🇵🇸🇮🇱 Death toll in Gaza Strip exceeds 8,000, Palestinian Ministry of Health says

The last figure issued by the ministry on Saturday was 7,703.

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US Impede India's Investment in Rosneft's Vostok Oil Project

🚫 🇺🇸 America is trying to unable India to invest in the Vostok Oil project of Russian oil refining company Rosneft as American consultants, who conduct extensive audits, avoid engaging with Russian firms.

🇷🇺 🛢 The Vostok Oil project is the largest new oil and gas venture for Rosneft globally, with significant potential for crude oil production. However, the lack of access to consultants from the USA hampers the project's development.

🇮🇳 Whenever India attempts to finalize this deal, evaluating and executing transactions become increasingly challenging due to the political environment and regulatory framework.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian T-72B3 crews from Battlegroup Zapad eliminate Ukrainian forces in Kupyansk area

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

▪️Iran says Israel has crossed red lines

▪️IDF says struck over 450 Hamas's facilities in Gaza Strip over past day

▪️Gaza health ministry says over 8,000 killed in Palestine since start of escalation with Israel

▪️UNSC meeting over Israel's ground operation in Gaza scheduled for Oct 30

▪️Palestinian leader calls for emergency Arab summit amid Israeli ground invasion

▪️Tokyo urges to create conditions for conducting humanitarian missions in Middle East

▪️Israel threatens to shun Starlink over Musk’s pledge to restore connectivity in Gaza

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🇨🇿🇵🇸🇮🇱 Czech defense minister calls for country's withdrawal from UN over Gaza ceasefire resolution

💬 “Only 14 countries, including ours, stood up against the unprecedented terrorist attack committed by Hamas terrorists, clearly and comprehensibly! I am ashamed of the UN. In my opinion, the Czech Republic has nothing to expect from an organization that supports terrorists and does not respect the basic right to self-defense. Let's get out,” Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova said, commenting on the UNGA resolution calling for a humanitarian truce in Gaza.

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🇦🇺🇵🇸 50,000 Australians marched in Melbourne today in support of Palestine

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian forces destroy Ukrainian DANA self-propelled howitzer

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian UAV crews from Battlegroup Yug wipe out Ukrainian forces and field storage sites near Spornoye

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🇹🇷🇮🇱 Turkiye will label Israel as a “war criminal” for its actions in Gaza, Erdogan says

💬 "Israel, we will also declare you as a war criminal to the world, we are preparing for it, and we will introduce Israel to the world as a war criminal," Erdogan told the thousands who had gathered to express support for the Palestinians.

Slamming the Western world’s politicians and their media for legitimizing the “massacre of the innocent people” in Gaza, Erdogan denounced the West as the “main culprit behind the massacre unfolding in Gaza.”

According to the Turkish leader, Israel was being used as "a pawn" in the region, which could be "sacrificed" later.

Referencing the recent resolution overwhelmingly passed in the UNGA calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, which both Israel and the US rejected, Erdogan reiterated a call to the Israeli government “to open the doors of dialogue to establish peace.”

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💰 Gold soars past $2,000

Geopolitical unrest, particularly the recent Palestine-Israel escalation, has ignited a 10% surge in gold value, outshining investments in the S&P 500.

Central banks globally are eyeing increasing their gold reserves, signaling gold's continued allure as a safe asset amid global uncertainty.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 More than 3,300 children have been killed in the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip; a thousand more have been buried under rubble, Palestinian health officials say

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military op in Ukraine

▪️Russian forces repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the Kupyansk direction, eliminating up to 165 servicemen

▪️Russian troops repelled two attacks by Ukrainian assault groups in the Krasny Liman direction, eliminating up to 70 servicemen

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Donetsk direction amounted to 100 servicemen, with two UAV control points destroyed

▪️Russian forces repelled four Ukrainian attacks in the South Donetsk direction, eliminating 130 servicemen

▪️Russian air defenses brought down 44 Ukrainian UAVs

▪️The Russian Army destroyed a Bukovel electronic warfare station near the Komsomolskoye settlement in the Zaporozhye region

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump vows to reimpose travel ban targeting Muslim countries if he gets reelected in 2024

💬 “You remember the travel ban? On day one I will restore our travel ban. We had a travel ban because we didn’t want people coming into our country who really love the idea of blowing our country up,” Trump told the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition on Saturday. At the rally, the 45th POTUS also took a dig at the Biden administration’s “weakness,” promising to “restore peace through strength,” while also preventing “World War III.”

Back in 2020, Joe Biden overturned his predecessor’s ban, while decrying an unacceptable rise in Islamophobia.

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Scott Ritter: Israel faces ‘near impossible task’ in Gaza

💬 "Simply trying to navigate the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza will be a nearly impossible task for the Israeli troops. The going will be slow, and the Israeli infantry will have to operate dismounted, exposing themselves to sniper fire and ambushes. Israeli vehicles will find themselves hemmed in without the ability to maneuver, making themselves vulnerable to mines, improvised explosive devices, and anti-tank weaponry. Close air support under these circumstances will be very difficult, effectively neutralizing Israel’s greatest advantage," Scott Ritter, military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, pointed out.

Israel has conducted a series of ground incursions into Gaza over the past week, each building on the last and increasing in scope and scale. This appears to be part of an Israeli strategy to gradually build up to an operation that, when completed, will fall just short of a general assault on Gaza, according to the analyst.

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🏦🇬🇧 The Bank of England (BoE) is anticipated to predict an increased risk of a recession for the UK economy in the months ahead.

The upcoming meeting of the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on November 2 is expected to:

• Revise down its estimates for gross domestic product (GDP) both for the second half of this year and for early 2024.

• Forecast an unemployment outlook of around five percent in the upcoming months - a surge up from 3.5 percent registered last year.

• Retain the key interest rate at 5.25 percent for a second consecutive meeting, despite inflation remaining high.

Britain is experiencing the worst inflation challenges among the Group of Seven, with the inflation rate at 6.7 percent in September.

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🇪🇺 Despite the EU claiming it may soon find legal leverage to use profits generated from Russia's frozen assets to aid Ukraine, this is empty talk, Jacques Sapir, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), and Dmitry Golubovsky, analyst at Zolotoi Monetnyi Dom, told Sputnik.

Per the experts, the EU does not have a legal framework for "stealing" Russia's frozen assets or profits generated from them. What's more, such a move would be disastrous for the bloc's reputation and would immediately alienate high-profile global investors, according to Sputnik's interlocutors.

"If the EU implements what could be called a 'legal theft', the EU’s financial reputation would be ruined among non-Western countries. I don’t see investors from the Gulf States or from India or China to be very comfortable with this situation," stressed Jacques Sapir.

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