Hamas has not yet chosen a new leader following the death of its politburo chief Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip, discussions are ongoing, the Palestinian movement's deputy politburo head Musa Abu Marzouk told Sputnik.

He noted that the name of the movement’s new leader would be officially announced and not kept secret for security reasons.

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🔸 BRICS Summit Day 3: What to look out for

🔸 BRICS Summit an ‘inflection point’ which redefines international politics, counterbalance to G7

🔸 Australian MP fires back at pressure from authorities for his interview with Sputnik

🔸 Israeli strike destroys Al-Mayadeen broadcaster's office in southern Beirut – report

🔸 Why is Bill Gates backing Kamala Harris using dark money super PAC?

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US markets hint at Trump-Vance win unless Harris cheats

"Unless Democrat operatives succeed (again) in manipulating tabulated results at the polls, Trump-Vance will begin 2025 with solid control of the House and Senate," says Charles Ortel, Wall Street analyst, investor, and investigative journalist.

Ortel's vision is partially based on the behavior of the markets.

🔹 The Wall Street analyst argues that "if credit and securities markets actually believed that Harris-Walz might win, we would already be in a financial crisis inside the United States whose likely impact would also be to depress key foreign markets as well."

🔹 Ortel continues by saying that instead, "the US dollar remains strong, dollar interest rates are falling and stock markets in the United States remain at or near record high levels."

🔹 Even though the Democrats still have time to try pulling last-minute "October surprises," at the moment Harris-Walz and many down-ticket candidates look poised to lose, Ortel concludes.

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🎥🎥 BRICS SUMMIT - DAY 3

The plenary session of the BRICS plus/outreach summit under the chairmanship of Vladimir Putin with the participation of representatives of nearly 40 countries began in Kazan.

👉 Announced events

👉 Watch the livestream here or follow the link to Sputnik's website

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🗣Putin's main statements on the Middle East at the launched Outreach/BRICS+ meeting:

🔸 Putin calls for an end to violence in the Middle East

🔸 Level of conflict escalation in the Middle East is bringing the region to the brink of all-out war

🔸 It is impossible to restore peace in the region without correcting historical injustices in the Palestinian territories

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🗣Putin on Ukraine:

🔸 Ukraine is being used to create critical threats to Russia's security

🔸 Those who want to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia do not know the history of the country, and these are illusory calculations

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🤝 At the BRICS Plus meeting, Putin invited all interested countries to develop the North-South Transport Corridor and Northern Sea Route

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🌍🌍🌍 Xi Jinping calls on BRICS members to play leading role in reforming global economic governance system

In addition to members of the group, the meeting in the outreach/BRICS+ format is also attended by delegations from various countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Leaders from CIS countries, as well as representatives of international organizations such as the UN, are also in attendance.

Purple is the most popular color for ties among the foreign delegation heads today. It’s believed that purple symbolizes a person's confidence, so maybe it’s not a coincidence.

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🗣UN lacks tools to put out the fire of war in the Middle East - Pezeshkian

President of Iran urges BRICS to build a world without 'sanctions, wars, genocide'

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🇷🇺🇨🇳Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are actively discussing something during the meeting of the XVI BRICS summit in the "outreach"/"BRICS plus" format

🤝 At the end, the leaders exchanged handshakes.

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❗️The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, has ratified the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

According to the document, both parties will continuously maintain and develop comprehensive strategic partnership relations, taking into account the laws of their respective countries and their international obligations.

These relations are based on the principles of mutual respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, equality, and other principles of international law concerning friendly relations and cooperation between states.

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🌍🌍🌍 Russia's Isolation?

36 countries united around the table in Russia's Kazan attending the Outreach/BRICS Plus meeting:

🇷🇺Russia
🇧🇷Brazil
🇨🇳China
🇪🇬Egypt
🇪🇹Ethiopia
🇮🇳India
🇮🇷Iran
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
🇿🇦South Africa
🇦🇪UAE
🇦🇲Armenia
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
🇧🇭Bahrain
🇧🇩Bangladesh
🇧🇾Belarus
🇧🇴Bolivia
🇨🇬Congo
🇨🇺Cuba
🇮🇩Indonesia
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
🇱🇦Laos
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇲🇷Mauritania
🇲🇳Mongolia
🇳🇮Nicaragua
🇵🇸Palestine
🇷🇸Serbia
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
🇹🇯Tajikistan
🇹🇭Thailand
🇹🇷Turkiye
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
🇻🇪Venezuela
🇻🇳Vietnam

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🌍🌍🌍 BRICS is an organization of the future—Lukashenko

''BRICS' potential could bring an end to the history of domination of the West, which proved its unworthiness of bearing the responsibility for the civilized development of international relations,'' the Belarusian president Alexander Lukasenko said.

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❗️Ukrainian losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Yug combat zone came up to 785 militants

🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Sever attacked the formations of four Ukrainian brigades near Lipetsk, Volchansk, and Okhrimovka in the Kharkov direction.

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Zapad has improved its tactical position. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces totaled up to 490 soldiers, a tank and an armored vehicle have been destroyed.

◻️ Russia's Battlegroup Vostok repelled one counterattack, enemy lost up to 100 militants.

◻️ Ukrainians lost 465 soldiers and two American M113 armoured personnel carriers in the Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr combat zone.

◻️ Ukrainians lost up to 65 troops and an ammunition depot in Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian air defenses hit six HIMARS missiles and shot down 77 enemy drones.

◻️ Russian Armed Forces have attacked the airfield infrastructure, personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in 139 areas.

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🌍🌍🌍 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bid a warm farewell to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his speech.

Erdogan concludes his visit to the summit early in the wake of the terrorist attack in Ankara.

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🌍🌍🌍 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope that Palestine will be accepted into BRICS in the near future

"We emphasize our desire for the State of Palestine to be accepted into the BRICS union in the near future," Abbas said at the final meeting of the BRICS summit in the BRICS+ and outreach format in Russia's Kazan.

Palestine wants to strengthen its partnership with BRICS and participate in the group's events and act in the spirit of unification, Abbas added.

"The BRICS countries have come to represent a decisive and influential weight in setting the norms of international peace and security," Abbas added.

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❗️❗️❗️ Serbia’s Minister: Serbian economic engagement with BRICS to surge upward

In the next 5 to 10 years, the “vector of Serbia's economic policy engagement with the BRICS countries will continue to surge upward,” Nenad Popovic, Serbian Minister of International Economic Cooperation, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the 2024 BRICS Summit.

He singled out Serbia’s free trade agreements with China and Egypt, new economic agenda with countries of Africa and the Middle East.

“We have unequivocally good relations with all the BRICS countries. China and Russia are our strategic partners… [Serbia] is simply obligated to work together with all BRICS countries because this is a very mutually beneficial cooperation.”

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❗️"If the West has started using income from Russia's frozen reserves, Moscow will similarly use the frozen assets of unfriendly companies," said Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of Russia.

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