🇩🇪 The German government’s three-party coalition has suffered heavy losses in Sunday’s state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, according to preliminary results

All three parties in the coalition, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), lost support in the October 8 elections, in which almost 14 million people were eligible to vote.

Scholz’s party showed the worst results in both states since the Second World War, notably obtaining less votes compared to the 2018 elections. The SPD gained 15% (-5) in Hesse and 8% (-2) in Bavaria, Germany’s biggest state.

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🇺🇸 US bound to lose big if it chips away at China's tech sector

The US has already slapped a series of restrictions on China's hi-tech sector in what international observers see as an attempt by Washington to hinder the Asian giant's technological rise. Earlier this month, the Biden administration warned the People's Republic of China (PRC) about its intent to further tighten export rules for chip-making tools and AI chips.

Still, a group of US lawmakers believe that the Biden administration should go even further and impose restrictions on US-China RISC-V collaboration. Chairman of the House Select Committee on China Mike Gallagher, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, proposed to "require any American person or company to receive an export license prior to engaging with PRC (People's Republic of China) entities on RISC-V technology."

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Hamas fighters made precise calculations about the capacity of Israel's air defense forces and worked out the number of rockets necessary to 'overload' the Iron Dome,' military expert Alexei Leonkov told Sputnik.

🗣 "It was a classic case: if one seeks to suppress rival air defenses, an air raid has to be calculated in a way where the number of airstrikes exceeds existing air defense capabilities. Roughly speaking, if Israel has 200 interceptors, we are talking about 400 required missiles," he explained.

Leonkov added that the sheer scale of Hamas’ missile attacks simply overwhelmed the Iron Dome. “If Israel had expected 5,000 missiles launched all at once, Israeli intelligence would have accumulated far more Iron Dome launchers and surface-to-air missile (SSM) for their rapid recharge,” he said.

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📹 Benjamin Netanyahu published a video of the attacks on the Gaza Strip, accompanied by the caption: "We have begun. Israel will win!"

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Russia warned about US weapons for Ukraine ending on black market months before bloodbath in Israel

Hours after Hamas militants launched an attack against Israeli populations and forces, some commentators started suggesting that Palestinian militants might be using weapons procured from Ukraine.

One of them is US House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who suggested that Hamas may be using US weapons that were either abandoned by US forces during withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 or supplied to the regime in Kiev by the Biden administration since February 2022. She is yet to provide any evidence to back up her claims, however.

Long before such concerns were raised in the West, Russia's Foreign Ministry had repeatedly warned in public that weaponry eagerly provided by the US and NATO to Ukraine may find its way to the global black market.

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🇫🇷 Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was spotted at the rally

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❗️Hamas threatens to execute one hostage in response to every Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip

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The president of Israel has claimed that such a high number of Israelis had not died in one day since the Holocaust

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🇺🇸 US pediatric care in sorry state amid upsurge in youth mortality rate

A new study has concluded that mortality rates among children and teenagers in the United States increased by about 20 percent between 2019 and 2021.

Homicide, suicide, drug overdoses and car accidents were identified as primary reasons for this upsurge among Americans aged between 10 and 19. The study authors also pointed out that COVID-19 “contributed little” to this trend.

In this context, Dr. Yolanda Hancock, a board-certified pediatrician and public health expert who was not involved in the study, told Sputnik that the worrying situation is exacerbated by an apparent lack of proper pediatric care in the United States.

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❗️The Israeli military will not hold back in attacking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, despite the risk of harming its citizens who were captured, Israeli media reports

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❗️A Hamas spokesman said that among the Israeli prisoners there are “dozens” of people with second citizenship, western media report

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📹🇺🇸 Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. has announced that he will run for US president as an independent.

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⚡️Latest statements by Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the nation:

▪️Netanyahu assures nation that Israel will win 'in this war with Hamas';

▪️Hamas fighters still present in Israel;

▪️Netanyahu ready to establish emergency government without preconditions.

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⚡️Hezbollah says shells Israeli military facilities after death of three of its fighters

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