📹 Russian crews of Ka-52 attack helicopters destroyed Ukrainian strongholds and armored vehicles in the South Donetsk region

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An Iraqi resistance group has claimed responsibility for a drone strike at al-Tanf garrison in the US-controlled part of southeastern Syria, near the Iraqi border, Syrian state news agency SANA reported Friday.

The Iraqi militia said in a statement cited the news agency that the drone hit the target directly. No other details were given.

The outpost in Syria, as well as the Al-Asad air base near Baghdad in Iraq, has recently seen a spike of attacks by those the Pentagon press secretary, Pat Ryder, described were Iranian proxy groups.

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The B-21 Raider stealth bomber has officially gone airborne during the first test flight on Friday, nearly a year since the aircraft was presented to the public, a US Air Force spokesperson told Sputnik in a statement.

🗣 “The B-21 Raider is in flight testing. Flight testing is a critical step in the test campaign managed by the Air Force Test Center and 412th Test Wing’s B-21 Combined Test Force to provide survivable, long-range, penetrating strike capabilities to deter aggression and strategic attacks against the United States, allies, and partners,” the statement said.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Leaked cables warn of growing anti-American rage in Arab world amid US' Israeli support

“We are losing badly on the messaging battlespace,” says one cable emanating from the US Embassy in Oman. It warns that strong US support for Israel is viewed “as material and moral culpability in what they consider to be possible war crimes.”

Another leaked cable from the US embassy in Egypt quoted a local newspaper editorial saying “President Biden’s cruelty and disregard for Palestinians exceeded all previous US presidents.” The cables mirror growing global opposition to Israel’s actions as the country has recently been the target of strong criticism from governments throughout the world.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 'Doctors Without Borders' unable to contact staff in Al-Shifa hospital

“Al-Shifa hospital is the main operational health facility in Gaza city providing emergency and surgical care, with hundreds of patients and civilians inside. We urgently reiterate our calls to stop the attacks against hospitals and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients,” the organization said.

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian 82-mm mortar crew hits Ukrainian forces in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) direction

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🇺🇸🪖 Most Americans wouldn’t defend country in next war, poll says

An Echelon Insights survey found that 72% of Americans would not volunteer to serve in the armed forces if the country entered a major conflict, compared with 21% who would. The poll was conducted from October 23-26, two weeks after the Palestinian militant group Hamas had attacked Israel.

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🇺🇸📉 Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the outlook for the US government ratings from stable to negative, citing risks to the financial strength of the country.

This comes as the clock ticks for another US government shutdown on November 17, with the House Republicans yet to reach consensus on a short-term stopgap funding bill.
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo, for his part, disagreed with Moody's assessment, saying the American economy ‘remains strong.’

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🇷🇺🪖 Russian troops receive more top-notch Raptor sniper rifles in special op zone

General Director of the BespokeGun arms manufacturer Yaroslav Tabolsky told Sputnik that the Raptor as a whole complex of a rifle itself, as well as ammunition, tuning, and sights, which he said is assembled in line with the personal requirements of a sniper.

The Raptor Tactical .338 LM is a high-precision rifle capable of effectively hitting targets at a range of up to 1,850 meters (1.1 miles). The 7.1 kg rifle’s firing accuracy is between 0.3 and 0.1 minute of angle, which means that a marksman can shoot twice and actually hit the same point.

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

▪️One child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told UN Security Council

▪️IDF seizes control over 11 Hamas footholds since the start of ground op

▪️Gaza Strip’s healthcare system reaches ‘point of no return,’ Red Cross said

▪️Arab League, OIC to hold emergency summit in Saudi Arabia to discuss Gaza crisis

▪️Leaked cables warn of growing anti-American rage in Arab world amid Us' Israeli support

▪️'Doctors without borders' unable to contact staff in Al-Shifa hospital

▪️Russia shocked by Israeli strikes on civilians, calls attacks violations of law, envoy to UN said

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🇷🇺🪖 How do Russian troops detect and down enemy drones?

Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley (@TXDPR) provides an exclusive report from Donetsk.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US’ ongoing support for Israel can be explained by the White House’s concerns about the “powerful” Israel lobby in Washington, American political scientist John J. Mearsheimer told the YouTube channel Judging Freedom.

“Joe Biden understands full well – as does Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush that if you cross the Israeli lobby, you will pay a political price,” Mearsheimer stressed.

He recalled that that the US political system “is set up in ways that allow a lobby to have a great influence”, pointing to the National Rifle Association as an example.

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🇮🇷🇸🇦 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Saudi Arabia on his first visit since the restoration of relations between Tehran and Riyadh

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🇷🇺🪖Russian drones work deep behind Ukrainian lines

Strike and reconnaissance crews have discovered and destroyed a communication hub used by Ukrainian forces using a Gastello FPV drone. The communication tower was located on the roof of a shopping center in the city of Seredina-Buda in the Sumy region.

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🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱 Saudi crown prince at summit in Riyadh urges immediate ceasefire in Gaza, humanitarian aid access

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🇸🇦 Key points from Saudi crown prince's statements at Arab League Summit:

▪️Saudi crown prince called for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip

▪️Guaranteeing Palestinians the right to an independent state is the only way to stop the conflict in the Middle East

▪️Saudi Arabia is consulting with international partners to stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip

▪️Saudi crown prince accused the UNSC of failing to influence Israel to stop the fighting

▪️Saudi Arabia rejects attempts to forcibly displace Gaza Strip residents

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🇵🇸 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the summit in Riyadh called on the US to end the "Israeli occupation" of Palestinian territories:

▪️The US is responsible for the lack of a political solution to the Middle East conflict

▪️The occupation authorities and those who support them are responsible for killing every child and woman in this unjust war

▪️The occupation forces have launched an unprecedented war of extermination against Palestinian people and have crossed all red lines

▪️The occupying forces have killed and injured more than 40,000 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them children and women

▪️Palestine will not accept military and security solutions if they have all failed

▪️Palestine is ready to hold general presidential and parliamentary elections in all Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem

▪️This is a historic moment and everyone must take responsibility for peace

▪️Palestine categorically rejects any attempt to displace our people from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank

▪️Palestine calls on the UN Security Council to approve the full membership of the State of Palestine

▪️Palestine demands that the refugee problem be resolved with international guarantees and a timetable for implementation

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Key points from Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit’s speech at the summit in Riyadh

▪️"We will not allow the forced displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is totally unacceptable"

▪️No talk of separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank and East Jerusalem

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🇯🇴 Key points from the King of Jordan’s speech at the Riyadh summit

▪️Israel preventing water and food from reaching the people of Gaza is a war crime

▪️"We cannot remain silent about the catastrophic, life-suffocating conditions in which the Gaza Strip finds itself"

▪️The two-state solution is the only way to end the suffering of the Palestinian people and resolve the decades-long crisis

▪️The world will pay the price for failing to resolve the Palestinian question

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🇪🇬 Key points from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s speech at the Riyadh summit

▪️The people of Gaza have been subjected to killings, sieges and inhumane acts, which require a serious stance by the international community

▪️The policy of collective punishment of the people of Gaza is unacceptable and cannot be justified by self-defense.

▪️Egypt demands an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and the prevention of the displacement of Palestinians from their land

▪️Egypt demands a formula to resolve the conflict based on a two-state solution and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders

▪️Egypt warns that failure to stop the war in the Gaza Strip threatens to expand it in the region

▪️There must be an international investigation into violations by the occupying forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

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⚡️🇮🇷 Iranian president calls on Muslim countries to arm Palestinians

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