manslaughter, and building code violations have been arrested as people demand accountability following the horrific earthquakes that left over 28,000 dead in Turkiye and Syria.

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London, Kiev Negotiating Plans for Production of UK Weapons in Ukraine, Media Reports

UK defense industry officials are discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts plans for the production of British weapons in Ukraine, which would mark the deepening of Kiev's ties with both London and NATO, British press reported on Sunday.

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Airspace Restrictions Over Montana Lifted After 'Unidentified Object' Scare

No suspicious objects were detected over the US state of Montana and the airspace restrictions introduced earlier have been lifted, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) says.

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Russia's Relations With Saudi Arabia May Reach Level of Strategic Partnership, Envoy Says

According to Russian Ambassador to Riyadh Sergei Kozlov, the ties between the two nations are on the rise amid their deepening cooperation in the energy sector.

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Turkiye's health minister has released a video of a child being rescued 150 hours after the earthquake. There is always hope, said the minister.

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🇲🇽🇨🇺 Mexico will lead a movement to defend Cuba's sovereignty and lift the US blockade on the country, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday.

🗣 "We will continue to demand the lifting of the blockade from Cuba, it is inhumane... I propose to [Cuban] President Miguel Diaz-Canel that Mexico lead a more active movement, that all countries unite and that Cuba's independence and sovereignty be protected," the Mexican president said at a meeting with his Cuban counterpart.

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Russia is thanked for establishing a field hospital to help victims of the earthquake in Turkiye

- Very good, we are very satisfied. We were very happy that they created a hospital.

- We are very grateful to Russia and the Russians.

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NATO 'Fears UK Too Drained to Take Over Leadership of Rapid Reaction Force'

The United Kingdom is set to inherit the leadership of NATO's rapid reaction force from Germany in late 2023. However, the alliance has asked Berlin to remain at the head of the bloc's force for another year since London is unable to provide the 5,000 soldiers required, a UK newspaper has reported.

"There are serious problems with ammunition shortages and other kit which is partly due to underspending – but also because of the amount of ammo and other ordnance we are supplying to Ukraine. Our forces are also stretched because of the extent to which they are training Ukrainian forces," the media quoted one source as saying.

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📹 Russian airborne assault unit training in rear area of special military operation (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

Experienced instructors conduct exercises in tactical, fire and medical training. The personnel practise moving on the battlefield in pairs and threes. A new type of tactical action was added - frontal movement with live fire, where troops move along the line of contact with the enemy from cover to cover.

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⚡️ Lavrov: US officials admit that they were responsible for Nord Stream explosions.

🛰 Russian space agency Roscosmos published a picture of a tectonic fault after an earthquake in southeast Turkiye.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ In the Kharkov region, units of the 14th and 92nd Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by Russian aviation strikes, artillery fire and the actions of assault groups. Up to 80 Ukrainian troops, six vehicles and one D-20 howitzer were destroyed.

▪️ In the DPR, Russian aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems inflicted defeat on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle, five armored fighting vehicles and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.

▪️ As a result of air strikes and artillery fire in the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 250 Ukrainian troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, four vehicles, two US-made M777 artillery systems, a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer, an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, and a towed gun "Hyacinth" and two anti-tank guns "Rapier" were destroyed. Also, a Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed in the LPR.

▪️ Russian aviation and artillery inflicted a complex fire defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Pavlovka and Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic. Enemy losses amounted to over 50 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles and a Msta-B howitzer.

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▪️ In the areas of the settlements of Elizavetovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Druzhelyubovka in the Zaporozhye region, two Ukrainian ammunition depots were destroyed.

▪️ In the Kherson region, during the counter-battery fight, the following were destroyed: a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a Akatsia self-propelled howitzer and a US-made AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.

▪️ Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated 78 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 119 districts in a day.

▪️ The Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system Osa-AKM was destroyed in the DPR. And also as a result of a high-precision missile strike by Russian aviation in the city of Kharkov, the armored vehicle assembly workshops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit on the territory of the Malyshev Machine-Building Plant.

▪️ 17 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense means in a day.

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British Farmers Receive Less Than 0.5% of Post-Brexit Funding

British farmers receive only a tiny fraction of the government support they expected amid Brexit, UK press has claimed.

According to reports, 2022 government subsidies in the agricultural sector amounted to £10,692,415 out of the promised £2.4bn, meaning that the farmers received less than 0.5% of the expected sum.

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According to a Sputnik correspondent in Turkiye, some citizens are being sent to hospitals after receiving first aid.

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🛰 Roscosmos has published another satellite image - it shows how Turkiye's Hatay airport was flooded after a series of earthquakes

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Polish President Says Ukraine May Lose to Russia Without Urgent Supply of Western Weapons

Russia will defeat Ukraine if the West and its allies do not provide Kiev with urgent military assistance, Polish President Andrzej Duda admitted on Sunday.

The Polish leader urged western countries and their allies to send military equipment to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

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