🚨🇺🇸US launches FIRST Pacific strike on alleged narco-vessel

The US military has carried out its first Pacific strike against an alleged drug-smuggling vessel off South America, killing two, CBS reports.

👉It’s part of a broader Pentagon campaign that’s left 34 dead since September under the banner of counternarcotics and counterterrorism.

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🚨 MacGregor's reality check: Russia's operation about survival, not conquest

📍 Retired US Colonel Douglas MacGregor delivered a clear-eyed assessment of the special military operation's logical conclusion—restoring historic Russian lands and preventing Ukraine from being NATO's attack platform against Russia.

"The problem for the Russians is they don't want Ukraine to be a platform for attack against Russia in the future. And that's been Lavrov's mantra repeatedly: 'Whatever happens in Ukraine, we don't want to refight this war'" MacGregor said.

👉 MacGregor dismisses the West's desire for a superficial "deal." Why? Because a temporary ceasefire that doesn't address these core, legitimate objectives is worthless. Russia is ensuring a lasting peace based on reality, not on failed Western promises.

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🔥 WATCH: Russian troops liberate Pavlovka in Zaporozhye

Striking new footage from the Russian Ministry of Defense confirms the complete liberation of the settlement of Pavlovka in the Zaporozhye region.

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🚨🇭🇺🇺🇸 Szijjarto meets Rubio to discuss Putin–Trump summit preparations

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived at the US Department of State for talks with Secretary Marco Rubio on preparations for a potential Putin–Trump summit in Budapest.

Szijjarto dismissed rumors of a cancellation, calling them “fakes spread by pro-war politicians” seeking to derail the meeting.

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🚨 US lifts ban on Ukrainian long-range missile use inside Russia — Report

The Trump administration has removed key restrictions, allowing Ukraine to strike deeper into Russian territory with Western-supplied long-range missiles, the WSJ reports, citing US officials.

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🔸Russia conducts nuclear triad drills under Putin’s supervision, featuring Yars ICBM and Sineva ballistic missile launches

🔸Timing of Putin-Trump meeting yet determined - Kremlin

🔸US VP Vance says Gaza peace plan could become global model

🔸'Unrealistic': Russian deputy FM skewers rapid nuclear disarmament push

🔸Venezuela and Colombia close ranks against US pressure

🔸Caspian cooperation more in demand than ever - Lavrov

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🗣 US did not reject idea of summit with Russia — Szijjarto

State Secretary Rubio told the Hungarian foreign minister that the US is still interested in holding talks with Russia, but they must produce real results, Szijjarto said in an interview with M1.

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🔊 Upcoming US sanctions against Russia will be 'one of the largest' — Bessent

"President Putin has not come to the table in an honest and forthright manner," the US Treasury Secretary claimed.

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⚡️ Trump rejected the WSJ report on the US approving Ukraine's use of long-range missiles as fake news

"The US has nothing to do with those missiles, wherever they may come from, or what Ukraine does with them," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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⚡️ US imposes sanctions on Russian companies Lukoil and Rosneft — Department of Treasury

"Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump’s effort to end yet another war. We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions," the official statement reads.

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🔊 Trump rules out sending Tomahawks to Ukraine: 'We are not going to shoot it'

President Trump stated that providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine is not feasible, noting that "it takes a minimum of 6 months to learn how to use Tomahawks."

"The only way is if we shoot it, we are not going to do that," he stressed.

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💣 Massive explosion on the far side of the Sun captured on camera

This is what it looked like — a huge blast on the Sun’s far side, recorded by Russia's Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI RAS). The eruption followed two smaller plasma ejections to the north.

📊 For scale: the small circle in the center is the Sun — 1.5 million km across. Earth is less than 13,000 km.

The exploding region faced Earth just 10 days ago, meaning the same active zone is still alive and erupting. No spacecraft currently observes that side, so what exactly happened will remain a mystery forever.

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🇮🇱 Israel tramples international law by grabbing the West Bank

📍 Tel Aviv's move to extend its sovereignty over the West Bank, a move towards the outright annexation of the region, has long been a dream of the Israeli leadership, Palestinian presidential adviser Mohammad Al-Habbash tells Sputnik.

👉 Israel’s goal, Al-Habbash explains, is to destroy any chance for peace and any possibility for the creation of the Palestinian state.

💬 “These ceaseless and consistent actions may pave way to new forms of the conflict that our region has been dealing with for over a century,” he remarks.

🗣 The Israeli government fans the flames of this conflict by its “racist and aggressive decisions that contradict the international law,” Al-Habbash says.

🟠 The world, he says, faces a choice today: either defend international law or open the way for the ‘law of the jungle’ where the strong devour the weak.

🟠 On October 22, the Israeli parliament approved a draft bill in the first reading that extends Israel’s sovereignty on the West Bank, a Palestinian territory.

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📉 US Senate fails 12th vote to end government shutdown

The Senate has again failed to advance a GOP-backed bill to end the government shutdown, falling short of the required 60-vote threshold in a 54–46 vote.

Although 3 Democrats crossed party lines to support the measure, the shutdown continues with no clear path forward.

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🇻🇪Small plane crashes in Venezuela

📍A small aircraft crashed during takeoff at Paramillo Airport in San Cristobal, Venezuela, killing two people.

👉Authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.

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☢️ Trump backs Russia's call for nuclear de-escalation

President Trump confirmed that Vladimir Putin proposed a nuclear de-escalation during their recent call — and he fully supports the idea.

"President Putin mentioned to me about nuclear, where we do a de-escalation, and I’m fine with that… I think it’s a very appropriate thing," he said.

He noted the US and Russia lead in nuclear arsenals, with China rapidly catching up, so the talks will include China.

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🗣 NATO Chief: Only US pressure can force Russia to ceasefire

NATO Secretary General states that only American leadership can "change Putin’s calculus" and bring Moscow to the negotiating table.

"It may not be today or tomorrow, but we will get there," he told Fox News.

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🚨🇻🇪 Venezuela warns US: We have 5,000 Russian missiles

President Maduro has announced Venezuela possesses 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S man-portable air-defense systems.

The claim comes as a direct response to US military deployments—including stealth jets and Navy ships—to the Caribbean, which Caracas calls a "dress rehearsal" for an operation to oust Maduro.

"No fewer than 5,000 in key air defense positions to ensure peace," Maduro stated during a televised ceremony with military leaders.

White House claims its presence is for counter-narcotics operations, having destroyed several vessels allegedly smuggling drugs from Venezuela.

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🇬🇱 Denmark reaffirms Greenland status: Not for sale, not leaving kingdom

Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen firmly stated that Greenland will remain part of Denmark, adding that any future status change must be decided by the Greenlandic people — not foreign powers.

He acknowledged past neglect in Arctic security and vowed to ramp up investment, aligning with US President Trump's call for stronger allied presence in the region.

"I fully agree with Trump in that context, that we have to do more investing in the security and also in new capabilities in the Arctic. And I think we have to do it together," Poulsen said.

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