UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived at the Rafah checkpoint, a Sputnik correspondent has reported

Key statements made by Antonio Guterres at the Rafah checkpoint:

▪️ Two million people suffer behind these walls and they have no food, water or fuel

▪️ “We have a lot of trucks with fuel, food and water, and they are stuck here.” All we need is for them to be brought to Gaza as quickly as possible.

▪️ “I call for an unconditional humanitarian ceasefire to ensure that aid reaches Gaza.”

▪️ Israel recently announced that it will allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. There are import contacts between Egypt and the other side, but there are conditions for this.

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🇮🇱 Israel has received 45 cargo airplanes with armaments for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) since the start of the escalation of the conflict with the Hamas movement, the Defense Ministry said on Friday

“The Israeli defense establishment welcomed the arrival of the 45th cargo plane to Israel this morning. Around 1,000 tons of armaments arrived to bolster IDF capabilities,” the ministry wrote on X.

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🗣 Russian President Vladimir Putin is to hold a major press conference this year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

▪️ The president's last Direct Line lasted almost four hours, during which he answered a number of important questions of concern to Russians.

▪️ Direct Line with Vladimir Putin is the most powerful sociological survey that allows citizens to describe their position to the country's leadership.

▪️ This year is the 20th press conference for the Russian leader.

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Ukrainian nationalist Yaroslav Hunka has been charged in absentia with genocide of civilians during the Great Patriotic War, Russia’s Investigative Committee said

The issue of putting Hunka on the international wanted list and charging him in absentia is being resolved, requests for legal assistance have been sent to Canada, Poland, and Belarus, Russia’s Investigative Committee added.

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💥Israeli attacks on Gaza’s civilian infrastructure as of October 20:

🕌 11 mosques destroyed

⛪️ 7 churches damaged

🏥59 attacks on health care (including 17 hospitals damaged)

👨‍🎓 178 educational facilities have been hit including:

• at least 20 UNRWA schools;
• 140 Palestinian Authority (PA) schools;
• 1 university damaged.

🏠 At least 30 percent of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been either:

• destroyed - 12,845;
• rendered uninhabitable - 9,055;
• moderately/lightly damaged - 121,000;

Source: UN OCHA

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😡🇦🇺 Australian veterans claim they have found evidence of the "systematic abuse" of Australia's honours and awards system that has allowed top brass, including present Defence Force Chief General Angus Campbell, to be unlawfully awarded "distinguished service" medals for decades

Gaining access to previously unseen correspondence and documents, the veterans say they have discovered that the Defense Department knew as far back as 1996 that Distinguished Service Crosses (DSCs) were being awarded unlawfully to high-ranking officers who were not serving "in action".

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⚡️2 more UN aid workers were killed in the Gaza Strip

The new deaths, confirmed by UNRWA, bring the total number of aid workers killed during the current conflict to 16.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant named three stages of the war with Hamas:

▪️ The first (current) stage involves launching strikes using aircraft and “then with ground maneuvers” to destroy Hamas militants and damage their infrastructure.

▪️ The second stage involves combat operations of lower intensity and working on “eliminating pockets of resistance.”

▪️ The third stage includes “the creation of a new security regime in the Gaza Strip, removing from Israel responsibility for the daily life of the Gaza Strip, and creating a new reality regarding the security of the people of Israel.”

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📹 Hamas published a video showing one of its units using a quadcopter against an Israeli vehicle

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🇧🇾 Belarus is already taking practical steps to build a second nuclear power plant, Belarusian President Lukashenko said.

There are two options: adding two more units to the already operating nuclear power plant in Ostrovets or building a separate station in the Mogilev region.

“Already, 25% of our electricity is generated by peaceful nuclear energy. This is more than in the United States and even more than in Russia. By creating another station, we will receive more than half of the energy from this very profitable source.”

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🇰🇵 North Korea reserves the right to launch a preemptive attack on strategic forces of the US being transferred to South Korea, North Korean state-run news agency reported 

Any US strategic assets deployed in South Korea would become "the first target to be destroyed," the report said, adding that Washington "would be well aware that the Korean peninsula is technically at war." North Korea also believes that "the days had gone when the right to preemptive strike was 'monopoly' of the US," the state media reported.

Pyongyang also believes that the joint drills planned for October 22 are "the intentional nuclear war provocative moves of the US"

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