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Yair Golan, leader of Israel’s opposition Democratic Party:
The assassination of Ali Khamenei was unequivocally a mistake.Читать полностью…
French President Macron:
I ask you not to give in to the prevailing pessimism that is returning, to that spirit of defeat our country has experienced so many times throughout its history.Читать полностью…
It is the spirit of 1870, of 1940, of so many moments in our economic history when people say, "We're finished. We look at others and say we're finished for this or that reason."
Israel Interfered in French Elections, Nobody Got Punished: Mélenchon
French presidential candidate Mélenchon denounced Netanyahu for financing smear campaigns against LFI candidates and criticized the lack of punishment for election interference.
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Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data center in Sasovo, Russia’s Ryazan Oblast, and the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil refinery in Bashkortostan overnight, sparking fires.
In Sasovo, the attack damaged one of Yandex’s largest data centers, causing power outages and widespread disruptions to its cloud services.Читать полностью…
The strike followed a series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers.
A fire also broke out at the Sasta machine-tool plant, which shares the site with the data center and supplies Russia’s defense industry.
Trump:
We will NEVER forget October 7th. We will NEVER forget the victims. And we will always stand against the forces of Terror and Evil.
Germany’s Chancellor Merz:
I want to appeal to everyone in the political center, but especially the Greens and the SPD, to live up to their responsibility and use the majority that exists to prevent a governing mayor from the Left Party in our capital.Читать полностью…
I mean that very seriously. I cannot imagine it.
Marco Rubio on Iran:
Cult of death of the radical mullahs of Iran hails child suicide bombers as national heroes.Читать полностью…
Our heroes don't worship death.
Marco Rubio:
We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago.
There are already signs. Across this continent, we are witnessing what we hope will be the beginning of a generational shift.
Q: Amid increasing congressional scrutiny of Ambassador Guilfoyle’s tenure here, I’m wondering, Mr. Secretary, if you’ve personally reviewed some of those allegations and are confident that all is in compliance with State Department ethics.
Marco Rubio: This is not the forum where we’re going to address that. As simple as that. Suffice it to say, our embassy here is doing a great job.
Our ambassador has been a strong ambassador here. The questions you’re asking me, we’re not addressing those at press conferences in Greece with a foreign minister, in another country.Читать полностью…
The mayor of France's Saint-Denis went viral after stepping between riot police and student protesters in Paris, arms out, shouting at officers to stop.
He says he was "where a mayor should be — beside our youth."
Sweden will deploy a Patriot air defense system and about 100 troops to Poland from Dec. 1 to protect a NATO logistics hub supplying Ukraine.
The Rzeszow hub handles around 18,000 tons of equipment each month and is considered a potential target for Russian drone or missile attacks.
Trump:
Chicago is suffering an unprecedented and particularly violent crime wave that is getting worse by the day.Читать полностью…
The Federal Government can extinguish it quickly and completely, but the Mayor of Chicago, or the Governor of Illinois, must ask for our help. What is wrong with them? Why aren’t they asking? TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
A 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker, Anojan Sivarasa, has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for blasphemy over a Facebook comment insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Sivarasa deleted the comment and posted an apology, but screenshots were sent to his employer, leading to his arrest in July.Читать полностью…
He was initially sentenced to five years in prison and fined 3 million Saudi riyals, but prosecutors appealed for the case to be handled under Sharia law, and an appellate court imposed the death penalty on 17 September.
Sri Lanka is seeking clemency, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake promising to pursue a pardon and a legal delegation travelling to Saudi Arabia.
Sivarasa's family says it has received no news from him since 28 September, while Saudi authorities have announced no execution date.
Source: BBC
Germany’s foreign intelligence chief Martin Jäger warned that the country risks being drawn into a direct conflict with Russia as Moscow intensifies its “shadow war” against Berlin.
He argued Putin has passed the point where he can simply end the war without threatening his own hold on power.Читать полностью…
The BND sees no sign of a major Russian attack on NATO but warns smaller operations like those used in Crimea are “entirely possible.”
Source: POLITICO
NEW: ASELSAN signed a €2.46 billion contract with Türkiye’s defense procurement agency for hybrid air-defense systems, the largest single deal in the company's 51-year history.
It's part of roughly €5.1 billion in air-defense orders ASELSAN has disclosed in just two weeks, all feeding into Türkiye’s Steel Dome layered defense network.Читать полностью…
Three Saudi citizens were killed and several others wounded in two attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia Airlines aircraft on Thursday.
The Houthis claimed a ballistic missile strike on the airport, but Saudi authorities did not identify those responsible.Читать полностью…
NATO is seeking to ease tensions with Russia ahead of its annual Steadfast Noon nuclear exercise, scheduled for October 13–23 in Italy, involving 17 allied countries.
The exercise follows Russian threats to strike NATO territory, including possible nuclear weapons use, after allied drills near Kaliningrad in August.Читать полностью…
NATO officials stressed that the exercise is routine, predictable and involves no live nuclear weapons, emphasizing that the alliance wants to avoid miscalculation and further escalation.
Source: POLITICO
Top U.S. and Russian officials, including Jared Kushner and Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev, have discussed bringing U.S. investors into the Nord Stream pipelines to potentially resume Russian gas exports to Germany after the Ukraine war.
The proposal could allow U.S. investors to profit from Russian gas sales to Europe, but faces major obstacles.Читать полностью…
A White House official denied recent discussions, while another U.S. official said a deal was unlikely in the medium term.
Kushner and Dmitriev also discussed selling Lukoil’s international assets to U.S., Qatari and UAE investors.
Source: Reuters
Trump counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka:
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. And yes, it is built upon old concepts of jihad, but it's also mixed in with Marxism.Читать полностью…
What the Muslim Brotherhood created was a hybrid threat. The vanguard concept itself that came out of that and then was later popularized by bin Laden is a classic Leninist-Marxist concept.
Germany’s Chancellor Merz:
In the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, voters gave the AfD and the BSW, two authoritarian and extremist parties, a combined absolute majority for the first time.Читать полностью…
It was a secret ballot. We do not know who exactly gave their votes to the AfD candidate.
How and whether this secret ballot can ever be clarified remains to be seen.
But for me, one thing is clear: Anyone who votes for a member of a far-right extremist party to become president of the state parliament must reconcile that with their conscience.
Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was raped this summer while trying to repair a campaign sign in a parking lot in Sun City.
She reported being struck on the head, losing consciousness and waking during the assault, later suffering bruising, bleeding and what she believes was a concussion.Читать полностью…
Greene-Placentia reported the rape to police two weeks later and says she is continuing her campaign while speaking publicly to encourage other sexual assault victims to come forward.
Marco Rubio:
Though passions may at times have strained the bonds of affection between the U.S. and Europe, it must not be allowed to break them.Читать полностью…
Trump wants to turn part of his West Palm Beach golf club into an official presidential retreat modeled on Camp David.
The proposal would give part of the county-owned property to the federal government, with Trump funding construction of presidential facilities for future presidents and foreign leaders. His private golf club would continue operating alongside it.Читать полностью…
Palm Beach County is considering the plan, which Trump’s representatives say would not be completed until after he leaves office.
Source: WaPo
Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan:
We have no negotiations with anyone. We are not sitting with anyone.Читать полностью…
We pledge to uproot the enemy 100 percent.
The army is coming with force, not with begging.
Armed Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh, 58, while he was covering violence against Palestinian olive farmers near Aqraba in the West Bank.
Ashtiyeh suffered head and torso injuries and was hospitalized, while another Palestinian was shot in the foot.Читать полностью…
AFP said Israeli soldiers were nearby but did not intervene.
Syrian Airlines unveiled a new visual identity at Damascus Airport, alongside upgraded booking and payment systems and a mobile app launching in November.
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Pakistan’s Ministry of Information rejected Reuters’ reporting on the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, which claimed Pakistan had deployed 30,000–40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia.
It said the troop figures and other details were “invented” and based on unnamed sources.Читать полностью…
Alleged Chinese Operative Arrested for Surveilling Taiwan President's Son
Federal prosecutors allege Wanying “Heather” Zhang, arrested by the FBI, surveilled Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te’s son and his family in Seattle at China’s direction.
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Spain's Sánchez Bets on Early Election As Conservatives Lead
Housing protests and corruption cases have weakened Pedro Sánchez as Spain heads toward a snap election. Polls favor conservatives, which could end EU’s last major Socialist administration.
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Trump:
How much is she being paid, and by whom? She’s at all of my developments protesting. Others, likewise, are the same people. These are paid protestors, aren’t they?Читать полностью…