🇲🇦 📸 Unearthing history: Major Roman-era site discovered in Morocco's capital, Rabat

In a major archaeological breakthrough, Moroccan experts have unearthed a sprawling Roman-era site in Rabat, revealing a port district, bath and cemetery dating back to the second century.

👉🏽 Take a look at Sputnik Africa's photo gallery for a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Roman settlers and Romanized Moroccans, or Mauro-Romans, during that period

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🇺🇸🇵🇸 Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the US capital of Washington D.C. to protest against Israeli military activities in the Gaza Strip and the US support for Israel, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene on Saturday.

The organizers expect some 30,000 people to take part in the pro-Palestine rally.

The participants are holding banners reading, "Resistance against the occupation is a human right," "Stop the Palestinian genocide," "Israel bombs hospitals, Biden funds it," "Biden, we will remember in November [of 2024)]," "Stop the war."

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❗️Exposed: Australia is sending weapons to the Middle East on civilian cargo ships

Local activists plan to fight the Albanese government’s proxy wars abroad by staging protests at ports. @AussieCossack breaks down the battle for Australia’s foreign policy future.

🇪🇺 Europe's migration problem could bring down governments, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Saturday, adding that Austria now has the highest per capita burden of migration in continental Europe.

Germany should also discuss measures to combat illegal migration, Schallenberg said, adding that the deportation issue is an "Achilles' heel" of the European Union's asylum system.

To deal with the problem, European countries should put much more pressure on migrants' countries of origin and use the European Union’s influence, Schallenberg said.

"This means that we must question EU customs preferences or visa facilitation and adjust development aid for countries that do not cooperate with us on repatriation. But that's not all. First, we need a proper defense of our external borders," Schallenberg said.

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🪐 An ancient planet may have rammed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, leaving its remnants still lodged inside, a new study has claimed

Material detected near Earth’s core under swathes of Africa and the Pacific Ocean as far back as in the 1980s could be remnants of that celestial orb, named Theia, according to scientists at the California Institute of Technology. Furthermore, what was left of the impact resulted in the formation of the Moon.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺 NATO proxy war against Russia hurts the world economy, and the mideast crisis could finish it off

The latest explosion of violence in the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli crisis witnessed on October 7 threatens to wreck the global economy, with countries which are already hobbling along economically thanks to the ongoing NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine facing a new danger: $150 per barrel oil.

In its quarterly Commodity Markets Outlook report this week, the World Bank warned that energy and food prices will face a “dual shock” if the war in Gaza continues, pointing out that the crisis comes on the heels of the Ukraine conflict, which already saw “the biggest shock to commodity markets since the 1970s.”

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China has urged the United States to respect China's territorial sovereignty and stop interfering in maritime disputes among regional countries, as well as to play a constructive role in ensuring regional peace and stability, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

On Friday, China and the US held the first round of consultations in Beijing on maritime affairs, co-chaired by Director-General of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Hong Liang, and US State Department China Coordinator Mark Lambert.

"The parties had a frank, in-depth and constructive exchange of views on issues such as maritime security, the ‘maritime economy’ and the environment," the ministry said.

Both countries stressed the need to strengthen dialogue and interaction, and monitor the situation at sea, while avoiding misjudgments and developing mutually beneficial cooperation, as cited in the Chinese Foreign Ministry's statement.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇳 The US and Britain vote against a UN resolution condemning neo-nazism

The UN General Assembly has adopted a consensus landmark resolution that censures the increasing incidence of neo-Nazism, racial discrimination, and other manifestations of hate, despite notable dissent from key Western nations, including Second World War allies such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

The assembly witnessed the passage of the resolution by a vote of 111 in favor to 50 against, with 14 abstentions, addressing “the persistence and resurgence of neo-Nazism, neo-Fascism, and violent nationalist ideologies based on racial and national prejudice.”

The report raises alarms over the increased extent to which people revere individuals and groups associated with Nazism, notably former combatants of the Waffen SS and similar factions that opposed the Allied forces in the Second World War, without attributing the issue to any specific nation.

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🇷🇺 Russia's new nuclear-powered submarine Emperor Alexander III performs test launch of Bulava ballistic missile

This was the last test for the Emperor Alexander III and a decision will now be made on whether to accept the ship into the Navy, the MoD said.

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🇪🇬🇵🇸🇮🇱 Death of civilians in Gaza cannot be justified by Israel's right to self-defense, Egyptian FM says

"There can be no justification for the deaths of civilians in Gaza ... We will not accept attempts to justify these actions as a legitimate right to self-defense," Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al Safadi.

Al Safadi, in turn, noted that other Arab countries also refuse to consider Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip as self-defense.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli army to allow evacuation of civilians from northern Gaza to southern on Sunday

“The IDF will allow traffic on Salah al-Din Road tomorrow between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. [08:00-12:00 GMT] For your safety, take advantage of this time to move south beyond Wadi Gaza," IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee told Israeli media.

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