🚀 Russia has launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

This was the tenth launch in the interests of the ministry in 2023, and the third from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) will receive 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion) from the German government to open a production plant in the eastern city of Dresden, a German newspaper reported on Monday, citing government sources.

TSMC will run the plant within a joint venture framework with German engineering and technology company Bosch, semiconductor manufacturer Infineon and Dutch semiconductor designer and producer NXP Semiconductors.

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NATO-trained Ukrainian brigades reportedly suffer heavy losses on the battlefield

The Ukrainian military does not disclose data on the dead and wounded, but the commander of the battalion of the 37th Marine Brigade Alexander said that he lost many people when his fighters stumbled upon minefields and fell under the onslaught of Russian artillery and air strikes, a US newspaper has reported.

The commander also stated that in the initial stages of the so-called counteroffensive, at least one new brigade was so exhausted by losses that it had to be withdrawn from the battlefield to rebuild.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 'Wishful thinking': Talks on Ukraine in Jeddah can't bring result, Russian envoy to Washington says

“There was no diplomatic success in Jeddah. Washington tried to show a beautiful picture of US support from the 'Global South' states in the effort to isolate Russia,” Anatoly Antonov said.

"Hence the rather expected result of the meeting - the lack of a common position on how to move forward in resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There was no support for Kiev's notorious 'peace formula' at all," he added.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 Biden signs bill officially formalizing US-Taiwan trade agreement

At present, Taiwan is the United States’ ninth largest trading partner with $90.6 billion in total traded goods in 2020, according to US Trade Representative Office data.

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📹 ‘Be a grown a** man!’: Gold star dad lambasts Biden administration for chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan

💬 ''You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than every one of them combined. You owe it to our families here today," said Darin Hoover, the father of Sgt. Hoover, who was killed along with 12 other US service members and at least 170 Afghans in a suicide bomber attack on the Kabul airport in 2021.

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🇺🇸 US greenlights transferring first batch of Abrams tanks to Ukraine

Washington has approved the shipment of the first batch of Abrams tanks to Kiev, US media reports, citing US Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Douglas Bush.

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🇳🇪🇺🇸 Ominous sign? Victoria Nuland visits Niger

Nuland met Niger’s military takeover leadership and had “extremely frank and at times quite difficult” talks for more than two hours. Her requests to meet with detained president Bazoum were denied, she added.

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🇺🇸 US whipping up tension around Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Russian ambassador to Washington says

💬 "If the Biden Administration is truly committed to ensuring peace in the region, then it must drop the accusations and threats of sanctions against Russia. As well as not try to disrupt the establishing ties between our country and Georgia. It is important to focus on practical activities within the framework of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the South Caucasus. First of all, work towards concluding a legally binding agreement of Tbilisi with Sukhum and Tskhinval on the non-use of force,” Anatoly Antonov said.

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🇫🇷 🇷🇺 France unhappy with Niger's suspension of France 24 - but does Paris remember banning Sputnik?

While French diplomacy "strongly condemns the suspension of France 24 and RFI in Niger" following the military coup, Russian media Sputnik and RT remain banned from French soil since March 2022.

🗞 If Paris wants to show that it is committed to freedom of press, it could reconsider its decision, according to Manuel Marchal, the author of an article in the French newspaper Temoignages. Marchal went on to explain that the press freedom that France supposedly defends must not be "variable geometry"

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📹 Russian Ka-52 chopper targets Ukrainian armored vehicle in Krasny Liman direction

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📸 Stenin Contest 2023: Indian Photojournalist Work Wins Online Vote

🇮🇳 The spotlight is on Kabir Jhangiani, an exceptional talent hailing from India, as his breathtaking photograph "Seagulls around Yamuna River" takes first place in this year's Andrei Stenin Press Photo Contest.

🗯 Describing his work, Jhangiani eloquently shares: “A man rows his boat along the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. Migratory birds come to India for the winter. They get to different parts of the country by October and usually leave in March.”

🕊 Jhangiani's lens beautifully captures the harmony of man and nature during this enchanting migration period.

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🇳🇪 Victoria Nuland, during her visit to Niger, was not allowed to meet with either the detained president of the country or the head of the rebels.

She managed to communicate with the president only by phone. On behalf of the rebels, the chief of the country's general staff spoke with her.

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📹🇷🇺 Russian combat medics successfully perform intricate heart surgery

Doctors from the Western Military District have saved the life of a wounded Russian serviceman unfit to be transported. A Ukrainian flechette was promptly removed from the soldier's heart. He also suffered a pneumothorax, a lung wound, a hip wound, and a bone fracture.

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📹 The Kiev regime shelled a residential district in Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region, setting one house on fire, a Sputnik correspondent has reported.

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🇳🇪 ‘Banana republic like Kiev’ hard to find: Russia’s MFA spokeswoman skewers Nuland’s Niger trip

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Ukraine 'can't win' - they're 'a junior high team playing a college team,' US Senator says

According to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, what Washington is doing is “trying to get everybody’s eye off the real problem,” which is “the Biden administration and the Democrats. They’re a total disaster.”

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