The IDF said it had destroyed three tunnel shafts of Palestinian movement Hamas.

According to the statement, the Israeli army "located and destroyed" three Hamas tunnel shafts near Rantisi Hospital and in the nearby high school.

The statement specified that "an underground network running under the hospital and leading to the heart of Gaza City" connected the tunnel shafts. The IDF reported that the tunnels were also used as command and control centers.

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Media vs. AI: The story of the NYT suing Microsoft and the developer of ChatGPT is being widely discussed.

What are the leading publishers in the West saying?

Politico:

Artificial intelligence companies scrape information available online, including articles published by media organizations, to train generative AI chatbots.

Financial Times:

The New York Times has become the first major US media company to sue OpenAI and Microsoft over their artificial intelligence chatbots, alleging the tech companies have taken a “free-ride” on millions of articles to build the groundbreaking technology.

The Guardian:

News outlets in particular concerned that the tools will spread misinformation attributed to them and utilize their content with no incentive to click through to the original source.

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🇪🇺🤑 Germany, France, Italy, EU cast doubt on US idea to confiscate Russian assets - reports

The United States have proposed working groups from the G7 countries to explore ways to seize $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. With the support of the UK, Japan and Canada, the US proposed to prepare options on confiscating Russian assets for a possible G7 meeting around February 24, 2024.

The EU, UK and France have stressed that the money received via the confiscation would not be easily accessible and would also be insufficient to cover Ukraine's reconstruction needs. In addition, the countries noted that the confiscation of Russian assets should not occur to the detriment of providing financial support to Kiev in 2024.

Moscow has repeatedly stressed that any attempt to confiscate Russian frozen assets would violate basic principles on international law and will trigger legal response from Russia.

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US President Joe Biden is changing the strategy of aid to Ukraine, according to the American newspaper Politico.

If earlier the main goal was an unconditional military victory, now the White House is considering the possibility of a ceasefire with territorial losses. The official rhetoric of the White House and the Pentagon remains unchanged, but it is proposed to shift the focus to the defense and preservation of existing territories.

The change in strategy is linked to the upcoming US presidential elections and the possible negative impact of the protracted conflict on Biden's campaign.

"With US and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war, according to a Biden administration official and a European diplomat based in Washington," the media reported.

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WATCH LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will give a wide-ranging interview to Dmitry Kiselev, Director General of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, to discuss the most pressing geopolitical issues.

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❗️Lavrov in interview with Sputnik & Rossiya 24 TV: The whole country, all sectors of society have worked and continue to work for victory, including in Ukraine.

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Lavrov says Russia has become significantly stronger over past year

"As a result of their sanctions and pressure on Moscow, Western countries have essentially achieved the unity of the Russian people."

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West gave Serbia an ultimatum, either join the sanctions against Russia, or face a coup - Lavrov

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❗️The United States has labeled Russia as an enemy. Hence, Moscow is set for any sort of developments unfolding, Lavrov said in interview with Sputnik & Rossiya 24 TV.

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❗️The West's strategy of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia has failed miserably - Lavrov

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia has seen a 30 percent surge in trade turnover with China, Russian Foreign Minister stated in interview with Sputnik & Rossiya 24 TV.

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Sergey Lavrov in an interview with Dmitry Kiselev, Director General of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, on the use of the dollar.

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❗️Lavrov slams Zelensky’s peace plan as a 'figment of a sick imagination' - Lavrov to Sputnik

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❗️ Lavrov in interview with Sputnik & Rossiya 24 TV explains how NATO unleashed hybrid war against Russia

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Lavrov says that 10 days ago, a meeting was held in complete secrecy regarding Zelensky's peace plan with the participation of Western states, and some nations of the Global South.

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Russian FM denounced Western countries' schemes to engineer a solution to the Ukrainian conflict and deceitfully trot it out as "a victory for Kiev" as a total sham

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❗️Lavrov takes aim at the supply of German tanks to Ukraine, slamming Germany's leadership as devoid of a sense of shame

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Lavrov in interview with Sputnik & Rossiya 24 TV:

▪️In December 2019, Zelensky duped French President Emmanuel Macron and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel, buying time to gear up for aggression against the DPR and LPR

▪️The US can only be brought to its senses by a serious internal shock, right now they suffer from ‘over-the-top supremacy’

▪️The Russian Federation will gradually usher the "BRICS culture" into world affairs

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"The entire online public is closely observing his past actions, based on the principles: ‘Leave the Russians alone, this is their language, let them live their lives. I am Jewish myself, but my mother tongue is Russian, and I am a Ukrainian citizen.’ It is puzzling why he is unable to adhere to this principled stance. He betrayed his people. And not just one, he betrayed two of his nations," Lavrov concluded.

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