🔍 CRISIS UNFOLDING IN GAZA: KEY HIGHLIGHTS

ISRAELI STRIKES

◻️ 44 Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Wednesday, including 18 aid seekers

◻️ At least 17 people were killed in attacks across the enclave since dawn, media reported

◻️ A UN clinic-turned-shelter in Gaza City was bombed, leaving dozens of people injured

◻️ Israeli artillery targeted Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Khan Younis

HUNGER-RELATED DEATHS

◻️ 193 Palestinians have died from starvation, including five in the last 24 hours

◻️ “We can’t airdrop our way out of an unfolding famine,” UN food chief says

COLLAPSING HEALTHCARE

◻️ Gaza’s blood banks are empty and severe hunger has left many too malnourished to donate blood, health officials say

◻️ 100 premature babies are in danger as lack of fuel is affecting “lifesaving” operations, UN says

WHAT’S NEXT FOR GAZA

PM Benjamin Netanyahu to convene security cabinet on Thursday night to discuss the next steps regarding Gaza

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🚨 Agreement reached to hold meeting between Putin and Trump in coming days - Putin's aide Ushakov

The venue for the meeting has been agreed upon and will be announced later.

Witkoff raised the idea of Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit, but Moscow declined to comment, Ushakov said.

Next week tentatively set as target timeframe for the meeting

"However, it is difficult to say exactly how many days of preparation the talks will require", the Kremlin added.

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📹RED ALERT: Kamchatka's Klyuchevskoi volcano sends ash plume toward Bering sea 

The Klyuchevskoi Volcano in Russia's Kamchatka has been assigned a "red" aviation danger code following another eruption of ash rising as high as 11.5 km.

The ash plume is drifting northeast towards the Bering Sea.

Klyuchevskoi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, stands at more than 4,600 meters and is located 360 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳Russian President Putin is expected to visit India before the end of the year, Indian Prime Minister's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval announced during a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu in Moscow.

"Now we have established very good relations, which we value very much, a strategic partnership between our countries. We interact at a high level... We were pleased to know about President Putin's visit to our country," Doval said.

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🇦🇪🇷🇺UAE President arrives in Russia, plane lands at Vnukovo airport near Moscow, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS & DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

▫️ Air defense superiority: 8 Storm Shadow cruise missiles shot down

◻️ Black Sea Fleet forces destroyed an enemy unmanned boat in the northeastern part of the Black Sea

◻️ Russian Armed Forces struck a railway junction in the Dnepropetrovsk region that was used to transport weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Donbas region

◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,335 soldiers

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📹 LIVE NOW: Putin holds talks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan 🇷🇺🇦🇪

👉Watch live in our Telegram

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🇷🇺🇦🇪Putin and UAE President begin talks at the Kremlin

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🇷🇺🇦🇪Russia and UAE are actively cooperating on international platforms, including within BRICS and the Eurasian Economic Union - Putin

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🚨🇷🇺UAE one of suitable places for meeting with Trump - Putin

🟠Both sides have expressed interest in the Russia-US summit

🟠Putin says his meeting with Zelensky is possible, but conditions must be offered for such kinds of talks; it is too early for such conditions to appear, he added

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🗣US losing ground as multipolar world rises – analyst

There are plenty of signs pointing to the inevitable decline of the United States, Albert Bakhtizin, director of the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics (CEMI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Sputnik.

◻️ The US is gradually losing its share of the global economy — a shift driven by the rapid rise of China, India, and other emerging powers

◻️ The position of the US dollar is weakening. It now occupies a smaller portion of global state reserves, and international trust in the American currency is slowly eroding

◻️ With both Russia and China and Russia openly supporting a multipolar world order, by the middle of the 21st century, several major macro-regions are likely to emerge

Alliances will form around these hubs — groups of countries with significant economic, technological, and demographic potential - based on shared interests, speculated the analyst.

“Possibly an American bloc, an Asian one, and maybe a Eurasian bloc. The world will become more balanced than it was during the era of a single global hegemon," Bakhtizin notes.

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🚨🇦🇿🇦🇲Pashinyan selling off Armenia’s sovereignty to the West: here’s what it means for South Caucasus

PM Nikol Pashinyan is digging a suicidal geopolitical hole for Armenia by trading sovereignty for shaky Western promises, political analyst Shota Apkhaidze told Sputnik.

By handing control of a key artery – the Zangezur Corridor - for 100 years to the US, possibly via a private firm, Pashinyan hopes to secure protection from Turkiye and Azerbaijan.

The US is not a country capable of protecting anyone, reminded Apkhaidze, adding:

“I believe Russia is the only country capable of ensuring Armenia’s security and territorial integrity"

🔍US long-term gamble

⚫️The Caucasus is a gateway to Central Asia, to Iran’s doorstep

⚫️Iran’s North-South corridor project runs through Armenia and Georgia on to Russia: Pashinyan’s plan could deal a regional blow to Iran and Russia

⚫️The Zangezur Corridor offers a direct route to Caspian energy, diversifying resources for Europe amid the Russian sanctions-driven energy crunch

🔍Armenia’s suicidal plan

🟠Pashinyan is dismantling old ties with Russia and the Eurasian bloc, hoping for integration into a club that may never open its doors
🟠Zangezur transit fees won’t replace lost trade routes or alliances
🟠Armenia risks isolation with no real guarantees in return

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