❗️Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on the occasion of “Martyr’s Day” in memory of the fallen members of the organization:

▪️The (Israeli) aggression taking place in Gaza is a dangerous, large-scale and exceptional event, and these crimes are the cruel revenge of Israel;

▪️The Palestinian resistance heroically resists the occupation, which with its crimes wants to force people to surrender, to forget about their land, prisoners, holy places and Palestine;

▪️The enemy is openly attacking hospitals in the Gaza Strip in front of the whole world, his cruelty is not decreasing, but rather only increasing every day;

▪️The crimes of occupation over the past decades and even the July aggression (2006) did not force the Lebanese to give up resistance;

▪️“It is the Israelis who should despair that they will not be able to achieve their goals, not our peoples, who have proven that their choice is the choice of victory, liberation and dignity”;

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▪️The occupation, the barbaric essence of which is now clear to everyone, dealt a mortal blow to all projects related to normalization, from now on the position of our peoples who reject it will be even tougher;

▪️The change in global public opinion, especially Western public opinion, which is occurring in the United States and Europe, is important;

▪️The occupation is under time pressure and no one else supports it except the American and British regimes;

▪️Only the one who controls this aggression, that is, the United States, can stop this aggression;

▪️The occupation is making a mistake again, it will fail and not achieve its goals;

▪️All the pressure should be on the Americans, since they are the ones who govern, decide and fight this battle;

▪️Resistance fighters, despite the painful psychological reality, fight gloriously against the strongest elite brigades, which indicates the inability of Israel, which has achieved nothing that it can pass off as an achievement to its domestic audience.

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What could Israel’s security control over Gaza look like?

There should be an international and regional framework that will address the security situation in the Gaza Strip, independent Middle East strategic intelligence analyst Avi Melamed told Sputnik. According to him, the regional framework could include “major Arab states” such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Egypt.

Melamed called for “a very decisive action” against Hamas “to make sure that the Palestinian militant group will not be able to become yet again a relevant player."

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🇩🇪📉 Germans shower less to save money amid energy crisis

The ongoing anti-Russian economic sanctions waged by the United States and its European allies have ended up negatively affecting the lives of the people living in these very countries instead of crippling Russia’s economy as intended.

A considerable number of Germans have changed their grooming habits in an attempt to save money, a new poll has concluded.

Some 31 percent of Germans have started taking less time showering than before the recent spike in energy prices, according to the results of a YouGov poll that surfaced in local media.

Likewise, 57 percent of respondents started taking shorter or colder showers, or began showering less frequently in 2023, while only 51 percent of respondents gave a similar answer the year before.

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Will US investigate Nord Stream explosions?

Moscow insists that the September 26, 2022, terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines is the work of the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Biden administration is not interested in a probe into explosions at the Nord Stream gas network, Vladimir Vasilyev, a chief research fellow of the Moscow-based US and Canada Institute think tank, told Sputnik. He, however, believes this could happen only in case a new POTUS shows interest in such a probe.

Vasilyev recalled that the White House earlier rejected US journalist Seymour Hersh’s accusations related to Washington’s involvement in the explosions as a "fabrication from the beginning to the end."

At the same time, the analyst did not rule out that the leaks Hersh relied on in his investigation could be sanctioned by the US administration to show that “it is useless to fool around with Washington” and to demonstrate how far America can go.

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EU foreign policy chief says Russia's defeat in Ukraine conflict 'not expected in near future'

🗣 "We are facing many problems. Europe is dealing with a double challenge. Firstly, it is Ukraine where Russia's defeat is not expected in the near future," Borrell said in his video address to the congress of the Party of European Socialists.

Despite this fact, the EU should keep supporting Kiev since assistance provided to it by the United States is "highly likely to decrease," he added.

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📹🇬🇧 About 300,000 people demonstrated in London in support of Palestine, demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the liberation of the enclave, local media has reported, citing the police.

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📹🇧🇪 A new demonstration for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the “European March for Palestine,” took place in Brussels. Its participants condemned the EU for inaction and demanded that Israel comply with international law.

According to the organizers, 45,000 people took part in the action.

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The Washington Post has named 48-year-old Ukrainian Colonel Roman Chervinsky as the “coordinator” of the attack on Nord Stream.

Roman Chervinsky, a colonel in Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, was integral to the brazen sabotage operation, say people familiar with its planning.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️Hezbollah has carried out strikes on concentrations of Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon;

▪️Israel carried out series of strikes near Indonesian hospital in Gaza Strip, according to Palestine Interior Ministry;

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

▪️Iranian president calls on Muslim countries to arm Palestinians;

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

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

▪️The occupation is under time pressure and no one else supports it except the American and British regimes, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said. All the pressure should be on the Americans, since they are the ones who govern, decide and fight this battle;

▪️Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council on Saturday to hold an international peace conference on Gaza to protect Palestinians.

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🇭🇷 Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banozic was taken to hospital on Saturday after receiving serious, but non-life-threatening injuries in a traffic accident that claimed the life of one person, Krunoslav Sporcic, director of hospital in the Croatian city of Vinkovci, said.

"Minister Mario Banozic was admitted to our hospital after a car accident at about 6:40 a.m. [05:40 GMT] today. The initial assessment showed that he has serious physical injuries, but his life is not in danger at the moment," the hospital director told the Croatian Radiotelevision broadcaster.

The hospital chief said the minister was conscious despite having a concussion. Banozic was transferred to a clinic in Osijek for neurological monitoring.

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Ex-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen suggested accepting Ukraine into the alliance without the new Russian territories.

He believes accession of Ukraine to NATO without these territories would reduce the threat of conflict between the alliance and the Russian Federation, the Guardian newspaper has reported.

According to Rasmussen, who served as NATO chief between 2009 and 2014, such a move would send a signal to Moscow that it “cannot prevent Ukraine joining the western defensive alliance”. However, such an accession would not mean freezing the ongoing conflict, he clarified.

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Pentagon Says US Air Force Aircraft Crashed in Eastern Mediterranean

"On the evening of November 10, a US military aircraft conducting training operations in the eastern Mediterranean suffered a mishap and went down... The cause of the training incident is currently under investigation," the US European Command said in a statement.

The crash was "purely related to training," the statement also said, adding that there were no indications of "hostile activity".

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EU’s apparent inability to supply some 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine by March 2024, as the bloc originally intended earlier this year, may be stemming from the “collapse of industry” in European countries, says Jacques Sapir, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

“You can also add the lack of chemicals, needed for explosives and powder. Bottom line, it was a promise that EU could not fulfil,” argues Sapir.

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🇦🇺 Australia investigating cybersecurity incident affecting maritime ports

🗣 "The Australian Government is responding to a nationally significant cyber incident impacting a number of maritime port facilities operated by DP World Australia. Today, I co-chaired a meeting of the National Coordination Mechanism, together with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to consider and address impacts arising from the cyber incident," Goldie said on X.

DP World Australia has limited access to its port operations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle as part of the investigation, he said, adding that disruptions might continue for several days and would affect the movement of goods in and out of the country.

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US House Speaker Johnson Proposes Funding Government Without Aid to Ukraine and Israel

🗣 "Separating out the CR from the supplemental funding debates places our conference in the best position to fight for fiscal responsibility, oversight over Ukraine aid, and meaningful policy changes at our Southern border," Mike Johnson said in a statement on Saturday.

According to the bill, part of the government programmes also related to transport, energy and military construction will be financed by 19 January, which would be the funding deadline for some programs and agencies.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre called the proposal "a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns", claiming that Republicans were "wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties".

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European countries, including those that have officially declared their refusal from Russian gas, continue to export it under existing contracts, Russian energy giant Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said on Saturday.

"In general, as regards southern, southeastern Europe, Russian gas is still being supplied there under signed contracts. That is why, Russian gas is still in the European market, and not in small volumes. I would like to stress this is still being observed even in the countries declaring that they do not have Russian gas in their own markets," Miller told Rossiya 1 reporter Pavel Zarubin.

Russia is supplying gas via Ukrainian territory to a hub in Baumgarten, Austria, through which it is being shipped to countries of the European Union, the Gazprom CEO added.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 As US President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming APEC Leaders' Summit in San Francisco next week, it remains to be seen what will come out of it.

While China seems to be expecting some “serious good faith efforts” from the US at this point, the United States instead seems determined to dish out “nice words” and play the “good cop, bad cop” game, says scholar and journalist KJ Noh.

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