🇺🇸 Talking Turkey About US Inflation

US media have claimed the average price of the annual Thanksgiving dinner had fallen since 2022, mainly due to lower turkey prices. But economist Dr Linwood Tauheed pointed out to Sputnik that poultry prices spiked last year due to an avian flu outbreak — and that real-terms inflation was higher than the official rate.

“It doesn't mean that the price of turkeys is not high. It just means that it's less this year than than last year," Tauheed said. “Food prices in general are up, as well as rent prices and other prices that ordinary people have to spend their money on.”

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🚂🇷🇺 The Yenisei special armored train is undergoing combat training in the rear of a special military operation

The train is designed for reconnaissance, mine action, and restoration of the railway track with minor damage.

During the special military operation, the armored train crew escorted more than 120 military echelons. Military railwaymen restored traffic on railway sections about 300 km long; more than 3,000 km of tracks were cleared of unexploded ordnance; and seven small and medium-sized bridges were restored.

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🎙 Check out the new episode of AfroVerdict where the host joins three experts to discuss the implications of Argentina's president-elect's cold shoulder towards BRICS.

Police clash with protesters in Dublin city center in the wake of the injury of three children who were attacked by an unidentified man with a knife.

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🇺🇸📉 Palestinian-Israeli сonflict accelerates US geopolitical decline

President Joe Biden's support for Israel is undermining America's diplomatic standing in the Middle East, with regional players increasingly turning to Russia and China for alternative leadership, Syriana Analysis founder Kevork Almassian told Sputnik's New Rules podcast.

The US is losing its grip amid the Palestine-Israel conflict and alienating Mideast powers by failing to prevent Tel Aviv from bombing Gaza into the Stone Age.

Recently, the Biden administration tried to steal the show by taking the whole credit for the four-day humanitarian pause in the strip. Still, if truth be told, it was Qatar, not the US, who negotiated the truce on the ground.

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The attack reportedly happened in the early afternoon near a school in Parnell Square East. A five-year-old girl, a woman in her 30s and a man in his 50s were seriously injured, with the girl receiving emergency medical treatment, according to police. A five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl suffered lesser injuries.

Police have reportedly made an arrest of a man in his 50s, but have yet to determine a motive.

🗣 "We will not tolerate a small number using an appalling incident to spread division,” said Justice Minister Helen McEntee, as quoted by the Irish Times, and condemned attacks on police.

🗣 "We are all shocked by the incident which has taken place in Parnell Square... Our thoughts and our prayers go out to them and their families," wrote Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on X.

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🇮🇱 Israel running out of foreign friends as Gaza siege goes on

Israel has agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip before achieving its stated aim of destroying the Hamas movement. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, said Tel Aviv was wary of losing support among its Western backers.

Israel is alienating its Western allies and could soon be left with just the US support, says a political pundit.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government made a U-turn this week when it agreed to a previously-rejected ceasefire and prisoner exchange proposed by the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas.

Casualties have been mounting both among Palestinian civilians and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops as they attack the besieged Gaza Strip in retaliation for the October 7 attacks on southern Israel by the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

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🪖 'Soldiers going crazy': Ukraine has no one left to fight because of desertion

The botched counteroffensive has caused the Kiev regime a serious shortage of human resources for mobilization, not to mention growing questions from Kiev's Western allies and donors as to what they are actually providing money and weapons for.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are clearly having trouble replenishing their ranks. People are unwilling to die for the Kiev regime and actively avoid mobilization or desert. Of course, the propaganda claims the opposite.

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🇮🇱 💸 Budget blowout: Israel's $48 bln war bill dependent on bond markets

Tel Aviv needs to borrow extensively to support its gravest armed engagement in decades, because of the demands of its present financial situation. With a whopping $300 billion debt stock to manage, the conflict has doubled the cost of insuring its sovereign bonds against default.

The escalating military operations by the IDF in Gaza cast a spotlight on the country’s deepening economic challenges, as the conflict enters its seventh week. Amidst this continuing turmoil, a team of Israeli technocrats known as the 'government’s CFO' are responsible for navigating the emerging economic complexities.

Leader Capital Markets, a top financial advisory firm in Israel, reports that the war costs the economy around $270 million every day. It estimates a total fiscal impact of $48 bln for 2023-24. Israel bears two-thirds of these costs, and the United States of America covers the remaining one-third.

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A man attacking children with a knife in Dublin was stopped by a helmeted motorcycle courier from Brazil.

🗣 "I didn't even make a decision, it was pure instinct, and it was all over in seconds. He fell to the ground, I didn't see where knife went, and other people stepped in," the courier was quoted as saying by local press.

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🇵🇰Pakistan Foreign Ministry Confirms Ambition to Join BRICS

"Yes, I can confirm that Pakistan has made a formal request to join BRICS, which we believe is an important grouping of developing countries," Pakistani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said during a press briefing.

According to her, Pakistan has friendly relations with the majority of BRICS members and countries that were recently invited to join the organization.

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📹 WATCH: Russian Ka-29 & Mi-8 Helicopters carry out operations in skies over the Black Sea

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❗️A four-day ceasefire between the Israeli army and the ruling Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip goes into effect

📹 Russian operators of kamikaze drones destroyed 2 groups of Ukrainian infantry in the area of the stronghold in the Artemovsk area, the Russian Ministry of Defense told Sputnik

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🇳🇱🇮🇱 Netherlands to continue supplying F-35 parts to Israel despite war crimes risks

Dutch ministers said in a letter to parliament that the Netherlands will continue to supply spare parts to Israel because there is no evidence that Israel's F-35s are involved in violations of humanitarian law, adding that the transit of the parts from the United States is necessary because Israel is also threatened by Iran, among others.

"Stopping the supply of F-35 parts to Israel would impose restrictions on Israel’s ability to deploy the aircraft in the context of these regional threats," they said in the letter.

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

▪️More more than 30 people were killed when the Israeli air force struck the UN school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in the northern Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen reported.

▪️A commander of the Hamas naval forces in Khan Yunis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, was killed, the IDF said.

▪️On A four-day cease-fire between the Israeli army and the ruling Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip went into effect at 7:00 Friday morning local time.

▪️The air alarm sounded near the border of the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF, it happened a quarter of an hour after the start of the truce.

▪️Residents began returning to the town of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern Gaza Strip after the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the enforcement of the ceasefire, while the IDF urged Gazans not to return to the north of the enclave.

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💥 Precise strike

Russian Aerospace Forces Ka-52 attack helicopter crews destroyed a checkpoint and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk direction.

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