❗️ Israeli strike kills three journalists in southern Lebanon – reports

Three journalists, including a correspondent for the Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a press team's residence in the town of Hasbaya, southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Al Jadeed broadcaster reported.

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‘Collective West has self-isolated and condemned itself to irrelevance’ – analyst

International relations analyst Gilbert Doctorow, in an interview with Sputnik, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin's firm stance at the recent BRICS summit, highlighting Russia's growing influence on the global stage despite Western efforts to isolate the country.

“Because of the important guests, numbering more than 25 heads of government, it has been impossible for major media in the West to ignore BRICS and Russia," Doctorow said, noting how this undermines the narrative of Russia's supposed isolation.

The analyst further speculated how Russia leveraged its BRICS presidency to advance innovative goals, such as establishing commodity exchanges and a reinsurance pool, positioning the country as a constructive leader. Doctorow emphasized that these achievements send a clear message: “Russia is not isolated; on the contrary, the Collective West has self-isolated and condemned itself to irrelevance.”

"The BRICS message of a multipolar world, of respect for the sovereignty and unique cultures of each nation will surely have an impact on Europeans' perception of Russia and of themselves," Doctorow added, stressing the long-term significance of BRICS in shaping global politics.

The analyst also predicted the Ukraine crisis will conclude in 2025, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election.

“This will be all the more the case when the United States puts an end to the Ukraine war by withdrawing its financial and military assistance to Kiev. That day will come very early in 2025 if Trump wins on 5 November; it will come with a slight delay in 2025 if Harris wins because Congress will resist any further appropriations to Kiev,” Doctorow speculated.

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🇮🇩Indonesia intends to join BRICS, the country's Foreign Ministry announced

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Missouri Attorney General to sue Google for censorship against conservative speech ahead of election

The Attorney General of the US state of Missouri, Andrew Bailey, announced the launch of an investigation into Google's censorship:

"I am launching an investigation into Google - the biggest search engine in America - for censoring conservative speech during the most consequential election in our nation’s history," he wrote on his X page. 

The attorney general accused Google of "waging war on the democratic process", but he did not provide details about what actions of the tech giant he considers illegal.

Fox Business reports that Bailey plans to subpoena Google to "investigate its algorithms and how conservative speech is deemphasized."

"We have reason to believe that Google is manipulating their search results to deemphasize information about the Trump campaign prior to Election Day," Bailey told Fox Business.

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🇧🇴Bolivia to join BRICS as partner state

"Our plurinational State of Bolivia takes a fundamental step towards joining BRICS, having been informed of the acceptance by the member countries to be an associate state," the country's president Luis Arce wrote on his X page. 

Bolivia also took part in the BRICS summit, which was held from October 22 to 24 in the Russian city of Kazan.

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🔸‘Collective West has self-isolated and condemned itself to irrelevance’ – analyst

🔸BRICS summit proves there's an alternative to the Western-led global order – Bolivian President

🔸Putin met with UN Secretary-General Guterres at BRICS summit

🔸Israeli strike kills three journalists in southern Lebanon

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The New York Post officially endorsed Trump's candidacy in the US Presidential election

"The Post endorses Donald Trump for president — the clear choice for a better future," says the publication of the newspaper on behalf of its editorial board.

As arguments for supporting Trump's candidacy, journalists pointed out a number of aspects of his program: a secure border and a sensible immigration system, safer cities and support for law, the economic policy of low taxes, as well as "an America that’s respected on the world stage."

The newspaper mentions Trump's eccentricity as a disadvantage, but tends to assess the ex-president based on the results of his work as head of state, concluding that it was significantly more effective than the policy of incumbent President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running for election as a Trump opponent.

"If she wins, Harris will not only co-opt Bidenism but accelerate the progressive hurricane ripping through the fabric of American society," the newspaper argues.

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Russia, North Korea to decide mutual military aid provided for by treaty - Putin 

The issue of mutual military assistance is a bilateral matter of Russia and North Korea, only they can decide whether to limit themselves to drills and exchange experience within the framework of the article provided for in the concluded treaty, or "implement some provisions", Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

"I want to say that this is our sovereign decision, if we will implement some provisions or not; where, how, whether we need it, or we will be engaged, for example, only in conducting some drills, preparing, transferring some experience – this is our own business. Just like how we are told all the time that this is a matter for Ukraine, how it will ensure its security - with NATO, without NATO," Putin said in an interview with the Russian media.

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🗣Erdogan: 'Turkiye intends to strengthen relations with the BRICS countries'

The Turkish President has expressed his desire to develop relations with the BRICS partners. Earlier, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan held fruitful bilateral talks on the sidelines of the BRICS 2024 Summit in Kazan.

Key statements by Erdogan for Turkish media on his return from the BRICS summit:

🔸 Putin has a desire for a ceasefire in Ukraine.

🔸 Turkish president discussed the prisoner exchange between Moscow and Kiev, grain corridor and demining in the Black Sea with Putin.

🔸 Turkiye would continue diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.

"Turkish partners have repeatedly approached Russia with proposals for initiatives," Putin told Russian media, noting that "when Russia agrees to consider initiatives on Ukraine, Kiev refuses them, it happened twice."

🔸 Israel's violence could be stopped by imposing an arms embargo on the country.

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Truth hurts: Hungarian PM says the West is losing the conflict in Ukraine

“They are up to their ears in a losing war, they are losing the war right now. These countries have not lost since World War II — most of them, of course, because Germany lost — most of them won, they were on the winning side in World War II. And now they are faced with a completely new feeling — they are losing the war right now,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said.

He stressed that Hungary "managed to stay away" from the conflict, despite the fact that "all other EU countries sang in unison."

Orban had previously said that "Brussels bureaucrats" had led the entire West to a hopeless war that they wanted to transfer to Russia.

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❗️Russian troops liberated four settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic during the week.

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

▪️The Russian Tsentr Battlegroup destroyed 28 Ukrainian armored vehicles. Ukrainian losses amounted to 3,130 militants;

▪️The Russian Sever Battlegroup destroyed more than 2,720 Ukrainian militants and 74 armored vehicles, including one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle;

▪️The Russian forces carried out 42 group strikes with precision weapons and drones, against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, and energy facilities supporting them;

▪️The Ukrainian forces lost up to 750 soldiers in the area of responsibility of the Russian Vostok combat group;

▪️55 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered during the week, including 39 in the Russian Kursk region;

▪️Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft.

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