Turkiye Will Not Repeat Mistake of EU Members That Suspended Their NPPs

Erdogan earlier said the opposition is playing into the hands of the West, declaring its intention to revise the Akkuyu NPP project and state investments in the defense industry.

In its election manifesto in January, an alliance of six Turkish opposition parties said it intended to "review the current state of the Akkuyu NPP project and relevant details, as well as rights or obligations that have arisen outside the plant agreement."

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US Air Force Intends to End Lockheed Hypersonic Weapon Program - Senior Official

The US Air Force intends to end its hypersonic weapon program done in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, Air Force Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Andrew Hunter said in prepared remarks to the House Armed Services Committee.

The US military has recently been developing at least three types of hypersonic weapons - the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike, the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, and ARRW for the Air Force.

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🗣 The United States should pay attention to the situation in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves), and not engage in moralizing about democracy, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said.

💬 "Americans should find courage to move from moralizing at the 'Summit for Democracy' towards meaningful steps to stop blasphemy and crackdown on the Orthodox community," Antonov said in a statement.

📌 On March 10, the National Kiev-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve in Ukraine ordered the monks based in the monastery to leave it by March 29 after an interdepartmental Ukrainian commission accused the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of violating the terms of an agreement on the use of state property. Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said the monks could stay in the Lavra if they joined the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

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🌎🇨🇳 Sputnik’s correspondent reports from the Boao Forum for Asia.

🗓 The Boao Forum for Asia takes place on March 28-31. Representatives of governments and international think tanks will attend the event.

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Elon Musk has become the leader in the number of subscribers on Twitter (133 million users), overtaking former US President Barack Obama

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⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇳 Chinese army ready to cooperate with Russian army in implementing global security initiatives: China's defense ministry

❗️The rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra said that the members of the cultural preserve commission will not be allowed into the territory of the monastery until there is a corresponding court decision

⚡️ The FSB stopped the illegal activities of a WSJ Moscow Bureau correspondent, American citizen Evan Gershkovich.

▪️ On instructions from the United States, he was collecting information about one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, which constitute a state secret.

▪️ Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg, a case of espionage was initiated, the FSB reports.

Members of the cultural preserve commission arrived at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra on Thursday morning

▪️ Believers have not allowed them into the monastery; law enforcement officers haven't interfered in the situation.

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🇦🇹 Opponents of Zelensky's speech in the Austrian parliament are holding a rally in Vienna, demanding the neutrality of their country and the resolution of the conflict through diplomacy.

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❗️ Latest statements made by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov:

▪️ Russia as a gesture of goodwill will notify the United States of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine missiles under the 1988 treaty, despite the suspension of START;

▪️ The United States and Ukraine are ready to sacrifice the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to their political ambitions.

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💬 "The world is getting more fragmented instead of getting more united," Xu Bu, President of the China Institute of International Studies, said at The Boao Forum for Asia

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❗️ At the moment, the commission has already left the territory of the monastery, without starting work.

Muslims in Norway More Religious Than Christians, Survey Finds

Norwegian Muslims have been found to be more religious than their Christian counterparts in a survey carried out by the Institute for Church, Religion and Worldview Research (KIFO).

For instance, 71 percent of the respondents with a Muslim affiliation believed that God really existed and had "no doubts" about that. By contrast, merely 15 percent of Christians had the same opinion. In the general population, the correponding figure drops to a mere 11 percent.

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❗️ Russian Foreign Ministry: What the employee of The Wall Street Journal was doing in Yekaterinburg has nothing to do with journalism.