🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin visited an exhibition of promising space projects at the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia

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🇮🇶 Shia groups in Iraq say they attacks US military base in Iraqi Kurdistan with 2 drones

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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Latest updates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

▪️The deputy head of the Hamas intelligence agency, one of the masterminds who planned the attack on Israel on October 7, was eliminated, the Israel Defense Forces reported;

▪️Hamas said roughly 50 hostages were killed in Israeli shelling;

▪️The head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission to the UN said that Israel used white phosphorus during attacks on Gaza;

▪️The Israeli Defense Forces carried out a tank raid in northern Gaza in preparation for the next phases of fighting.

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❗️Pentagon confirms that approximately 900 US troops have been deployed or are in process of deploying to the Middle East amid the conflict escalation in the Gaza Strip. Washington is also planning to provide two Iron Dome systems currently in its inventory to Israel in addition to Iron Dome interceptors, the US DoD said

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Despite being responsible for fanning the Gaza crisis, the US and Israel are trying to lay the blame for the Gaza war at Iran's door, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the Department of American Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, told Sputnik.

🗣 "What Iran has been saying and what many other countries, including Russia, have been saying is they need to have a cease fire," said Izadi. "That was the Russian UN resolution that was vetoed by the United States. They like to continue the war. Of course, they don't like the media coverage of the war by independent media outlets. So they want to shut down the media coverage, but they don't want to shut down the war, they want to continue the war."

Iranian FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's visit to New York City, where the UN headquarters are located, sends a signal to global powers that Tehran is interested in solving the crisis and that it is ready to protect itself from Washington's attacks.

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⚛️ America’s nuclear energy industry lags far behind Russia’s, says Valeriy Menshikov, member of the public council of Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy corporation.

🗣 “This is why we, Russia, still supply them with enriched uranium, and this is why these shipments are not being targeted by any sanctions,” he affirmed.

🗣 “To bridge this gap would be a no small feat. I think we are not talking a year or two here – more like decades, maybe,” he emphasized, referring to the time it might take the US to reach Russia’s level of uranium enrichment capabilities.

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Radhika Desai: Western press uses ‘ankle-biting yappy dog’ pseudo-academics to silence critics

A prominent Canadian academic has come under fire in the Canadian press for attending the Valdai Forum in Russia. She told Sputnik that the Western press uses government-funded “lapdog” academics to smear the reputations of those who criticize Western policies and highlight how they have discredited themselves.

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🇸🇦🇷🇺 Saudi Arabia and Russia are exploring the possibilities of investment cooperation, Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar bin Ibrahim Alkhorayef told Sputnik, expressing hope that the existing opportunities would be developed.

🗣 "Saudi Arabia and Russia have very big investment opportunities, this issue has been discussed with Russian officials, and the possibilities of cooperation are still being explored," the minister said on the sidelines of the seventh Future Investment Initiative (FII7) investment forum "The New Compass" in Riyadh.

The industry minister said that Russia had achieved success in many industries over the past 20 years, including the automotive industry, heavy equipment production, and military sector.

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📹 Footage shows the Russian Aerospace Forces' Su-34 aircraft successfully targeting the positions of Ukrainian militants in the special operation zone.

The figher-bombers' skilled crews conduct air patrol missions and provide crucial cover for units of the Russian army.

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❗EU's Michel Says Sees No Role for Hamas in Future Peace Conference on Middle East

The European Union sees no role for Palestinian movement Hamas in any future international peace conference on the Middle East, European Council President Charles Michel said on Friday.

"Hamas is a terrorist organization, that's why I don't see any role for Hamas in such an international conference in which the EU would participate," Michel told a press conference following the first day of the EU summit in Brussels when asked whether Hamas should be represented in a future peace conference on the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇫🇮 US Marine Corps combat logistics battalion will arrive in Finland in later October to train together with the Finnish troops for about two months, the Finnish Defense Forces said.

🗣 "Combat Logistics Battalion 6 of the US Marine Corps will arrive in Finland for about two months. From late October to early December, the battalion will undergo training together with the Uusimaa [Nyland] brigade. This cooperation is organized in continuation of last year's [drills], when a smaller unit of the same battalion trained together with the Uusimaa brigade in the fall," the statement read.

The unit, numbering about 250 servicemen, will be stationed with the Uusimaa brigade in the village of Dragsvik in northern Finland and drill at its military training areas, the Finnish military added. In late November, the battalion will participate in the Finnish Navy's annual exercise, Freezing Winds 23, focusing on land warfare, the statement read.

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❗China's former Premier Li Keqiang has died at the age of 68 following a heart attack, state media has confirmed

🇨🇳 China hopes US will observe nuclear testing moratorium

🗣 "China will closely monitor the US actions. We hope that the US will take more concrete actions to perform its duties in observing the nuclear testing moratorium," Wu said.

In early October, the US conducted an underground nuclear test in Nevada. It took place hours after the Russian lower house passed a bill to revoke the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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⚡Pentagon confirms US conducted strikes in Syria in response to recent attacks against American troops

🇺🇸 The US must keep up with China in keenly pursuing the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, US Senator Chuck Schumer warned

🗣 "China is moving very fast here. They're investing lots of money and they're doing it in a different way - they don't have the same kind of values that we have, they're putting a lot of focus on facial recognition, on following people around," Schumer said at the AI summit hosted by an American news agency.

There is now a bipartisan consensus that the US federal government should be involved in the AI development efforts and that significant funding is required for that purpose, Schumer added.

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🇺🇸 Nearly 20 US soldiers diagnosed with ‘traumatic brain injuries’ in Iraq, Syria amid base attacks

The Pentagon detailed that 15 service members at the Al Tanf garrison in Syria and four troops at the Al Asad air base in Iraq suffered injuries from recent attacks, believed to be in response to the Palestine-Israel conflict.

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US forces had fired strikes against two facilities in Syria following earlier attacks against American and allied troops in Iraq and Syria, the US Department of Defense revealed

The US strikes were not related to the Palestine-Israel conflict, the department underscored.

Earlier in the day, the Pentagon confirmed that 21 US personnel suffered minor injuries from 16 attacks that began on October 17.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli leadership yet to decide on possible ground operation in Gaza Strip

Some officials reportedly worry that the operation may lead to the IDF involvement in an intractable urban fighting in Gaza, while others fear a broader conflict, with Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah possibly becoming more active on the Israel-Lebanon border.

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