🇨🇳🇺🇸 The pro-US Democratic Progressive Party monopoly in Taipei may be challenged by an emerging coalition of the Taiwan People’s Party and the Kuomintang, polls say.

In the event of a TPP-KMT win, the Biden administration's game of confrontation in the Asia Pacific and hasty militarization of Taiwan may prove to be irrelevant as the two parties agree on restoring stability and peace across the Taiwan Strait. The potential coalition government is expected to lay the groundwork for the restoration of working relations with mainland China.

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🇷🇺🇱🇧 Samir Ayoub, a Russian-Lebanese journalist, witnessed the tragic death of four family members - his younger sister Samira, 60; her granddaughters Rimas, 14, Talin, 12, and Lian, 10 - during an Israeli drone strike on the village of Aitarun near the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Samir asserts that the Israeli drone operators undoubtedly knew that the vehicle they targeted was carrying only women and children.

The Lebanese government condemned the Israeli military’s actions and submitted a formal war crime complaint to the UN.

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

▪️Turkiye has filed a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing him of committing "genocide" in the Gaza Strip, the lawyers for the ruling Justice and Development Party said.

▪️The militant wing of Hamas controls the situation on the battlefield in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the movement has said.

▪️Over 4,600 children have now been reportedly killed and over 8,600 injured with more than 1,500 reported missing or presumed to be under the rubble in Gaza, UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Office told Sputnik.

▪️The Israeli military has said that as a result of operations in Gaza, it has secured the Hamas legislature and government building, the Hamas police headquarters and an engineering faculty used for weapons production and development.

▪️Human Rights Watch demands Israeli strikes on Gaza hospitals be investigated as war crimes

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🇷🇴 Training Ukrainians or poking the Russian Bear: Why did NATO set up new F-16 training base in Romania?

The Romanian Air Force, in coordination with the Dutch military, Denmark, and US weapons-making giant Lockheed Martin, has established a new training base in Romania’s southeast, ostensibly to train NATO and Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 fighter jets. Along with poking the Russian bear, the base will free up the alliance’s hands to conduct training operations it can’t do in wealthier Western European countries, says retired US Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel and former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski.

“As Western Europe has increasingly restricted both air and ground NATO training, NATO and the US have sought to use the newer NATO countries, which are poorer, less populated, and have a less robust regulatory structure relating to noise, air and chemical pollution, as a place to train and operation,” Kwiatkowski said.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Who is in Control of Gaza Right Now, Hamas or IDF?

The Gaza op shows that Israel is set to face a long and complicated conflict, according to experts. While the IDF has been steadily making progress on the ground in Gaza City, reportedly capturing Hamas’ parliament, government seat, and police HQ, the fight is far from over.

💬 "I would say that Israel has taken partially half of the Gaza Strip, not entirely," Dr. Lorenzo Trombetta, Beirut-based scholar and analyst specializing on the Middle East, told Sputnik.

"And that Hamas is also strong and well equipped in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. I think Hamas was very well prepared for these intense and open war scenarios."

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Pro-Israeli rally in Washington DC chants "no ceasefire" after US House Speaker Mike Johnson says "the calls for a ceasefire are outrageous"

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🇺🇸💸 It will take a century to ultimately determine whether the United States’ support for Ukraine was a worthwhile endeavor, US Senator Roger Marshall stated.

Marshall and several other Republican senators spoke in favor of holding separate votes on US aid for Israel and Ukraine, following a $106 billion supplemental funding request from the Biden administration that includes assistance for both countries.

The US House of Representatives passed a standalone Israel aid package, which the White House and Senate Democrats have opposed.

Marshall stressed that he is certain in his support for Israel funding even though the senator is unsure whether he is correct on Ukraine funding.

US Senator J.D. Vance said Senate Democrats are avoiding holding a separate debate on US support for Ukraine. Democrats do not want the Biden administration to have to answer "tough questions" about its approach to Ukraine, Vance added.

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🥴 US presidential candidate Nikki Haley: "Every person on social media should be verified by their name" because of "national security" – it gets rid of "the Russian bots, the Iranian bots, and the Chinese bots".

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🇿🇦 South African parliament to consider closing Israeli embassy and cutting ties on Thursday

The discussion is being initiated by Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), who has repeatedly expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments, since 2017, comparing the Israeli government to an apartheid government.

🪧 The ruling African National Congress also expressed its unwavering support for the Palestinian people and protesting outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria in late October.

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❗Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives cleared a stopgap measure late Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown set to take place in three days' time

🇺🇸 New Nord Stream Spin pushed as US 'acutely aware' Ukraine can't win - CIA Vet

“Washington and some Europeans are becoming acutely aware that the war against Russia cannot be won by Ukraine even with more open support from NATO,” Philip Giraldi, former military intelligence and CIA operations officer with experience in Europe and the Middle East, told Sputnik.

This explains the timing of The Washington Post’s new spin on a Ukrainian colonel’s alleged role in the Nord Stream sabotage, the pundit suggested.

“The counteroffensive has been a bloody failure and the White House is shifting its resources and backing to Israel, which is much more important to policy makers in Washington,” Giraldi stressed.

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🇺🇸💸 The US's desire to pay Ukraine's way hits a new low as Israel and border issues take priority

Ukraine is “running out of money and time” and “could get left behind” by Congress as US lawmakers shift their priorities and focus to staving off an imminent government shutdown, and to ramping up funding for Israel and the southern border with Mexico. That’s according to a fresh US media report assessing the mood in Washington at the moment.

“Ukraine funding, I believe, if it’s worth doing, needs to stand on its own,” Republican Representative Mark Alford of Missouri said, addressing recently elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s commitment to keep funding bills separate to prevent the bundling of a large number of unrelated priorities into a single piece of legislation.

“It should not be in any way tied to Israel. These should be separate votes to show our districts exactly where we stand,” Alford said.

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North Korea Develops, Test-Fires New IRBM Solid-Fuel Engines

North Korea has developed and test-fired new-type high-thrust solid-fuel engines for intermediate-range ballistic missiles, North Korean state-run news agency KCNA reported Wednesday.

The North Korea "has developed new-type high-thrust solid-fuel engines for intermediate ballistic missiles again, which are of important strategic significance," with the tests "provided a sure guarantee for reliably accelerating the development of the new-type IRBM system," reported Korean Central News Agency.

The tests were aimed at evaluating the technical specifications of new IRBM engines, the media reported, adding that the tests were "very successful" and the "reliability and stability" of the engines and manufacturing technologies were verified.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most powerful of them all?”

📊 Test your knowledge on the militaries of the Indian subcontinent in this quiz!

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🇬🇧 Former British PM David Cameron's return to frontline politics as foreign secretary was immediately controversial. Geopolitical analyst, researcher and blogger Ian Shilling said Cameron's legacy was one of corruption and war crimes.

David Cameron is still unfit to hold office seven years after he resigned as British prime minister, says a political pundit.

Current PM Rishi Sunak surprised the nation when he resurrected Cameron's failed career as part of his cabinet reshuffle on Monday, which began with the sacking of outspoken home secretary Suella Braverman. Cameron was made Foreign Secretary as James Cleverly moved to the Home Office.

Cameron must now be granted a peerage in the House of Lords by King Charles III so he can qualify to serve as a minister. That prompted a protest from House of Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle that Cameron would not be answerable to fellow MPs in the elected lower house of Parliament.

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