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🍴💵 Money Hungry? Caught Red-Handed, Madhya Pradesh Official Swallows Bribe

The incident, which occurred on Monday in the state's Katni district, quickly gained widespread attention after a video of the incident went viral.

🤑 He was then brought to a local hospital, where the bribe notes were extracted in the form of pulp from his mouth by the doctors.

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🇷🇺 🌍 Russia, Africa Should Join Forces to Fight Cancer With Nuclear Medicine, Expert Says

💬 "If Africa had its own infrastructure for the use of nuclear medicine, it would be positive for the development of the continent. Many associations already rank cancer as the first or second leading cause of death in Africa," said Dr Musawenkosi Eslom Mdluli, Director at Khuphuka Kings International (Pty) Ltd. and Khuphuka Medicals & General Trade Ltd., South Africa, in an interview with Sputnik Africa

Last week, Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, announced its intention to help African nations on their way to technological sovereignty

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🎥 T-90M Proryv tank crew destroys Ukrainian stronghold in Krasny Liman direction

The Russian tank crew strikes a Ukrainian fortified structure with a 125mm gun.

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🇹🇷 Turkiye's first main battle tank to be put into serial production in 2025

The serial production Altay tanks will start in 2025, once the first batch of the 250 combat vehicles is delivered to the Turkish military, Mehmet Karaaslan, the general manager of the BMC Defense manufacturing company, told Sputnik.

Due to a number of export restrictions and sanctions, some of the tanks' parts have been replaced with locally produced items or those not subject to limits, which has required repeated tests, Karaaslan added.

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📹 “We ended cancer as we know it,” claims Joe Biden

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🥴 Joe Biden put the US “on a path to a better, brighter future,” his wife Jill boasts in Paris

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❗️Sputnik Lithuania editor and Sputnik Radio host Marat Kasem has left Latvia, Russia’s MFA spokeswoman Zakharova says

On January 3, the Latvian State Security Service detained Kasem, accusing of violating article 84 paragraph 1 of the Latvian Criminal Code for violating EU sanctions.

The real reasons for the arrest do not leave much doubt, since 84(1) is a classic article for Russian media representatives persecuted by the Baltic security forces. Earlier, Marat's colleagues in the media group were accused of violating this article.

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🇷🇺 Russia supports efforts of African countries to seek social, economic stability, progress, Putin says

Russia will continue to help African countries in efforts to strengthen sovereignty, play more active role in resolution of global issues, Putin added.

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🇭🇺 NATO expansion serves US interests, damages Eurasian civilization, Hungarian politician says

💬 "We are fundamentally against the expansion of NATO [to the East] because this only exacerbates an already very dangerous and damaging tensions between the western and the eastern parts of our civilization. This interest of the United States deals a lot of damage to the Eurasian civilization, which Russia is a part of," the leader of the Hungarian national-conservative opposition party Our Homeland Movement, Laszlo Toroczkai, told Sputnik.

Laszlo Toroczkai also said that the Our Homeland Movement he leads will vote against Sweden's accession to NATO and call on the parliament to veto the alliance's expansion.

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📹 Russian Nona-SVK crews unleash hell on Ukrainian mortars and BMPs near Krasny Liman

Servicemen from the Central Military District's mountain motorized rifle unit obtained coordinates from reconnaissance and, using 120-mm guns, obliterated enemy targets. The soldiers used high-explosive fragmentation and thermobaric shells. To effectively carry out their mission, the artillerymen closely coordinated their efforts with drone calculations, enabling swift adjustments and valuable assessments of the actual combat situation.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Shoigu lays flowers at Liberation Monument in Pyongyang

The monument was erected in the DPRK capital on August 15, 1946 as a token of gratitude of the Korean people to the Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of Korea in 1945.

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🇶🇦🇫🇷 France eyes new deal with Qatar on supply of Rafale fighter jets

Doha may place an order for French fighter jets between 2024 and 2025, the report said. Qatar may also request that France modernize the 36 aircraft supplied in 2015 to the F4 standard.

In 2015, Qatar and France struck a deal for the delivery of 24 Rafale aircraft worth 6.3 million euros ($6.96 million), with Doha having purchased another 12 fighters later.

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📹 Russian aviation puts out fire engulfing Turkiye’s resort area of Antalya

Within a period of 24 hours, two Russian BE-200ChS planes dropped more than 800 tons of water on burning forests near Kemer, in the Antalya province.

Specialists from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry were tasked with protecting hotels and other infrastructure on the Turkish coast from raging forest fires in the area. The pilots labored under heavy smoke and poor visibility in difficult mountainous terrain.

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