SCOTUS kept Kennedy Jr.'s name on the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan

Despite independent US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump's candidacy, the Supreme Court rejected requests to remove his name from the ballots in those swing states.

“It is a purely political move in the hope that folks who would have otherwise voted for Trump will throw away their vote by voting for me instead. Don't let them undermine this election,” he wrote in his X account.

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🏛❌ Canada's opposition starts talks to oust Trudeau's government

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said he will join other parties whenever there's another non-confidence vote.

“Depending on what the [New Democratic Party] will do, we can say the government's days are numbered,” Blanchet told CBC.

The mandate for Trudeau's government expires in late October 2025, and media reports openly predict the Liberals' defeat at the next general election.

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Biden called Trump supporters 'garbage'

In a virtual event in support of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden called over 74 million (that's how many Americans voted for Donald Trump in the last election) 'garbage'.

President later wrote in his X account that he was referring to the rhetoric of Trump supporters at his Madison Square Garden rally:

"[This] is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say."

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🌍🌍🌍 summit 'a complete success' - Chinese Foreign Minister

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has highly appreciated the recent BRICS summit.

💬 "The BRICS summit was held in Kazan under the chairmanship of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and was a complete success … this summit will not only help maintain the momentum of the development of the BRICS cooperation mechanism, but also strengthen the unity of the countries of the Global South so that they can play their important and constructive role in stabilizing the current international situation," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko.

At the same time, the Chinese foreign minister added that Russia and China "should maintain strategic interaction at all levels and in all areas."

💬 "Under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese-Russian relations have maintained a healthy and stable development momentum, which not only meets the common interests of China and Russia and the peoples of the two countries, but is also our joint contribution to maintaining the stability of international relations, protecting international law and the UN Charter," Wang noted.

#BRICS2024

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🪖 Russian air defense forces down 23 Ukrainian drones overnight

Among them, seven drones were destroyed over the territory of the Rostov region, five over the territory of the Kursk region, four over the territory of the Smolensk region, three each over the territory of the Orel and Bryansk regions, and one over the territory of the Belgorod region, the Defense Ministry said.

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⚔️ NYT claims Israel’s Oct. 26 attack hit space center controlled by IRGC

The Israeli military's attack on Iran last Saturday targeted a range of sensitive military facilities, including the Shahroud Space Center in Semnan province controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The New York Times reported, referring to satellite images from Planet Labs.

The Shahroud facility produces solid-fuel rocket engines used in the mass production of medium-range ballistic missiles that Iran could use to strike Israel.

Tehran has not commented on the report yet, but asserted earlier that the damage caused by the Israeli strike was limited.

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⚡️The US authorities did not inform the Russian Embassy in Washington about the detention of Russian journalists traveling to cover the US presidential election, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova told Sputnik.

According to her, the journalists were traveling there "not incognito" but "in full compliance with the documents issued".

"They were received at the airport, detained, interrogated, then the cameraman was refused to cross the border, his entry visa was canceled, and administrative reasons were given as the reason."

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🛢Hungary and Slovakia restore Russian oil supplies previously pumped through Ukraine

In September, Hungarian oil company MOL pumped approximately 300,000 tons of Russian oil to its refineries in both Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline, which passes through Ukraine. As a result, MOL's refineries, which were recently out of service for maintenance, were able to resume operations.

The Hungarian company's trading arm had been responsible for pumping oil purchased from LUKOIL that was transported through Ukraine after sanctions were imposed on the Russian company by Kiev in late June. Now, MOL takes these volumes directly before crossing the Ukrainian-Belarusian border and pays for the transit itself.

In total, Russian companies delivered 850,000 tons of oil to Slovakian and Hungarian refineries in September.

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🔸 Over 10 dead, 25 injured in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon

🔸 Fire breaks out at BAE Systems submarine shipyard in UK

🔸 NYT claims IDF attack on Iran hit IRGC-controlled space center

🔸 Attempted attack on Bryansk ‘intelligence op on part of NATO’ - analyst

🔸 Hungary and Slovakia restore Russian oil shipments that used to flow through Ukraine

🔸 Chinese top diplomat hails BRICS summit in Kazan as ‘a complete success’

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🗣Key statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the detention of Russian journalists in the US:

🔸 Russia will not leave the detention of Russian journalists at US airport unanswered.

🔸 Detention of Russian journalists at US airport is violation of US obligations in the field of ​​freedom of speech.

🔸 Detention of Russian journalists at the US airport is a demonstrative action, which shows the readiness of the USA to block inconvenient information.

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🇷🇺🪖New footage from liberated Selidovo in Donetsk People's Republic

The footage shows the Russian military destroying the enemy and taking dominant positions. At the same time, attack drone teams are striking enemy manpower and equipment, facilitating the advance of the attacking forces.

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🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Israel warns Iran another attack will be met with ‘capabilities not used’ in latest air raid

Israel has warned Iran against making “the mistake” of carrying out another attack against it. If Iran were to launch missiles at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces would “hit extremely hard both the capabilities and the places that we spared this time,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi stated at the Ramon Air Base on Tuesday.

Israel “didn’t finish this event,” he added, because “we may be required to do it again.” Over 100 Israeli warplanes, including the fifth-generation F-35s, were reportedly involved in the IDF’s three waves of "precise" strikes on Iranian military targets on October 26.

The strikes that Tel Aviv described as a "response" to Tehran’s missile attacks on the Jewish state on October 1 claimed the lives of at least four Iranian soldiers, according to the Islamic Republic’s Defense Ministry.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry denounced the strikes as a "clear violation" of international law, adding that Iran "considers itself ennoscriptd and obligated to defend itself."

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