"According to the latest estimates of the World Bank, the damage to Lebanon and material losses are currently estimated at $ 8.5 billion, of which 3.4 billion Lebanon lost as a result of the complete or partial destruction of one hundred thousand houses, and 5.1 billion - economic losses," Prime Minister of Lebanon’s interim government Najib Mikati said.

“Modern slavery deprives victims of their dignity, fundamental rights and freedoms,” Dreyfus said, adding: “It encompasses a range of exploitative practices, including human trafficking and slavery-like practices such as forced marriage, forced labor, deceptive recruiting and debt bondage.”

"I am pleased to announce that the former ICE director, and stalwart on border control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump administration, in charge of our nation’s borders ('The Border Czar')," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform.

“Ukraine’s metallurgy would simply stop operating with the loss of this coal mining area, because they would have to buy that coal elsewhere,” he remarks, noting that probably the only place Kiev could buy coking coal would be, ironically, Russia.

“Our troops are advancing at an insane speed, making three to four kilometers a day, and the front from Selidovo to Velikaya Novoselka extends for 65 kilometers. Never before during the special military operation have we seen a front so wide and a blow so powerful,” Matviychuk says. “This means we march into battle with decisive goals to finalize the enemy’s defeat and restore territorial integrity of the Donetsk People’s Republic.”

“If we look at the map, to the right there are roads and railways leading all the way to Kramatorsk,” Matviychuk elaborates. “But we also can – and Zelensky is very afraid of it – turn left. To the left lies Dnepropetrovsk, a city they (Ukrainians) call Dnepr. A peaceful city would become a frontline city with all the consequences such change entails: constant attacks, damage to the infrastructure. And most importantly, it would be a logistical center that no longer helps Ukrainian military recoup its economic and financial losses.”

President-elect Donald Trump wrote on his Social Truth account on November 9 that he "will not invite… former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join the Trump administration, which is currently in formation." Prior to the announcement the #NoPompeo hashtag was trending on X.

Meanwhile, Scott back in 2022 actually told the press that the US should keep providing support to Ukraine. In his criticism of the $95 billion aid bill, however, Scott noted that the aid package “does nothing to force accountability for the $60 billion in borrowed money it authorizes for Ukraine, $10 billion of which can be used to pay the salaries of Ukrainian politicians,” and does not help deal with the US border crisis.

"I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter," Trump said in a statement shared with several US media.

"The possibility of European sanctions can be very dangerous for my work. Not for me, because I'm in Russia and I work free in this country, but I work also in Lebanon, in Syria, in Venezuela. And if European sanctions make me a travel ban, for example, this can be terrible for my work, because practically I won't be able to move. I think given this moment, they want to stop me, to stop my colleague Vincenzo, because we are filming the real situation in Donbass, but they don't want the Italian audience to see materials and they are thinking to stop us with European sanctions," he explained to Sputnik.

"Officially Kiev accused me of entering in Ukrainian territory without any permission from Kiev authorities. So it is the same accusation that Russia made to the Italian journalist Stefania Battistini from RAI, she was in the Kursk region with the Ukrainian soldiers, but in this case, Italian politicians and the Italian Federation for Press make a lot of declarations in defense of Stefania Battistini. In my case, in the case of my colleague Vincenzo Larusso, nobody in the official mainstream media spend one word to support us. And for saying that it's impossible to make war journalism with such authorization for the others from the other side. I think it's the right of European audience to know the real situation in Russia and in Donbass, and we are trying to respect this right and work honestly and free or give them the possibility to have a complete opinion about the conflict. But someone wants to stop us. And unfortunately some European politicians, like the Vice-President of the European Parliament Pina Picerno, or other politicians from the Liberal area, want to support this intention of Kiev to make sanctions against us."