🇸🇦🔥 Saudi Arabia’s mega-project: 'King Salman Gate' – new city for Mecca

Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for the massive "King Salman Gate" urban development in Mecca, covering a staggering 12 million square meters near the Holy Mosque.

👉 Key features:

🔶 Capacity increase for 900,000 additional worshippers

🔶 Luxury hotels & residential areas

🔶 Commercial centers & cultural facilities

🔶 New transportation lines

The project aims to dramatically improve pilgrim services while creating sustainable urban growth around Islam's holiest site.

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🇷🇺Putin thanks RT team for steadfastly defending the truth

RT faced a challenging task — “to build its work on a fundamentally new level — and the channel has done this brilliantly,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told an audience at the Bolshoi Theatre on the channel’s 20th anniversary.

👉Putin praised RT for successfully building its work “on a fundamentally new level.”

He said Western media had long abused their monopoly on information, but today “millions of people around the world trust RT.”

💬“Russia’s sovereignty — which it will always defend — depends on the ability to convey objective and unbiased information to people,” Putin stressed.

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷 Russia and Iran forge energy alliance

The two countries are working to link their energy systems as part of Iran’s Seventh Development Plan, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Mostafa Rajabi-Mashhadi told Sputnik at Russian Energy Week.

He said the goal was to turn Iran into a regional energy hub — boosting both economic gains and power grid stability across neighboring states.

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👉 Tomahawks for Ukraine: 'symbolic,' not game-changer – WaPo

🗣 The US missiles that Volodymyr Zelensky is begging for demonstrate American willingness to only use them as “a bargaining tactic,” and are "more symbolic than practical," The Washington Post reports.

The article notes that Donald Trump changed tone on the Tomahawks after his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 16, during which the POTUS proposed a meeting of the two in Hungary in the not-so-distant future.

The US president made it clear that he wasn’t ready to share Tomahawks with Ukraine.

💬 “We have a lot of them [Tomahawk missiles], but we need them. I mean, we can’t deplete for our country,” Trump underscored.

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🚨 Trump on Ukraine’s chances of reclaiming lost territories:

“You never know. You know, it’s very unpredictable.”

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🚨 Zelensky offered the US a deal: Ukrainian drones in exchange for Tomahawks

Trump responded: “We’re interested — they make a very good drone.”

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🇺🇸 Trump called the idea of a tunnel between Russia and Alaska “interesting.”

Zelensky: “I don’t like it.” — Trump: “I didn’t think you would.”

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🚨 Israel weaponizing starvation... AGAIN

Despite the ceasefire, Israelis are preventing trucks carrying humanitarian aid from reaching the Gaza Strip.

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