❗️Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has started a course of chemotherapy to fight leukemia, Italian media reports

❗️A quick reminder for Emmanuel Macron: where are US nukes stationed?

Spoiler: they are in three countries that have borders with France!

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▶️ 🐈 Spider-cat does whatever a spider can

This little cat without much embarrassment joined a prayer service, jumping on the Imam of Bordj Bou Arreridj mosque in Algeria.

The religious leader did not interrupt his prayer but continued to speak while caressing the cat

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Catch our Fault Lines show, where we provide updates and analysis on all the most vital stories! Here's our line-up for today:

🔺To kick things off, we’ll be discussing the new article by Seymour Hersh on Nord Stream
🔺Next, we’ll continue monitoring the Trump indictment as well as a political scandal in North Carolina
🔺Finally, we’ll speak about Macron’s visit to China

More trending stories coming your way! Tune in to Radio Sputnik at 7am EST|4am PST|1pm CET via the website or app!

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⚡️ Lukashenko said he agrees with Macron on the issue of nuclear weapons: the Americans should withdraw them from the countries where they deployed them

▪️ Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus called on behalf of eco-activist Greta Thunberg and her father Svante to Hollywood actor Will Smith and his son Jaden.

▪️ The faux Swedish family of environmental activists gave the Smiths "good news": Greta and Will's son Jaden allegedly love each other, want to get married, and Greta is also pregnant!

▪️ Was the actor happy about this prospect? Is he ready to become a grandfather and what will they name their son? Check out the prank

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⚡️Around 100 rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel on Thursday: media reports

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❗️ Sputnik correspondent from Lebanon reports: The IDF launched an artillery strike on the al-Layl valley in the south of the country after launching rockets from Lebanon

📹 Videos appeared on social media showing Israeli Air Force fighter jets flying over the recently-closed Ben Gurion Airport

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❗️ Flights from Ben-Gurion airport in Tel-Aviv are frozen

❗️Northen Israel, videos appeared on social media

❗️ Netanyahu convened an operational meeting with the leadership of security forces after Israel's shelling of Lebanese territory, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said

📹🇷🇺 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu inspected the workshops for the production of modern weapons at the enterprises of the defense industry in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

▪️ The Minister of Defense was informed that in recent months the volume of manufactured products, including artillery and aviation ammunition, has increased.

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Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, joined us to discuss President Zelensky's recent trip to Poland

🗣️”He [Zelensky] knows he cannot be a member of NATO. He knows he cannot be a member of the European Union. And he knows now that Bakhmut has fallen, that he has lost this war. So one last act of desperation: he is seeking a political union with Poland,” he stated

🎧Listen to more of Ritter’s analysis in our podcast The Critical Hour

❗️ Key statements by President Putin at the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State:

▪️ We are united by spiritual and moral values, and this is what we are building the Union State on;

▪️ Russia and Belarus are building up and will continue to build up cooperation in the defense and security spheres;

▪️ The project to support schools in Donbass will be financed from the budget of the Union State;

▪️ An agreement on the formation of a single electric power market of Russia and Belarus is being prepared for signing.

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A political science professor, Glenn Diesen, joined us to discuss the formalization of Finland’s membership in NATO

🎧Listen to more of Diesen’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

🇫🇷🇧🇾 I agree with him, therefore, it is necessary to withdraw all nuclear weapons of Americans from five or six countries where they are stationed, Belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko said.

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📽 Bollywood is shooting the "Snow Flower" film in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk🇷🇺, Russia's Ministry of Culture told Sputnik.

🇮🇳🇷🇺 "Indian producers have expressed their willingness to participate in full-scale tours of Russia: in particular, foreign filmmakers have shown particular interest in the possibility of filming in Moscow, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kaliningrad, as well as in other regions of Russia," the ministry's press service said.

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⚡️ Kiev deliberately destroys its military with artillery fire to prevent attempts to abandon positions and retreat under the onslaught of Russian forces, the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation stated.