🐱 This beautiful episode from the wild was filmed on March 13 the location being near Ullay - between Kargil and Leh in Ladakh, a village called Hemis Shupachen.
You can see how Shyapu (Ladakh Urial) tried to escape from the snow leopard

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'Taking Partnership to the Next Level': Metallica Acquire Vinyl Records Plant

Heavy metal band Metallica has moved to buy their own vinyl record manufacturing plant amid the growing demand for this particular type of recording medium.

The legendary band has acquired a majority interest in Furnace Record Pressing, one of the largest vinyl pressing companies in the United States – a company that has already produced over five million vinyl records for Metallica since 2014, as one US magazine pointed out.

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🔺 US combat drone detected off Russia’s coast over the Black Sea raised fears of military escalation between the nuclear powers
🔺Russia, China and Iran will conduct joint naval drills
🔺The two always go together: more banks may collapse, if the US Fed continues to raise interest rate

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Domino Effect? Credit Suisse Shares Plunge

Despite early assurances that the collapse of the California-based Silicon Valley Bank would be an isolated incident and not the start of a new financial crisis, confidence in financial institutions around the world has nonetheless been shaken and dozens of major banks have lost huge amounts of value in less than a week’s time.

Shares in the Zurich-based bank collapsed on Wednesday after Saudi National Bank, its chief investor, refused to provide it with financial assistance, setting off a wave of losses across the continent.

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💰 Russia or China do not present the greatest threat to the United States, but the $31 trillion national debt does, US Senator Roger Marshall said in a congressional heading on Wednesday.

🗣 "I'm often asked what's the greatest threat our nation faces and I'm here to tell you [that] it's not Russia. It's not China. It's not North Korea. It's not Iran. And no, I love the environment, it's not climate change. The greatest long-term threat the United States faces is our national debt of $31 trillion and growing," Marshall told the US Senate Budget Committee.

📌 President Joe Biden has spent more than any other president in US history during his first 20 months in office, Marshall said.

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What Message Does Black Sea Reaper Crash Send About US Spying Missions and Double Standards?

"The United States and NATO have created an already intolerable situation around Russian borders, especially in the Black Sea region. They are present there in different capacities. There are [US/NATO] reconnaissance aircraft and drones [in the region]," Ivan Konovalov, a military expert and political analyst, told Sputnik.

The US MQ-9 Reaper drone that fell into the Black Sea on Tuesday morning was a sophisticated and very powerful aircraft of a strategic class, the Russian military expert stressed.

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📹 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers destroy camouflaged UAF positions (video courtesy of Russia's MoD)

Artillery spotters and unmanned aerial vehicle operators ensured the accuracy of the fire

In the course of combat missions, self-propelled vehicles change firing positions and shelters dozens of times a day. This tactic of round-the-clock artillery carousel disorients the enemy, forces them to waste munition, disperse positions.

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Stalwart Allies and Close Friends: Long History of Russia-Syria Ties

Non-presidential Russia-Syria talks took place on Wednesday afternoon, while President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad held a "working breakfast," later in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed.

The Syrian president started his visit in Moscow by laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Wednesday morning, and then proceeded to meet with President Putin.

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📹 Damascus welcomes Russia's desire to increase its number of military bases in Syria, President Assad said in an interview with Sputnik

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📹 Syria has recognized the new borders of the Russian Federation, in the wake of last year's referendums on their accession to Russia, Bashar Assad says in an interview with Sputnik

Damascus’s position regarding the issue is "clear and firm," the President says

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‘I'm Telling You, He Did It’: Seymour Hersh Slams Biden as Nord Stream Bomber at National Press Club

In a wide-ranging discussion, journalist Seymour Hersh doubled down on his explosive findings that US President Joe Biden ordered the Nord Stream pipelines to be blown up last year using C-4 charges previously planted by US Navy divers, took his former employers at the New York Times to task for their uncritical reporting on the issue, and slammed top Biden officials as "lunatics."

As for Biden, there’s no doubt the commander-in-chief played a central role in ensuring that the Nord Stream sabotage took place, Hersh told event attendees.

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❗️The Russian ambassador has dismissed Western media reports alleging India had agreed to comply with the price cap on Russian oil, calling them fake news

Japan, South Korea Issue Strong Rebuke Against North Korea Following Purported ICBM Launch

Japan expressed a strong protest to North Korea over the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Japanese Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"The actions of North Korea, including also the previous frequent launches of ballistic missiles, threaten the peace and security of our country, the region and the international community," the ministry said. "The launch of a ballistic missile violates the relevant UN Security Council resolutions. Our country expressed a strong protest to North Korea and strongly condemned [it]."

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🇮🇹🇩🇪 Eintracht Frankfurt fans clashed with Italian police on the eve of their club's Champions League last-16 match against Napoli.

▪️ Naples authorities had banned residents of the German city from obtaining tickets for the match, after violence during the first match in Frankfurt.

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🇺🇸 A freight train carrying hazardous substances has derailed near the town of Topock in Mohave County, the US state of Arizona, US media reported on Thursday, citing local authorities.

▪️ The train went off the rails not far from Arizona's border with California and Nevada on Wednesday evening, the newspaper cited Anita Mortensen, a spokeswoman for the Mohave County Sheriff's Office, as saying.

▪️ The spokeswoman reportedly added that she had no data on possible spills or leaks resulting from the incident.

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🇮🇪📹 Irish MEP Mick Wallace said that NATO and the US are destroying Europe

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Israel Reportedly Approves Export Licenses for Possible Sale of Anti-Drone Systems to Kiev

Israel has approved the export licenses for the possible sale of anti-drone jamming systems to Ukraine, US media reported on Wednesday, citing Ukrainian and Israeli officials.

US media indicated it was the first time since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine that Tel Aviv approved defense export licenses for possible weapons sales to Kiev. The licenses have been approved for Israeli makers of anti-drone systems Elbit and Rafael, the officials told the media.

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‘Worst Deal in History’: Former Australian PM Slams AUKUS Submarine Purchase

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating slammed the current government’s plans to purchase nuclear submarines from the US and the UK as "the worst deal in history" in an extensive question-and-answer session at Australia’s National Press Club on Wednesday.

"For $360 billion we’re gonna get eight submarines – the worst deal in history," Keating said, when asked what the so-called AUKUS deal represents for the country. As to where Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s much-heralded submarine acquisition plan announced earlier this week leaves Australians, Keating was similarly pessimistic.

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📹 The West has unleashed World War III, which is being waged by the Nazis in Ukraine in the format of a proxy war and by the hands of terrorists in Syria, but modern weapons, especially nuclear weapons, do not allow the confrontation to escalate into the traditional format of world war, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik.

💬 "I believe that World War III is underway, but it differs in its form," the Syrian president said. "What I mean is that world wars used to be conventional in the past. Armies of several states were fighting against each other."

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