❗️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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🪖 Ukraine's top general Zaluzhnyi is an ‘unrepentant fascist who has been heroized and lionized by the Western media,’ international relations and security analyst Mark Sleboda told Sputnik.

“The Economist has had him on the cover, before [that] Time has had him on the cover. In fact there’s a lot of evidence that the West is actually seeking next year to replace Zelensky with Zaluzhnyi as the president of the Kiev regime. The man is an open, unrepentant Banderite fascist. He has released images of his office. In his office, he has two busts and a poster featuring Stepan Bandera, the World War II-era Nazi collaborator and fascist ideologue who led the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army to fight alongside, often in the ranks of the SS with Nazi Germany and commit the Holocaust and atrocities against Jews, but also atrocities against Poles, against leftists, against ethnic Russians, against east Ukrainians who didn’t want a Banderite fascist Ukraine…And he also has a bust of Roman Shukhevych [another top Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader, ed.]. That’s because one bust of Bandera is not enough.”

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🇵🇱 Poland builds up army as fears mount of 'conflict with Russia,' British media claims

The country is focusing on rearming and increasing the strength of its armed forces by recruiting thousands of soldiers, aiming to become ‘the most powerful land army in Europe,’ the report said.

At the same time, the Polish authorities want to give Ukraine as many samples of Soviet weapons as possible. According to observers, Warsaw plans to replace the lost weapons with modern NATO equipment, and major purchases will be made from defense companies in the US and South Korea.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Latest updates on the Palestine-Israel conflict:

▪️IDF reports 2,500 strikes on Gaza Strip since beginning of ground operation

▪️Israeli army to allow evacuation of civilians from northern Gaza to southern on Sunday

▪️German economy minister calls for elimination of Hamas movement

▪️Israeli army gains access to Hamas underground tunnels in northern Gaza Strip

▪️Death of civilians in Gaza cannot be justified by Israel's right to self-defense, Egyptian FM said

▪️South Africa calls on Israel to protect civilians in Gaza

▪️Over 50 people killed in Israeli strike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza Strip

▪️Biden said progress reached on humanitarian pause in Gaza

▪️Hamas said Israeli strikes killed 60 hostages in Gaza

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