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🪖 From April 17 to May 11, 2023, the armed forces of 14 different countries will commence the Aurora 23 military exercise, which is aimed at improving their operational capability. The massive exercise will involve around 26,000 troops.

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Colorado Holds Largest Gathering Ever to Celebrate First Human Space Flight

Yuri’s Night celebration in Colorado Springs on Sunday has brought the largest number of guests ever to come together to celebrate the first human space flight and the first space shuttle launch, Richard Cooper, vice president of Strategic Communications for the Space Foundation, told Sputnik.

"This year, Yuri’s Night will be the largest gathering, we're looking at around 700 people," Cooper said.

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Russia, China Believe US, Allies Responsible for Escalation on Korean Peninsula

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko discussed the situation around the Korean peninsula with Chinese special envoy on North Korea Liu Xiaoming in Moscow, and the parties agreed that Washington and its allies bear responsibility for the escalation of the situation around the peninsula.

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Pentagon Leaks Pretext to Grant Government New Snooping Powers

Washington is using the leak of classified Pentagon documents on Ukraine as an excuse to further invade citizens' online privacy, says a defender of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Steve Poikonen told Sputnik that the arrest and charging of 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was a gift to those in Washington pushing for more authoritarian controls on citizens' web surfing.

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Inevitable De-Dollarization: Which Countries Are Moving Away From Greenback?

The trend of cutting dependence on the US dollar and switching to national means of payment in international settlements is gaining steam across the globe.

US sanctions against Russia and other countries have put the dollar's dominance at risk, as targeted nations are seeking out alternatives, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told an American news outlet on Sunday.

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Rarest 'diamond within a diamond' discovered in Gujarat, similar to 'Matryoshka' diamond in Russia's Siberia

A company, VD Global, in Surat, a city in the Indian 🇮🇳 state of Gujarat, found the 0.329-carat diamond 💎 , giving it the moniker of "Beating Heart", based on the first feelings one has when observing the stone.

A similar gemstone was found in Russian 🇷🇺 Siberia in 2019 and named after the country's traditional Matryoshka dolls - wooden nesting dolls usually resembling plump women in headscarfs which fit inside one another.

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Biden’s Approval Rating Remains Negative in 40 States - Poll

The approval rating of US President Joe Biden remains negative in 40 states, a new Morning Consult poll revealed on Monday.

The latest survey, conducted between January 1- March 31, showed a slight improvement from the fourth quarter of 2022 when Biden’s approval rating was negative in 42 states, it added.

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Party Hard Like a Roman Emperor: Historians Unearth Most Luxurious Ancient Winery Ever

Historians have discovered an ancient and extremely sophisticated winery, allegedly unparalleled in Roman history. The site of this amazing find is the famous Villa of the Quintilii in the suburbs of Rome. The denoscription of the discovery was published in the peer-reviewed Antiquity journal.

The researchers stress that this villa was a Roman version of the Great Gatsby mansion, and this winery was the crown jewel.

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🪁 Weifang holds world’s largest International kite festival on April 15

🇨🇳 Hosted by the city of Weifang on Saturday, thousands of people flocked to the International Kite Festival.

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📹 Troops continue to train using TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower systems in the rear area of the special military operation (video by Russian MoD)

▪️ The military learn how to use the combat vehicle and hone crew cohesion. They train to put the equipment into a combat position, orient on the terrain, and utilize given coordinates.

▪️ In addition, TOS crews use standard weapons: light infantry flamethrowers, assault rifles, machine guns, hand grenade launchers, and sniper rifles.

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Size Does Matter: Melbourne Overtakes Sydney as Australia's Most Populous City

Melbourne became Australia's most populous city, surpassing Sydney, which had held the noscript for over a century. According to official statistics, there are now almost 19,000 more citizens in Melbourne than in Sydney.

The small yet significant difference in population surfaced during the latest census.

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Bear Facts About How Hibernating Grizzlies Can Prevent Deadly Blood Clots

Long periods of inactivity may cause major pain and even present serious health hazards, leading to life-threatening blood clots throughout the body. Nevertheless, this danger doesn't affect bears who lay nearly motionless for months at a time.

A team of Scandinavian researchers has collected and studied the blood of brown bears for 13 years in both the summer and winter in order to get to the bottom of how they prevent blood clots. The bears were tranquilized, had their blood samples taken, and returned to their dens to finish up their naps.

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💰 Over $45 billion of international support has come into Ukraine's budget since the beginning of Russia's military operation, Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Monday.

🗣 "International financial aid to Ukraine (talking exactly the credits and grants to the budget)... has exceeded $45 billions," Zheleznyak said on his Telegram channel.

📌 In January, the governor of Ukraine's National Bank, Andriy Pyshnyi, said that the total amount of foreign financing might exceed $38 billion and close the budget deficit in 2023.

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Why SpaceX Postpones Starship Launch & What Comes Next

On April 17, the private US spacecraft manufacturing and launch company SpaceX was expected to conduct the first orbital flight test of their much-anticipated creation, the Starship.

The launch, however, was postponed just minutes before liftoff, due to what appeared to be a minor technical problem.

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Israel Should Put Aside Internal Differences, Prepare for War With Iran, Think Tank Says

💬 "Israel must adopt a new paradigm that prioritizes security needs over other legitimate needs. The IDF and all elements of the security establishment must be removed from the political discourse while condemning the threats to dodge service. In addition, elected officials must ensure that the IDF has the necessary resources to prepare for a war that may be inevitable," the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, a conservative think-tank, said.

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⚡️ Putin visited Russian troops in Kherson region, Kremlin says

💬 "Vladimir Putin at the staff of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson Region listened to reports from the commander of the Airborne Troops, Col. Gen. Mikhail Teplinsky, the commander of the Dnepr grouping of troops, Col. Gen. Oleg Makarevich and other military leadership," according to the statement.

🇨🇦 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is suspending its activities on Twitter following the social media platform’s decision to label them as a government-funded outlet

💬 "Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on Twitter," CBC said in a statement.

The decision comes following Twitter’s decision to apply the "government-funded media" label to CBC’s primary account, which was also recently applied to US state-funded outlet National Public Radio.

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📹☦️ Vladimir Putin wished officers a Happy Easter and presented them with a copy of an icon that had belonged, as Russian president said, to 'one of the most successful defense ministers of the Russian Empire'

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🇨🇦 Elon Musk has switched the CBC’s Twitter label claiming the corporation maintains it is less than 70 percent government-funded

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📹 Vladimir Putin visited the staff of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson Region and the Vostok National Guard staff in the Lugansk People's Republic

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