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Petagon Chief Austin: The US will maintain and can increase its military presence in the Middle East The US will maintain a significant military presence in the Middle East build it up if required. This was stated by the chief of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, reports on Saturday, November 20, RIA Novosti. The head of the American military department noted that Washington is counting primarily on diplomacy and considers military force as a means of support. He stressed that the American side “insists on deepening multilateral partnerships” in the region that are capable of confronting emerging problems. Among them Austin listed the COVID-19 pandemic, climate problems, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction , activities of extremist groups, as well as “Iran's support for terrorist groups.” According to the US Secretary of Defense, Iranian attack drones are preventing Washington from fighting the militants. Earlier, The New York Times reported that the

The corpse of one of the 15 most wanted criminals, Frederick McLean, was found in the US 2006 was on the federal list of 15 most wanted persons. The corpse of a 70-year-old offender was in a private house, the Associated Press reports. According to forensic experts, the man died four months ago, in July, from natural causes. A local resident turned to the rescue service with a request to check the house. He said that he had not seen his neighbor for a long time. McLean was put on the wanted list 16 years ago on charges of child sexual abuse. In recent years, he lived under forged documents under the name James Fitzgerald. As stressed by the police, currently the investigation wants to find out the alleged accomplices of the criminal and find out who helped him get a passport. It is possible that the man could have

President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev repeatedly called Crimea Russian, but announced its annexation Crimea is currently Russian, such are the political realities, and this question is clear. Thus, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev commented on Kiev's demand to clarify its words about the ownership of the peninsula, reports Mediapool.bg. At the same time, answering a question from journalists, he stressed that the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 is a violation right, his position on this matter remains unchanged. Radev, who is running for a second presidential term, called Crimea a part of Russia in pre-election debates with his main opponent Anastas Gerdzhikov. He pointed out that foreign policy needs pragmatism, and the anti-Russian sanctions imposed over Crimea have no effect. In turn, Gerdzhikov stressed that Crimea remains Ukrainian and no matter what flag flies over it, since each country after the annexation raises its own flag. The conversation took

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Zakharova: Poland participated in the occupation of one of the regions of Iraq Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova accused Poland of involvement in the occupation … This was reported by RIA Novosti. Materials on the topic 00:01 – November 3 Friend – alien. Europe has accepted millions of refugees. Why are they now hated, considered terrorists and want to drive them out? 15: 31-11 November They are not expected. Like the desire of thousands of migrants to break through to Europe led to casualties and an international scandal On the air of Radio Russia, Zakharova said that Poland, now trying to stop the influx of refugees from Iraqi Kurdistan, had previously participated in the occupation of one of the regions of Iraq. “Poland was among those who occupied Iraq,” she says. – How many Polish soldiers were there? More than two thousand. Under Poland, under the

Speaker of the Polish Senate Grodsky said that he received a parcel with explosives and threats name and found explosives and a threatening letter in it. He told about this on his Twitter account. “This is what the industry of contempt and persecution of political opponents leads to,” the politician wrote. According to Grodsky, the parcel was seized by the relevant services, they are looking for the sender. According to the Polish radio station RMF, the parcel was found on Friday at 15:00 local time (17:00 Moscow time), an unidentified substance was found in it … We are talking, presumably, about nitrocellulose gunpowder – it is used in small arms and artillery. The sender signed up with a forest guard. In October 2018, it was reported that parcels of bombs were being sent to the United States. They were received by billionaire George Soros, former US President Barack Obama, former

Yle: Finland is thinking about building barriers from migrants on the border with Russia Russia. This was reported by the information portal of the Yle TV and radio company. According to media reports, the need for this measure was raised when the Minister of the Interior and a deputy from the opposition Coalition Party Kai Mykkänen asked the government to consider the possibility of erecting fences on the eastern border in order to prevent migrants from crossing state borders bypassing checkpoints. Mykkianen said that similar barriers are already being built in Poland, Lithuania and Estonia due to the accumulation of migrants from Belarus. Earlier, the Finnish border service announced the arrival of 30 refugees from the border of Poland and Belarus. “Several dozen people arrived in Finland via Belarus (30). The situation is stable, it is being monitored, information is being exchanged, ”the Finnish border guards said in a statement.

Venezuelan President Maduro: we have broken the Guinness record set by Russia by playing a concert Venezuela has broken the previously set Russian Guinness record by giving a concert participation of more than 12 thousand performers. This was announced by the President of the country Nicholas Maduro, he is quoted by TASS. “Today Venezuela set a Guinness record for (a concert performed) by the largest symphony orchestra … Previously, the Guinness record belonged to Russia … If Russia doubles the orchestra, we too we will double, “he said. On November 13, an orchestra of 12,098 musicians performed Pyotr Tchaikovsky's” Slavic March “in the Venezuelan capital. Russia set the previous record in 2019, when an orchestra of more than eight thousand musicians performed the country's anthem at the stadium in St. Petersburg. Since January 2019, the confrontation between the authorities and the opposition has continued in Venezuela. Then, protests against Maduro

Twitter users voted for Elon Musk to sell 10% of Tesla shares , supported the sale of 10 percent of Tesla shares. This follows from the results of a survey conducted by the entrepreneur on Twitter. In particular, 57.9 percent of respondents were in favor of the sale of securities, while 42.1 percent were against. In total, over 3.5 million people took part in the voting. The billionaire himself said that the sale of shares is the only way to pay taxes. Earlier, Elon Musk said that “there has been too much discussion lately that unrealized profits are a means of tax evasion.” In this regard, he asked the users for advice on whether he needed to sell 10 percent of the shares of Tesla, which he founded, and said that he would make a decision based on the results of the vote. On November 1, Elon Musk's fortune increased

Bakhtar: the first foreign tourists after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan For the first time since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan ( members of the terrorist movement “Taliban”, banned in Russia ) foreign tourists arrived in the country. This was reported by the Bakhtar agency, RIA Novosti reports. As reported in the Department of Culture and Information of the Ghor province, two people visited local historical sights, including the Jam minaret. The citizenship of tourists who came to Afghanistan is not indicated. In September, a travel agent from Krasnoyarsk offered Russians individual and group trips to Afghanistan for 350 thousand rubles. The voucher price includes a 35-hour flight to Kabul with a transfer in Istanbul, accommodation in a five-star hotel with a swimming pool, visits to attractions and the services of a Russian-speaking guide. The Taliban announced the establishment of control over the entire territory of