🇨🇺 Power supply restored to 70% of Cuban consumers - Energy Ministry

Cuban engineers restored electricity supply to 70% of customers of the state grid company, Union Electrica, the Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines said.

"The process of restoring the National Energy System: this morning at 06:00, 70.89% of Union Electrica consumers in Cuba had electricity. Today, the strengthening of the established systems and the expansion of the country's electricity coverage continues," the ministry said on X Tuesday.

Last Friday, the Cuban government said that a failure at the Antonio Guiteras power plant in the western province of Matanzas had shut down the electrical grid, causing a nationwide blackout. Parts of the grid were briefly brought back online over the weekend before going down again.

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💰Gates funds Harris with $50 mln donation – report

Bill Gates has quietly donated $50 million to a nonprofit supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, The New York Times reported, citing three sources.

While Gates hasn’t publicly endorsed Harris, his sizable donation was made to Future Forward, a "dark money" group backing her campaign. The funds were intended to remain anonymous, the report said.

“Mr. Gates’s donation went specifically to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, which as a 501(c)(4) ‘dark money’ organization does not disclose its donors, according to the people briefed. So any contribution by Mr. Gates will never appear on any public filing,” the media clarified.

According to The New York Times, in private conversations this year with friends and others, Gates has expressed concerns about the potential impact of a second Donald Trump presidency on global health and family planning programs, The New York Times cited sources familiar with Gates’s thinking as saying.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues the Biden administration over 450,000 potentially questionable voters – report

Paxton sent a letter to the US administration two weeks ago, demanding confirmation of the citizenship status of residents who are potentially ineligible but registered to vote, attaching hundreds of thousands of names. After not receiving a response, he filed a lawsuit, alleging federal inaction, Reuters said.

In 2020, the difference between Donald Trump and Biden in Texas was about 630,000 votes in favor of the Republican. Opponents of the current administration argue that the White House is exploiting the situation with the record number of illegal migrants entering the United States, potentially granting them the right to vote (which, by law, only citizens have).

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🇺🇳UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Russia's Kazan to participate in the BRICS summit, according to the Parliament of summit-host region Tatarstan.

President Vladimir Putin and Guterres would discuss the work of the United Nations, the Middle East crisis and the situation around Ukraine during talks in Kazan.

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West and Ukraine use neo-Nazi organizations, PMCs to recruit mercs

Right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi organizations in Germany, the Italian "Forza Nuova" and "CasaPound" recruit mercenaries for Ukrainian armed forces, Rodion Miroshnyk, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large on the Kiev regime's war crimes reported.

“Right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi organizations (German “Third Path" and “National Democratic Party of Germany”, “Spanish Phalanx”, “Czech Fighters in Ukraine”, “British – Ukrainian Aid”, Italian "Forza Nuova" and "CasaPound", Portuguese "Aryan Brotherhood", "Portugal Hammerskins", "National Front", "National Resistance", "Nova Ordem Social"),” the report said.

American and Polish private military companies (PMC) are also used by Ukraine and the West to recruit mercenaries for fighting in the special operation zone, Miroshnyk added.

Thus, among the American PMCs mentioned “Academi”, “Cubic”, “Darkhorse Benefits”, “Dean Corporation”, “Forward Observations Group”, “Hyperion Services” and “Sons of Liberty International”. The Polish ones include "ASBS Othago" and "European Security Academy".

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 LIVESTREAM UPCOMING: BRICS SUMMIT - DAY 2

16th BRICS summit in Russia’s Kazan continues.

🤝 On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to hold talks with:

🇮🇷Masoud Pezeshkian - President of Iran

🇹🇷Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkiye

🇪🇹Abiy Ahmed Ali - Prime Minister of Ethiopia

🇻🇪Nicolas Maduro - President of Venezuela

Stay tuned so you won't miss it!

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🌍🌍🌍 Summit Day 2: What you need to know?

Russia’s city of Kazan is hosting the XVI BRICS Summit on October 22-24. Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue the marathon of bilateral talks on the second day of the summit, according to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

🔸 Putin's first bilateral meeting on October 23 will be with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, which will follow the two summit sessions. Putin is expected to discuss the long-awaited Russia-Iran strategic partnership agreement with Iran, which covers all areas of bilateral cooperation between the two sides.

🔸 The Russian president is scheduled to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Prospects for developing trade and economic ties, as well as a project to create an international gas hub in Turkiye are reportedly to be touched upon.

🔸 Putin will also hold a bilateral meeting with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, whose country officially joined BRICS on January 1.

🔸 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expected to hold talks with Putin on the sidelines of the summit.

🔸 Today UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Kazan. Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with him om the sidelines of the BRICS summit on Thursday.

Among other events:

🔹 A joint photo session of the heads of delegations will take place today, according to the official summit itinerary. Delegations from about 36 countries - 22 of them represented by heads of state - and six international organizations are attending the three-day event.

🔹 There will be a restricted-format meeting, followed by an extended-format meeting of participating delegations.

🔹 An official meeting ceremony for heads of delegations participating in the Summit with a gala reception hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Stay tuned not to miss the upcoming livestream

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🔸 BRICS Summit Day 2: What you need to know?

🔸 Venezuelan, Egyptian leaders call BRICS summit historic, breakthrough

🔸 Israel says eliminated Hashem Safieddine who was considered Nasrallah's successor

🔸 Gates funds Harris with $50 mln donation

🔸 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues the Biden administration over 450,000 potentially questionable voters – report

🔸 “We gotta lock him up” – Biden calls for political action against Trump

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🇷🇺🇻🇪Putin to hold talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro today

Maduro arrived in Kazan earlier and said he hoped to discuss military-technical cooperation with Putin - stay tuned not to miss the upcoming livestream.

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🤝 Putin held one-on-one talks with almost all leaders who attended the BRICS summit on Tuesday, discussing the most important issues, according to Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov.

The topic of Ukraine was touched upon during Putin's informal dinner with leaders who arrived for the BRICS summit, Ushakov added.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾Russia’s state policy provides for the possibility of using nuclear weapons in response to aggression against Belarus, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said.

In the face of Western pressure and NATO's hostile activities near the Union State's borders, Moscow and Minsk are stepping up their military cooperation.

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❗️The Russian State Duma (Russian Parliament) may ratify the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and North Korea on October 24

The document with the relevant decision of the Committee on Foreign Affairs is posted in the electronic database of the Duma.

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🌍🌍🌍 Summit meeting under the chairmanship of Putin began in Russia's Kazan

Main statements by Vladimir Putin:

🔸 Russia seeks to strengthen the authority of BRICS in the world, focus on solving global and local problems.

🔸 It would be wrong to ignore the unprecedented interest of countries of the Global South and East in BRICS expansion.

🔸 Authority and influence of BRICS on the global stage is high.

🔸 BRICS countries have enormous economic, scientific, demographic, and political potential.

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