‼️ Western and Russian intelligence agencies are waging a secret battle to extradite the man who allegedly sabotaged the DHL parcel bombings.He is in Azerbaijan. His name is Yaroslav Mikhailov, - WP
This man was a key figure in the operation: Yaroslav Mikhailov helped develop the incendiary devices, directed the perpetrators from Europe, and fled to Azerbaijan with a forged passport.
Heads of FSB, SVR, and GRU are personally pressuring the Azerbaijani authorities to return the agent to Russia.
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@NOELreports: SitRep - 18/11/25 - Zelensky in Spain and gas explosions in Omsk An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine keeps attacking Russian gas and oil infrastructure, and Zelensk...…threadreaderapp.com
18 November 1930 | A French Jewish girl, Marie Szlengel, was born in Paris.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 21 August 1942 and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Video history | Temporary gas chambers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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✅🇺🇸🇺🇦 The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Ukraine of PATRIOT Air Defense System Sustainment and related equipment for an estimated cost of $105 million.
Upgrade of M901 launchers to M903 configuration; classified and unclassified prescribed load lists and authorized stockage lists for ground support equipment; other necessary services, ancillaries, spare parts, support, training, and accessories;
🇪🇺🇨🇳 Kallas said that the cooperation of EU countries with China limits the possibilities of pressuring Beijing to stop supporting Russia in the war against Ukraine.
She clarified that the EU is trying to force China to stop helping Russia circumvent Western sanctions. In particular, the bloc imposed restrictions on several Chinese companies in October.
🇺🇸 Reuters/Ipsos poll:
Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 38%, the lowest of his term, driven by anger over high living costs and his shifting stance on releasing the Epstein files.
🇺🇲🇷🇺 U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil has joined rival Chevron Corp in considering options to buy parts of sanctioned Russian oil major Lukoil's international assets, Reuters reports.
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🇺🇸 The US House of Representatives voted to release files on Epstein case.
Earlier, Trump stated that he would sign the Epstein files bill if it passed the House and Senate.
❌ Rosneft’s Ryazan oil refinery suspended crude processing after a Ukrainian drone attack on November 15, - Reuters.
"The plant is expected to remain idle until the end of the month. No (oil product) loadings are planned before December 1," one of the sources said.
💥👀 About half a million people are without power in occupied Donetsk region, - Astra
❗️The most recent strikes hit the Zuyevskaya and Starobeshevskaya thermal power plants.
👏 In the Novopavlivka direction, operators of the Perun unit of 42nd Motorized Rifle Brigade are stopping the invaders after the assault that took place on November 14.
They hit 6 shelters where the enemy was hiding, 3 Bukhanka, 4 invaders.
❗️🇺🇦🇵🇱 MFA of Ukraine:
"We draw attention to cynicism of deliberate recruitment and use by the aggressor state of persons with Ukrainian passports for hybrid attacks, sabotage and crimes aimed at destabilization in Poland. Russia is trying to blame Ukrainians for its crimes."
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU has for the first time allowed financing of Ukrainian dual-use technologies through the Ukraine Facility program, - Militarnyi
The EU will allocate over €140 million from the Ukraine Investment Framework for loans and grants for Ukrainian companies.
Thanks to this, manufacturers of drones, navigation systems, aerospace technologies and metallurgy will receive support.
💬 The European Union’s deep economic ties to #China are constraining its ability to pressure Beijing over #Russia’s war in #Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat said.
China “might also hurt you, and that’s the problem,” said Kaja Kallas on Tuesday. “If you’re not willing to pay the price that they are going to impose on you, then it’s hard to act.”
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🇪🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today, during the meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain, a lot of attention was paid to our defense cooperation.
Annual support - €1 billion every year. PURL program - €100 million. Economic package - €200 million, including for energy. SAFE program - more than €200 million.
Thank you for the new defense assistance package, and this includes air defense missiles. The total package is €300 million.
💬 #Trump on Tuesday dismissed a question about the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, claiming that the Saudi dissident journalist was “extremely controversial” and that raising the subject in his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was meant to embarrass his visitor.
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What a disgrace 🤦♂️ Cowardly and pathetic.
‼️🇺🇦 Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov was sentenced to 60 days in prison with a bail of 51.6 million UAH. He is accused of illegal enrichment in the Energoatom case.
The investigation says about 1.2 million dollars and €100,000 in cash. He faces 5-10 years in prison. He denies the charges.
🇺🇸 Political blogging in the US, the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats.
❗️‘Pulling in the audience’ is a matter of survival in a system of fierce competition.
A peculiar kind of ‘political conspiracy theory’ is widespread…
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Political blogging in the United States, the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats, key ideas and activities.
A peculiar kind of ‘political conspiracy theory’ is widespread in the American blogosphere. The reason for this is the desire to reach a larger audience on a permanent basis.The Ukrainian Review
Russia keeps attacking Ukraine’s energy system, turning the cold season into a weapon. Winter arrives with outages, cold apartments, and the same quiet question: how long can people endure this?
🇪🇸🇺🇦 Spain will provide Ukraine with 40 missiles for IRIS-T, - Zelensky
❗️Spain mobilizes new military aid package for Ukraine worth €615 million, - Sanchez
"This package will include, firstly, the supply of new defense equipment worth approximately €300 million and, as part of our bilateral security agreement, which amounts to €1 billion."
💬 The European Union’s top diplomat said that Moscow’s interference in the bloc, including an explosion that occurred in Poland over the weekend, should be considered #terrorism
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18 November 1911 | A Pole, Adam Kudyba, was born in Bondyrz. A shoemaker.
In #Auschwitz from 30 July 1941.
No. 19489
He perished in the camp on 25 April 1942.
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🇷🇺 #Russia is planning a new tax on electronics, primarily imported and consumer items, with $2.7 billion in proceeds earmarked to support the domestic electronics industry, including in the defence sector, over the next three years.
🇺🇸 Recent grand jury subpoenas for records related to the U.S. intelligence community’s work on Russian interference in the 2016 election, a topic that #Trump has long demanded prosecutions on, are likely to yield little to no new information for prosecutors, Reuters reports.
🇷🇺🛢📉 Rosneft’s Ryazan oil refinery, one of the largest in #Russia, suspended crude processing after a Ukrainian drone attack on November 15, Reuters reports.
🇺🇦 One of #Ukraine's main opposition parties physically blocked lawmakers from holding a vote in parliament on Tuesday to dismiss two ministers over a corruption investigation, demanding the removal of the entire cabinet instead.
😳🇺🇸🇺🇦 This week, the White House and the US State Department will hold discussions on the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by Ukrainian authorities, - The Hill.
Clergy participating in the meetings will include representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the Orthodox Church in America, and the Serbian Orthodox Church.
As The Hill notes, the issue of persecuting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has found significant allies, including Vance and Tucker Carlson.
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👀🇺🇦🇺🇸 50 Ukrainians were deported from the US to Ukraine, – State Border Service of Ukraine.
We are talking about people without US citizenship. The reason for the deportation is still unknown.
👀❗️Every fourth Russian company is no longer paying on loans. In total, there are 714 thousand businesses in Russia with loans, of which 24% have defaulted. This has become a record figure in recent times.
The volume of delays reaches 3 trillion rubles, and the total credit debt is more than 80 trillion. Over the year, the share of debtors has increased by 6%, and since 2023 it has almost doubled.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian troops have been spotted outside the northern outskirts of the Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, the Ukrainian military has reported, as intense battles for the city continue.
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Russian troops spotted north of Pokrovsk, military confirms
"Several enemy infantrymen tried to penetrate and gain a foothold at one of the agricultural facilities," the 7th Corps said. "The enemy was destroyed."Francis Farrell (The Kyiv Independent)
The Ukrainian General Staff confirms it used ATACMS ballistic missiles for a precision strike on military targets inside Russia. Likely connected to the attack on Voronezh today.
"The use of long-range strike capabilities, including systems such as ATACMS, will continue," they add.
🇵🇱 Two Ukrainian citizens who long worked for Russian intelligence have been identified as the suspects behind two acts of sabotage on #Poland's rail network, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
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Two Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail sabotage, Polish PM says
Donald Tusk said the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had long worked for Russia.Adam Easton (BBC News)
✈️ There is information from Ukrainian channels that Russian air defense, hoping to shoot down our missiles over Crimea, shot down a Russian Su-35.
Let’s wait for more info!
🦅 Right now Moscow is being attacked by drones, 2 drones were shot down. Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports are closed — Mayor Sobyanin.
Air Alert in Crimea! 🚨🚀
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Senior European Diplomat to POLITICO:
Ukraine’s plan to purchase Rafales on top of Gripens is quite surprising. They don’t have the money. A lot will depend on the Russian frozen assets.
✈️ Ukrainian Military Official:
Even if we had all the money, we would not get the jets fast. Nobody is simply selling enough in the world.
The White House will meet with russian Orthodox Church-linked lobbyists this week to discuss alleged "church persecution" in #Ukraine, amid Republican calls to investigate russian influence through US-based Orthodox churches.
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Білий дім прийме повʼязаних з РПЦ лобістів, говоритимуть про "утиски церкви" в Україні
Лобісти та духовенство, пов'язані з Російською православною церквою проводять цього тижня кампанію в Капітолії, включно із зустрічами з представниками адміністрації Дональда Трампа, повідомляє The Hill.Interfax-Ukraine (Інтерфакс-Україна)
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#Trump has told a reporter not to "embarrass" the Saudi crown prince by asking a question about the death of US journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
"As far as this gentlemen is concerned, he's done a phenomenal job," Trump says, referring to the crown prince.
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Trump latest: Bill to release all Epstein files heading to president for signing
US Congress has voted on a bill for the release of all Epstein files - paving the way for its path to Donald Trump's desk. The president has said he'll sign it when it gets there.Sky News
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16% of those held in Ukrainian captivity are Ukrainian citizens mobilized by russia to flight in #Ukraine - including 6% from Crimea, per Dmytro Usov.
A bill in parliament may allow their release and reintegration into society.
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Коордштаб: В українському полоні 16% - громадяни України
Близько 16% осіб, які зараз перебувають у полоні в Україні, – це українські громадяни. З них 6% – це кримчани, повідомив секретар Координаційного штабу з питань поводження з військовополоненими, бригадний генерал Дмитро Усов.Interfax-Ukraine (Інтерфакс-Україна)
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine: The Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully used ATACMS tactical missile systems to carry out a precision strike against military targets on the territory of russia. This is a significant development that underscores Ukraine's unwavering commitment to its sovereignty
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: The Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully used ATACMS tactical missile systems to carry out a precision strike against military targets on the territory of Russia. This is a significant development that un
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: The Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully used ATACMS tactical missile systems to carry out a precision strike against military targets on the territory of Russia.Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com
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MI5 names two people in alert to UK MPs and peers about Chinese espionage
Spy agency says Amanda Qui and Shirly Shen have been using LinkedIn to ‘obtain non-public and insider insights’
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China in ‘covert and calculated’ effort to recruit MPs and peers, minister says
Dan Jarvis gives Commons statement after MI5 alert about LinkedIn profiles of Amanda Qiu and Shirly ShenDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
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Two Ukrainian citizens who long worked for russian intelligence have been identified as the suspects behind two acts of sabotage on Poland's rail network, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
One suspect had already been convicted in absentia of acts of sabotage in #Ukraine, Tusk told parliament.
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Two Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail sabotage, Polish PM says
Donald Tusk said the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had long worked for Russia.Adam Easton (BBC News)
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The problem with aging is that past projects start having decade anniversaries.
It’s now a decade since our first Park Bench video! And no, there will not be a reunion episode.
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Welcome to Matt and Tom's Park Bench
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Matt Gets In A Giggle Loop For Two Solid Minutes
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The npm portal has revamped its user access tokens.
New tokens will have a default life of seven days (instead of 30), which can be updated to a maximum lifespan of 90 days (previously unlimited).
The changes are going live this month.
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Strengthening npm security: Important changes to authentication and token management - The GitHub Blog
As part of our ongoing commitment to securing the npm ecosystem, we’re implementing the first phase of security improvements outlined in our recent announcement. These changes will roll out over…Allison (The GitHub Blog)
We're building something for the Fediverse. #Holos
ActivityPub running on your phone. Your own server, your data stored locally. A relay handles your stable identity when you're offline.
One account, all formats. Short text, long articles, photos, videos. The UI adapts to your mood. Switch between text mode, photo grid, video feed, article editor based on what you feel like sharing.
Same network, same followers.
Early stages, but the foundation is solid. We wanted to share the progress.
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a case brought by Catalan opposition figures over the CatalanGate 2022 spyware scandal due to a lack of evidence
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Catalan opposition regroups after spyware case thrown out by human rights court
Key case from CatalanGate hits dead end at European Court of Human Rights.Antoaneta Roussi (POLITICO)
#CyberSecurity
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DoorDash data breach: a social engineering compromise - Secure Bulletin
The recent disclosure by DoorDash regarding a cybersecurity incident, initially attributed to a social engineering attack, warrants a detailed examination beyond the standard press release narrative.dark6 (securebulletin.com)
#CyberSecurity
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WhatsApp’s silent threat: the screen-sharing scams - Secure Bulletin
The current wave of WhatsApp scams, fueled by the platform’s recently introduced screen-sharing feature, is a prime example.dark6 (securebulletin.com)
![Photo of [DENKI OTAKU] with his test circuit and oscilloscope](https://piero.bosio.info/photo/link/13342 "Photo of [DENKI OTAKU] with his test circuit and oscilloscope")
"Æthelred the Unready"
They didn't mince words with the monikers for the early kings of England. We should really bring this back for powerful leaders.
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The IDF reported that a short while ago the IAF struck a Hamas training compound in southern Lebanon.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Lebanon #MiddleEast
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According to Lebanese authorities, the death toll from the Israeli Air Force strike on Hamas in Lebanon currently stands at 13.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Lebanon #MiddleEast