"The purpose of the settlement movement is to get as close as possible to Gaza to fully observe Gaza, and to understand that from now in, Gaza will be completely Jewish!" said Daniella Weiss, a settler movement leader.

Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the attacks will continue "until we achieve our goals", including returning thousands of Israelis to the north, while IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari pledged more "extensive and precise" airstrikes on Lebanon.

"We [Telegram developers] won't let bad actors jeopardize the integrity of our platform for almost a billion users," stated Durov.

“What’s at stake is the extremely complex design of a brand-new financial system – decentralized and using digital technology,” Escobar told Sputnik.

“By now, the situation is pretty clear, to properly address the issue of cross-border payments. The best mechanism should be based on the New Development Bank (NDB),” a Russian analyst told Escobar, when commenting on the ways BRICS members could conduct mutual settlements.

“Imagine if BRICS+ manages to pull it off: getting a Global Majority-approved agreement on a new, equitable, fair financial system then presented to the $35 trillion-indebted superpower as a fait accompli,” Escobar concluded, citing Hudson.

"This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job," Routh wrote in his letter to the "world".

"Southern Lebanon is being bombarded by probably more than a thousand missiles. The IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] claims they're targeting Hezbollah places, but in fact they are targeting civilians. More than 200 people are now dead for today," Mohamad Kheir, a biomedical engineer from the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, tells Sputnik.

"People have to evacuate their families by themselves, there's no messages from our government," he notes.

These submarines became the largest in the world in terms of tonnage (23,200 tonnes surfaced and 48,000 tonnes submerged), with their prodigious size being a necessity rather than some kind of statement.

Nearly 173 meters long and 23.3m wide, an Akula submarine is comprised of five habitable compartments, each of which is encased in its own outer hull (all within the vessel’s main outer hull) - a composition that ensures the submarine’s survivability.

"The fact is that Russia is winning the war despite hundreds of billions of dollars and the best weapons systems from the US and NATO countries. Each new shipment of increasingly sophisticated weapons does not produce battlefield victories for Ukraine. It only produces more dead Ukrainian soldiers and more profits for the weapons manufacturers," Paul said in a column for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

The US government’s "obsession" with Ukraine is going to "get us all killed," Paul said. US arms manufacturers are the driving force behind the country’s interventionist foreign policy, Paul said.