🇪🇺🇩🇪 German defense minister urges preparations for European war

Boris Pistorius has said Germans “have to get used to” the idea of a threat of war in Europe, and assured that Berlin is building up the Bundeswehr’s capabilities, depleted over 30 years of bungling reforms and cutbacks. His comments come amid Germany’s military modernization – the largest of its kind since WW2.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 About 30 children were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7. There is a social movement in Israel currently working on their rescue called “Free Our Kids IL.”

Dor Halevy Feldman is one of the co-founders of Free Our Kids IL. She told Sputnik a story about one of the abducted girls from a kibbutz near the Gaza border.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Almost every child in Israel has a trauma related to the current conflict, Dor Halevy Feldman, one of the co-founders of the Israeli social movement Free Our Kids IL, noted to Sputnik.

"The kids are terrified whether they know someone who was taken, whether they know someone who was murdered. They just know it. They feel even if their parents are not telling them specifically what is happening, you can feel it through the street."

Dor also told the story of little Sarah, that was successfully saved from abduction.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 “Ten thousand people have been killed in Gaza, half of them children. The Pope’s calling for a ceasefire, the UN has called for it. I’m just asking you -” international human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik was abruptly cut off by security guards on Sunday before he could finish his question to US Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).

Earlier this month, the progressive freshman senator broke with his colleagues, issuing a statement that “now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian militant party that governs the Gaza Strip. “We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized,” he added.

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🇷🇺 Russia's military might ranked first in the world, according to US News & World Report rating

The ranking was compiled on the basis of a survey of 17,200 people in 36 countries. Seventy-three criteria were taken into account.

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🇮🇱 Netanyahu addressed the hostages kidnapped by Hamas by name, assuring that Israel is doing everything to bring all those kidnapped home.

Israeli PM also said that the Hamas video of the Israeli hostages is harsh psychological propaganda.

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🇮🇱 Israel will not allow fuel into the Gaza Strip, despite requests from humanitarian organizations and the UN, the IDF spokesman stated.

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🇷🇺💰 Zelenskys’ Crimea apartment sold at auction for more than $450,000, proceeds go to supporting Russian troops

An apartment outside Yalta registered to Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has sold at auction for the equivalent of about $475,000. The upscale digs, located in the village of Livadia on Crimea’s south coast in the ‘Imperator’ residential complex, was nationalized by Crimean authorities back in May. The auction’s winner offered the equivalent of $475,000 for the apartment – about $214,000 more than the starting price.

Crimean parliament chief Vladimir Konstantinov previously indicated that proceeds from the sale of the property of Ukrainian politicians in Crimea would be spent to support soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine and members of their families, and for the development of the peninsula’s cities.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Massive debris after Israeli strikes pulverized Gaza may offer a protective “cover” for Hamas militant group’s infrastructure hidden in underground tunnels, Andrey Koshkin, a retired colonel and expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists, told Sputnik.

To some extent, this rubble may present an obstacle for the IDF amid its expanded ground operations in the enclave, said the expert.

However, he added that if Israeli military determine that Hamas militants or infrastructure are hidden under the debris, bombs will be used that can blast through the wreckage to reach the target.

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🇺🇸 In an interview with US television that aired on Sunday, US Vice President Kamala Harris assured American voters that US President Joe Biden is still “very much alive” as she deflected a question about the president’s increasing age.

"Joe Biden is very much alive and running for re-election,” Harris told journalist Bill Whitaker, adding that she does "not have time for parlor games."

An increasing number of Americans have said they are worried about Biden’s age. One poll last month found 52.21% said they were “very concerned” and another 22.1% said they were “somewhat concerned” about the 80-year-old leader’s cognitive health.

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🇮🇱 Israel will not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas; calls for a ceasefire mean calls for surrender, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

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🇰🇪🇬🇧 UK's King Charles III is visiting Kenya on October 31, however against the backdrop of British colonial rule in the African region this visit could be met with much contempt.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️It is necessary for Israel to maintain normal relations with Russia, the Israeli Minister of emergency unity government said.

▪️Israel will not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas; calls for a ceasefire mean calls for surrender, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

▪️Israel will not allow fuel into the Gaza Strip, despite requests from humanitarian organizations and the UN, the IDF spokesman stated.

▪️Israeli tanks are seen approaching Gaza city, key road between the north and south of the enclave has been cut, AFP reports

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❗️Putin: US elites and their satellites are the main beneficiaries of global instability

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🗣️ On the internal conflict in the US showing that the Americans are being tired of spending money on foreign conflicts:

“The conflict that is going on, that the American people are sick and tired of sending billions of dollars to foreign countries to blow people up for profit, when there are people in this country who are suffering: the homelessness crisis is out of control; Lahaina in Maui is still in rubble and ashes; Flint, Michigan, still doesn't have clean water; the education system is in the toilet. And we're sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, for what? I think the American people are sick of that,” Misty Winston, radio host and political commentator, told Sputnik.

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