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

▪️About 300 Russian children on evacuation lists from Gaza, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry;

▪️Hamas reportedly does not allow some Gaza residents with dual citizenship to leave the exclave, the Israeli Foreign Ministry told Sputnik;

▪️IDF says it eliminated around 50 Hamas fighters in the movement's military quarter near the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip;

▪️Hezbollah says it launched a missile attack on an Israeli facility in Metula on the border with Lebanon;

▪️Military wing of Hamas says it conducted missile strikes on Israel's Raim military base;

▪️Israeli shelling of houses in central Gaza kills at least 12 people, injures dozens more, according to Palestinian Interior Ministry.

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🌐 💎 Top-10 Diamond-Mining Countries in the World

🇪🇺 The EU is devising a new set of anti-Russian sanctions that could include restrictions on Russian diamond exports.

Experts predict that this specific sector of Russian exports could potentially attract European economic restrictions due to its high profitability for the Russian budget.

🇷🇺 To understand Russia's prominent role in diamond mining, it is necessary to identify the countries that produce the largest quantities of diamonds.

Check out the infographic showcasing the top 10 countries by diamond mining volume!

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🇦🇺 Australia is always a US vassal, if not an attack dog, peace activist KJ Noh told Sputnik.

🗣 "Australia is the southern front of this all encompassing encirclement of China and AUKUS is a very, very critical nuclear arm of that belligerent escalation," KJ Noh said.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Beijing this week - even as his government strengthens the AUKUS military alliance with the US and UK.

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🇿🇦 🇰🇪 South Africa’s Julius Malema slams "genocidal" transatlantic slave trade and colonialism

The "violent" and "catastrophic" slave trade and colonialism are "the historical twin towers that plug the humanity of Africans into the dark night which to this day seem to have no end in sight," according to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party’s chief, Julius Malema.

🗣 “A truly sovereign Africa is a threat to the imperialist establishment that continues to determine the agenda and control of our resources,” Malema stated during the Pan-African Institute launch at the Lukenya University in Kenya on Thursday.

The EFF’s boss has also noted that there was "no way Euro-American is going to fund an intellectual project that will see Africa truly become intellectually sovereign", pointing out that "intellectual sovereignty has to be forced through research and development that is steeped in African experiences, African problems and African questions."

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🇬🇧 UK defense firm MBDA providing Warsaw with a "highly advanced" mobile air defense system is just a part of a US-UK longstanding plot to militarize Poland and pit it against Russia, Alexander Mikhailov, head of Russian think tank "Bureau of Military-Political Analysis", told Sputnik.

The expert presumed that Washington and London are on the path to create nothing short of an "Eastern-European NATO" with Poland as its leader in order to continuously poke Russia.

🗣 "Washington and London have never felt sorry for the residents of Eastern Europe. And why not make a big military machine out of them for the collective West and fence it off from Russia and China, Iran and other countries which Europe considers adversaries," Mikhailov said.

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"Political madness" for the European Union to seek the accession of Ukraine, a country engaged in an active armed conflict, and urged Austria's federal government to veto the move, the leader of the opposition Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), Herbert Kickl, stated on Thursday

The European Commission recommended launching membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova once they fulfill all requirements.

The German politician said that the "Brussels elite" dragged the EU and Austria into an economic war incompatible with the country's neutrality. With the Austrian economy and prosperity already crumbling, Ukraine's accession to the EU "would mean its [Austria's] direct involvement in this war," he stressed.

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NATO admits lack of production capacity to meet Ukraine's requests

ATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană made the comments during a working visit to the Romanian capital to take part in the Bucharest Forum on November 2.

🗣 "We do not yet have sufficient production capacity to help Ukraine in the volume and at the pace we are asked," Geoană stressed.

At the same time, the deputy secretary general assured that he does not feel any fatigue of the allies' efforts to support Kiev.

🗣 "Our leaders in the Euro-Atlantic world and our global partners continue to support Ukraine," Geoană said.

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🇺🇸 Oldest-ever US President drops $49 million on election ads downplaying age

In an effort to assuage the concerns of American voters, the re-election team for US President Joe Biden has launched a new ad campaign downplaying the importance of the octogenarian’s age ahead of the 2024 elections.

Between Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and his associated super political action committee (super PAC), the effort to re-elect Biden in November 2024 has spent $39 million on ads between August and November, many of which are aimed at countering criticisms of his age and his physical and mental acuity. However, others are more typical, touting what they perceive as his best policy achievements.

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🇷🇺 Putin visited the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don. He was accompanied by the Minister of Defense of Russia, Sergei Shoigu, the chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, Valery Gerasimov, and other military commanders.

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No US military service members have been seriously injured by a series of strikes on bases in Iraq and Syria, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.

However, 56 US troops have experienced minor injuries or traumatic brain injuries (TBI) as a result of the attacks, Singh said, detailing that the agency does expect the number of TBIs to grow.

The official pointed out that 25 service members were officially diagnosed with a TBI, and that most of those with minor injuries had already returned to their posts.

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❗️ A representative of the Rafah checkpoint confirmed to Sputnik the information about the evacuation of the first 85 Russian citizens from the Gaza Strip on Friday

📹 Combat work of Russian crews of 122-mm howitzers D-30 artillery units in the Kupyansk direction

The servicemen carried out tasks to destroy individual enemy targets. Shooting was carried out with high-explosive fragmentation ammunition from covert firing positions.

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40N6: the new missile that doubled Russia's air defenses range

The already-famous Russian S-400 air defense system made headlines this week after it was used to attack a target in the Ukrainian conflict zone with a new type of long-range missile.

The new 40N6 guided missile launched by S-400 units was used to engage targets “at maximum distances,” with Russian A-50 early warning aircraft operating in tandem with the launchers and providing additional guidance to the missiles, one digital media outlet noted.

The media outlet has taken a particular interest in the missile used in this attack, pointing out that the 40N6's trajectory – first ascending to an extremely high altitude before descending upon the intended target – essentially affords it both “unparalleled over the horizon strike capabilities” and the ability to take out low-altitude targets.

So what can 40N6 do?

Find out here

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Sixteen Democratic and Republican members of US Congress have called for US President Joe Biden to withdraw the extradition request by the United States against Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a document published by Assange's wife, Stella Assange, showed.

The Members of Congress, said in the document that "deep concerns about this case have been repeatedly expressed by international media outlets, human right and press freedom advocates, and Members of Congress, among others."

The Members of Congress said they believe the US Department of Justice "acted correctly in 2013 ... when it declined to pursue charges against Mr. Assange for publishing the classified documents because it recognized that the prosecution would set a dangerous precedent."

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❗️ Russians who are supposed to leave the Gaza Strip today started to arrive at the Rafakh checkpoint, Sputnik correspondent reports

The ongoing pro-Palestine protests in major capitals around the world put additional pressure on governments to act to stop the war in Gaza, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour told Sputnik.

"We believe that they [protests] are [putting extra pressure]. People are outraged all over the globe," Mansour said. "They look at the tragedy unfolding before their eyes in the Gaza Strip in which they see children, civilians and mass destruction of buildings and property. Their hearts get broken as a result of this crime and tragedy, so they express their feelings in these large demonstrations to pressure their governments to pressure Israel to stop this carnage against the Palestinian people."

Palestine, he added, appreciates anyone who supports a cessation of the war and hopes collectively they can succeed.

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❗️ Several Hamas commanders involved in the October 7 attacks have been eliminated in the past 24 hours, the IDF reported

The Israeli air force struck the outskirts of an Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip, media reports

Footage from social networks.

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Washington fears Israel's protracted military campaign in Gaza could spark a wider conflict in the Middle East, with Israel and the US facing isolation as the world calls for a ceasefire, US media reported, citing officials in the Biden administration.

The officials reportedly said that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has a limited amount of time to finish its operation in Gaza before Arab countries become enraged and the United States frustrated by the growing number of civilian casualties.

They believe that the longer the Israeli campaign lasts, the greater the chances that the conflict will turn into a large-scale war. Some of them added that Israel’s strong response to the October 7 attack had boosted sympathy for the Palestinian issue across the globe.

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