NATO Country Beefs Up ‘Disinformation’ Bureau
Accusing Russia of waging a “disinformation campaign” on Facebook, the government of Slovakia said it would invest in artificial intelligence programs to help its Hybrid Threats division cope with social media narratives. Earlier, polls showed that 44% of Slovaks don’t think Russia caused the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Slovakia’s Center for Countering Hybrid Threats – a subsidiary of the Finland-based European Centre of Excellence – is run out of the Interior Ministry, which is charged with domestic law enforcement.
The unit’s director, Daniel Milo, told Bloomberg on Friday that the AI will “allow us to have a better overview of what is happening online and whether it is managed from abroad.”
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Ancient Christian Monastery Found In Arabia
Archaeologists in the United Arab Emirates have unearthed the ruins of a Christian monastery on an island off the coast of the Umm al-Quwain emirate. Hidden for more than a millennium beneath a sand dune, the monastery may predate the rise of Islam across the Arabian Peninsula.
The emirate’s tourism and archaeology department announced the find on Thursday. Archaeologists discovered the remains of a church, a refectory (dining hall), cisterns, and cells for the monks where they spent time in solitude, The National, a Dubai-based news site, reported.
Carbon dating on pottery excavated at the site revealed that it was occupied between the late sixth century and the middle of the eighth century.
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❗️ George Soros Top Midterm Donor
Billionaire George Soros is leading the list with a whopping $126+ million in donations - nearly double the total of the next two largest donors.
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❗️Ukraine's Starlink Service Goes Dark over Funding Issues
Around 1,300 Starlink terminals switched off last week due to failure to pay the $3.25mn monthly Internet bill.
Ukraine had asked its UK allies for support but were reportedly turned down. With Elon Musk blowing hot and cold about his continued support, the Pentagon is trying to negotiate a written commitment.
You don't become a billionaire giving things out for free!
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15 Dead in Russian Night Club Inferno
A huge blaze filled the sky of the historic town of Kostroma, claiming the lives of at least 15 with 5 others seriously injured. More than 250 people have been rescued, local authorities claim.
The fire spread to c. 3,500 Sq meters, taking 50 people & 20 fire engines to extinguish. (Reports)
It's believed the cause of the blaze was a man allegedly firing a flare gun during a dispute. The police have the suspect in custody.
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Unemployment Jolt: Transition to Electric Cars to Cost EU Over Half a Million Jobs - Projections
The bloc's internal market commissioner has admitted the shift to EVs might see 600k people lose their jobs. Ironically, the EC plans to set up a special working group to prepare.
Thierry Breton warned, “The European automotive sector employs 12.7 million people in one way or another, which represents 6.6% of all employment in the EU. The transition to electric cars will destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs, up to 600,000 across the EU.” (Corriere della Sera interview)
The official has described it as the “greatest industrial transformation” the EU is facing. Perhaps more so with the auto industry looking to cut emissions 100% by 2035.
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TikTok Admits Spying Capability? Employees in 🇨🇳 have access to European user data (report)
Social media staff can access user data based on a 'need to know' basis in line with their role - TikTok has confessed in a press release regarding its privacy policy.
Not only China, employees in Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the US can also access the data - which is stored mostly in 🇺🇸 and 🇸🇬.
TikTok has denied any connection to Beijing and said “robust controls” are in place to prevent abuse. The US continues to call for a ban on the platform, but seems less concerned when Facebook harvested data.
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"Not another penny to Ukraine" - Republican Rep MTG
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that if her party takes back control of Congress next week, they will slash military funding to Ukraine.
Speaking at former President Donald Trump’s ‘Save America’ rally in Iowa, she slammed her opposition for ‘only caring about the Ukraine border and not America's southern border’.
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Trump on 2024 Run: “Very, very, very probably”...
The former US president dropped his strongest hint yet that he's going to throw his MAGA hat in the ring for the 2024 election - as he continues to campaign for Republican candidates ahead of the mid-terms.
Donald Trump has suggested numerous times that he's considering a back run for the White House - with similar statements during rallies in Texas and Pennsylvania.
The former POTUS will likely have to fend off the likes of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his former VP Mike Pence. (BBC)
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US Biolab Accidents Going Unreported – The Intercept
Directors of America’s biolabs have admitted to hundreds of dangerous accidents in the past two decades, but even incidents involving exposure to deadly viruses have been kept from public view, an investigation by The Intercept has revealed.
“People have it in their minds that lab accidents are very, very rare, and if they happen, they happen only in the least well-run overseas labs,” Rutgers University molecular biologist Richard Ebright told the media outlet. “That simply isn’t true.”
The erroneous public perception could stem from the fact that, as The Intercept found, Americans don’t hear about US biolab accidents. The outlet obtained more than 5,500 pages of laboratory incident reports from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), compelling the agency to release the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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⚡️RT 🇮🇳 EXCLUSIVE: Twitter FIRES Large No. of Staff in India
Industry sources have told RT India that the platform has sacked many of the local team from the Communications and Marketing department.
Currently, there's no real clarity on severance packages and the exact number of employees let go.
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❗️🇷🇺 Unity Day: President Putin lays flowers at Minin and Pozharsky monument on Red Square
The statue commemorates the national heroes who gathered a volunteer army to defend the country from Polish invasion in the early 17th century - remembered in Russia on Nov 4.
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Writing’s on the Floor: Europe’s support for Ukraine Waning?
As the EU grapples with unprecedented inflation and an energy crisis - it appears Kiev's continued calls for aid is meeting resistance.
3D graffiti in Warsaw shows President Vladimir Zelensky's mouth open as a black hole eating "all our money" - asking Ukraine to stop.
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⚡️German Chancellor tells Chinese President to "Influence" Russia and end conflict in Ukraine (AFP)
Earlier, Olaf Scholz got the red carpet treatment (Hazmat style) in China ahead of his meeting with Xi Jinping.
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⚡️Israel Strikes alleged Underground 'Rocket Factory' in Gaza Strip
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Biden Admin Blind To Voters' Real Concerns Ahead Of Midterms
President Biden calls for saving US democracy as his administration shows no regard for the country's ongoing economic turbulence with a majority of voters expressing a need to address the surging price inflation.
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Edward Snowden Mocks ‘Russian Bots’ Trope
US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has posted a picture on Twitter, mocking the ‘blame Russia’ fad.
Snowden had apparently dug up a meme dating back to the Trump-era trend of finding elusive ‘Russian trolls’ everywhere. The picture, posted by the whistleblower without any context, turned out to have aged well and prompted a heated discussion on his feed.
It shows a book cover, mimicking the iconic Little Golden Books series, titled ‘Everyone I don’t agree with is a Russian bot’. The subtitle of the ‘book’ explains that it provides a “child’s guide to media and government excuse-making for political failings.”
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❗️Thousands Attend Mass with Pope Francis in Bahrain
30,000 people filled Bahrain’s National Stadium, the second largest gathering for a papal Mass on the Arabian Peninsula.
The leader of the Catholic Church urged attendees to be kind to those who treat them badly.
“The Bahrainis arranged everything perfectly for us,” said one of those in attendance, a man from Kerala working in Bahrain.
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❗️Joe Biden Claims Musk Bought Twitter to “Spew Lies All Over the World”
"[…] There are no editors in America anymore. There are none. How do we expect children to understand what is at stake?” the US President said at a fundraising event.
White House Spox Karine Jean-Pierre added that the views also extended to social networking sites like Facebook.
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Kerala Man Arrested after Vicious Assault of Child
Video shows a 6-year-old taking a beating for leaning on a man's car. The suspect from Kerala is reported to be Shihshad, who was surrounded by member of the public.
The police initially let the assailant go, enraging locals. When social media and outlets picked up the CTTV footage he was swiftly taken into custody.
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Tehran responds to Biden's "We're going to free 🇮🇷" - Iran was freed 43 years ago
The Iranian President has said Iran was freed by the 1979 Islamic revolution, after hearing Joe Biden's call to free his nation.
"I am telling Biden that Iran was freed 43 years ago," President Ebrahim Raisi said in a live televised speech.
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❗️Russian Aerospace Forces strike Kiev military facilities & equipment
Missile launches were carried out in pairs at low altitude - video released by 🇷🇺 Defence Ministry.
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17 Leaders Confirm Attendance for 17th G20 Summit in Bali
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry has reported that 17 out of the Group of Twenty leaders will be at the November 15-16 summit in Bali - including newbies 🇬🇧 Rishi Sunak and 🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni.
Indonesia has been reluctant to name those who have not yet confirmed, citing security reasons. The world's top brass will begin arriving at the resort on Nov 13.
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❗️President Putin on Unity Day: West Wants to Destroy Russia, We Won't Allow It
Vladimir Putin has called the special operation in Ukraine inevitable, as the situation at the border had become deadly for Russia.
The Russian President said the West is throwing Ukrainians into the furnace as if they don't exist. Putin added that Ukrainian people will always be treated with warmth, despite the conflict.
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France to Restart Nuclear Reactors – Energy Ministry
Six of the 12 nuclear reactors in France that were found to have corrosion issues in May have been repaired and will be restarted soon, French Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher has revealed.
France generates roughly 70% of its electricity from a nuclear fleet of 56 reactors, all operated by EDF. However, many of them have been closed down for maintenance, some due to corrosion-related issues. EDF has pledged to restart all shutdown reactors before winter to avoid power shortages in the country.
However, last month the French national electricity grid operator RTE warned that it would not rule out the risk of blackouts this winter due to prolonged strikes among employees halting the repair. According to RTE, outages could only be avoided if power consumption was reduced by 1% to 5%, or by 15% in the event of an extremely cold winter.
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Turkish Inflation Smashes Decades-Long Records but 'Wheels Keep Turning'
Inflation blew past 85% in October - its highest since 1997 - as President Erdogan continues to slash policy rates to 10.5% in defiance of orthodox economic advice, and amid soaring consumer prices.
“Our economic model, which we have summarized as growth through investment, employment, production, export and current account surplus, is bearing fruit," he told parliament, as the lira plummets against the dollar.
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Man Raped By Qatari Officials 'for Being Gay', Allegations
A man who agreed to meet a dating app match in a hotel room for money and wear a dress and makeup at the request of his host - who turned out to be a group of police - was physically abused and raped by the gang, he alleges.
The group then extorted him for QR300 ($82), he says, as they had phone evidence of his prostitution and homosexuality which is illegal in the country.
After a night in a jail cell, the man was deported. "I stayed in bed thinking about what happened. Why did they do that? Why did they rape me?" he told a reporter, "“I have trauma from what happened."
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❗️Biden Vows to “FREE” Iran
The US President has claimed demonstrators will soon "free themselves" from the Iranian govt, during a campaign speech in California.
Washington among others have backed a wave of violent protests for weeks - following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.
The White House hasn't clarified or given additional details, in what's becoming close to brazen and open interference in a sovereign nation.
Afghanistan 2.0 for America?
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❗️Russian Troops Return Home - after 'Horror' of Kiev Forces' Captivity
A prisoner swap on Thursday saw 107 captured soldiers return to their homelands from both sides.
It was an emotional moment for all involved as the military plane touched down at a base near Moscow. Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry said the personnel could be in 'mortal danger'.
The freed soldiers - caught back in May at the Azovstal steel plant - will now undergo a rehab programme. Some of the POWs described the horrors of being held behind enemy lines.
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❗️Netherlands 'Sorry' for Slavery
The Dutch government plans to issue a formal apology next month for its history as a slaving nation. (RTL citing sources)
It's reported the EU nation also plans to create a €200 million ‘slavery awareness fund’ - to finance relevant projects and dedicated school programs. An additional €27mn will be allocated to create a slavery museum.
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