🇵🇸🇮🇱 Death toll of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees staff in Gaza Strip increases to 88

This is the highest number of UN staff killed in a single conflict, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee said.

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🇵🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱 US moves blocking Gaza peace puts Hezbollah under 'tremendous pressure'

“I think the Palestinian resistance and Hamas in particular are hoping that there will be a more aggressive response, a deeper penetration into or an attempt at least to address the presence of Israeli soldiers along the border and actually in parts of Lebanon,” international human rights activist, organizer and political analyst Ajamu Baraka told Sputnik, commenting on key points of Nasrallah’s fiery speech on Friday.

“People are really outraged by what they see. Many people are concluding that with the diplomatic channels being blocked by the US – and the criticism that [Nasrallah] raised was in fact true, that when you have the US blocking any attempts to come to a ceasefire or to have a more effective humanitarian corridor, it’s quite clear that the US is fully implicated in the slaughter of Palestinians. So it’s putting tremendous pressure on everyone to act, and to act, at this point in a military fashion since the diplomatic and peaceful channels seem to have been preempted,” the observer emphasized.

Baraka expects to see “political blowback” against Washington across the world and inside the US itself, suggesting that America’s credibility has been heavily damaged through its stalwart support for Israel throughout the present crisis.

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🇹🇷🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Blinken receives lukewarm reception upon arrival in Ankara

Several observers on social media pointed out that there was no high-level official present to welcome him.

Hours before Antony Blinken's arrival, Turkish police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who marched on an air base housing US forces in Turkiye's south-east.

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🇷🇺 WWII Liberation of Kiev: How Nazi defenses came crashing down

Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Kiev by the Red Army after nearly two-and-a-half years of brutal occupation by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. The surprise offensive was unexpected by the Axis after the bloody battles at Kursk in the summer of 1943.

🎞 Check out Sputnik’s video for unique historical footage, photos and facts about how the battle for Kiev unfolded.

❗️"Weak, gutless cowards!"

Whilst Australian Prime Minister Albanese is enjoying tax payer funded overseas trips to the US & China, trouble is brewing at home.

The powerful Labor-Greens coalition in Australia which helped Albanese come to power is now turning against the PM over his support of Israel against Palestine.

Deputy leader of the Australian Greens Senator Mahreen Faruqi brought the "people's protest" into Parliament storming out of the Senate with a group of 11 Federal Senators.

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

▪️Blinken arrives in Turkiye for another key meeting amid Israel-Hamas conflict after his unannounced Iraq visit

▪️Hamas calls on UN to visit Gaza hospitals to deny their use for military purposes

▪️The US Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine has arrived in the Middle East

▪️Israeli military strikes 450 aerial targets, takes control over Hamas compound in past 24 hours

▪️UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees has lost 88 employees to the Gaza conflict in the past four weeks

▪️Israeli military said 75 trucks carrying aid entered Gaza from Egypt in the past 24 hours

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian D-30 howitzer crews destroy Ukrainian command and observation post in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) direction

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🪖 'Ukraine is out of cannon fodder and so is NATO': Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman highlights rift within NATO over Ukraine military aid

“There are divisions over Ukraine [within NATO] and they are growing, not decreasing. That’s because it’s become obvious at this point that Ukraine has lost territories… and may lose more territory.

"If the whole program was to fight to the last Ukrainian, and you are running out of Ukrainians, you don't have a policy," Freeman stressed.

This comes as the head of the Zaporozhye region said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive in this direction has been completely stopped, the Ukrainian forces are "exhausted", and only agony remains.

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🇷🇺🇰🇿 Putin expected in Kazakhstan on November 9, President Tokayev’s press office says

The news come almost a week after Emmanuel Macron paid an official visit to Kazakhstan.

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Western Sanctions on Russia: A Tool Employed Selectively, Asserts Indian External Minister

🇮🇳 Indian External Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar, in an interview with Italian media, asserted that Western sanctions on Russia are selectively employed, giving the false impression of global consensus that does not align with reality.

❗He highlighted that restrictive measures are predominantly utilized by Western countries as a convenient tool to serve their foreign policy objectives.

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🇯🇵 Japan may ‘sacrifice’ its own defense industry interests in favor of US as it cuts costs

A collapse in the yen is forcing Japan to scale back a historic five-year plan costing 43.5 trillion yen ($290Bln).

One of the goals of boosting defense spending was the desire to promote the development of the national defense industry by expanding purchases of products made by Japanese companies for the self-defense forces. However, by all accounts, "this is exactly what the Japanese will have to economize on now," Oleg Paramonov, Senior Researcher of the Institute for International Studies told Sputnik.

Japan will probably sacrifice the interests of its own defense industry in favor of continued purchases of American weapons, said the expert.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin to Sputnik on reports that Vladimir Putin made decision on 2024 Russian presidential elections: President yet to make statement on this issue, start of campaign not announced yet

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian Lancet loitering munition destroys Ukrainian communications station

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israel launched airstrike on Gaza's only psychiatric hospital, Palestinian foreign ministry says

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☃️ Ukraine is “preparing for the most terrible winter,” the country's Foreign Minister Kuleba said in an interview with German media.

“Ukrainians are buying candles and “preparing for the worst winter.” We try to protect our power plants as best we can. But Russians are learning. They will once again test our endurance with their missiles,” he said.

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

▪️The Russian Army repelled six Ukrainian attacks in the Kharkov region, with Ukrainian losses in the Kupyansk direction amounting to up to 135 servicemen

▪️Russian forces repelled two Ukrainian attacks in the Donetsk direction, eliminating up to 200 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Russian troops prevented five attempts by Ukrainian forces to land on the left bank of the Dnepr River in the Kherson direction, eliminating up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen

▪️Russian air defenses intercepted two HIMARS rockets and shot down 23 Ukrainian UAVs

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 100 servicemen in the Krasny Liman direction, 115 servicemen in the South Donetsk direction and up to 160 servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction

▪️Russian forces repelled one Ukrainian attack in the Rabotino area

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian artillerymen hit Ukrainian troop positions near Belogorovka

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