😡🇦🇺 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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🇮🇱💥 The Israeli army released a video of its overnight strikes on the Gaza Strip, saying it hit more than 100 targets.

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🇸🇪 Swedish authorities could potentially deport Hamas sympathizers from the country in the future, Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergaard said.

“If a person chooses to honor the death spread by terror, then one can really question whether he has lost the right to be here,” Stenergaard stated.

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🛡 A former Ukrainian border guard who worked for the Russian special services, Ruslan Syrovoy, told Sputnik that smuggling of people across the border is in great demand in Ukraine. The price tag for this service is $5,000 per person.

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🇷🇺 Russian air defense forces shot down seven Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters in the military operation zone over the past 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated on its telegram channel.

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🇵🇸💥🇮🇱 Hamas published a video showing an Israeli Merkava IV tank being shot down by dropping a grenade from a drone.

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Biden: Netanyahu and I discussed again yesterday the critical need for Israel to operate by the laws of war. That means protecting civilians in combat as best as they can.

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