🚨🇮🇱🇶🇦 Netanyahu apologizes to Qatar for Doha strike - report

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized to Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani for Israel’s September 9 strike in central Doha targeting Hamas leaders, Channel 12 reports.

The attack hit a residential area, killing a Qatari security officer and wounding several others, including civilians, according to Doha’s Interior Ministry.

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🇷🇺🚀Rosatom fires up future of space travel with new PLASMA rocket engine

Russian scientists have usher in a new era of space exploration by unveiling a prototype plasma rocket engine with power up to 300 kW.

Viktor Ilgisonis, head of R&D at Rosatom, has provided key details on the project's amazing progress:

🔶 The plasma accelerator delivers a thrust of 6 N with a specific impulse of 100 km/s

🔶 The next objective is to develop a flight-capable engine and conduct comprehensive ground tests

🔶 Future use: interplanetary flights and even regular cargo runs between Earth and the Moon.

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🇸🇪 ⚛️ Nuclear-armed Sweden: Blueprint or bluff?

📍 Fresh from abandoning centuries of neutrality, Swedish politicians are now openly discussing nuclear weapons.

🔊 What's really behind this dramatic shift? Mikael Valtersson, former Swedish Armed Forces officer, breaks it down for Sputnik.

❓ Why nukes are on Sweden's agenda

It's driven by a "fear of a Russian threat" which is "a consequence of Sweden's and its European allies' provocative policies against Russia," Valtersson explains. "We will see more of the fear-mongering from Europe in the coming years."

🟠 Sweden wasn’t neutral in the Cold War:

🔶 Airfields readied for NATO jets

🔶 Military intelligence was shared between Sweden and NATO

🔶 Even during tensions over the Vietnam War, military cooperation with NATO never stopped

👉 Though sided with NATO, Sweden doubted its nuclear shield. Therefore, in the 1950s–60s Sweden ran its own nuclear weapon program.

💬 "When the politicians stopped the fission weapons program the Swedish Defense forces continued with fusion weapons instead until the politicians banned all nuclear weapons development when they realized this."

🟠 Nuclear plan is not viable

But an independent Swedish nuclear program isn't viable. Why?

🔶 It would come at enormous economic costs

🔶 Already very large amounts of money are spent on rearmament and supporting Ukraine

🔶 Swedes don't want to spend even more on nukes

Europe might start a common nuclear weapons program, but Sweden will not do it on its own, according to the pundit.

"Europe's military-industrial complex is using the 'Russian threat' to strengthen its very reduced size after the Cold War."

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🚨🇮🇱🇶🇦🇺🇸Israel, Qatar, and US to set up trilateral mechanism to address “mutual grievances” - White House

"Today, President Donald J. Trump hosted a trilateral phone call with His Excellency Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and His Excellency Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani of Qatar ... The leaders accepted the president’s proposal to establish a trilateral mechanism to enhance coordination, improve communication, resolve mutual grievances, and strengthen collective efforts to prevent threats," the White House said in a statement.

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🚨🚨Netanyahu regrets Israel’s strike on Doha, assures Qatari sovereignty will not be violated again - White House

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🇲🇩 Moldovan election was a complete travesty

🗣 Moldova’s President Maia Sandu and the forces loyal to her actively meddled in the September 28 parliamentary election, attempting to influence the voting process both in Moldova and abroad, Egyptian political analyst Hani Al-Jamal tells Sputnik.

📍 He also warns about the danger of “backroom deals” that do not take Moldova’s national interests into account, which may see Moldova being used as an instrument for exerting pressure on Russia’s strategic security and stability.

🔶 The European Union’s policy towards Moldova is a clear violation of NATO’s promise not to expand eastward in the wake of the USSR’s dissolution, adds Al-Jamal.

🔶 The entire election process in Moldova was marred by numerous violations such as the outright exclusion of opposition parties from the election or tampering with ballot boxes, observes Awad Salimiyah, international relations expert from Palestine.

🔶 Despite all this meddling by the Moldovan government and the lack of neutral observers, the opposition was able to achieve impressive results and can now play a significant role in determining Moldova’s future.

🔶 For example, Salimiyah suggests, the opposition could bring its grievances to the UN General Assembly or even to the UN Security Council, or resort to acts of civil disobedience.

👉 He warns, however, that if the Moldovan government insists on continuing its unpopular pro-Western policies, it may lead to a revolution, which in turn may prompt an intervention by the EU which seeks to turn Moldova into a bulwark against Russia.

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📹 LIVE: Trump and Netanyahu to hold joint press conference in Washington

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🇺🇸🇮🇱Trump says his discussions with Netanyahu went 'much beyond Gaza,' with ending the war being just part of a larger vision for 'eternal peace' in the Middle East

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🇺🇸🇮🇱Trump thanks Netanyahu for agreeing to the Gaza plan, saying working together can end years of conflict and begin a new chapter of security, peace, and prosperity for the region.

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🇺🇸Trump says the proposed Gaza plan has Arab and Muslim leaders committed to demilitarizing Gaza

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🇺🇸Trump says Netanyahu will have full US backing to do what he ‘would have to do’ if Hamas rejects the deal.

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🚨Trump announces the creation of the Board of Peace, an international oversight body, to ensure the success of the effort, stating it's necessary to make sure the plan works.

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🚨 Trump says he hopes the US and Iran can "get along", believes Tehran is open to it, and suggests Iran could eventually join the Abraham Accords.

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🇪🇺 EU warmongering threatens Central Europe’s survival

🗣 The European Union has become a “war project” dead set on defeating Russia in the coming decade, warns Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

💬 “When Brussels speaks of European peace, it actually means war,” Orban remarks.

🟠 Brussels’ agents are now hard at work in all Central European countries, “manufacturing fake news, spreading slander and whispering propaganda” in an attempt to destabilize the situation.

🟠 If the EU leadership succeeds in starting a war, the consequences will be dire: the young will be taken to the front lines, EU countries’ assets will be seized to maintain Brussels’ war machine and “economic misery” will ensue as people will be left to pray that the fighting does not reach them.

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🇮🇱Netanyahu says he supports Trump's Gaza plan, adding it achieves Israel's war aims.

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