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

◾️Russian troops successfully repelled three attacks by Ukrainian Forces in the LPR and DPR;

◾️In the Kherson direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian soldiers and three D-20 howitzers;

◾️In the Donetsk region, the Russian Army repelled 18 attacks by Ukrainian assault groups;

◾️In the Krasny Liman, Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 soldiers and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle;

◾️In the Kupyansk, the Russian Army destroyed up to 110 Ukrainian soldiers;

◾️In the Zaporozhye area, Ukrainian losses amounted to 110 soldiers. Russian forces destroyed a tank, an M777 artillery system, a FH-70 howitzer and a Krab self-propelled gun;

◾️In South Donetsk, Ukrainian losses amounted to 125 soldiers. Russian troops destroyed eight armored combat vehicles and two D-30 howitzers;

◾️Russian forces repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops near Nikolskiy and Urozhayniy in the DPR;

◾️Russian air defense systems intercepted five HIMARS MLRS rockets and destroyed Ukrainian 17 drones.

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📹 Today marks the 15th anniversary of the start of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict

Watch what happened during those five fateful days in August 2008 in a Sputnik video recap

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🇵🇱 Do Poles want their historical territories in Ukraine back? This man says they do

A video has gone viral on the Internet in which a man, who introduces himself as a Polish mercenary, says he is fighting to get back territories in Ukraine that historically belonged to Poland

The man says Warsaw’s real plan for Ukraine is to collapse their economy and then “take” them without a fight.

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Almost 80% of Nigerians support military takeover leaders, poll says

A survey conducted by the Premise Data polling firm showed that 78% of respondents support the actions of military takeover leaders and 73% think that military takeover leaders should stay in power "for an extended period" or "until new elections are held."

Also, 54% said they did not support interventions by regional or international organizations. Of those who do support a foreign intervention, 50% would like it to be by Russia.

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Niger crisis sparks fears in France

Niger was rocked by a military takeover last month, with the new authorities freezing uranium and precious metals exports. France, which depends on the African nation for nearly a fifth of the uranium powering its nuclear power plants, has expressed its support for a possible military intervention by a regional political bloc known as the ECOWAS.

A group of French lawmakers has sent an open letter to President Emmanuel Macron demanding a review of France’s Africa policy and warning that the Niger crisis shows that Paris is being squeezed out of Africa by other world powers including Russia, China and the United States.

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