❗️US military strike killed a senior Daesh commander in Syria, who was responsible for planning attacks in Europe, media reports, citing US military officials. The man was identified as Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri.

❗️One person was killed and 30 others were injured after a passenger train derailed in the Netherlands, emergency services report.

❗️Russian, Syrian, Turkish and Iranian deputy foreign ministers will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday

The meeting was initially scheduled for March 15-16, but was postponed due to technical reasons. The objective of the talks is to normalize dialogue between Damascus and Ankara, as well as to prepare a future meeting of the foreign ministers of the four countries.

The negotiations will be a follow-up to the meeting of Turkish and Syrian defense ministers that took place in December for the first time in 11 years. The sides will also discuss the situation in the region and issues on the common agenda.

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Who is Petteri Orpo, the Man Set to Be Finland's New PM?

The contrast between Orpo and outgoing PM Sanna Marin couldn't be greater. Marin was celebrated as the youngest prime minister in Finland's history and became something of a rockstar among the European (and largely, international) left for her feminist views.

Orpo, on the other hand, has projected a down-to-earth and mundane, if not colorless, persona, and has always been eclipsed by more popular party mates, including former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb and incumbent President Sauli Niinisto. His social network account is also a tiny fraction of Marin's.

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❗️Forty people, including three children, sought medical assistance following the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg café, with 25 still remaining hospitalized, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Health said

⚡️🇵🇰 Lahore anti-terrorism court has granted interim bail to ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan till 13 April

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⚕️ About 17.5% of the global adult population, or nearly one in six people, suffer from infertility due to lack of effective and affordable treatment, the World Health Organization reports.

The estimates showed that the infertility rate in high-income countries was 17.8%, and 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries.

💬 "Infertility is a disease of the male or female reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. Infertility impacts millions of people worldwide, often with devastating consequences," the report read.

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Why is Macron Visiting China?

From April 5-7, at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron is to arrive in Beijing, accompanied by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, whom he invited to join him.

What is the purpose of this visit, and why did the French leader need the President of the European Commission to tag along?

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❗️Key statements by Russian intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin:

▪️The West is pushing Georgia into entering a military conflict with Russia;

▪️Moscow has ascertained the West’s ploy of convincing Georgia that now the time is right to retake Abkhazia and South Ossetia;

▪️Kiev and the West not only want to prohibit, but to physically destroy canonical Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine;

▪️Complete trust has been established between the special services of Belarus and Russia;

▪️The West’s bid to globally isolate Russia has utterly failed.

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❗️Key takeaways from Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to a factory in Tula, Russia, where he spoke to workers of the enterprise:

▪️Exports of Russian agricultural products have recently increased significantly;

▪️Russian agricultural products are of a much better quality than those from the West;

▪️It is necessary to strive for 100% localization of production in critical areas in Russia;

▪️Current support measures to the national automobile industry are enough to multiply the volume of car production.

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❗️ Latest statements by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu:

▪️NATO is intensifying its activity near the borders of Russia and Belarus;

▪️NATO is strengthening its anti-Russian stance, leading to an escalation of the conflict;

▪️ 200 contracts have been signed for the construction and modernization of aviation equipment;

▪️The electronic format has helped ensure the efficiency of connoscription for military service in Russia;

▪️The actions of the US and NATO create risks of expanding the conflict in Ukraine;

▪️Belarus has received the Iskander missile system, which is capable of using nuclear missiles;

▪️Since the beginning of the year, 59 M-777 howitzers, 13 Paladin self-propelled guns, and 14 HIMARS have been destroyed in Ukraine;

▪️The Russian armed forces have disrupted the production of a number of Ukrainian weapons, as well as the transfer of ammunition and fuel to the front, with high-precision strikes.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️NATO is a structure hostile to Russia, so the accession of new countries will affect the bilateral relations of the Russian Federation with these states;

▪️Finland’s accession to NATO is another aggravation of the situation, and Moscow considers the expansion of the alliance as an infringement on the security of Russia;

▪️The expansion of NATO forces Russia to take countermeasures to ensure its own security;

▪️The situation with Finland's accession to NATO is fundamentally different from the Ukraine crisis, as this country has never been anti-Russia, and there have been no disputes with it;

▪️The second part of the Black Sea grain deal, which requires the West to ease restrictions on Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports, has not yet been realized;

▪️On the possibility of resuming deliveries from the Nord Stream: Deliveries will be resumed when there are buyers.

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🇷🇺 Putin has shared his impressions after visiting the Tula Heavy Duty Machinery Plant.

“A lot has been done in terms of modernization. The effect is colossal,” he said.

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According to Putin, the export of agricultural products from Russia has grown exponentially.

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