📹 "There are no easy and quick solutions": Ex-Austrian FM Karin Kneissl weighs in on EU leaders' recent attempts to seek alternatives to affordable Russian gas

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⚡️🇵🇰 A blast in Quetta’s Kandhari bazar (Pakistan) kills 4, leaves 11 injured: reports

The attack targeted a police vehicle in the area.

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

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, and one D-20 howitzer;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Ukrainian losses during the day amounted to 50 servicemen, one armored fighting vehicle, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Army destroyed more than 290 Ukrainian troops, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, five armored fighting vehicles, as well as a D-20 and Msta-B howitzer during the day;

▪️The Russian Army destroyed three ammunition depots in the Kharkov region, LPR, and DPR;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 120 servicemen, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, one D-20 howitzer, and five armored fighting vehicles;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored fighting vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a US-made M777 artillery system, and one D-30 howitzer;

▪️Eight Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed by Russian air defenses in the LPR, DPR, and Kharkov region;

▪️Russian air defense systems also intercepted two HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system missiles.

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⚡️ 106 POWs were returned to Russia as a result of a prisoner swap with Ukraine, the Russian MoD says

⚡️ Multiple casualties reported amid active shooter situation in downtown Louisville, Kentucky

❗️While the Louisville police are yet to disclose any details about the shooting in the middle of Kentucky's largest city, US media cited "a source with direct knowledge of the scene on the ground" as claiming that there are six victims, including one police officer. The source added that there were shots exchanged between the suspect and the police, and that the gunman is "down." So far, according to the source, it is unclear if the shooter is one of the six victims.

❗️Police confirm five people have died and six people have been injured and taken to the University Hospital. One of the injured people includes an LMPD officer.

Police confirm five people have died and six people have been injured and taken to the University Hospital. One of the injured people includes an LMPD officer. The suspect has been "neutralized."

📹 Middle East expert and former Austrian top diplomat Karin Kneissl in an exclusive Sputnik Interview reveals which nations besides China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are forming the new multipolar world

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Mark Sleboda, international relations and security analyst, joined us to discuss Macron and von der Leyen’s visit to China and Beijing’s hidden signals of what kind of relations the three parties have

🎧Listen to more of Sleboda’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

Footage shows the return of more than a hundred Russian soldiers from Ukrainian capitivity.

Margaret Flowers, activist and editor of PopularResistance.org, join us to discuss the means by which the US is trying to maintain its dominance

🗣️”Despite all of the efforts that Western imperialism, NATO have made to try to prop up Ukraine, it is not going to be successful,” she claimed

🎧Listen to more of Flowers’ analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour

🌋 Volcanologists in Kamchatka were caught in strong ashfall from the Bezymianny volcano, which was accompanied by falling rocks, according to traveler Pyotr Kirinkin, who was part of the expedition.

"Stones and lapilli - porous volcanic formations reaching the size of a small fist - began to fall. It was decided to urgently remove the sleds from the snowmobiles and use them as an improvised shelter," he noted.

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Andrii Telizhenko, Ukrainian whistleblower, joined us to discuss the holy war in Ukraine

🗣️”[People like Pompeo are] destroying our church, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, taking over churches, burning down churches, putting priests, and monks, and the metropolitans to prison without any court orders or decisions just because the government wants them and because they are obeying orders from the outside,” he stated

🎧Listen to more of Telizhenko’s analysis in our podcast The Backstory

The Dalai Lama has expressed regret over an incident with a young pilgrim boy. "His Holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as to the many friends around the world for any pain that may have been caused by his words," a statement said.

According to the agency, the incident in question was captured on video during the Dalai Lama's meeting with the young pilgrim at the religious leader's residence in Dharamsala on February 28. During the meeting, the young boy asked to hug the Dalai Lama, to which the man kissed the child on the lips and suggested he "suck his tongue."

The Dalai Lama's behavior was explained by his office as his love for "often innocently and playfully teasing people."

In 2017, the Dalai Lama called for the spread of the "spirit of the European Union."

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In July 2022, the Belgorod K-329, the second-largest nuclear submarine in history, was handed over to the Russian Navy. What are its unique characteristics? Check out this infographic to learn more.

The K-329 Belgorod, a nuclear-powered submarine, is able to carry the Poseidon, an unmanned underwater vehicle capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear warheads. The underwater drones, which are essentially beyond the reach of any enemy submarine, can dive to a depth of up to 1,000 meters and move at a speed of up to 185 km/h.

What's more, the Belgorod sub can serve as a mother ship for the Losharik deep-diving nuclear-powered submarine, which is capable of diving to an incredible depth of 6,000 meters. To perform such extreme submersions, the Losharik has a unique design, with its pressure hull formed from seven interconnected spherical titanium components.

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Super-Rich Fleeing Norway For Low-Tax Havens

In 2021, Norway's Labor and Center parties agreed to increase taxes on the country's wealthiest citizens. The following year, this decision led to several affluent Norwegians, including multiple Olympic champion Bjorn Daehlie, moving overseas.

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📹 “We have a lot of untalented people in foreign affairs on all sides”: Austria’s ex-foreign minister Karin Kneissl laments the decline of EU diplomacy

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